1988 Summer Olympics medals
Location	Seoul,  South Korea
Highlights
Most gold medals	Soviet Union (55)
Most total medals	Soviet Union (132)

This is the full table of the medal table of the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul.

These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This follows the system used by the IOC, IAAF and BBC.

Athletes from 52 countries won medals, leaving 108 countries without a medal. The Soviet Union utterly dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and 132 total medals. The results that got closest to that medal haul afterwards are China's 48 gold medals in 2008 and the USA's 121 total medals in 2016.

Medals table

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	55	31	46	132
2	East Germany	37	35	30	102
3	United States	36	31	27	94
4	South Korea*	12	10	11	33
5	West Germany	11	14	15	40
6	Hungary	11	6	6	23
7	Bulgaria	10	12	13	35
8	Romania	7	11	6	24
9	France	6	4	6	16
10	Italy	6	4	4	14
11	China	5	11	12	28
12	Great Britain	5	10	9	24
13	Kenya	5	2	2	9
14	Japan	4	3	7	14
15	Australia	3	6	5	14
16	Yugoslavia	3	4	5	12
17	Czechoslovakia	3	3	2	8
18	New Zealand	3	2	8	13
19	Canada	3	2	5	10
20	Poland	2	5	9	16
21	Norway	2	3	0	5
22	Netherlands	2	2	5	9
23	Denmark	2	1	1	4
24	Brazil	1	2	3	6
25	Finland	1	1	2	4
	Spain	1	1	2	4
27	Turkey	1	1	0	2
28	Morocco	1	0	2	3
29	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Portugal	1	0	0	1
	Suriname	1	0	0	1
32	Sweden	0	4	7	11
33	Switzerland	0	2	2	4
34	Jamaica	0	2	0	2
35	Argentina	0	1	1	2
36	Chile	0	1	0	1
	Costa Rica	0	1	0	1
	Indonesia	0	1	0	1
	Iran	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands Antilles	0	1	0	1
	Peru	0	1	0	1
	Senegal	0	1	0	1
	Virgin Islands	0	1	0	1
44	Belgium	0	0	2	2
	Mexico	0	0	2	2
46	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Djibouti	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan	0	0	1	1
	Philippines	0	0	1	1
	Thailand	0	0	1	1
Totals (52 entries)		241	234	264	739

Change By Doping

Olympics	Athlete	Country	Medal	Event	Ref
1988 Summer Olympics	Mitko Grablev	Bulgaria		Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg	[1]
	Angel Guenchev			Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg	[1]
	Ben Johnson	Canada		Athletics, Men's 100 m	[2]
	Andor Szanyi	Hungary		Weightlifting, Men's 100 kg	[3]

References

External links

• "Seoul 1988". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
• "1988 Summer Olympics". Olympedia.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
• "Olympic Analytics/1988_1". olympanalyt.com.