1988 Summer Olympics medal table

1988 Summer Olympics medals
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 dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and 132 total medals. The results that got closest to that medal haul in the years since are China's and the USA's 48 gold medals in 2008 and 2012, respectively, 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
25	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
44	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	Event	Ref
1988 Summer Olympics	Mitko Grablev	Bulgaria	Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg	^[1]
	Angel Guenchev	Bulgaria	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

^ ^a ^b Johnson, William Oscar; Moore, Kenny (October 3, 1988). "The Loser". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on September 23, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
^ "1988: Johnson stripped of Olympic gold". BBC News. September 27, 1988.
^ "The Seoul Olympics – Weight Lifter Used Drug". The New York Times. September 29, 1988.