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)
Medalling NOCs	52

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

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 United States's 48 gold medals in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and the United States's 126 total medals in 2024.

Medals table

The medal table is based on information provided by the IOC and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.^[1]^[2]

* Host nation (South Korea)

1988 Summer Olympics medal table
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

Changes due to doping

Olympics	Athlete	Country	Event	Ref
1988 Summer Olympics	Mitko Grablev	Bulgaria	Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg	^[3]
	Angel Guenchev	Bulgaria	Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg	^[3]
	Ben Johnson	Canada	Athletics, Men's 100 m	^[4]
	Andor Szanyi	Hungary	Weightlifting, Men's 100 kg	^[5]

References

^ Ostlere, Lawrence (2024-07-24). "Olympics 2024 medal table: How every nation stands in Paris". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2024-07-25. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
^ Araton, Harvey (18 August 2008). "A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
^ ^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.

External links

"Seoul 1988". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
"1988 Summer Olympics". Olympedia.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
"Olympic Analytics/1988_1". olympanalyt.com. Archived from the original on 2022-08-27. Retrieved 2020-08-21.

[1] Ostlere, Lawrence (2024-07-24). "Olympics 2024 medal table: How every nation stands in Paris". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2024-07-25. Retrieved 25 July 2024.

[2] Araton, Harvey (18 August 2008). "A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2024.

[Loser-3] Johnson, William Oscar; Moore, Kenny (October 3, 1988). "The Loser". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on September 23, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2021.

[4] "1988: Johnson stripped of Olympic gold". BBC News. September 27, 1988.

[5] "The Seoul Olympics – Weight Lifter Used Drug". The New York Times. September 29, 1988.

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