The 1988 Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea from September 17 to October 2.
| 100 metres† | 9.92 (WR) | 9.97 (ER) | 9.99 | ||||
| 200 metres | 19.75 | 19.79 | 20.04 | ||||
| 400 metres | 43.87 | 43.93 | 44.09 | ||||
| 800 metres | 1:43.45 | 1:43.90 | 1:44.06 | ||||
| 1500 metres | 3:35.96 | 3:36.15 | 3:36.21 | ||||
| 5000 metres | 13:11.70 | 13:15.52 | 13:15.73 | ||||
| 10,000 metres | 27:21.44 (OR) | 27:23.55 | 27:25.16 | ||||
| 110 metres hurdles | 12.98 | 13.28 | 13.38 | ||||
| 400 metres hurdles | 47.19 | 47.23 (NR) | 47.56 | ||||
| 3000 metres steeplechase | 8:05.51 (OR) | 8:06.79 | 8:07.96 | ||||
| 4 × 100 metres relay | 38.19 | Elliot Bunney John Regis Linford Christie Mike McFarlane Clarence Callender* | 38.28 | 38.40 | |||
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Danny Everett Steve Lewis Kevin Robinzine Butch Reynolds Antonio McKay* Andrew Valmon* | 2:56.16 | Howard Davis Devon Morris Winthrop Graham Bert Cameron Trevor Graham* Howard Burnett* | 3:00.30 | Norbert Dobeleit Edgar Itt Jörg Vaihinger Ralf Lübke Mark Henrich* Bodo Kuhn* | 3:00.56 | |
| Marathon | 2:10:32 | 2:10:47 | 2:10:59 | ||||
| 20 kilometres walk | 1:19:57 | 1:20:00 | 1:20:14 | ||||
| 50 kilometres walk | 3:38:29 (OR) | 3:38:56 | 3:39:45 | ||||
| Long jump | 8.72 m | 8.49 m | 8.27 m | ||||
| Triple jump | 17.61 m | 17.52 m | 17.42 m | ||||
| High jump | 2.38 m | 2.36 m | 2.36 m | ||||
| Pole vault | 5.90 m | 5.85 m | 5.80 m | ||||
| Shot put | 22.47 m (OR) | 22.39 m | 21.99 m | ||||
| Discus throw | 68.82 m | 67.48 m | 67.38 m | ||||
| Hammer throw | 84.80 m (OR) | 83.76 m | 81.16 m | ||||
| Javelin throw | 84.28 m | 84.12 m | 83.26 m | ||||
| Decathlon | 8488 | 8399 | 8328 |
| 100 metres | 10.54 (OR) | 10.83 | 10.85 | ||||
| 200 metres | 21.34 (WR) | 21.72 | 21.95 | ||||
| 400 metres | 48.65 | 49.45 | 49.90 | ||||
| 800 metres | 1:56.10 | 1:56.64 | 1:56.91 | ||||
| 1500 metres | 3:53.96 (OR) | 4:00.24 | 4:00.30 | ||||
| 3000 metres | 8:26.53 | 8:27.15 | 8:29.02 | ||||
| 10,000 metres | 31:05.21 | 31:08.44 | 31:19.82 | ||||
| 100 metres hurdles | 12.38 (OR) | 12.61 | 12.75 | ||||
| 400 metres hurdles | 53.17 | 53.18 | 53.63 | ||||
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Alice Brown Sheila Echols Florence Griffith Joyner Evelyn Ashford Dannette Young | 41.98 | 42.09 | Lyudmila Kondratyeva Galina Malchugina Marina Zhirova Natalya Pomoshchnikova Maia Azarashvili | 42.75 | ||
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Tatyana Ledovskaya Olga Nazarova Mariya Pinigina Olha Bryzhina Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova | 3:15.17 (WR) | Denean Howard Diane Dixon Valerie Brisco-Hooks Florence Griffith Joyner Sherri Howard | 3:15.51 | Dagmar Neubauer Kirsten Emmelmann Sabine Busch Petra Muller Grit Breuer | 3:18.29 | |
| Marathon | 2:25:40 | 2:25:53 | 2:26:21 | ||||
| Long jump | 7.40 m (OR) | 7.22 m | 7.11 m | ||||
| High jump | 2.03 m | 2.01 m | 1.99 m | ||||
| Shot put | 22.24 m | 21.07 m | 21.06 m | ||||
| Discus throw | 72.30 m (OR) | 71.88 m | 69.74 m | ||||
| Javelin throw | 74.68 m (OR) | 70.32 m | 67.30 m | ||||
| Heptathlon | 7291 (WR) | 6897 | 6858 |
| Light Flyweight (– 48 kg) | |||
| Flyweight (– 51 kg) | |||
| Bantamweight (– 54 kg) | |||
| Featherweight (– 57 kg) | |||
| Lightweight (– 60 kg) | |||
| Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg) | |||
| Welterweight (– 67 kg) | |||
| Light Middleweight (– 71 kg) | |||
| Middleweight (– 75 kg) | |||
| Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg) | |||
| Heavyweight (– 91 kg) | |||
| Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg) | |||
| C-1 500 metres | ||||
| C-1 1000 metres | ||||
| C-2 500 metres | ||||
| C-2 1000 metres | ||||
| K-1 500 metres | ||||
| K-1 1000 metres | ||||
| K-2 500 metres | ||||
| K-2 1000 metres | ||||
| K-4 1000 metres | Zsolt Gyulay Ferenc Csipes Sándor Hódosi Attila Ábrahám | Aleksandr Motuzenko Sergey Kirsanov Igor Nagaev Viktor Denisov | Kay Bluhm André Wohllebe Andreas Stähle Hans-Jörg Bliesener |
| K-1 500 metres | ||||
| K-2 500 metres | ||||
| K-4 500 metres | Birgit Schmidt Anke Nothnagel Ramona Portwich Heike Singer | Erika Géczi Erika Mészáros Éva Rakusz Rita Kőbán | Vanja Gesheva Diana Paliiska Ogniana Petkova Borislava Ivanova |
| road race | ||||
| sprint |
| 3 m springboard | ||||
| 10 m platform |
| 3 m springboard | ||||
| 10 m platform |
| Dressage individual | ||||||
| Dressage team | valign=top | Reiner Klimke and Ahlerich 2 Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff and Courage 10 Monica Theodorescu and Ganimedes Nicole Uphoff and Rembrandt | valign=top | Otto Josef Hofer and Andiamo Christine Stückelberger and Gauguin de Lully CH Daniel Ramseier and Random Samuel Schetzmann and Rochus | valign=top | Cynthia Neale-Ishoy and Dynasty Eva Maria Pracht and Emirage Gina Smith and Malte Ashley Nicoll and Reipo |
| Eventing individual | ||||||
| Eventing team | Claus Erhorn and Justyn Thyme Matthias Andreas Baumann and Shamrock 11 Thies Kaspareit and Sherry 42 Ralf Ehrenbrink and Uncle Todd | Captain Mark Phillips and Cartier Karen Straker and Get Smart Virginia Leng and Master Craftsman Ian Stark and Sir Wattie | Mark Todd and Charisma Margaret Knighton and Enterprise Andrew Bennie and Grayshott Tinks Pottinger and Volunteer | |||
| Jumping individual | ||||||
| Jumping team | Ludger Beerbaum and The Freak Wolfgang Brinkmann and Pedro Dirk Hafemeister and Orchidee 76 Franke Sloothaak and Walzerkonig 19 | Greg Best and Gem Twist Lisa Ann Jacquin and For the Moment Anne Kursinski and Starman Joseph Fargis and Mill Pearl | Hubert Bourdy and Morgat Frédéric Cottier and Flambeau C Michel Robert and La Fayette Pierre Durand Jr. and Jappeloup | |||
| Individual épée | |||||||
| Team épée | Elmar Borrmann Volker Fischer Thomas Gerull Alexander Pusch Arnd Schmitt | Andrey Shuvalov Pavel Kolobkov Vladimir Reznichenko Mikhail Tishko Igor Tikhomirov | |||||
| Individual foil | |||||||
| Team foil | valign=top | valign=top | Matthias Behr Thomas Endres Matthias Gey Ulrich Schreck Thorsten Weidner | valign=top | István Busa Zsolt Érsek Róbert Gátai Pál Szekeres István Szelei | ||
| Individual sabre | |||||||
| Team sabre | valign=top | valign=top | Andrey Alshan Mikhail Burtsev Sergey Koryashkin Sergey Mindirgasov Heorhiy Pohosov | valign=top | Massimo Cavaliere Gianfranco Dalla Barba Marco Marin Ferdinando Meglio Giovanni Scalzo |
| Individual foil | ||||
| Team foil | Francesca Bortolozzi Borella Annapia Gandolfi Lucia Traversa Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi | Zsuzsa Jánosi Edit Kovács Gertrúd Stefanek Zsuzsanna Szőcs Katalin Tuschák |
Note: The players above the line played at least one game in this tournament, the players below the line were only squad members. Nevertheless, the International Olympic Committee medal database credits them all as medalists.
| Team all-around | Vladimir Artemov Dmitri Bilozertchev Vladimir Gogoladze Sergei Kharkov Valeri Liukin Vladimir Nouvikov | Holger Behrendt Ralf Büchner Ulf Hoffmann Sylvio Kroll Sven Tippelt Andreas Wecker | Yukio Iketani Hiroyuki Konishi Koichi Mizushima Daisuke Nishikawa Toshiharu Sato Takahiro Yameda | |
| Individual all-around | ||||
| Floor exercise | ||||
| Horizontal bar | none awarded | |||
| Parallel bars | ||||
| Pommel horse | none awarded | none awarded | ||
| Rings | none awarded | |||
| Vault |
| Team all-around | Svetlana Baitova Svetlana Boginskaya Natalia Laschenova Elena Shevchenko Elena Shushunova Olga Strazheva | Aurelia Dobre Eugenia Golea Celestina Popa Gabriela Potorac Daniela Silivaş Camelia Voinea | Gabriele Fähnrich Martina Jentsch Dagmar Kersten Ulrike Klotz Bettina Schieferdecker Dörte Thümmler | |
| Individual all-around | ||||
| Balance beam | ||||
| Floor exercise | ||||
| Uneven bars | ||||
| Vault | ||||
| Rhythmic individual all-around |
| Extra Lightweight 60 kg | | |||
| Half Lightweight 65 kg | | |||
| Lightweight 71 kg | | |||
| Half Middleweight 78 kg | | |||
| Middleweight 86 kg | | |||
| Half Heavyweight 95 kg | | |||
| Heavyweight +95 kg | |
| Individual | |||||||
| Team | valign=top | János Martinek, Attila Mizsér, László Fábián | valign=top | Carlo Massullo, Daniele Masala, Gianluca Tiberti | valign=top | Richard Phelps, Dominic Mahony, Graham Brookhouse |
| air pistol | ||||
| air rifle | ||||
| pistol | ||||
| rapid fire pistol | ||||
| rifle three positions | ||||
| rifle prone | ||||
| running target |
| air pistol | ||||
| air rifle | ||||
| pistol | ||||
| rifle three positions |
| Skeet | ||||
| Trap |
| 50 m freestyle | 22.14 (WR) | 22.36 | 22.71 | ||||
| 100 m freestyle | 48.63 ‘(OR) | 49.08 | 49.62 | ||||
| 200 m freestyle | 1:47.25 (WR) | 1:47.89 | 1:47.99 | ||||
| 400 m freestyle | 3:46.95 (WR) | 3:47.15 | 3:47.34 | ||||
| 1500 m freestyle | 15:00.40 | 15:02.69 | 15:06.15 | ||||
| 100 m backstroke | 55.05 | 55.18 | 55.20 | ||||
| 200 m backstroke | 1:59.37 | 1:59.60 | 2:00.48 | ||||
| 100 m breaststroke | 1:02.04 | 1:02.05 | 1:02.20 | ||||
| 200 m breaststroke | 2:13.52 | 2:14.12 | 2:15.21 | ||||
| 100 m butterfly | 53.00 (OR) | 53.01 | 53.30 | ||||
| 200 m butterfly | 1:56.94 (OR) | 1:58.24 | 1:58.28 | ||||
| 200 m individual medley | 2:00.17 (WR) | 2:01.61 | 2:02.40 | ||||
| 400 m individual medley | 4:14.75 (WR) | 4:17.36 | 4:18.01 | ||||
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | Chris Jacobs Troy Dalbey Tom Jager Matt Biondi Doug Gjertsen* Brent Lang* Shaun Jordan* | 3:16.53 (WR) | Gennadiy Prigoda Yuri Bashkatov Nikolai Yevseyev Vladimir Tkacenko Raimundas Mažuolis* Oleksiy Boryslavskiy* | 3:18.33 | 3:19.82 | ||
| 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | Troy Dalbey Matt Cetlinski Doug Gjertsen Matt Biondi Craig Oppel* Dan Jorgensen* | 7:12.51 (WR) | Uwe Daßler Sven Lodziewski Thomas Flemming Steffen Zesner Lars Hinneburg* | 7:13.68 | Erik Hochstein Thomas Fahrner Rainer Henkel Michael Gross Peter Sitt* Stefan Pfeiffer* | 7:14.35 | |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | David Berkoff Richard Schroeder Matt Biondi Chris Jacobs Jay Mortenson* Tom Jager* | 3:36.93 | 3:39.28 | Igor Polyansky Dmitry Volkov Vadim Yaroshchuk Gennadiy Prigoda Sergey Zabolotnov* Valeriy Lozik* Konstantin Petrov* Nikolay Yevseyev* | 3:39.96 |
| 50 m freestyle | 25.49 (OR) | 25.64 | 25.71 | ||||
| 100 m freestyle | 54.93 | 55.47 | 55.49 | ||||
| 200 m freestyle | 1:57.65 (OR) | 1:58.67 | 1:59.01 | ||||
| 400 m freestyle | 4:03.85 (WR) | 4:05.94 | 4:06.62 | ||||
| 800 m freestyle | 8:20.20 (OR) | 8:22.09 | 8:22.93 | ||||
| 100 m backstroke | 1:00.89 | 1:01.56 | 1:01.57 | ||||
| 200 m backstroke | 2:09.29 (OR) | 2:10.61 | 2:11.45 | ||||
| 100 m breaststroke | 1:07.95 (OR) | 1:08.74 | 1:08.83 | ||||
| 200 m breaststroke | 2:26.71 (WR) | 2:27.49 | 2:28.34 | ||||
| 100 m butterfly | 59.00 (OR) | 59.45 | 59.52 | ||||
| 200 m butterfly | 2:09.51 | 2:09.91 | 2:10.80 | ||||
| 200 m individual medley | 2:12.59 (OR) | 2:13.31 | 2:14.85 | ||||
| 400 m individual medley | 4:37.76 | 4:39.46 | 4:39.76 | ||||
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | Kristin Otto Katrin Meissner Daniela Hunger Manuela Stellmach Sabina Schulze* Heike Friedrich* | 3:40.63 | Marianne Muis Mildred Muis Conny van Bentum Karin Brienesse Diana van der Plaats* | 3:43.39 | Mary Wayte Mitzi Kremer Laura Walker Dara Torres Paige Zemina* Jill Sterkel* | 3:44.25 | |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | Kristin Otto Silke Hörner Birte Weigang Katrin Meissner Cornelia Sirch* Manuela Stellmach* | 4:03.74 | Beth Barr Tracey McFarlane Janel Jorgensen Mary Wayte Betsy Mitchell* Mary T. Meagher* Dara Torres* | 4:07.90 | Lori Melien Allison Higson Jane Kerr Andrea Nugent Keltie Duggan* Patricia Noall* | 4:10.49 |
| Solo | ||||
| Duet | Michelle Cameron Carolyn Waldo | Karen Josephson Sarah Josephson | Mikako Kotani Miyako Tanaka |
| Men's singles | ||||
| Men's doubles | ||||
| Women's singles | ||||
| Women's doubles |
| Men's Singles | |||
| Men's Doubles | |||
| Women's Singles | |||
| Women's Doubles | |||
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| 67.5 kg | ||||
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| 110 kg | ||||
| +110 kg |
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