Yugoslavia at the 1988 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	YUG
Nocname:	Yugoslav Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1988
Flagcaption:	Flag of SFR Yugoslavia
Location:	Seoul
Competitors:	155 (117 men and 38 women)
Sports:	18
Flagbearer:	Matija Ljubek
Rank:	16
Gold:	3
Silver:	4
Bronze:	5
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1920
App End Year:	2000
See also:	(1912, 2008–) (1992–) (1992–) (1992 S–) (1992 S) (1996–) (2004–2006) (2008–) (2016–)

Athletes from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. This was the last time that the SFR Yugoslavia competed in the Summer Olympics. 155 competitors, 117 men and 38 women, took part in 72 events in 18 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				20 September
				21 September
	Yugoslavia men's national water polo team			1 October
	Yugoslavia women's national basketball team			29 September
	Yugoslavia men's national basketball team			30 September
				30 September
				30 September
				19 September
				24 September
				29 September
				30 September
	Yugoslavia men's national handball team			1 October

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[2]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	8	2	10
Basketball	12	12	24
Boxing	7	–	7
Canoeing	3	0	3
Cycling	6	0	6
Football	17	–	17
Gymnastics	1	2	3
Handball	15	15	30
Judo	4	–	4
Rowing	10	0	10
Sailing	1	0	1
Shooting	3	3	6
Swimming	2	1	3
Table tennis	3	2	5
Tennis	2	1	3
Water polo	13	–	13
Wrestling	10	–	10
Total	117	38	155

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Slobodan Branković	align=left rowspan=2	400 m	46.59	5	Did not advance
Ismail Mačev	46.37	5	Did not advance
Slobodan Popović	800 m	1:46.49	3 Q	1:45.30	2 Q	1:45.11	6	Did not advance
Branko Zorko	1500 m	3:45.52	9	Did not advance
Branislav Karaulić	align=left rowspan=2	400 m hurdles	51.32	5	Did not advance
Rok Kopitar	50.54	5	Did not advance
Slobodan Branković Branislav Karaulić Ismail Mačev Slobodan Popović	4 × 400 m relay	3:05.62	2 Q	3:01.59	5	Did not advance
Miroslav Vindiš	Marathon	2:17:47	25

Field events

Women

Field events

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

See main article: Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

Team roster

Group play

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Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal match

Women's tournament

See main article: Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.

Team roster

Group play

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Semifinals

Gold medal game

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Third round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ljubiša Simić	Featherweight		L 0–5	Did not advance				=17
Vukašin Dobrašinović	Light welterweight	W 3–2	L 1–4	Did not advance				=17
Đorđe Petronijević	Welterweight		L	Did not advance				=17
Darko Dukić	Middleweight		W	L	Did not advance			=9
Damir Škaro	Light heavyweight	W 3–2	W 5–0		W 5–0	L w/o	Did not advance
Željko Mavrović	Heavyweight		L 0–5		Did not advance			=9
Aziz Salihu	Super heavyweight		L 0–5		Did not advance			=9

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Ivan Šabjan	C-1 500 m	2:00.55	4 R	1:55.99	4	Did not advance
C-1 1000 m	4:11.54	4 R	4:20.82	1 SF	4:08.75	3 QF	4:24.67	8
Mirko Nišović Matija Ljubek	C-2 1000 m	4:02.10	5 R	3:59.04	5	Did not advance

Key: QF – Qualified to medal final; SF – Qualified to semifinal; R – Qualified to repechage; * - Heat not held due to lack of competitors. All competitors scheduled for this heat advanced to the next round.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Six male cyclists represented Yugoslavia in 1988.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Valter Bonča	align=left rowspan=3	Men's road race	4:32:56	78
Mićo Brković	4:32:46	32
Rajko Čubrić	4:32:56	30
Valter Bonča Sandi Papež Jože Smole Robert Šebenik	Men's team time trial	2:05:35.1	15

Football

See main article: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

• Preliminary round (group D)
  • Lost to Australia 0–1
  • Defeated Nigeria 3-1
  • Lost to Brazil 1–2 → Finished competition at the group stage.
• Team roster
  1. Dragoje Leković
  2. Vujadin Stanojković
  3. Predrag Spasić
  4. Srečko Katanec
  5. Davor Jozić
  6. Dragoljub Brnović
  7. Refik Šabanadžović
  8. Toni Savevski
  9. Ivica Barbarić
  10. Dragan Stojković
  11. Cvijan Milošević
  12. Stevan Stojanović
  13. Duško Milinković
  14. Davor Šuker
  15. Semir Tuce
  16. Vladislav Đukić
  17. Mirko Mihić
  18. Nenad Jakšić
• Head coach: Ivica Osim

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Artistic

Men

Rhythmic

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Hoop	Rope	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Qualification	Hoop	Rope	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Milena Reljin	align=left rowspan=2	Individual	9.800	9.650	9.800	9.750	38.700	=6 Q	19.500	9.800	9.700	9.800	9.700	58.300	9
Dara Terzić	9.000	9.150	8.800	9.050	36.000	39	Did not advance

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

• Preliminary round (group A)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (18–24)
  • Defeated United States (31–23)
  • Defeated Algeria (23–22)
  • Tied Iceland (19–19)
  • Defeated Sweden (25–21)
• Bronze Medal Match
  • Defeated Hungary (27–23) → Bronze Medal
• Team roster

• Mirko Bašić

• Jožef Holpert

• Boris Jarak

• Slobodan Kuzmanovski

• Muhamed Memić

• Alvaro Načinović

• Goran Perkovac

• Zlatko Portner

• Iztok Puc

• Rolando Pušnik

• Momir Rnić

• Zlatko Saračević

• Irfan Smajlagić

• Ermin Velić

• Veselin Vujović
• Head coach: ???

Women's Team Competition

• Team roster

• Svetlana Anastasovska

• Slavica Đukić

• Dragica Đurić

• Mirjana Đurica

• Zita Galic

• Ljubinka Janković

• Nataša Kolega

• Mirjana Krstić

• Ljiljana Marković

• Svetlana Mičić

• Ljiljana Mugoša

• Svetlana Mugoša

• Dragana Pešić

• Slavica Rinčić

• Desanka Stojanović

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's Half-Lightweight

• Dragomir Bečanović

Men's Half-Middleweight

• Filip Leščak

Men's Middleweight

• Ivan Todorov

Men's Heavyweight

• Dragomir Kusmuk

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sadik Mujkič Bojan Prešern	Coxless pair	6:36.35	1 SF	6:49.44	2 FA	6:41.01
Roman Ambrožič Milan Janša Sašo Mirjanič	Coxed pair	7:14.96	2 SF	7:09.45	4 FB	7:15.82	8
Vladimir Banjanac Zlatko Celent Sead Marušić Lazo Pivač Dario Varga	Coxed four	6:12.33	3 SF	6:15.72	3 FA	6:23.28	6

Qualification legend: FA = Final A (medal); FB = Final B (non-medal); SF = Semifinal; R = Repechage

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Rajmond Debevec	10 m air rifle	585	25	did not advance
Goran Maksimović	50 m rifle three positions	1173	8 Q	1271.5	8
	50 m rifle prone	596	11	did not advance
	10 m air rifle	594 OR	1 Q	695.6 OR
Srećko Pejović	50 m rifle three positions	1165	21	did not advance
	50 m rifle prone	588	47	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Mladenka Maleniča	50 m rifle three positions	570	28	did not advance
	10 m air rifle	387	22	did not advance
Jasna Šekarić	25 m pistol	591 OR	1 Q	686
	10 m air pistol	389	2 Q	489.5 OR

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Darjan Petrič

• Heat – 3:56.94 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
• Igor Majcen

• Heat – 3:58.90 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

• Darjan Petrič

• Heat – 15:16.99

• Final – 15:37.12 (→ 8th place)
• Igor Majcen

• Heat – 15:29.16 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• Anamarija Petričević

• Heat – 2:40.80 (→ did not advance, 32nd place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

• Anamarija Petričević

• Heat – 2:19.38

• Final – 2:19.63 (→ 13th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

• Anamarija Petričević

• Heat – 4:54.17 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's Singles Competition

• Zoran Primorac
• Ilija Lupulesku
• Zoran Kalinić

Men's Doubles Competition

• Zoran Primorac, Ilija Lupulesku

Women's Singles Competition

• Jasna Fazlić
• Gordana Perkučin

Women's Doubles Competition

• Jasna Fazlić, Gordana Perkučin

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's Singles Competition

• Slobodan Živojinović
• Goran Ivanišević

Men's Doubles Competition

• Slobodan Živojinović, Goran Ivanišević

Women's Singles Competition

• Sabrina Goleš
  1. First Round – Defeated Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (Spain) 6-4, 6–2
  2. Second Round – Lost to Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 1–6, 0–6

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary round (group B)

• Lost to United States (6–7)

• Defeated Hungary (10–9)

• Defeated Greece (17–7)

• Defeated Spain (10–8)

• Defeated China (17–7)
• Semi Finals

• Defeated West Germany (14–10)
• Final

• Defeated United States (9–7) → Gold Medal
• Team roster

• Aleksandar Šoštar

• Deni Lusić

• Dubravko Šimenc

• Perica Bukić

• Veselin Đuho

• Dragan Andrić

• Mirko Vičević

• Igor Gočanin

• Mislav Bezmalinović

• Tomislav Paškvalin

• Igor Milanović

• Goran Rađenović

• Renco Posinković
• Head coach: Ratko Rudić

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Greco-Roman

• Zoran Galović
• Nandor Sabo
• Franc Podlesek
• Goran Kasum
• Bernard Ban
• Jožef Tertei

Men's Freestyle

• Šaban Trstena
• Zoran Šorov
• Šaban Sejdi
• Čedo Nikolovski

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Yugoslavia at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417044117/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/YUG/summer/1988/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 3 July 2016 . Sports Reference.
2. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/YUG/editions/22 Yugoslavia at the 1988 Summer Olympics