1988 Summer Olympics medal table

This is the full table of the medal table of the 1988 Summer Olympics 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. No nation came even close to repeating this result after 1988. Currently, China's 48 gold medals in 2008 and USA's 121 total medals in 2016 are the closest results to USSR's 1988 performance.

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	55	31	46	132
2	East Germany (GDR)	37	35	30	102
3	United States (USA)	36	31	27	94
4	South Korea (KOR)*	12	10	11	33
5	West Germany (FRG)	11	14	15	40
6	Hungary (HUN)	11	6	6	23
7	Bulgaria (BUL)	10	12	13	35
8	Romania (ROU)	7	11	6	24
9	France (FRA)	6	4	6	16
10	Italy (ITA)	6	4	4	14
11	China (CHN)	5	11	12	28
12	Great Britain (GBR)	5	10	9	24
13	Kenya (KEN)	5	2	2	9
14	Japan (JPN)	4	3	7	14
15	Australia (AUS)	3	6	5	14
16	Yugoslavia (YUG)	3	4	5	12
17	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3	3	2	8
18	New Zealand (NZL)	3	2	8	13
19	Canada (CAN)	3	2	5	10
20	Poland (POL)	2	5	9	16
21	Norway (NOR)	2	3	0	5
22	Netherlands (NED)	2	2	5	9
23	Denmark (DEN)	2	1	1	4
24	Brazil (BRA)	1	2	3	6
25	Finland (FIN)	1	1	2	4
	Spain (ESP)	1	1	2	4
27	Turkey (TUR)	1	1	0	2
28	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	2	3
29	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	1	0	0	1
	Suriname (SUR)	1	0	0	1
32	Sweden (SWE)	0	4	7	11
33	Switzerland (SUI)	0	2	2	4
34	Jamaica (JAM)	0	2	0	2
35	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	1	2
36	Chile (CHI)	0	1	0	1
	Costa Rica (CRC)	0	1	0	1
	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	0	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands Antilles (AHO)	0	1	0	1
	Peru (PER)	0	1	0	1
	Senegal (SEN)	0	1	0	1
	Virgin Islands (ISV)	0	1	0	1
44	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	2	2
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	2	2
46	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
	Djibouti (DJI)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (52 nations)		241	234	264	739