Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul consisted of ten weight classes, all for men only.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Sevdalin Marinov (BUL)	Chun Byung-Kwan (KOR)	He Zhuoqiang (CHN)
56 kg	Oksen Mirzoyan (URS)	He Yingqiang (CHN)	Liu Shoubin (CHN)
60 kg	Naim Süleymanoğlu (TUR)	Stefan Topurov (BUL)	Ye Huanming (CHN)
67.5 kg	Joachim Kunz (GDR)	Israel Militosyan (URS)	Li Jinhe (CHN)
75 kg	Borislav Gidikov (BUL)	Ingo Steinhöfel (GDR)	Aleksandar Varbanov (BUL)
82.5 kg	Israil Arsamakov (URS)	István Messzi (HUN)	Lee Hyeong-Geun (KOR)
90 kg	Anatoly Khrapaty (URS)	Nail Mukhamedyarov (URS)	Sławomir Zawada (POL)
100 kg	Pavel Kuznetsov (URS)	Nicu Vlad (ROU)	Peter Immesberger (FRG)
110 kg	Yury Zakharevitch (URS)	József Jacsó (HUN)	Ronny Weller (GDR)
+110 kg	Aleksandr Kurlovich (URS)	Manfred Nerlinger (FRG)	Martin Zawieja (FRG)

Mitko Grabnev (56 kg) and Angel Guenchev (67.5 kg) of Bulgaria originally won their respective weight classes, but were both disqualified after they tested positive for Furosemide.^[1] Andor Szanyi of Hungary was originally awarded silver in the 100 kg event, but was disqualified after he tested positive for Stanozolol.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	2	0	8
2	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	1	1	4
3	East Germany (GDR)	1	1	1	3
4	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	0	1
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	0	2
6	China (CHN)	0	1	4	5
7	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	2	3
8	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
9	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
10	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Total	10	10	10	30

References

1. "THE SEOUL OLYMPICS: Weight Lifting; Team Lifted After 2d Drug Test Is Failed". The New York Times. 1988-09-24.

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-21.