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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Venue(s): Sangmu Gynmasium, Seongnam
Date Started: September 28, 1988
Date Finished: September 30, 1988
Format: Two groups (A and B). Double elimination tournament within each group. Top four in each group advance to placement matches for 1st-8th place.
| Gold: | Mitsuru Sato |
| Silver: | Šaban Trstena |
| Bronze: | Volodymyr Tohuzov |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | RE | CP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitsuru Sato | 26 | Japan | JPN | Gold | |||
| 2 | Šaban Trstena | 23 | Yugoslavia | YUG | Silver | |||
| 3 | Volodymyr Tohuzov | 22 | Soviet Union | URS | Bronze | |||
| 4 | László Bíró | 28 | Hungary | HUN | ||||
| 5 | Arslan Seyhanlı | 28 | Turkey | TUR | ||||
| 6 | Kim Jong-O | 21 | South Korea | KOR | ||||
| 7 | Tserenbaataryn Enkhbayar | 21 | Mongolia | MGL | ||||
| 8 | Valentin Yordanov | 28 | Bulgaria | BUL | ||||
| AC | Władysław Stecyk | 37 | Poland | POL | Eliminated r5/7 Group A | 12,0 | ||
| AC | Thierry Bourdin | 25 | France | FRA | Eliminated r5/7 Group A | 11,5 | ||
| AC | Majid Torkan | 23 | Iran | IRI | Eliminated r4/7 Group A | 8,5 | ||
| AC | Bernardo Olvera | 25 | Mexico | MEX | Eliminated r3/7 Group A | 5,0 | ||
| AC | Ken Chertow | 21 | United States | USA | Eliminated r3/7 Group A | 4,5 | ||
| AC | Christopher Woodcroft | 23 | Canada | CAN | Eliminated r2/7 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Edvin Eduardo Vázquez | 18 | Guatemala | GUA | Eliminated r2/7 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Ousmane Diallo | Guinea | GUI | Eliminated r2/7 Group A | 0,0 | |||
| AC | Surya Saputra | 20 | Indonesia | INA | Eliminated r2/7 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Garba Lame | 20 | Nigeria | NGR | Eliminated r2/7 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Carlos Negron | 24 | Puerto Rico | PUR | Eliminated r2/7 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Lo Chao-Cheng | 19 | Chinese Taipei | TPE | Eliminated r2/7 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Oscar Muñoz | 23 | Colombia | COL | Eliminated r4/6 Group B | 9,0 | ||
| AC | Herbert Tutsch | 25 | West Germany | FRG | Eliminated r4/6 Group B | 9,0 | ||
| AC | Kuldeep Singh | 22 | India | IND | Eliminated r4/6 Group B | 9,0 | ||
| AC | Ahmad Nasir | Afghanistan | AFG | Eliminated r3/6 Group B | 4,0 | |||
| AC | Nguyễn Kim Hương | 18 | Vietnam | VIE | Eliminated r3/6 Group B | 4,0 | ||
| AC | Fayadh Minati | Iraq | IRQ | Eliminated r2/6 Group B | 2,0 | |||
| AC | Xu Jihua | 22 | China | CHN | Eliminated r2/6 Group B | 1,0 | ||
| AC | Jihad Sharif | 20 | Jordan | JOR | Eliminated r2/6 Group B | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Lamachi Elimu | 28 | Kenya | KEN | Eliminated r2/6 Group B | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Florentino Tirante | 26 | Philippines | PHI | Eliminated r2/6 Group B | 0,0 |