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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Venue(s): Sangmu Gynmasium, Seongnam
Date Started: September 29, 1988
Date Finished: October 1, 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: | Han Myeong-U |
| Silver: | Necmi Gençalp |
| Bronze: | Jozef Lohyňa |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | RE | CP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Han Myeong-U | 31 | South Korea | KOR | Gold | |||
| 2 | Necmi Gençalp | 28 | Turkey | TUR | Silver | |||
| 3 | Jozef Lohyňa | 25 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | Bronze | |||
| 4 | Aleksandr Tambovtsev | 24 | Soviet Union | URS | ||||
| 5 | Puntsagiin Sükhbat | 24 | Mongolia | MGL | ||||
| 6 | Mark Schultz | 27 | United States | USA | ||||
| 7 | Atsushi Ito | 24 | Japan | JPN | ||||
| 8 | Hans Gstöttner | 20 | East Germany | GDR | ||||
| AC | Čedo Nikolovski | 27 | Yugoslavia | YUG | Eliminated r5/6 Group A | 10,0 | ||
| AC | Ahmed Afghan | 18 | Iran | IRI | Eliminated r4/6 Group A | 8,5 | ||
| AC | Chris Rinke | 27 | Canada | CAN | Eliminated r4/6 Group A | 7,0 | ||
| AC | Daniel Iglesias | 26 | Argentina | ARG | Eliminated r3/6 Group A | 5,0 | ||
| AC | Chi Man-Hsien | 20 | Chinese Taipei | TPE | Eliminated r3/6 Group A | 4,5 | ||
| AC | Moustafa Ramada Hussain | 21 | Egypt | EGY | Eliminated r3/6 Group A | 4,0 | ||
| AC | Francisco Iglesias | 23 | Spain | ESP | Eliminated r3/6 Group A | 4,0 | ||
| AC | Oumar N'Gom | 30 | Senegal | SEN | Eliminated r2/6 Group A | 1,0 | ||
| AC | Pierre-Didier Jollien | 24 | Switzerland | SUI | Eliminated r2/6 Group A | 1,0 | ||
| AC | Matarr Jarju | Gambia | GAM | Eliminated r2/6 Group A | 0,0 | |||
| AC | Barthelémy N'To | 25 | Cameroon | CMR | Withdrew r2/6 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Jouni Ilomäki | 28 | Finland | FIN | Eliminated r5/7 Group B | 11,0 | ||
| AC | Victor Kodei | 22 | Nigeria | NGR | Eliminated r5/7 Group B | 10,0 | ||
| AC | Mohamed Zayar | 24 | Syria | SYR | Eliminated r4/7 Group B | 7,5 | ||
| AC | Andrzej Radomski | 26 | Poland | POL | Eliminated r3/7 Group B | 5,0 | ||
| AC | Reiner Trik | 25 | West Germany | FRG | Eliminated r3/7 Group B | 3,5 | ||
| AC | Martin Doyle | 29 | Great Britain | GBR | Eliminated r2/7 Group B | 2,0 | ||
| AC | Aleksandar Nanev | 29 | Bulgaria | BUL | Eliminated r2/7 Group B | 1,0 | ||
| AC | László Dvorák | 23 | Hungary | HUN | Eliminated r2/7 Group B | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Mohammed Jabouri | Iraq | IRQ | Eliminated r2/7 Group B | 0,0 | |||
| AC | Ubaldo Rodríguez | 30 | Puerto Rico | PUR | Eliminated r2/7 Group B | 0,0 |