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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Venue(s): Sangmu Gynmasium, Seongnam
Date Started: September 20, 1988
Date Finished: September 21, 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: | Aleksandr Karelin |
| Silver: | Rangel Gerovski |
| Bronze: | Tomas Johansson |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | RE | CP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aleksandr Karelin | 20 | Soviet Union | URS | Gold | |||
| 2 | Rangel Gerovski | 29 | Bulgaria | BUL | Silver | |||
| 3 | Tomas Johansson | 26 | Sweden | SWE | Bronze | |||
| 4 | Hassan El-Haddad | 31 | Egypt | EGY | ||||
| 5 | László Klauz | 26 | Hungary | HUN | ||||
| 6 | Kazuya Deguchi | 22 | Japan | JPN | ||||
| 7 | Roman Wrocławski | 33 | Poland | POL | ||||
| 8 | Duane Koslowski | 29 | United States | USA | ||||
| AC | Alexander Neumüller | 22 | Austria | AUT | Eliminated r3/4 Group A | 5,0 | ||
| AC | Lubomír David | 24 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | Eliminated r2/4 Group A | 4,0 | ||
| AC | Fritz Gerdsmeier | 26 | West Germany | FRG | Eliminated r2/4 Group A | 1,0 | ||
| AC | Khodr Bechara | 23 | Lebanon | LIB | Eliminated r2/4 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Navind Ramsaran | 27 | Mauritius | MRI | Eliminated r2/5 Group B | 4,0 | ||
| AC | Daniel Payne | 22 | Canada | CAN | Eliminated r2/5 Group B | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Farhan Mohammed | Iraq | IRQ | Eliminated r2/5 Group B | 0,0 | |||
| AC | Fabio Valguarnera | 21 | Italy | ITA | Eliminated r2/5 Group B | 0,0 |