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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Venue(s): Sangmu Gynmasium, Seongnam
Date Started: September 19, 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: | Kim Yeong-Nam |
| Silver: | Daulet Turlykhanov |
| Bronze: | Józef Tracz |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | RE | CP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kim Yeong-Nam | 28 | South Korea | KOR | Gold | |||
| 2 | Daulet Turlykhanov | 24 | Soviet Union | URS | Silver | |||
| 3 | Józef Tracz | 24 | Poland | POL | Bronze | |||
| 4 | János Takács | 21 | Hungary | HUN | ||||
| 5 | Martial Mischler | 24 | France | FRA | ||||
| 6 | Borislav Velichkov | 27 | Bulgaria | BUL | ||||
| 7 | Roger Tallroth | 28 | Sweden | SWE | ||||
| 8 | Hiromichi Ito | 24 | Japan | JPN | ||||
| AC | Franc Podlesek | 36 | Yugoslavia | YUG | Eliminated r4/6 Group A | 7,0 | ||
| AC | David Butler | 31 | United States | USA | Eliminated r4/6 Group A | 6,0 | ||
| AC | Wei Qingkun | 21 | China | CHN | Eliminated r2/6 Group A | 1,0 | ||
| AC | Jean Manga | 29 | Cameroon | CMR | Eliminated r2/6 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Óscar Sánchez | 21 | Spain | ESP | Eliminated r2/6 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Zouheir Al-Balah | 21 | Syria | SYR | Eliminated r2/6 Group A | 0,0 | ||
| AC | Abdel Aziz Tahir | 27 | Morocco | MAR | Eliminated r3/6 Group B | 5,0 | ||
| AC | Erhan Balcı | 22 | Turkey | TUR | Eliminated r3/6 Group B | 3,0 | ||
| AC | Jouko Salomäki | 26 | Finland | FIN | Eliminated r2/6 Group B | 2,0 | ||
| AC | Jaroslav Zeman | 26 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | Eliminated r2/6 Group B | 1,0 | ||
| AC | Reza Anduz | 23 | Iran | IRI | Eliminated r2/6 Group B | 0,0 |