Wrestling at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Sangmu Gymnasium
Dates	18 September – 1 October
Competitors	429 from 69 nations
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Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman
	48 kg	48 kg
	52 kg	52 kg
	57 kg	57 kg
	62 kg	62 kg
	68 kg	68 kg
	74 kg	74 kg
	82 kg	82 kg
	90 kg	90 kg
	100 kg	100 kg
	130 kg	130 kg
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At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, 20 wrestling events were contested, for all men only. There were 10 weight classes in each of the freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling disciplines.^[1]

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Takashi Kobayashi  Japan	Ivan Tzonov  Bulgaria	Sergei Karamchakov  Soviet Union
52 kg details	Mitsuru Sato  Japan	Shaban Tërstena  Yugoslavia	Vladimir Toguzov  Soviet Union
57 kg details	Sergei Beloglazov  Soviet Union	Askari Mohammadian  Iran	Noh Kyung-sun  South Korea
62 kg details	John Smith  United States	Stepan Sarkisyan  Soviet Union	Simeon Shterev  Bulgaria
68 kg details	Arsen Fadzaev  Soviet Union	Park Jang-soon  South Korea	Nate Carr  United States
74 kg details	Kenny Monday  United States	Adlan Varayev  Soviet Union	Rahmat Sofiadi  Bulgaria
82 kg details	Han Myung-woo  South Korea	Necmi Gençalp  Turkey	Jozef Lohyňa  Czechoslovakia
90 kg details	Makharbek Khadartsev  Soviet Union	Akira Ota  Japan	Kim Tae-woo  South Korea
100 kg details	Vasile Puşcaşu  Romania	Leri Khabelov  Soviet Union	William Scherr  United States
130 kg details	David Gobejishvili  Soviet Union	Bruce Baumgartner  United States	Andreas Schröder  East Germany

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Vincenzo Maenza  Italy	Andrzej Głąb  Poland	Bratan Tzenov  Bulgaria
52 kg details	Jon Rønningen  Norway	Atsuji Miyahara  Japan	Lee Jae-suk  South Korea
57 kg details	András Sike  Hungary	Stoyan Balov  Bulgaria	Charalambos Cholidis  Greece
62 kg details	Kamandar Madzhidov  Soviet Union	Zhivko Vangelov  Bulgaria	An Dae-hyun  South Korea
68 kg details	Levon Julfalakyan  Soviet Union	Kim Sung-moon  South Korea	Tapio Sipilä  Finland
74 kg details	Kim Young-nam  South Korea	Daulet Turlykhanov  Soviet Union	Józef Tracz  Poland
82 kg details	Mikhail Mamiashvili  Soviet Union	Tibor Komáromi  Hungary	Kim Sang-kyu  South Korea
90 kg details	Atanas Komchev  Bulgaria	Harri Koskela  Finland	Vladimir Popov  Soviet Union
100 kg details	Andrzej Wroński  Poland	Gerhard Himmel  West Germany	Dennis Koslowski  United States
130 kg details	Aleksandr Karelin  Soviet Union	Rangel Gerovski  Bulgaria	Tomas Johansson  Sweden

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	8	4	3	15
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	5	9
3	Japan (JPN)	2	2	0	4
4	United States (USA)	2	1	3	6
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	4	3	8
6	Poland (POL)	1	1	1	3
7	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	0	2
8	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
11	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
12	Iran (IRI)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
16	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		20	20	20	60

Participating nations

A total of 429 wrestlers from 69 nations competed at the Seoul Games:^[1]