1988 Summer Olympics

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Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Games of the XXIV Olympiad

Nations participating 159
Athletes participating 8,465 (6,279 men, 2,186 women)
Events 263 in 27 sports
Opening ceremony September 17, 1988
Closing ceremony October 2, 1988
Officially opened by Roh Taewoo
Athlete's Oath Hur Jae
Judge's Oath Lee Hakrae
Olympic Torch Sohn Kee-chung, Chung Sunman,
Kim Wontak and Sohn Mi-Chung
Stadium Jamsil Olympic Stadium

The Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. The host was chosen in the September 1981 vote, ahead of the Japanese city of Nagoya. South Korea's government became a democracy under the pressure of organizing the Olympics.

After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, leaded by North Korea and followed by Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua these two last countries for economic problems to send their athletes to compete. The origin of this boycott was the refuse to share with Pyongyang the celebration of some sport event programmed.

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Highlights

Johnson winning the 100m final
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Johnson winning the 100m final
  • Ben Johnson wins the 100 m in a new world record, but is disqualified after tests positive for stanozolol.
  • Swimmer Kristin Otto of East Germany wins six gold medals. Other multi-medalists in the pool are Matt Biondi (five) and Janet Evans (3).
  • Anthony Nesty of Suriname wins his country's first Olympic medal by winning the 100 m butterfly, scoring an upset victory; he is also the first Black to win a swimming title.
  • Soviet Vladimir Artemov wins four gold medals in gymnastics, Daniela Silivas of Romania wins three.
  • US Sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins three gold medals and a silver on the track.
  • Christa Rothenburger becomes the first (and last) athlete to win Olympic medals at the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics in the same year. She adds a cycling silver to the speed skating gold she won earlier in the year in Calgary.
  • US diver Greg Louganis wins back-to-back titles on both diving events, but only after hitting the springboard with his head in the 3-m event final.
  • Mark Todd wins his second consecutive individual gold medal on Charisma, only the second time in eventing history that a gold medal has been won consecutively.
  • Tennis returns to the Olympics after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf adds to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title.
  • Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
  • Two Bulgarian weightlifters are stripped of their gold medals after failing doping tests, and theteam withdraw after this event.
  • Baseball and Taekwondo are demonstration sports.
  • Women's Judo
  • The last amateur US men's basketball team fails to win the gold for only the third time in Olympic history.

Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

Nations

Articles about Seoul Summer Olympics by nation:

Medal count

Top medal-collecting nations:
(for the full table, see 1988 Summer Olympics medal count)

(Host nation in bold.)

1988 Summer Olympics medal count
Pos Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 USSR 55 31 46 132
2 East Germany 37 35 30 102
3 United States 36 31 27 94
4 South Korea 12 10 11 33
5 West Germany 11 14 15 40
6 Hungary 11 6 6 23
7 Bulgaria 10 12 13 35
8 Romania 7 11 6 24
9 France 6 4 6 16
10 Italy 6 4 4 14

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