1988 Summer Olympics medal table
Distribution of medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is the full table of the medal table of the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul.
1988 Summer Olympics medals | ||||
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Location | Seoul, South Korea | |||
Highlights | ||||
Most gold medals | Soviet Union (55) | |||
Most total medals | Soviet Union (132) | |||
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These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This follows the system used by the IOC, IAAF and BBC.
Athletes from 52 countries won medals, leaving 108 countries without a medal. The Soviet Union utterly dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and 132 total medals. The results that got closest to that medal haul afterwards are China's 48 gold medals in 2008 and the USA's 121 total medals in 2016.