| Date | 22 September 1988 |
|---|---|
| Location | Olympic Weightlifting Gymnasium, Ol-lim-pik Gong-won, Seoul |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Kilograms | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borislav Gidikov | BUL | 167.5 | |||
| 2 | Ingo Steinhöfel | GDR | 165.0 | |||
| =3 | Aleksandar Varbanov | BUL | 157.5 | |||
| =3 | Cai Yanshu | CHN | 157.5 | |||
| =5 | Andrei Socaci | ROU | 152.5 | |||
| =5 | Waldemar Kosiński | POL | 152.5 | |||
| =5 | Dean Willey | GBR | 152.5 | |||
| =8 | Tony Urrutia | USA | 150.0 | |||
| =8 | Ma Wenzhu | CHN | 150.0 | |||
| 10 | Angelo Mannironi | ITA | 147.5 | |||
| 11 | I Nyoman Sudarma | INA | 145.0 | |||
| 12 | Khalil Ibrahim | EGY | 142.5 | |||
| =13 | Ricki Chaplin | GBR | 140.0 | |||
| =13 | Mats Lindqvist | SWE | 140.0 | |||
| =13 | Kim Byeong-Chan | KOR | 140.0 | |||
| =16 | Jaarli Pirkkiö | FIN | 137.5 | |||
| =16 | Şahin Menge | TUR | 137.5 | |||
| =16 | Pietro Pujia | ITA | 137.5 | |||
| =16 | Paul Harrison | AUS | 137.5 | |||
| 20 | Ron Laycock | AUS | 135.0 | |||
| 21 | Roger Token | PNG | 110.0 | |||
| 22 | David Maina | KEN | 105.0 | |||
| 23 | Paul Hoffman | SWZ | 87.5 | |||
| 24 | Benjamin Fafale | SOL | 85.0 | |||
| Kálmán Csengeri | HUN | [155.0] | 1 |