| Date | 22 September 1988 |
|---|---|
| Location | Olympic Weightlifting Gymnasium, Ol-lim-pik Gong-won, Seoul |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Kilograms | o=success, x=failure | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borislav Gidikov | BUL | 165.0 | o | ||||
| Ingo Steinhöfel | GDR | 165.0 | o | ||||
| Tony Urrutia | USA | 150.0 | o | ||||
| Angelo Mannironi | ITA | 147.5 | o | ||||
| I Nyoman Sudarma | INA | 140.0 | o | ||||
| Ron Laycock | AUS | 130.0 | o | ||||
| Roger Token | PNG | 100.0 | o | ||||
| Paul Hoffman | SWZ | 85.0 | o | ||||
| Aleksandar Varbanov | BUL | 162.5 | x | ||||
| Waldemar Kosiński | POL | 160.0 | x | ||||
| Cai Yanshu | CHN | 157.5 | x | ||||
| Andrei Socaci | ROU | 157.5 | x | ||||
| Dean Willey | GBR | 157.5 | x | ||||
| Ma Wenzhu | CHN | 155.0 | x | ||||
| Khalil Ibrahim | EGY | 147.5 | x | ||||
| Ricki Chaplin | GBR | 145.0 | x | ||||
| Mats Lindqvist | SWE | 145.0 | x | ||||
| Jaarli Pirkkiö | FIN | 142.5 | x | ||||
| Şahin Menge | TUR | 142.5 | x | ||||
| Pietro Pujia | ITA | 142.5 | x | ||||
| Kim Byeong-Chan | KOR | 140.0 | x | ||||
| Paul Harrison | AUS | 137.5 | x | ||||
| David Maina | KEN | 115.0 | x | ||||
| Benjamin Fafale | SOL | 85.0 | x | ||||
| Kálmán Csengeri | HUN | [155.0] | [x] | 1 |