| | Top level | Event type
Middleweight (≤75 kilograms), Men – Clean & Jerk
| Date | 22 September 1988 |
|---|---|
| Location | Olympic Weightlifting Gymnasium, Ol-lim-pik Gong-won, Seoul |
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | K | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borislav Gidikov |  BUL | 207.5 | |||
| 2 | Aleksandar Varbanov | BUL | 200.0 | |||
| =3 | Ingo Steinhöfel |  GDR | 195.0 | |||
| =3 | Andrei Socaci |  ROU | 195.0 | |||
| 5 | Cai Yanshu |  CHN | 190.0 | |||
| =6 | Waldemar Kosiński |  POL | 180.0 | |||
| =6 | Dean Willey |  GBR | 180.0 | |||
| =6 | Ricki Chaplin | GBR | 180.0 | |||
| =6 | Jaarli Pirkkiö |  FIN | 180.0 | |||
| =10 | Angelo Mannironi |  ITA | 177.5 | |||
| =10 | Tony Urrutia |  USA | 177.5 | |||
| =12 | I Nyoman Sudarma |  INA | 175.0 | |||
| =12 | Mats Lindqvist |  SWE | 175.0 | |||
| =12 | Şahin Menge |  TUR | 175.0 | |||
| =12 | Ron Laycock |  AUS | 175.0 | |||
| =16 | Khalil Ibrahim |  EGY | 172.5 | |||
| =16 | Pietro Pujia | ITA | 172.5 | |||
| =18 | Paul Harrison | AUS | 170.0 | |||
| =18 | Kim Byeong-Chan |  KOR | 170.0 | |||
| 20 | Roger Token |  PNG | 145.0 | |||
| 21 | Paul Hoffman |  SWZ | 110.0 | |||
| 22 | Benjamin Fafale |  SOL | 105.0 | |||
| Kálmán Csengeri |  HUN | [195.0] | 1 | |||
| Ma Wenzhu | CHN | – | ||||
| David Maina |  KEN | – |