| 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 | 205.0 | o | ||||
| Ingo Steinhöfel |  GDR | 195.0 | o | ||||
| Andrei Socaci |  ROU | 195.0 | o | ||||
| Ricki Chaplin |  GBR | 180.0 | o | ||||
| Mats Lindqvist |  SWE | 175.0 | o | ||||
| I Nyoman Sudarma |  INA | 172.5 | o | ||||
| Pietro Pujia |  ITA | 172.5 | o | ||||
| Paul Harrison |  AUS | 170.0 | o | ||||
| Paul Hoffman |  SWZ | 110.0 | o | ||||
| Benjamin Fafale |  SOL | 105.0 | o | ||||
| Aleksandar Varbanov | BUL | 210.0 | x | ||||
| Cai Yanshu |  CHN | 195.0 | x | ||||
| Waldemar Kosiński |  POL | 187.5 | x | ||||
| Dean Willey | GBR | 185.0 | x | ||||
| Angelo Mannironi | ITA | 182.5 | x | ||||
| Ron Laycock | AUS | 182.5 | x | ||||
| Ma Wenzhu | CHN | 182.5 | x | ||||
| Jaarli Pirkkiö |  FIN | 180.0 | x | ||||
| Tony Urrutia |  USA | 177.5 | x | ||||
| Khalil Ibrahim |  EGY | 177.5 | x | ||||
| Şahin Menge |  TUR | 175.0 | x | ||||
| Kim Byeong-Chan |  KOR | 175.0 | x | ||||
| Roger Token |  PNG | 145.0 | x | ||||
| David Maina |  KEN | 145.0 | x | ||||
| Kálmán Csengeri |  HUN | [190.0] | [o] | 1 |
