| Date | 25 September 1988 |
|---|---|
| Location | Olympic Weightlifting Gymnasium, Ol-lim-pik Gong-won, Seoul |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Kilograms | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anatoly Khrapaty |  URS | 225.0 | |||
| 2 | Nail Mukhamedyarov | URS | 222.5 | |||
| 3 | Sławomir Zawada |  POL | 220.0 | |||
| =4 | Andrzej Piotrowski | POL | 200.0 | |||
| =4 | David Mercer |  GBR | 200.0 | |||
| =4 | Roland Feldhoffer |  FRG | 200.0 | |||
| =7 | Keith Boxell | GBR | 192.5 | |||
| =7 | Olusola Awosina |  NGR | 192.5 | |||
| 9 | Jeon Byeong-Guk |  KOR | 190.0 | |||
| =10 | Attila Buda |  HUN | 185.0 | |||
| =10 | Mohamed Fayad |  SYR | 185.0 | |||
| =10 | Zoltán Balázsfi | HUN | 185.0 | |||
| =10 | Guy Greavette |  CAN | 185.0 | |||
| =10 | Arn Kritsky |  USA | 185.0 | |||
| =15 | Brett Brian | USA | 180.0 | |||
| =15 | Ramón Solis |  PHI | 180.0 | |||
| =17 | Per Larsen |  DEN | 172.5 | |||
| =17 | Hassan El-Kaissi |  LBN | 172.5 | |||
| =17 | Ahmed El-Magrisi |  LBA | 172.5 | |||
| 20 | Francisco Guzmán |  DOM | 170.0 | |||
| 21 | Dimas |  BRA | 165.0 | |||
| 22 | Suleman Juma |  KEN | 145.0 | |||
| 23 | Hernán Cortez |  BOL | 140.0 | |||
| 24 | Ali Kavuma |  UGA | 132.5 | |||
| 25 | Joseph Kauvai |  COK | 115.0 |
