1988 Summer Olympics

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Template:Olympics infobox The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. The host was chosen in the September 1981 vote, ahead of the Japanese city of Nagoya.

After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, led by North Korea and followed by Cuba; the basis of the boycott was South Korea's refusal to co-host the Olympics with North Korea, which rejected all compromise. However it was an early, visible triumph of nordpolitik that no other Communist nations boycotted the Games despite being allies of North Korea.

Ethiopia, Seychelles and Nicaragua could not afford to send their athletes for economic reasons.

1 Highlights
2 Medals awarded
3 Nations
4 Medal count
5 See also
6 External links

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Highlights

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Ben Johnson wins the 100 m in a new world record, but is disqualified after tests positive for stanozolol.
American boxer Roy Jones Jr. loses the gold medal to South Korean fighter Park Si Hun in a controversial 3-2 judge's decision, despite clearly dominating the fight. Allegations swirled that Korean officials had fixed the judging.
Swimmer Kristin Otto of East Germany wins six gold medals. Other multi-medalists in the pool are Matt Biondi (five) and Janet Evans (3).
Anthony Nesty of Suriname wins his country's first Olympic medal by winning the 100 m butterfly, scoring an upset victory; he is also the first black person to win a swimming title.
Soviet Vladimir Artemov wins four gold medals in gymnastics, Daniela Silivas of Romania wins three.
US Sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins three gold medals and a silver on the track.
Christa Rothenburger becomes the first (and last) athlete to win Olympic medals at the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics in the same year. She adds a cycling silver to the speed skating gold she won earlier in the year in Calgary.
US diver Greg Louganis wins back-to-back titles on both diving events, but only after hitting the springboard with his head in the 3-m event final.
Mark Todd wins his second consecutive individual gold medal in the three-day event in equestrian on Charisma, only the second time in eventing history that a gold medal has been won consecutively.
Tennis returns to the Olympics after a 64-year absence, and Steffi Graf adds to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title.
Table tennis is introduced at the Olympics, with China and the host nation both winning two titles.
Two Bulgarian weightlifters are stripped of their gold medals after failing doping tests, and the team withdraws after this event.
Lawrence Lemieux, a Canadian sailor in the Finn class was in second place and poised to win a silver medal when he abandoned the race to save an injured competitor. Lemieux finished in 22nd place, but received the Pierre de Coubertin Medal for Sportsmanship.
Baseball and Taekwondo are demonstration sports.
Women's Judo was held for the first time.
The last amateur US men's basketball team fails to win the gold for only the third time in Olympic history.

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Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

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Nations

Articles about Seoul Summer Olympics by nation:

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Medal count

(Host nation in bold.)

1988 Summer Olympics medal count					Image:Olympische Ringe.svg
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR	55	31	46	132
2	Image:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany	37	35	30	102
3	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States	36	31	27	94
4	Image:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea	12	10	11	33
5	Image:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany	11	14	15	40
6	Image:Hungary flag 1957-1989.png Hungary	11	6	6	23
7	Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria	10	12	13	35
8	Image:Romania flag 1947-1989.png Romania	7	11	6	24
9	Image:Flag of France.svg France	6	4	6	16
10	Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy	6	4	4	14
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