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Games of the XXIV Olympiad - Seoul 1988
Date: 17 September - 2 October.
Nations: 159.
Athletes: 8.465 (6,279 men, 2,186 women).
Sports: 25.
Events: 237.
Official opening of the Games by: President Roh Tae-woo.
Olympic flame: - Chong Son-man, Kim Won-tak, Son Mi-jong (athletics).
Olympic oath: - Hur Jae (basketball).
Official oath: - Lee Hak-rae (judo).
Number of medal-winning nations: 52.
National medal total:
1. USSR 132 (55, 31, 46)
   
                   
      Following two major boycotts of the Games, a record-setting number of participating nations gathered in South Korea, although North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua boycotted the Games.
The most successful female competitor was East Germany’s swimmer Kristin Otto, who won six gold medals, and the most successful male competitor was Matthew Biondi (USA) who won seven swimming medals (five of which were gold).
Athletics was dominated by the USA’s Florence Griffith Joyner who won three sprint golds and set a 200m world record that remains unsurpassed - 21,34.
Tennis returned to the Games’ programme after 64 years (in 1984 it was a demonstration sport). Professional tennis players were allowed to participate, a decision marking the IOC’s definite deviation from the strict amateurism principle.

Yugoslavia participated with 155 athletes in 17 sports and with a total of 12 (3, 4, 5) medals ranked 16th on the national medal total list. Gold medals were won by Jasna Šekarić, Goran Maksimović and the water polo team.

Candidate cities: Nagoya.		  
The biggest scandal:
Ben Johnson (Canada), the 100m champion and the new world record holder, was disqualified because of doping 		 
               
     

SPORTS (25)

    
 		  
     
  • Aquatics1
  • Athletics
  • Baseball
  • Cycling
  • Boxing
  • Rowing
  • Gymnastics
  • Weightlifting
  • Sailing
  • Canoe/kayak
  • Basketball
  • Equestrian
  • Fencing
  • Modern Pentathlon
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling
  • Handball
  • Table tennis
  • Archery
  • Shooting
  • Taekwando
  • Tennis
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Judo
   1 - swimming, diving, water polo and starting with 1984, synchronized swimming  
             
     

NATIONAL MEDAL TOTAL

      
     
  Country Gold Silver Bronze
1. USSR 55 31 46
2. GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 37 35 30
3. USA 36 31 27
4. SOUTH KOREA 12 10 11
5. GERMANY 11 14 15
6. HUNGARY 11 6 6
7. BULGARIA 10 12 13
8. ROMANIA 7 11 6
9. FRANCE 6 4 6
10. ITALY 6 4 4
11. CHINA 5 11 12
12. GREAT BRITAIN 5 10 9
13. KENYA 5 2 2
14. JAPAN 4 3 7
15. AUSTRALIA 3 6 5
16. YUGOSLAVIA 3 4 5
17. CZECHOSLOVAKIA 3 3 2
18. NEW ZEALAND 3 2 8
19. CANADA 3 2 5
20. POLAND 2 5 9
21. NORWAY 2 3 0
22. NETHERLANDS 2 2 5
23. DENMARK 2 1 1
24. BRAZIL 1 2 3
25. FINLAND 1 1 2
26. SPAIN 1 2 2
27. TURKEY 1 1 0
28. MOROCCO 1 0 2
29. AUSTRIA 1 0 0
30. PORTUGAL 1 0 0
31. SURINAME 1 0 0
32. SWEDEN 0 4 7
33. SWITZERLAND 0 2 2
34. JAMAICA 0 2 0
35. ARGENTINA 0 1 1
36. CHILE 0 1 0
37. COSTA RICA 0 1 0
38. INDONESIA 0 1 0
39. IRAN 0 1 0
40. NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 0 1 0
41. PERU 0 1 0
42. SENEGAL 0 1 0
43. VIRGIN ISLAND 0 1 0
44. BELGIUM 0 0 2
45. MEXICO 0 0 2
46. COLOMBIA 0 0 1
47. DJIBOUTI 0 0 1
48. GREECE 0 0 1
49. MONACO 0 0 1
50. PAKISTAN 0 0 1
51. PHILIPPINES 0 0 1
52. THAILAND 0 0 1
  For the first time Olympic trophies were won by the athletes from Suriname, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Netherlands Antilles, Senegal, Virgin Islands and Djibouti.  
             
           
                   
             
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