Table tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Table tennis
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Table tennis; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Seoul National University Gymnasium
Dates	23 September to 1 October 1988
Competitors	129 from 41 nations
	1992 →

Table tennis was first included in the Olympic program at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, with four events contested.^[1]

Participating nations

A total of 129 athletes (81 men and 48 women), representing 41 NOCs, competed in four events.^[2]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Yoo Nam-Kyu South Korea	Kim Ki-Taik South Korea	Erik Lindh Sweden
Men's doubles details	Chen Longcan and Wei Qingguang (CHN)	Ilija Lupulesku and Zoran Primorac (YUG)	Ahn Jae-Hyung and Yoo Nam-Kyu (KOR)
Women's singles details	Chen Jing China	Li Huifen China	Jiao Zhimin China
Women's doubles details	Hyun Jung-Hwa and Yang Young-Ja (KOR)	Chen Jing and Jiao Zhimin (CHN)	Jasna Fazlić and Gordana Perkučin (YUG)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	2	1	5
2	South Korea	2	1	1	4
3	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
4	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		4	4	4	12

^ "Table Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
^ "Athlete count for Table Tennis". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 October 2021.