Table tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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

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

Participating nations

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

•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (3)
•  Austria (2)
•  Belgium (2)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Canada (3)
•  Chile (3)
•  China (7)
•  Czechoslovakia (4)
•  Dominican Republic (3)
•  Egypt (3)
•  France (2)
•  Ghana (1)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  Hong Kong (6)
•  Hungary (5)
•  India (3)
•  Indonesia (1)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Japan (7)
•  Jordan (1)
•  Malaysia (2)
•  Mauritius (2)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  New Zealand (2)
•  Nigeria (6)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Poland (3)
•  South Korea (7)
•  Soviet Union (5)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Chinese Taipei (6)
•  Tunisia (4)
•  United States (3)
•  Venezuela (2)
•  Yugoslavia (5)
•  West Germany (6)

Medal summary

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

Medal table

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

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 December 2006.
• International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
• "Table Tennis at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.