The men's 78 kg competition in judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul was held on 28 September at the Jangchung Gymnasium. The gold medal was won by Waldemar Legień of Poland.
Results
Pool A
Pool B
Repechages
Final
Final classification
Rank Name Country 1 Waldemar Legień 2 Frank Wieneke 3T Torsten Bréchôt 3T Bashir Varaev 5T Kevin Doherty 5T Pascal Tayot 7T Gastón García 7T Victorino González 9T Walid Mohamed Hussain 9T Lars Adolfsson 11 Peter Reiter 12T Rodnomyn Erkhembayar 12T Jukka-Pekka Metsola 14T Hirotaka Okada 14T Neil Adams 14T Hisham Al-Sharaf Rashad 14T Temel Çakiroglu 14T Patrick Matangi 14T Lam Lap Hing 20T Luis Ochoa 20T Ricardo José Boy 20T Filip Leščak 20T John Baylon 20T Pedro Cristóvão 20T Carlos Huttich 20T Mariano Aquino 20T Jason Morris 20T Luis Val 20T Kilmar Campos 20T Tsay Yow-tayn 20T Magnus Büchel 20T Aly Attyé 20T An Byeong-geun 34T Olivier Schaffter 34T James Kihara 34T Mamudu Adamu 34T Fadi Saikali 34T Károly Németh 34T Ezequiel Paraguassu 34T Johan Laats 34T Simione Kuruvoli
References