Men's 52 kg at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Weightlifting Gymnasium
Date	18 September 1988
Competitors	24 from 18 nations
Medalists
Sevdalin Marinov  Bulgaria Chun Byung-kwan  South Korea He Zhuoqiang  China
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Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics
	Men
	52 kg
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	67.5 kg
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	82.5 kg
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The men's 52 kg weightlifting event was the lightest event at the weightlifting competition of the 1988 Summer Olympics, limiting competitors to a maximum of 52 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on 18 September, and participants were divided in two groups. Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted.^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Group	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
				1	2	3	Result	1	2	3	Result
	Sevdalin Marinov (BUL)	A	51.85	112.5	117.5	120	120	142.5	147.5	150	150	270 WR,OR
	Chun Byung-kwan (KOR)	A	51.50	107.5	112.5	115	112.5	140	147.5	157.5	147.5	260
	He Zhuoqiang (CHN)	A	51.45	112.5	112.5	117.5	112.5	145	145	145	145	257.5
4	Zhang Shoulie (CHN)	A	51.50	110	115	117.5	115	137.5	142.5	145	142.5	257.5
5	Jacek Gutowski (POL)	A	51.45	112.5	117.5	117.5	112.5	135	135	135	135	247.5
6	Traian Ciharean (ROU)	A	51.65	110	115	115	110	130	130	140	130	240
7	Bela Olah (HUN)	A	51.65	102.5	107.5	110	107.5	130	135	135	130	237.5
8	Kazushito Manabe (JPN)	A	51.60	105	110	110	105	120	125	130	125	230
9	Hwang In-dong (KOR)	A	51.80	95	95	100	100	130	130	135	130	230
10	Humberto Fuentes (VEN)	A	51.75	100	100	100	100	127.5	127.5	132.5	127.5	227.5
11	Gurunathan Muthuswamy (IND)	B	51.95	95	100	102.5	102.5	120	125	127.5	125	227.5
12	José Luis Martínez (ESP)	B	51.75	95	100	100	100	120	125	127.5	125	225
13	José Andrés Ibáñez (ESP)	B	51.70	95	95	100	95	120	125	127.5	127.5	222.5
14	Chiang Ming-hsiung (TPE)	B	51.90	92.5	92.5	95	92.5	122.5	130	140	130	222.5
15	Sodikin (INA)	B	51.85	95	95	100	95	122.5	127.5	127.5	122.5	217.5
16	Levent Erdogan (TUR)	B	51.85	92.5	115	115	92.5	117.5	122.5	125	125	217.5
17	Yoshinori Namiki (JPN)	B	51.70	95	100	102.5	100	115	120	122.5	115	215
18	Gregory Hayman (AUS)	B	51.55	87.5	92.5	92.5	92.5	115	120	120	115	207.5
19	Raghavan Chanderasekaran (IND)	B	51.90	92.5	97.5	97.5	92.5	115	115	120	115	207.5
20	Gregorio Colonia (PHI)	B	52.00	90	95	95	90	115	120	120	115	205
21	Khodr Olaywan (LIB)	B	51.70	80	85	87.5	85	100	105	105	100	185
22	Bharat Sawad (NEP)	B	51.30	75	82.5	82.5	75	95	105	107.5	105	180
—	Ramadan Aly (EGY)	B	51.95	95	100	100	100	117.5	117.5	120	—	—
—	Chung Yung-chi (TPE)	B	51.90	97.5	97.5	97.5	97.5	—	—	—	—	—

• The Official Report of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad Seoul 1988 Volume Two (PDF) (PDF). p. 642.