Atletik pada Olimpiade Musim Panas 1988
Peraih Medali > Putra

| Event | Emas | Emas | Perak | Perak | Perunggu | Perunggu |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 100 metres | Carl Lewis  Amerika Serikat | 9.92 (WR) | Linford Christie  Britania Raya | 9.97 (AR) | Calvin Smith  Amerika Serikat | 9.99 |
| 200 metres detail | Joe DeLoach  Amerika Serikat | 19.75 (OR)  | Carl Lewis  Amerika Serikat | 19.79 | Robson da Silva  Brasil | 20.04 |
| 400 metres detail | Steve Lewis  Amerika Serikat | 43.87 | Butch Reynolds  Amerika Serikat | 43.93 | Danny Everett  Amerika Serikat | 44.09 |
| 800 metres detail | Paul Ereng  Kenya | 1:43.45 | Joaquim Cruz  Brasil | 1:43.90 | Saïd Aouita  Maroko | 1:44.06 |

| 1500 metres detail | Peter Rono  Kenya | 3:35.96 | Peter Elliott  Britania Raya | 3:36.15 | Jens-Peter Herold  Jerman Timur | 3:36.21 |
| 5000 metres detail | John Ngugi  Kenya | 13:11.70 | Dieter Baumann  Jerman Barat | 13:15.52 | Hansjörg Kunze  Jerman Timur | 13:15.73 |
| 10,000 metres detail | Brahim Boutayeb  Maroko | 27:21.44 (OR)  | Salvatore Antibo  Italia | 27:23.55 | Kipkemboi Kimeli  Kenya | 27:25.16 |

| 110 metres hurdles detail | Roger Kingdom  Amerika Serikat | 12.98 (OR)  | Colin Jackson  Britania Raya | 13.28 | Tonie Campbell  Amerika Serikat | 13.38 |
| 400 metres hurdles detail | Andre Phillips  Amerika Serikat | 47.19 (OR) | Amadou Dia Ba  Senegal | 47.23 (NR) | Edwin Moses  Amerika Serikat | 47.56 |

| 3000 metres steeplechase detail | Julius Kariuki  Kenya | 8:05.51 (OR)  | Peter Koech  Kenya | 8:06.79 | Mark Rowland  Britania Raya | 8:07.96 |

| 4 × 100 metres relay detail |  Uni Soviet (URS)  Viktor Bryzhin  Vladimir Krylov  Vladimir Muravyov  Vitaliy Savin | 38.19 |  Britania Raya (GBR)  Elliot Bunney  John Regis  Linford Christie Mike McFarlane Clarence Callender* | 38.28 |  Prancis (FRA)  Bruno Marie-Rose  Daniel Sangouma  Gilles Quenehervé  Max Morinière | 38.40 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay detail |  Amerika Serikat (USA)  Danny Everett Steve Lewis Kevin Robinzine Butch Reynolds Antonio McKay* Andrew Valmon* | 2:56.16 |  Jamaika (JAM)  Howard Davis Devon Morris Winthrop Graham Bert Cameron Trevor Graham* Howard Burnett* | 3:00.30 |  Jerman Barat (FRG)  Norbert Dobeleit Edgar Itt Jörg Vaihinger Ralf Lübke Mark Henrich* Bodo Kuhn* | 3:00.56 |

| Marathon detail | Gelindo Bordin  Italia | 2:10:32 | Douglas Wakiihuri  Kenya | 2:10:47 | Hussein Ahmed Salah  Jibuti | 2:10:59 |

| 20 kilometres walk detail | Jozef Pribilinec  Cekoslowakia | 1:19:57 (OR) | Ronald Weigel  Jerman Timur | 1:20:00 | Maurizio Damilano  Italia | 1:20:14 |
| 50 kilometres walk detail | Vyacheslav Ivanenko  Uni Soviet | 3:38:29 (OR) | Ronald Weigel  Jerman Timur | 3:38:56 | Hartwig Gauder  Jerman Timur | 3:39:45 |

| High jump detail | Hennadiy Avdyeyenko  Uni Soviet | 2.38 m (OR) | Hollis Conway  Amerika Serikat | 2.36 m | Rudolf Povarnitsyn  Uni Soviet | 2.36 m |
| High jump detail | Hennadiy Avdyeyenko  Uni Soviet | 2.38 m (OR) | Hollis Conway  Amerika Serikat | 2.36 m | Patrik Sjöberg  Swedia | 2.36 m |
| Pole vault detail | Sergey Bubka  Uni Soviet | 5.90 m (OR) | Radion Gataullin  Uni Soviet | 5.85 m | Grigoriy Yegorov  Uni Soviet | 5.80 m |
| Long jump detail | Carl Lewis  Amerika Serikat | 8.72 m | Mike Powell  Amerika Serikat | 8.49 m | Larry Myricks  Amerika Serikat | 8.27 m |
| Triple jump detail | Khristo Markov  Bulgaria | 17.61 m (OR) | Igor Lapshin  Uni Soviet | 17.52 m | Aleksandr Kovalenko  Uni Soviet | 17.42 m |

| Shot put detail | Ulf Timmermann  Jerman Timur | 22.47 m (OR)  | Randy Barnes  Amerika Serikat | 22.39 m | Werner Günthör  Swiss | 21.99 m |
| Discus throw detail | Jürgen Schult  Jerman Timur | 68.82 m (OR)  | Romas Ubartas  Uni Soviet | 67.48 m | Rolf Danneberg  Jerman Barat | 67.38 m |
| Hammer throw detail | Sergey Litvinov  Uni Soviet | 84.80 m (OR)  | Yuriy Sedykh  Uni Soviet | 83.76 m | Jüri Tamm  Uni Soviet | 81.16 m |
| Javelin throw detail | Tapio Korjus  Finlandia | 84.28 m | Jan Železný  Cekoslowakia | 84.12 m | Seppo Räty  Finlandia | 83.26 m |
| Decathlon detail | Christian Schenk  Jerman Timur | 8488 | Torsten Voss  Jerman Timur | 8399 | Dave Steen  Kanada | 8328 |