| Men | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Men 50m Freestyle | Matt Biondi |  USA | Tom Jager | USA | Hennady Prihoda |  URS |
| Men 100m Freestyle | Matt Biondi | USA | Chris Jacobs | USA | Stéphane Caron | FRA |
| Men 200m Freestyle | Duncan Armstrong |  AUS | Anders Holmertz |  SWE | Matt Biondi | USA |
| Men 400m Freestyle | Uwe Daßler |  GDR | Duncan Armstrong | AUS | Artur Wojdat | POL |
| Men 1500m Freestyle | Vladimir Salnikov | URS | Stefan Pfeiffer |  FRG | Uwe Daßler | GDR |
| Men 100m Butterfly | Anthony Nesty | SUR | Matt Biondi | USA | Andy Jameson |  GBR |
| Men 200m Butterfly | Michael Groß | FRG | Benny Nielsen | DEN | Anthony Mosse | NZL |
| Men 100m Backstroke | Daichi Suzuki |  JPN | David Berkoff | USA | Igor Polyansky | URS |
| Men 200m Backstroke | Igor Polyansky | URS | Frank Baltrusch | GDR | Paul Kingsman | NZL |
| Men 100m Breaststroke | Adrian Moorhouse | GBR | Károly Gűttler |  HUN | Dmitry Volkov | URS |
| Men 200m Breaststroke | József Szabó | HUN | Nick Gillingham | GBR | Sergio López | ESP |
| Men 200m Medley | Tamás Darnyi | HUN | Patrick Kühl | GDR | Vadim Yaroshchuk | URS |
| Men 400m Medley | Tamás Darnyi | HUN | Dave Wharton | USA | Stefano Battistelli | ITA |
| Men 4x100m Freestyle Relay | United States | Soviet Union | East Germany | |||
| Men 4x200m Freestyle Relay | United States | East Germany | West Germany | |||
| Men 4x100m Medley Relay | United States |  CANada | Soviet Union | |||
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| Women | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Women 50m Freestyle | Kristin Otto | GDR | Yang Wenyi |  CHN | Katrin Meißner | GDR |
| Women 100m Freestyle | Kristin Otto | GDR | Zhuang Yong | CHN | Catherine Plewinski | FRA |
| Women 200m Freestyle | Heike Friedrich | GDR | Silvia Poll | CRC | Manuela Stellmach | GDR |
| Women 400m Freestyle | Janet Evans | USA | Heike Friedrich | GDR | Anke Möhring | GDR |
| Women 800m Freestyle | Janet Evans | USA | Astrid Strauß | GDR | Julie M. McDonald | AUS |
| Women 100m Butterfly | Kristin Otto | GDR | Birte Weigang | GDR | Qian Hong | CHN |
| Women 200m Butterfly | Kathleen Nord | GDR | Birte Weigang | GDR | Mary T. Meagher | USA |
| Women 100m Backstroke | Kristin Otto | GDR | Krisztina Egerszegi | HUN | Cornelia Sirch | GDR |
| Women 200m Backstroke | Krisztina Egerszegi | HUN | Kathrin Zimmermann | GDR | Cornelia Sirch | GDR |
| Women 100m Breaststroke | Tanya Bogomilova-Dangalakova | BUL | Antoaneta Frenkeva | BUL | Silke Hörner | GDR |
| Women 200m Breaststroke | Silke Hörner | GDR | Huang Xiaomin | CHN | Antoaneta Frenkeva | BUL |
| Women 200m Medley | Daniela Hunger | GDR | Yelena Dendeberova | URS | Noëmi Ildiko Lung | ROU |
| Women 400m Medley | Janet Evans | USA | Noëmi Ildiko Lung | ROU | Daniela Hunger | GDR |
| Women 4x100m Freestyle Relay | East Germany | Netherlands | United States | |||
| Women 4x100m Medley Relay | East Germany | United States | CANada | |||
| Medals | G | S | B | 1988 | |
| 1. East Germany | GDR | 11 | 8 | 9 | 1988 |
| 2. United States | USA | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1988 |
| 3. Hungary | HUN | 4 | 2 | 1988 | |
| 4. Soviet Union | URS | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1988 |
| 5. Australia | AUS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1988 |
| 5. West Germany | FRG | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1988 |
| 5. Bulgaria |  BUL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1988 |
| 5. Great Britain | GBR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1988 |
| 9. Japan | JPN | 1 | 1988 | ||
| 9. Surinam |  SUR | 1 | 1988 | ||
| 11.China | CHN | 3 | 1 | 1988 | |
| 12.Canada |  CAN | 1 | 1 | 1988 | |
| 12.Romamnia |  ROU | 1 | 1 | 1988 | |
| 14.Netherlands |  NED | 1 | 1988 | ||
| 14.Sweden | SWE | 1 | 1988 | ||
| 14.Costa Rica |  CRC | 1 | 1988 | ||
| 14.Denmark |  DEN | 1 | 1988 | ||
| 18.France |  FRA | 2 | 1988 | ||
| 18.New Zealand |  NZL | 2 | 1988 | ||
| 20.Poland |  POL | 1 | 1988 | ||
| 20.Italy |  ITA | 1 | 1988 | ||
| 20.Spain |  ESP | 1 | 1988 |
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Last updated: 15 Apr 2023
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