1988 World Sambo Championships

The 1988 World Sambo Championships were held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in December 1988. Championships were organized by FIAS. There were 65 participants from 11 countries: USSR, Mongolia, Bulgaria, USA, France, Italy, Japan, Great Britain, Israel, Canada, and Spain.

Medal overview

men	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-48 kg	Ceyhun Məmmədov (URS)^AZE	Dimitar Dimitrov (BUL)	Ochirbat Tsogtgerel (MGL)
-52 kg	Gurgen Tutkhalyan (URS)^ARM	D. Bayaraa (MGL)	T. Takeuchi (JPN)
-57 kg	Anton Novikov (URS)^RUS	Nikolai Gushmakov (BUL)	Khaltmaagiin Battulga (MGL)
-62 kg	Gagik Ghazaryan (URS)^ARM	Clinton Burke (USA)	Dashgombyn Battulga (MGL)
-68 kg	Evgeniy Yesin (URS)^RUS	Alberto Niet (ESP)o	Ivan Netov (BUL)
-74 kg	Vasily Shvaya (URS)^RUS	Boyko Nikolov (BUL)	Matt Vondrasek (USA)
-82 kg	Hussein Khaibulaev (URS)^RUS	Didier Duru (FRA)	Ivo Nenkov (BUL)
-90 kg	Tagir Abdulayev (URS)^RUS	Ron Tripp (USA)	Tadatomi Ida (JPN)
-100 kg	Vladimir Gurin (URS)^RUS	Giorgio D'Alessandro (ITA)	D. Geiger (FRA)
+100 kg	Vladimir Shkalov (URS)^RUS	Mark Berger (CAN)	Mincho Petkov (BUL)