Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's eight
The men's eight competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Han River Regatta Course, South Korea.
Competition format
The competition consisted of two main rounds as well as a repechage. The 10 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 5 boats in each heat. The winner of each heat advanced directly to the "A" final. The remaining 8 boats were placed in the repechage. The repechage featured two heats of 4 boats each, with the top two boats in each heat advancing to the "A" final and the remaining 4 boats being eliminated from medal contention and sent to the "B" final to determine 7th through 10th places.All races were over a 2000 metre course.
Results
Heats
Heat 1
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Aleksandr Lukyanov | 5:34.95 | |||
| 2 | Brian McMahon | 5:36.81 | |||
| 3 | Simon Jefferies | 5:38.18 | |||
| 4 | Dino Lucchetta | 5:43.11 | |||
| 5 | Jeong In-gyo | 6:15.40 |
Heat 2
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Manfred Klein | 5:32.36 | |||
| 2 | Dale Caterson | 5:33.94 | |||
| 3 | Seth Bauer | 5:39.26 | |||
| 4 | Ventseslav Kanchev | 5:48.25 | |||
| 5 | Yukiyasu Ishikawa | 5:57.11 |
Repechage
Repechage heat 1
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Seth Bauer | 5:35.63 | |||
| 2 | Brian McMahon | 5:37.06 | |||
| 3 | Dino Lucchetta | 5:39.86 | |||
| 4 | Yukiyasu Ishikawa | 5:54.16 |
Repechage heat 2
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Simon Jefferies | 5:35.15 | |||
| 2 | Dale Caterson | 5:37.75 | |||
| 3 | Ventseslav Kanchev | 5:40.93 | |||
| 4 | Jeong In-gyo | 6:17.81 |
Finals
Final B
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time |
| 7 | Dino Lucchetta | 5:41.15 | ||
| 8 | Ventseslav Kanchev | 5:49.99 | ||
| 9 | Yukiyasu Ishikawa | 5:55.52 | ||
| 10 | Jeong In-gyo | 6:16.73 |
Final A
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time |
| Manfred Klein | 5:46.05 | |||
| Aleksandr Lukyanov | 5:48.01 | |||
| Seth Bauer | 5:48.26 | |||
| 4 | Simon Jefferies | 5:51.59 | ||
| 5 | Dale Caterson | 5:53.73 | ||
| 6 | Brian McMahon | 5:54.26 |
Final classification
| Rank | Rowers | Country |
| Bahne Rabe Eckhardt Schultz Ansgar Wessling Wolfgang Maennig Matthias Mellinghaus Thomas Möllenkamp Thomas Domian Armin Eichholz Manfred Klein | ||
| Viktor Omelyanovich Vasily Tikhonov Andrey Vasilyev Pavlo Hurkovskiy Nikolay Komarov Veniamin But Viktor Diduk Aleksandr Dumchev Aleksandr Lukyanov | ||
| Mike Teti Jonathan Smith Ted Patton Jack Rusher Peter Nordell Jeffrey McLaughlin Doug Burden John Pescatore Seth Bauer | ||
| 4 | Richard Stanhope Anton Obholzer Peter Beaumont Gavin Stewart Terence Dillon Salih Hassan Stephen Turner Nicholas Burfitt Simon Jefferies | |
| 5 | James Galloway Hamish McLachlan Andrew Cooper Mike McKay Mark Doyle James Tomkins Ion Popa Steve Evans Dale Caterson | |
| 6 | Don Telfer Kevin Neufeld Jason Dorland Andrew Crosby Paul Steele Grant Main Jamie Schaffer John Wallace Brian McMahon | |
| 7 | Antonio Baldacci Ettore Bulgarelli Piero Carletto Giuseppe Di Palo Renato Gaeta Dino Lucchetta Giovanni Suarez Annibale Venier Franco Zucchi | |
| 8 | Rumen Aleksiev Emil Bondev Yuri Dyulgerov Ivo Gelov Dimitar Kamburski Ventseslav Kanchev Ivan Stanev Dimitar Tonchev Nikola Zlatanov | |
| 9 | Tadashi Abe Seiji Chihara Akihisa Hirata Yukiyasu Ishikawa Shunsuke Kawamoto Hideaki Maeguchi Masahiko Nomura Tomoyuki Okano Eiichi Tsukinoki | |
| 10 | Jeong Bu-yeong Jeong In-gyo Jeong Gwang-su Ha Jin-sik Hyeon Seong-in Kim Gap-sik Go Gwang-seon Lee Hong-geun Im Jae-man |