India competed in seven events at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, winning no medals.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! width=180|Sport
! width=55|Men
! width=55|Women
! width=55|Total
|-
| align=left|Archery
| 3 || 0 || 3
|-
| align=left|Athletics
| 0 || 5 || 5
|-
| align=left|Boxing
| 3 || – || 3
|-
| align=left|Field hockey
| 16 || 0 || 16
|-
| align=left|Sailing
| 2 || 0 || 2
|-
| align=left|Shooting
| 0 || 1 || 1
|-
| align=left|Swimming
| 1 || 0 || 1
|-
| align=left|Table tennis
| 2 || 1 || 3
|-
| align=left|Tennis
| 3 || 0 || 3
|-
| align=left|Weightlifting
| 2 || – || 2
|-
| align=left|wrestling
| 7 || – || 7
|-
! Total || 39 || 7 || 46
|}
Results by event
Archery
In India's first appearance in Olympic archery, the nation was represented by three men.
Men
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Ranking round
!colspan="2"|Eighth-final
!colspan="2"|Quarterfinal
!colspan="2"|Semifinal
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Score
!Rank
!Score
!Rank
!Score
!Rank
!Score
!Rank
!Score
!Rank
|-
|Shyam Lal
|Individual
|align=center|1150
|align=center|71
|colspan=8 align=center|Did not advance
|-
|Limba Ram
|Individual
|align=center|1232
|align=center|39
|colspan=8 align=center|Did not advance
|-
|Sanjeeva Singh
|Individual
|align=center|1233
|align=center|36
|colspan=8 align=center|Did not advance
|-
|Shyam Lal <br> Limba Ram <br> Sanjeeva Singh
|Team
|align=center|3615
|align=center|20
|colspan=8 align=center|Did not advance
|}
Athletics
Women
Track events
{|class=wikitable style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Events
!colspan="2"|Heat
!colspan="2"|Round 2
!colspan="2"|Semifinal
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Time
!Position
!Time
!Position
!Time
!Position
!Time
!Position
|-
|Mercy Alapurackal
|400 m
|align=center|53.41
|align=center|26
|align=center|53.93
|align=center|30
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|Shiny Abraham
|800 m
|align=center|2:03.26
|align=center|18
|colspan=2|
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha
|400 m Hurdles
|align=center|59.55
|align=center|31
|colspan=2|
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|Mercy Alapurackal <br/> Shiny Abraham <br/> Vandana Shanbagh <br/> Vandana Rao
|4 × 400 m Relay
|align=center|3:33.46
|align=center|7
|colspan=4|
|align=center colspan="2" |Did not advance
|}
Boxing
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!Round of 64
!Round of 32
!Round of 16
!Quarterfinals
!Semifinals
!Final
|-
!Opposition<br />Result
!Opposition<br />Result
!Opposition<br />Result
!Opposition<br />Result
!Opposition<br />Result
!Opposition<br />Result
|-
|Shahuraj Birajdar
|Bantamweight
|
|align=center|<br />W 5-0
|align=center|<br />WO
|align=center colspan="3" |Did not advance
|-
|John William Francis
|Featherweight
|
|align=center|<br />L 2-3
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|Manoj Pingale
|Flyweight
|
|align=center|<br />W 5-0
|align=center|<br />L 1-4
|align=center colspan="3" |Did not advance
|}
Field hockey
The results of the Indian Olympic field hockey teams are as follows:
Men's team competition
Team roster
:* Maneypandu Somaya (captain)
:* Rajinder Singh (goalkeeper)
:* Pargat Singh
:* Ashok Kumar
:* Mohinder Pal Singh
:* Vivek Singh
:* Sujit Kumar
:* Subrami Balanda Kalaiash
:* Mohammed Shahid
:* Sebastian Jude Felix
:* Balwinder Singh
:* Mervyn Fernandis
:* Thoiba Singh
:* Gundeep Kumar
:* Jagbir Singh
:* Mark Patterson (goalkeeper)
- Head coach: Ganbash Mollera Poovaiah
Preliminary round
Group B
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5–8th place semi-finals
Fifth place game
Swimming
Men
{|class=wikitable style="font-size:90%" width=65%
|-
!rowspan="2" width=120|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Events
!colspan="2"|Heat
!colspan="2"|Final B
!colspan="2"|Final A
|-
!Time
!Position
!Time
!Position
!Time
!Position
|-
|Ranjoy Punja
|100 m backstroke
|align=center|DNS
|align=center|-
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|Khazansingh Tokas
|200 m butterfly
|align=center|2:03.95
|align=center|28
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|}
Table Tennis
{|class=wikitable style="font-size:90%"
|-
!Athlete
!Event
!Preliminary round
!Standing
!Round of 16
! Quarterfinal
!Semifinal
!Final
|-
|Sujay Ghorpade
|Men's Singles
| <br/> L 0-3 <br/>
<br/> L 0-3 <br/>
<br/> L 0-3 <br/>
<br/> L 0-3 <br/>
<br/> L 1-3 <br/>
<br/> L 2-3 <br/>
<br/> W 3-2
|7th in group
|align=center colspan=4|Did not advance
|-
|Kamlesh Mehta
|Men's Singles
| <br/> L 1-3 <br/>
<br/> L 0-3 <br/>
<br/> L 0-3 <br/>
<br/> W 3-1 <br/>
<br/> W 3-1 <br/>
<br/> W 3-0 <br/>
<br/> W 3-1
|4th in group
|align=center colspan=4|Did not advance
|-
|Sujay Ghorpade <br/> Kamlesh Mehta
|Men's Doubles
| <br/> L 0-2 <br/>
<br/> L 0-2 <br/>
<br/> L 0-2 <br/>
<br/> L 1-2 <br/>
<br/> L 0-2 <br/>
<br/> W 2-0 <br/>
<br/> W 2-0
|6th in group
|align=center colspan=4|Did not advance
|-
|Niyati Roy
|Women's Singles
| <br/> L 0-3 <br/>
<br/> L 0-3 <br/>
<br/> L 0-3 <br/>
<br/> L 0-3 <br/>
<br/> L 0-3 <br/>
|6th in group
|align=center colspan=4|Did not advance
|}
Tennis
{|class=wikitable style="font-size:90%"
|-
!Athlete
!Event
!Round of 64
!Round of 32
!Round of 16
!Quarterfinal
!Semifinal
!Final
|-
|Zeeshan Ali
|Men's Singles
| <br/> W 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
| <br/> L 6-4, 7-5, 7-5
|align=center colspan=4|Did not advance
|-
|Vijay Amritraj
|Men's Singles
| <br/> L 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
|align=center colspan=5|Did not advance
|}
Weightlifting
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
! rowspan="2" |Athlete
! rowspan="2" |Event
!Snatch
!Clean & Jerk
! rowspan="2" |Total
! rowspan="2" |Rank
|- style="font-size:95%"
!Result
!Result
|- align="center"
| align="left" |Gurunathan Muthuswamy
|rowspan=2| Men's −52 kg
|| 102.5 || 125 || 227.5 || 11
|-
|- align="center"
|align=left| Raghavan Chanderasekaran || 92.5 || 115 || 207.5 || 19
|-
|}