The Sports Almanac



1988 Winter Olympics
Calgary, Canada

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 29 Medals
EAST GERMANY - 25 Medals
SWITZERLAND - 15 Medals

Biathlon Bobsled Ice Hockey
Luge Figure Skating Speed Skating
Alpine Skiing Cross Country Skiing Nordic Combined
Ski Jumping



1988 Calgary Overall Medal Standings
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Soviet Union 11
 9
 9
 29
2
 East Germany
 9
 10
 6
 25
3
 Switzerland 5
 5
 5
 15
4
 Austria 3
 5
 2
 10
5
 West Germany 2
 4
 2
 8
6
 Finland 4
 1
 2
 7
7
 Netherlands 3
 2
 2
 7
8
 Sweden
 4
 0
 2
 6
9
 United States
 2
 1
 3
 6
10
 Italy 2
 1
 2
 5
11
 Norway 0
 3
 2
 5
12
 Canada
 0
 2
 3
 5
13
 Yugoslavia 0
 2
 1
 3
14
 Czechoslovakia 0
 1
 2
 3
15
 France 1
 0
 1
 2
16
 Japan
 0
 0
 1
 1
17
 Liechtenstein
 0
 0
 1
 1

1988 Calgary Biathlon
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual Frank-Peter Roetsch - East Germany
 Valeriy Medvedtsev - Soviet Union
 Johann Passler - Italy
Sprint
 Frank-Peter Roetsch - East Germany Valeriy Medvedtsev - Soviet Union Sergei Tchepikov - Soviet Union
Relay Soviet Union
 West Germany
 Italy

1988 Calgary Boblsed
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Two-Man
 Soviet Union
 East Germany
 East Germany
Four-Man
 Switzerland
 East Germany
 Soviet Union

1988 Calgary Ice Hockey
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Soviet Union
 Finland
 Sweden

1988 Calgary Luge
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Singles
 Jens Müller - East Germany
 Georg Hackl - West Germany
 Yury Kharchenko - Soviet Union
Women's Singles
 Steffi Walter-Martin - East Germany
 Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß - East Germany
 Cerstin Schmidt - East Germany
Doubles
 Jörg Hoffmann, Jochen Pietzsch - East Germany
 Stefan Krauße, Jan Behrendt - East Germany Thomas Schwab, Wolfgang Staudinger - West Germany

1988 Calgary Figure Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Singles Brian Boitano - United States
 Brian Orser - Canada
 Viktor Petrenko - Soviet Union
Women's Singles Katarina Witt - East Germany
 Elizabeth Manley - Canada
 Debi Thomas - United States
Pairs Ekaterina Gordeeva, Sergei Grinkov - Soviet Union
 Elena Valova, Oleg Vasiliev - Soviet Union
 Jill Watson, Peter Oppegard - United States
Ice Dancing Natalia Bestemianova, Andrei Bukin - Soviet Union
 Marina Klimova, Sergei Ponomarenko - Soviet Union
 Tracy Wilson, Robert McCall - Canada

1988 Calgary Speed Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's 500 Meters Uwe-Jens Mey - East Germany
 Jan Ykema - Netherlands
 Akira Kuroiwa - Japan
Women's 500 Meters Bonnie Blair - United States
 Christa Rothenburger - East Germany
 Karin Kania - East Germany
Men's 1000 Meters Nikolay Gulyayev - Soviet Union
 Uwe-Jens Mey - East Germany Igor Zhelezovski - Soviet Union
Women's 1000 Meters Christa Rothenburger - East Germany Karin Kania - East Germany Bonnie Blair - United States
Men's 1500 Meters André Hoffmann - East Germany
 Eric Flaim - United States
 Michael Hadschieff - Austria
Women's 1500 Meters Yvonne van Gennip - Netherlands
 Karin Kania - East Germany Andrea Ehrig - East Germany
Women's 3000 Meters
 Yvonne van Gennip - Netherlands Andrea Ehrig - East Germany Gabi Zange - East Germany
Men's 5000 Meters
 Tomas Gustafson - Sweden
 Leo Visser - Netherlands
 Gerard Kemkers - Netherlands
Women's 5000 Meters Yvonne van Gennip - Netherlands Andrea Ehrig - East Germany Gabi Zange - East Germany
Men's 10000 Meters
 Tomas Gustafson - Sweden Michael Hadschieff - Austria Leo Visser - Netherlands

1988 Calgary Alpine Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Downhill
 Pirmin Zurbriggen - Switzerland
 Peter Müller - Switzerland
 Franck Piccard - France
Women's Downhill Marina Kiehl - West Germany
 Brigitte Oertli - Switzerland
 Karen Percy - Canada
Men's Slalom Alberto Tomba - Italy
 Frank Wörndl - West Germany
 Paul Frommelt - Liechtenstein
Women's Slalom Vreni Schneider - Switzerland
 Mateja Svet - Yugoslavia
 Christa Kinshofer - West Germany
Men's Giant Slalom Alberto Tomba - Italy Hubert Strolz - Austria
 Pirmin Zurbriggen - Switzerland
Women's Giant Slalom
 Vreni Schneider - Switzerland Christa Kinshofer - West Germany Maria Walliser - Switzerland
Men's Super-G Franck Piccard - France Helmut Mayer - Austria
 Lars-Börje Eriksson - Sweden
Women's Super-G Sigrid Wolf - Austria
 Michela Figini - Switzerland
 Karen Percy - Canada
Men's Combined
 Hubert Strolz - Austria Bernhard Gstrein - Austria
 Paul Accola - Switzerland
Women's Combined
 Anita Watchter - Austria
 Brigitte Oertli - Switzerland Maria Walliser - Switzerland

1988 Calgary Cross Country Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Women's 5KM
 Marjo Matikainen - Finland
 Tamara Tikhonova - Soviet Union
 Vida Venciené - Soviet Union
Women's 10KM Vida Venciené - Soviet Union Raisa Smetanina - Soviet Union
 Marjo Matikainen - Finland
Men's 15KM Mikhail Devyatyarov - Soviet Union
 Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass - Norway
 Vladimir Smirnov - Soviet Union
Women's 20KM
 Tamara Tikhonova - Soviet Union Anfisa Reztsova - Soviet Union
 Raisa Smetanina - Soviet Union
Men's 30KM
 Alexy Prokurorov - Soviet Union
 Vladimir Smirnov - Soviet Union Vegard Ulvang - Norway
Men's 50KM Gunde Svan - Sweden
 Maurilio De Zolt - Italy
 Andi Grünenfelder - Switzerland
Men's Relay Sweden
 Soviet Union
 Czechoslovakia
Women's Relay Soviet Union
 Norway
 Finland

1988 Calgary Nordic Combined
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual Normal Hill
 Hippolyt Kempf - Switzerland
 Klaus Sulzenbacher - Austria
 Allar Levandi - Soviet Union
Team
 West Germany
 Switzerland
 Austria

1988 Calgary Ski Jumping
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Normal Hill Individual
 Matti Nykänen - Finland
 Pavel Ploc - Czechoslovakia
 Jiři Malec - Czechoslovakia
Large Hill Individual
 Matti Nykänen - Finland Erik Johnsen - Norway
 Matjaž Debelak - Yugoslavia
Large Hill Team
 Finland
 Yugoslavia
 Norway