Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Canada was the host nation for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. It was the first time that Canada had hosted the Winter Olympic Games, and second time overall, after the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Vancouver would eventually host the 2010 Winter Olympics which makes it the second city in Canada to host the Winter Olympics and the third overall.
Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | CAN |
NOC | Canadian Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Calgary | |
Competitors | 112 (82 men, 30 women) in 10 sports |
Flag bearer | Brian Orser (figure skating) |
Medals Ranked 13th |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
1906 Intercalated Games |
Medalists
For the second time Canada failed to obtain a gold medal on home soil. 22 years later, Alexandre Bilodeau was the first Canadian to obtain a gold medal on home soil in the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first of a Winter Olympics record for most gold medals of 14.
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Silver | Brian Orser | Figure skating | Men's singles |
Silver | Elizabeth Manley | Figure skating | Women's singles |
Bronze | Karen Percy | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill |
Bronze | Karen Percy | Alpine skiing | Women's super-G |
Bronze | Tracy Wilson Robert McCall | Figure skating | Ice dancing |
Alpine skiing
- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Time | Time | Rank | ||
Brian Stemmle | Downhill | DSQ | – | ||
Felix Belczyk | 2:03.59 | 18 | |||
Rob Boyd | 2:03.27 | 16 | |||
Mike Carney | 2:03.25 | 14 | |||
Alain Villiard | Super-G | DNF | – | ||
Rob Boyd | 1:45.04 | 22 | |||
Felix Belczyk | 1:44.31 | 19 | |||
Jim Read | 1:43.01 | 13 | |||
Greg Grossmann | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
Peter Bosinger | DSQ | – | DSQ | – | |
Alain Villiard | DSQ | – | DSQ | – | |
Jim Read | DSQ | – | DSQ | – | |
Greg Grossmann | Slalom | DNF | – | DNF | – |
Michael Tommy | DNF | – | DNF | – | |
Jim Read | n/a | DNF | DNF | – | |
Alain Villiard | 54.33 | 49.44 | 1:43.77 | 14 |
Men's combined
Athlete | Downhill | Slalom | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Time 1 | Time 2 | Points | Rank | |
Rob Boyd | DNF | – | – | DNF | – |
Mike Carney | DNF | – | – | DNF | – |
Don Stevens | 1:50.97 | 48.82 | 47.63 | 135.81 | 19 |
Felix Belczyk | 1:48.24 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |
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Time | Time | Time | Rank | ||
Kellie Casey | Downhill | DNF | – | ||
Kerrin Lee-Gartner | 1:28.07 | 15 | |||
Laurie Graham | 1:26.99 | 5 | |||
Karen Percy | 1:26.62 | ||||
Kerrin Lee-Gartner | Super-G | 1:22.11 | 23 | ||
Lucie Laroche | 1:21.95 | 19 | |||
Laurie Graham | 1:21.11 | 13 | |||
Karen Percy | 1:20.29 | ||||
Michelle McKendry-Ruthven | Giant Slalom | DNF | – | DNF | – |
Karen Percy | DNF | – | DNF | – | |
Kerrin Lee-Gartner | 1:02.71 | 1:10.61 | 2:13.32 | 17 | |
Josée Lacasse | 1:01.12 | 1:08.66 | 2:09.78 | 11 | |
Kerrin Lee-Gartner | Slalom | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
Karen Percy | DNF | – | DNF | – | |
Michelle McKendry-Ruthven | 53.16 | 52.63 | 1:45.79 | 18 | |
Josée Lacasse | 51.63 | 51.51 | 1:43.14 | 16 |
Women's combined
Athlete | Downhill | Slalom | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Time 1 | Time 2 | Points | Rank | |
Nancy Gee | 1:20.21 | 42.41 | 43.84 | 103.86 | 13 |
Karen Percy | 1:18.22 | 40.62 | 43.38 | 54.47 | 4 |
Kerrin Lee-Gartner | 1:18.15 | 42.23 | 43.20 | 65.26 | 8 |
Michelle McKendry-Ruthven | 1:17.58 | 42.24 | 44.20 | 64.85 | 7 |
Biathlon
- Men
Event | Athlete | Misses 1 | Time | Rank |
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10 km Sprint | Paget Stewart | 4 | 29:06.9 | 58 |
Charles Plamondon | 3 | 28:30.5 | 55 | |
Ken Karpoff | 1 | 28:12.9 | 46 | |
Glenn Rupertus | 2 | 27:38.6 | 34 |
Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time 2 | Rank |
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20 km | Jamie Kallio | 1'03:13.1 | 7 | 1'10:13.1 | 59 |
Charles Plamondon | 59:27.5 | 5 | 1'04:27.5 | 46 | |
Glenn Rupertus | 56:10.4 | 7 | 1'03:10.4 | 34 | |
Ken Karpoff | 59:19.7 | 3 | 1'02:19.7 | 33 |
- Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes | Race | ||
---|---|---|---|
Misses 1 | Time | Rank | |
Charles Plamondon Glenn Rupertus Ken Karpoff Jamie Kallio |
4 | 1'33:37.0 | 15 |
- 1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
- 2 One minute added per missed target.
Bobsleigh
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
CAN-1 | Greg Haydenluck Lloyd Guss |
Two-man | 57.36 | 3 | 59.90 | 13 | 1:00.11 | 7 | 59.60 | 12 | 3:56.97 | 10 |
CAN-2 | David Leuty Kevin Tyler |
Two-man | 58.56 | 18 | 59.08 | 5 | 1:00.55 | 13 | 1:00.00 | 16 | 3:58.19 | 13 |
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
CAN-1 | Chris Lori Ken LeBlanc Andrew Swim Howard Dell |
Four-man | 56.66 | 3 | 58.05 | 14 | 57.34 | 18 | 58.32 | 17 | 3:50.37 | 15 |
CAN-2 | Greg Haydenluck Cal Langford Kevin Tyler Lloyd Guss |
Four-man | 57.18 | 13 | 57.82 | 11 | 56.67 | 8 | 58.32 | 17 | 3:49.99 | 13 |
Cross-country skiing
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km C |
Dennis Lawrence | 46:26.3 | 47 |
Al Pilcher | 46:21.1 | 46 | |
Yves Bilodeau | 46:26.6 | 34 | |
Pierre Harvey | 43:22.0 | 17 | |
30 km C |
Wayne Dustin | 1'34:37.8 | 46 |
Al Pilcher | 1'33:04.7 | 39 | |
Yves Bilodeau | 1'32:17.8 | 35 | |
Pierre Harvey | 1'28:21.7 | 14 | |
50 km F |
Wayne Dustin | 2'21:31.8 | 49 |
Alain Masson | 2'19:21.7 | 46 | |
Dennis Lawrence | 2'17:55.7 | 43 | |
Pierre Harvey | 2'10:54.8 | 21 |
- C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
---|---|---|
Time | Rank | |
Yves Bilodeau Al Pilcher Pierre Harvey Dennis Lawrence |
1'48:59.7 | 9 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | ||
5 km C |
Jean McAllister | 17:32.4 | 46 |
Carol Gibson | 16:35.2 | 33 | |
Angela Schmidt-Foster | 16:32.5 | 32 | |
Lorna Sasseville | 16:23.3 | 26 | |
10 km C |
Angela Schmidt-Foster | 33:45.9 | 38 |
Marie-Andrée Masson | 33:35.6 | 37 | |
Carol Gibson | 33:03.9 | 33 | |
Lorna Sasseville | 32:49.7 | 30 | |
20 km F |
Angela Schmidt-Foster | 1'04:21.9 | 44 |
Jean McAllister | 1'02:02.8 | 31 | |
Marie-Andrée Masson | 1'01:12.6 | 27 | |
Carol Gibson | 1'01:12.0 | 26 |
- C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
- Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
---|---|---|
Time | Rank | |
Angela Schmidt-Foster Carol Gibson Lorna Sasseville Marie-Andrée Masson |
1'04:22.6 | 9 |
Figure skating
- Men
Athlete | CF | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Neil Paterson | 17 | 13 | 16 | 31.4 | 16 |
Kurt Browning | 11 | 7 | 6 | 15.4 | 8 |
Brian Orser | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4.2 |
- Women
Athlete | CF | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Charlene Wong | 18 | 14 | 13 | 29.4 | 13 |
Elizabeth Manley | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4.6 |
- Pairs
Athletes | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|
Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler |
7 | 9 | 12.5 | 9 |
Christine Hough Doug Ladret |
8 | 8 | 12.0 | 8 |
Denise Benning Lyndon Johnston |
5 | 7 | 9.5 | 6 |
- Ice Dancing
Athletes | CD | OD | FD | TFP | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Melanie Cole Michael Farrington |
16 | 16 | 16 | 32.0 | 16 |
Karyn Garossino Rodney Garossino |
12 | 12 | 12 | 24.0 | 12 |
Tracy Wilson Robert McCall |
3 | 3 | 3 | 6.0 |
Ice hockey
Group A
Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Finland | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 7 |
Sweden | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 10 | 7 |
Canada | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 7 |
Switzerland | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 10 | 6 |
Poland | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 3 |
France | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 47 | 0 |
- Canada 1-0 Poland
- Canada 4-2 Switzerland
- Finland 3-1 Canada
- Canada 9-5 France
- Canada 2-2 Sweden
Medal round
The top three teams from each group play the top three teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over.
Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 7 | 8 |
Finland | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 7 |
Sweden | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 6 |
Canada 4th | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 14 | 5 |
West Germany | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 26 | 2 |
Czechoslovakia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 22 | 2 |
- Soviet Union 5-0 Canada
- Canada 8-1 West Germany
- Canada 6-3 Czechoslovakia
Team Roster
- Head Coach: Dave King
Luge
- Men
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Chris Wightman | 47.855 | 29 | 47.856 | 25 | 47.773 | 23 | 48.182 | 26 | 3:11.666 | 24 |
Nil Labrecque | 47.461 | 23 | 47.866 | 26 | 49.307 | 31 | 48.093 | 24 | 3:12.727 | 27 |
Harington Telford | 47.152 | 18 | 47.564 | 21 | 47.119 | 16 | 47.463 | 19 | 3:09.298 | 19 |
(Men's) Doubles
Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Bob Gasper André Benoit |
46.240 | 9 | 47.066 | 12 | 1:33.306 | 10 |
Sam Salmon Dan Doll |
48.300 | 17 | 49.058 | 18 | 1:37.358 | 17 |
- Women
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Kathy Salmon | 47.569 | 18 | 48.112 | 19 | 48.356 | 20 | 47.670 | 19 | 3:11.707 | 19 |
Marie-Claude Doyon | 46.372 | 5 | 46.596 | 7 | 46.796 | 11 | 46.447 | 6 | 3:06.211 | 7 |
Nordic combined
Men's individual
Events:
- normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps.)
- 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | Rank | Start at | Time | Points | Rank | ||
Jon Servold | Individual | 187.1 | 33 | 4:36.0 | 46:32.1 | 368.535 | 38 |
Ski jumping
Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Horst Bulau | Normal hill | 74.5 | 80.8 | 78.0 | 86.9 | 167.7 | 44 |
Todd Gillman | 75.0 | 82.6 | 78.0 | 88.4 | 171.0 | 42 | |
Ron Richards | 78.0 | 88.4 | 78.0 | 86.9 | 175.3 | 32 | |
Steve Collins | 83.5 | 102.7 | 78.0 | 88.4 | 191.1 | 13 | |
Ron Richards | Large hill | 93.0 | 73.6 | 84.0 | 54.5 | 128.1 | 53 |
Todd Gillman | 96.0 | 80.8 | 86.5 | 30.0 | 110.8 | 54 | |
Steve Collins | 100.0 | 87.9 | 97.0 | 81.2 | 169.1 | 35 | |
Horst Bulau | 112.5 | 109.4 | 99.5 | 88.2 | 197.6 | 7 |
- Men's team large hill
Athletes | Result | |
---|---|---|
Points 1 | Rank | |
Horst Bulau Steve Collins Todd Gillman Ron Richards |
497.2 | 9 |
- 1 Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.
Speed skating
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Robert Tremblay | 38.34 | 29 |
Daniel Turcotte | 37.60 | 17 | |
Gaétan Boucher | 37.47 | 14 | |
Guy Thibault | 36.96 | 7 | |
1000 m | Marcel Tremblay | 1:15.13 | 22 |
Jean Pichette | 1:14.72 | 19 | |
Guy Thibault | 1:14.16 | 7 | |
Gaétan Boucher | 1:13.77 | 5 | |
1500 m | Gregor Jelonek | 1:56.37 | 23 |
Ben Lamarche | 1:55.59 | 18 | |
Jean Pichette | 1:54.63 | 10 | |
Gaétan Boucher | 1:54.18 | 9 | |
5000 m | Gordon Goplen | 7:08.49 | 34 |
Jean Pichette | 7:04.95 | 31 | |
Ben Lamarche | 6:57.63 | 21 | |
10,000 m | Gordon Goplen | 14:31.18 | 20 |
Ben Lamarche | 14:21.39 | 10 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Ariane Loignon | 41.57 | 23 |
Natalie Grenier | 40.73 | 11 | |
Shelley Rhead-Skarvan | 40.36 | 6 | |
1000 m | Marie-Pierre Lamarche | 1:25.18 | 25 |
Ariane Loignon | 1:22.75 | 19 | |
Shelley Rhead-Skarvan | 1:21.84 | 14 | |
Natalie Grenier | 1:21.15 | 9 | |
1500 m | Caroline Maheux | 2:10.83 | 23 |
Chantal Côté | 2:09.62 | 21 | |
Ariane Loignon | 2:07.63 | 14 | |
Natalie Grenier | 2:06.80 | 11 | |
3000 m | Chantal Côté | 4:35.74 | 26 |
Ariane Loignon | 4:28.55 | 15 | |
5000 m | Kathy Gordon | 7:53.30 | 23 |
Ariane Loignon | 7:49.55 | 20 | |
Natalie Grenier | 7:46.96 | 18 |