Nordic skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

In the XV. 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary were held thirteen competitions in Nordic skiing.

  • 2.1 Large Hill
  • 2.2 Normal Hill
  • 2.3 team
  • 3.1 Individual
  • 3.2 team
  • 4.1 5 km ( classic style )
  • 4.2 10 km ( classic style )
  • 4.3 20 km ( Freestyle )
  • 4.4 4 x 5 km relay

Cross-country men

15 km ( classic style )

Date: February 19, 9:30 Clock

30 km ( classic style )

Date: February 15, 9:50 Clock

50 km ( Freestyle )

Date: February 27, 8:30 Clock

Alois Stadlober (AUT ) gave up.

As a big favorite in all cross country competitions of the men was the 26- year-old Swede Gunde Svan, who had won four years earlier at the Games in Sarajevo two gold medals and one each silver and bronze and should win 1985-1991 a total of seven world championship gold. But the Games of Calgary him very tough began: a tenth place over 30 km was followed by a 13th place on the 10 - kilometer distance, on this " short-haul " Svan had won the Olympic gold medal in the Balkans. After he had defended the Season title with the Swedish team him on the penultimate day of the Winter Games have succeeded over the marathon distance with a good minute ahead of the Italians Maurilio de Zolt but the longed singles gold, which he drew even with the Swedish cross-country legend Sixten Jernberg, could gain from 1956 to 1964 also four times Olympic gold medal.

4 × 10 km relay

Date: February 22, 9:30 Clock

Ski jumping men

Large Hill

Date: February 23, 14:00 clock

The jumpers had to struggle in the ski jumping competitions with strong winds and fog, which have turned into a gambling competitions. The two, set on a bare mountainside ski jumps were exposed to the gusts defenseless.

The outstanding ski jumpers of these games and the "King of the Hills " was the Finn Matti Nykänen, who won from the small and large hill as well as the team gold. Nykänen was so with the Dutch speed skater Yvonne van Gennip the most successful participants in the competitions.

The greatest sympathy of the audience was the British Eddie Edwards. Probably the only ski jumper of the island was more comic talent as a serious athlete. Due to its pitiful flying skills, he was baptized in Calgary jokingly " The Eagle " ( The Eagle ).

Normal hill

Date: February 14, 13:30 clock

Team

Date: February 24, 13:30 clock

For the first time a team competition was held at the Olympic Winter Games 1988

Nordic Combined Men

Singles

Ski Jumping: February 27, 13:30 clock Cross-country skiing (15 km): February 28, 10:00 clock

In this competition for the first time the Gundersen method was used so that the first cross-country skiers who comes to the finish, also the winner of the competition is. The Federal German team that had four days earlier still won the title in the team competition could bring no athletes in the top ten. As the best West German Hubert Schwarz was 13 for the Individual Contest. Instead, the first time was able to win the gold medal in the individual competition of the Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics with Hippolytus Kempf Swiss. Previously only Alois Kälin had twenty years earlier can win Olympic medals for the Confederates in this discipline in Grenoble in second.

Team

Ski Jumping: February 23, 13:30 clock Cross-country skiing (3 × 10 km relay ): February 24, 10:00 clock

The team competition in Nordic combined was first held in Calgary at the Olympic Games. The Federal German team that had won the year before at the home World Cup in Oberstdorf, then still with Hermann wine book instead Hubert Schwarz, was able to secure Olympic gold just before the Swiss at this premiere.

Cross country women

5 km ( classic style )

Date: February 17, 9:45 Clock

10 km ( classic style )

Date: February 14, 10:00 clock

Maria Theurl (AUT ) gave up.

20 km ( Freestyle )

Date: February 25, 9:30 Clock

Margot Kober (AUT ) gave up.

4 x 5 km relay

Date: February 21, 9:30 Clock

Uwe Bellmann Italy Finland Harri Kirvesniemi Alexey Prokurorov Giorgio Vanzetta Marco Albarello Thomas Wassberg Terje Langli Georg Fischer Jochen Behle Erik Johnsen Thomas Klauser Pavel Ploc Horst Bulau Heinz Kuttin Remo Lederer Peter Rohwein Christian Hauswirth Ernst Vettori Andreas Bauer (ski jumper) Josef Heumann Fabrice Piazzini Christoph Lehmann Dieter Thoma Ari-Pekka Nikkola Anders Daun Hippolyt Kempf Klaus Sulzenbacher Allar Levandi Andreas Schaad Klaus Ofner Hans-Peter Pohl Trond Arne Bredesen France Fabrice Guy Hermann Weinbuch Tamara Tikhonova Anne Jahren Simone Opitz Raisa Smetanina Manuela Di Centa Kerstin Mohring Marit Mikkelsplass 1988 Winter Olympics medal table Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics Curling at the 1988 Winter Olympics Short track speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics Disabled skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics Winter Olympic Games Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1928 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1932 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics List of Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing List of Olympic medalists in ski jumping List of Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
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