Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Winter Olympics
IOC code	TCH
NOC	Czechoslovak Olympic Committee
in Calgary
Competitors	60 (50 men, 10 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Jiří Parma (ski jumping)
Medals Ranked 15th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 3
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992
Other related appearances
Czech Republic (1994–)   Slovakia (1994–)

Czechoslovakia competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. ^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	2	3	5
Biathlon	5	–	5
Cross-country skiing	6	4	10
Figure skating	3	3	6
Ice hockey	23	–	23
Luge	2	0	2
Nordic combined	4	–	4
Ski jumping	4	–	4
Speed skating	1	0	1
Total	50	10	60

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Pavel Ploc	Ski jumping	Normal hill individual	14 February
Bronze	Jiří Malec	Ski jumping	Normal hill individual	14 February
Bronze	Radim Nyč Václav Korunka Pavel Benc Ladislav Švanda	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay	22 February

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Adrián Bíreš	Downhill	—				2:06.34	33
	Super-G	—				1:45.33	23
	Giant slalom	did not finish
	Slalom	54.88	23	50.25	15	1:45.13	15
Peter Jurko	Downhill	—				2:05.32	29
	Super-G	—				1:46.03	27
	Giant slalom	1:09.21	35	1:06.29	33	2:15.50	33
	Slalom	53.50	19	48.71	10	1:42.21	13

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill			Slalom					Total
	Time	Points	Rank	Time 1	Time 2	Total	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Adrián Bíreš	1:50.24	36.87	16	45.94	43.00	1:28.94	31.63	12	68.50	8
Peter Jurko	1:50.29	37.42	19	44.32	43.29	1:27.61	21.14	8	58.56	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Lucia Medzihradská	Downhill	—				1:27.28	10
	Giant slalom	1:03.79	30	1:10.64	19	2:14.43	20
	Slalom	51.08	16	51.10	12	1:42.18	13
Ľudmila Milanová	Downhill	—				1:30.42	24
	Super-G	—				1:23.92	29
	Giant slalom	did not finish
	Slalom	53.93	28	did not finish
Lenka Kebrlová	Giant slalom	1:04.09	33	1:11.08	21	2:15.17	23
	Slalom	51.01	14	51.11	13	1:42.12	12

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill			Slalom					Total
	Time	Points	Rank	Time 1	Time 2	Total	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Lenka Kebrlová	1:18.43	30.40	13	40.91	43.47	1:24.38	30.47	5	60.87	5
Lucia Medzihradská	1:18.62	33.34	15	41.62	42.73	1:24.35	30.22	4	63.56	6
Ľudmila Milanová	did not finish

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
František Chládek	Individual	1:04:01.3	4	44
Jiří Holubec	Individual	1:02:08.3	5	32
	Sprint	27:29.8	3	28
Tomáš Kos	Individual	1:01:02.7	3	22
	Sprint	27:13.5	1	24
Jan Matouš	Individual	59:35.3	3	14
	Sprint	26:33.3	1	16
Jaromír Šimůnek	Sprint	27:38.6	1	34
Jiří Holubec František Chládek Tomáš Kos Jan Matouš	Relay	1:30:48.8	3	11

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Men

Athlete	Event	Race
		Time	Rank
Pavel Benc	15 km classical	46:01.6	41
	50 km freestyle	2:12:08.4	27
Václav Korunka	15 km classical	44:47.6	28
Martin Petrásek	15 km classical	46:07.8	43
	30 km classical	1:31:56.1	32
Ladislav Švanda	15 km classical	43:40.9	19
	30 km classical	1:28:55.1	17
	50 km freestyle	2:09:08.1	15
Petr Lisičan	30 km classical	1:31:23.1	29
	50 km freestyle	2:11:44.4	23
Radim Nyč	30 km classical	1:30:34.4	25
	50 km freestyle	2:10:46.3	20
Radim Nyč Václav Korunka Pavel Benc Ladislav Švanda	4×10 km relay	1:45:22.7

Women

Athlete	Event	Race
		Time	Rank
Ľubomíra Balážová	5 km classical	16:30.9	30
	10 km classical	32:30.3	27
	20 km freestyle	1:02:25.0	33
Alžbeta Havrančíková	5 km classical	16:28.3	29
	10 km classical	32:59.1	31
	20 km freestyle	58:51.4	13
Viera Klimková	5 km classical	16:14.1	22
	10 km classical	33:23.0	35
	20 km freestyle	59:22.5	17
Ivana Rádlová	5 km classical	16:43.6	38
	20 km freestyle	1:02:25.4	34
Ľubomíra Balážová Viera Klimková Ivana Rádlová Alžbeta Havrančíková	4×5 km relay	1:03:37.1	7

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Athlete(s)	Event	CF/CD	SP/OD	FS/FD	Total
		FP	FP	FP	TFP	Rank
Petr Barna	Men's	15	15 Q	12	27.0	13
Iveta Voralová	Ladies'	22	12 Q	19	37.0	20
Lenka Knapová & René Novotný	Pairs	—	8	did not finish
Viera Řeháková & Ivan Havránek	Ice dancing	14	15	15	29.4	15

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics

• Squad:
  • Goalkeepers: Petr Bříza, Dominik Hašek, Jaromír Šindel
  • Defenders: Jaroslav Benák, Mojmír Božík, Miloslav Hořava, Antonín Stavjaňa, Rudolf Suchánek, Bedřich Ščerban, Eduard Uvíra
  • Forwards: Jiří Doležal, Oto Haščák, Jiří Hrdina, Jiří Lála, Igor Liba, Dušan Pašek, Radim Raděvič, Vladimír Růžička, Petr Rosol, Jiří Šejba, Petr Vlk, Rostislav Vlach, David Volek
  • Coaches: Ján Starší, František Pospíšil

First Round

Group B

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	32	10	10
West Germany	5	4	1	0	19	12	8
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	23	14	6
United States	5	2	3	0	27	27	4
Austria	5	0	4	1	12	29	1
Norway	5	0	4	1	11	32	1

• • lost to   West Germany 1-2 (goal: Hrdina)
  • beat   United States 7-5 (goals: Pašek 2, Stavjaňa 2, Rosol, Růžička, Liba)
  • beat   Norway 10-1 (goals: Pašek 2, Benák, Lála, Liba, Volek, Hrdina, Stavjaňa, Suchánek, Vlk)
  • beat   Austria 4-0 (goals: Hořava, Šejba, Božík, Pašek)
  • lost to   Soviet Union 1-6 (goal: Lála)

Final Round

	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	5	2	2	1	17	14	5
West Germany	5	1	4	0	8	26	2
Czechoslovakia	5	1	4	0	12	22	2

• • lost to   Sweden 2-6 (goals: Haščák, Růžička)
  • beat   Finland 5-2 (goals: Liba 2, Šejba, Pašek, Růžička)
  • lost to   Finland 3-6 (goals: Stavjaňa, Šejba, Růžička)

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Athlete(s)	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Luboš Jíra	Men's	47.647	47.569	47.819	47.822	3:10.857	21
Petr Urban	Men's	46.917	47.215	47.133	47.359	3:08.624	16
Petr Urban Luboš Jíra	Doubles	46.388	47.233	—		1:33.621	13

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country
		Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Ján Klimko	Individual	198.1	21	+3:22.7	44:06.3 +4:38.8	27
Miroslav Kopal		208.7	12	+2:12.0	41:00.0 +1:32.5	7
Ladislav Patráš		196.8	23	+3:31.4	43:24.9 +3:31.4	23
František Repka		184.1	34	+4:56.0	44:30.1 +5:02.6	30
Miroslav Kopal Ladislav Patráš Ján Klimko	Team	573.5	4	+4:41.5	1:23:43.1 +2:57.1	6

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Ladislav Dluhoš	Normal hill individual	103.6	9	87.4	32	191.0	14
	Large hill individual	99.2	19	90.3	12	189.5	14
Jiří Malec	Normal hill individual	106.9	2	104.9	4	211.8
	Large hill individual	101.0	14	80.2	31	181.2	24
Jiří Parma	Normal hill individual	102.2	13	101.6	5	203.8	5
	Large hill individual	89.2	35	86.1	17	175.3	29
Pavel Ploc	Normal hill individual	105.3	7	106.8	2	212.1
	Large hill individual	112.7	3	91.4	11	204.1	5
Ladislav Dluhoš Jiří Malec Jiří Parma Pavel Ploc	Large hill team	296.1	3	290.7	4	586.8	4

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Jiří Kyncl	1500 m	1:58.44	34
	5000 m	6:59.82	25
	10000 m	14:27.32	16

References

1. Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Winter Olympics
2. "XV Olympic Winter Games: Official Report - Xver Jeux Olympiques d'hiver: rapport officiel" (PDF). XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1988. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

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