Figure skating at the XV Olympic Winter Games | |
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Type: | Olympic Games |
Venue: | Olympic Saddledome (finals) Stampede Corral (short program) Father David Bauer Olympic Arena (compulsory figures) |
Champions | |
Men's singles: Brian Boitano | |
Ladies' singles: Katarina Witt | |
Pairs: Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov | |
Ice dance: Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | |
Previous: 1984 Winter Olympics | |
Next: 1992 Winter Olympics |
Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place at the Stampede Corral, the Olympic Saddledome and the Father David Bauer Olympic Arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [1] This was the last Olympic competition where compulsory figures were contested for the men's and ladies' events.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
2 | United States | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
3 | East Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
4 | Canada | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Totals (4 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Twenty-five nations sent figure skaters to compete in the events at Calgary.
Rank | Name | Figures | SP | Fract. Places | |||||||||
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1 | Brian Boitano | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3.0 |
2 | Brian Orser | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.2 |
3 | Viktor Petrenko | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7.8 |
4 | Aleksandr Fadeyev | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8.2 |
5 | Grzegorz Filipowski | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10.8 |
6 | Vladimir Kotin | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 13.4 |
7 | Christopher Bowman | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 13.8 |
8 | Kurt Browning | 11 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 15.4 |
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Katarina Witt became the first woman to repeat as champion since Sonja Henie.
Rank | Name | Figures | SP | Fract. Places | |||||||||
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1 | Katarina Witt | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4.2 |
2 | Elizabeth Manley | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4.6 |
3 | Debi Thomas | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6.0 |
4 | Jill Trenary | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 10.4 |
5 | Midori Ito | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10.6 |
6 | Claudia Leistner | 6 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 13.2 |
7 | Kira Ivanova | 1 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 13.6 |
8 | Anna Kondrashova | 9 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 15.2 |
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During Watson and Oppegard's free skating, a photographer dropped his camera bag onto the ice and an usher walked onto the ice to pick it up while the pair was performing a death spiral on the other side of the rink. [2]
Rank | Name | Nation | SP | FS | TFP |
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1 | Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 1.4 |
2 | Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 2.8 |
3 | Jill Watson / Peter Oppegard | United States | 3 | 3 | 4.2 |
4 | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | Soviet Union | 6 | 4 | 6.4 |
5 | Gillian Wachsman / Todd Waggoner | United States | 4 | 5 | 6.6 |
6 | Denise Benning / Lyndon Johnston | Canada | 5 | 7 | 9.0 |
7 | Peggy Schwarz / Alexander König | East Germany | 11 | 6 | 10.4 |
8 | Christine Hough / Doug Ladret | Canada | 8 | 8 | 11.2 |
9 | Isabelle Brasseur / Lloyd Eisler | Canada | 7 | 9 | 11.8 |
10 | Natalie Seybold / Wayne Seybold | United States | 10 | 10 | 14.0 |
11 | Brigitte Groh / Holger Maletz | West Germany | 13 | 11 | 16.2 |
12 | Cheryl Peake / Andrew Naylor | Great Britain | 12 | 12 | 16.8 |
13 | Lisa Cushley / Neil Cushley | Great Britain | 14 | 13 | 18.6 |
14 | Mei Zhibin / Li Wei | China | 15 | 14 | 20.0 |
WD | Lenka Knapová / René Novotný | Czechoslovakia | 9 | WD |
Rank | Name | SP | Fract. Places | |||||||||
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1 | Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.4 |
2 | Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2.8 |
3 | Jill Watson / Peter Oppegard | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4.2 |
4 | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6.4 |
5 | Gillian Wachsman / Todd Waggoner | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6.6 |
6 | Denise Benning / Lyndon Johnston | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9.0 |
7 | Peggy Schwarz / Alexander König | 11 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 10.4 |
8 | Christine Hough / Doug Ladret | 8 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 11.2 |
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Rank | Name | CD | OD | Fract. Places | |||||||||
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1 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.0 |
2 | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4.0 |
3 | Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6.0 |
4 | Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8.0 |
5 | Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 10.0 |
6 | Suzanne Semanick / Scott Gregory | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 12.0 |
7 | Klára Engi / Attila Tóth | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 14.0 |
8 | Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay | 8 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 16.0 |
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