| Women's singles at the XV Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Canada Olympic Park | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 16–18 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 24 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:03.973 | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Singles | men | women |
| Doubles | doubles | |
The Women's singles luge competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary was held on 16 and 18 February, at Canada Olympic Park. [1] [2]
| Rank [1] | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
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 | Steffi Walter-Martin |  East Germany | 45.828 | 46.173 | 45.969 | 46.003 | 3:03.973 |
 | Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß | East Germany | 45.906 | 46.057 | 46.150 | 45.992 | 3:04.105 |
 | Cerstin Schmidt | East Germany | 46.078 | 46.020 | 46.059 | 46.024 | 3:04.181 |
| 4 | Veronika Bilgeri |  West Germany | 46.321 | 46.375 | 46.369 | 46.605 | 3:05.670 |
| 5 | Yuliya Antipova |  Soviet Union | 46.449 | 46.425 | 46.610 | 46.303 | 3:05.787 |
| 6 | Bonny Warner |  United States | 46.409 | 46.643 | 46.633 | 46.371 | 3:06.056 |
| 7 | Marie-Claude Doyon |  Canada | 46.372 | 46.596 | 46.796 | 46.447 | 3:06.211 |
| 8 | Nadezhda Danilina | Soviet Union | 46.597 | 46.447 | 46.613 | 46.707 | 3:06.364 |
| 9 | Cammy Myler | United States | 46.502 | 46.888 | 46.828 | 46.617 | 3:06.835 |
| 10 | Irina Kusakina | Soviet Union | 46.690 | 47.071 | 46.643 | 46.639 | 3:07.043 |
| 11 | Erica Terwillegar | United States | 46.506 | 47.300 | 46.780 | 46.705 | 3:07.291 |
| 12 | Andrea Tagwerker |  Austria | 46.787 | 47.140 | 46.735 | 46.839 | 3:07.501 |
| 13 | Veronika Oberhuber |  Italy | 46.720 | 46.963 | 47.118 | 46.715 | 3:07.516 |
| 14 | Gerda Weissensteiner | Italy | 46.814 | 47.183 | 46.908 | 46.760 | 3:07.665 |
| 15 | Maria-Luise Rainer | Italy | 47.142 | 46.947 | 47.064 | 46.992 | 3:08.145 |
| 16 | Anne Abernathy |  Virgin Islands | 47.106 | 47.316 | 47.742 | 47.073 | 3:09.237 |
| 17 | Livia Pelin |  Romania | 47.204 | 47.541 | 47.601 | 47.305 | 3:09.651 |
| 18 | Mina Tanaka |  Japan | 47.770 | 47.945 | 47.928 | 47.599 | 3:11.242 |
| 19 | Kathy Salmon | Canada | 47.569 | 48.112 | 48.356 | 47.670 | 3:11.707 |
| 20 | Alyson Wreford |  Great Britain | 49.888 | 48.247 | 47.869 | 47.726 | 3:13.730 |
| 21 | Hitomi Koshimizu | Japan | 47.682 | 49.276 | 49.160 | 48.008 | 3:14.126 |
| 22 | Laurence Bonici |  France | 48.436 | 48.790 | 48.692 | 48.488 | 3:14.406 |
| 23 | Simoneta Racheva |  Bulgaria | 48.790 | 48.836 | 48.698 | 48.533 | 3:14.857 |
| 24 | Teng Pi-Hui |  Chinese Taipei | 48.282 | 48.431 | 49.610 | 50.804 | 3:17.127 |
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