Men's large hill team at the XV Olympic Winter Games | |
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Venue | Canada Olympic Park |
Dates | February 24 |
Competitors | 44 from 11 nations |
Winning score | 634.4 |
Medalists | |
Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics | |
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Normal hill | men |
Large hill | men |
Team | men |
The men's large hill team ski jumping competition for the 1988 Winter Olympics was held at Canada Olympic Park. It took place on 24 February. [1] [2]
Rank | Bib | Team | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total |
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![]() | 11 | ![]() Ari-Pekka Nikkola Matti Nykänen Tuomo Ylipulli Jari Puikkonen | 320.3 106.6 114.6 99.1 | 314.1 101.3 114.2 98.6 | 634.4 207.9 228.8 192.3 193.6 |
![]() | 6 | ![]() Primož Ulaga Matjaž Zupan Matjaž Debelak Miran Tepeš | 308.9 106.7 104.1 98.1 | 316.6 108.4 104.8 103.4 | 625.5 201.1 211.5 207.5 192.8 |
![]() | 10 | ![]() Ole Christian Eidhammer Jon Inge Kjørum Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl Erik Johnsen | 295.6 94.2 93.2 108.2 | 300.5 89.3 100.7 110.5 | 596.1 177.2 128.4 193.9 218.7 |
4 | 8 | ![]() Ladislav Dluhoš Jiří Malec Pavel Ploc Jiří Parma | 296.1 103.7 97.3 95.1 | 290.7 89.7 106.8 94.2 | 586.8 165.4 193.4 204.1 189.3 |
5 | 9 | ![]() Ernst Vettori Heinz Kuttin Günther Stranner Andreas Felder | 287.2 94.7 93.0 99.5 | 290.4 91.3 100.3 98.8 | 577.6 186.0 193.3 198.3 176.3 |
6 | 7 | ![]() Andi Bauer Peter Rohwein Thomas Klauser Josef Heumann | 277.8 90.2 97.4 90.2 | 281.2 90.3 100.2 90.7 | 559.0 175.1 174.3 197.6 180.9 |
7 | 5 | ![]() Per-Inge Tällberg Anders Daun Jan Boklöv Staffan Tällberg | 268.2 92.2 88.5 87.5 | 271.5 88.7 91.6 91.2 | 539.7 161.5 174.2 180.1 178.7 |
8 | 4 | ![]() Gérard Balanche Christoph Lehmann Fabrice Piazzini Christian Hauswirth | 258.3 87.4 81.6 89.3 | 257.8 87.6 84.5 85.7 | 516.1 175.0 156.7 166.1 175.0 |
9 | 2 | ![]() Horst Bulau Steve Collins Todd Gillman Ron Richards | 249.8 87.9 83.1 78.8 | 247.4 91.2 76.9 79.3 | 497.2 179.1 160.0 138.5 158.1 |
10 | 10 | ![]() Ted Langlois Mark Konopacke Dennis McGrane Mike Holland | 259.3 78.3 81.3 99.7 | 237.5 73.5 74.2 89.8 | 496.8 132.5 151.8 155.5 189.5 |
11 | 1 | ![]() Katsushi Tao Shinichi Tanaka Masaru Nagaoka Akira Sato | 231.5 67.4 81.6 82.5 | 236.5 72.6 75.4 88.5 | 468.0 134.7 135.9 157.0 171.0 |
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