Date | 27 – 28 February 1988 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Canada Olympic Park, Calgary / Canmore Nordic Centre, Canmore | |
Participants | 43 from 13 countries | |
Format | Normal hill ski jumping and 15 kilometres skiing. Pursuit-style cross-country race, with skiers leaving in order of their finish in the ski jumping, so that final placement determined by final placement in cross-country ski race. |
The World Cup in 1986-87 had been won by Norway’s Torbjørn Løkken, who was also World Champion in 1987. At the time of the 1988 Winter Olympics Løkken and Germany’s Klaus Sulzenbacher were in a closely fought battle for the World Cup lead, with Sulzenbacher slightly ahead. The event was marred by bad weather that caused a postponement of the ski jumping, and both sections were held on the same day. Sulzenbacher took the lead in the ski jumping with 228.5, well ahead of Hubert Schwarz with Hippolyt Kempf in third place. Løkken had taken himself out of it with 199.4, and was in 19th place. In the ski race, the first one ever conducted at the Winter Olympics in the Gundersen Method, Sulzenbacher started 1:02.0 ahead of Schwarz, 1:10.7 ahead of Kempf, with Løkken well back at 3:14.0. Løkken crushed the field in the ski, finishing in 37:39.0, over 37 seconds ahead of Kempf. But it would bring him only to sixth place. Kempf’s second in the ski was what he needed, as he caught Sulzenbacher 2.3 km from the finish and pulled ahead to win by 19.0 seconds. Kempf had been third in the 1986-87 World Cup and would again place third in 1988-89. Sulzenbacher would win the 1987-88 season World Cup.
Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time Margin | Ski Jumping, Normal Hill | Cross Country Skiing, 15 km | |||
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1 | Hippolyt Kempf | SUI | — | 217.9 (3) | 38:16.8 (2) | Gold | ||
2 | Klaus Sulzenbacher | AUT | +19.0 | 228.5 (1) | 39:46.5 (17) | Silver | ||
3 | Allar Levandi | URS | +1:04.3 | 216.6 (4) | 39:12.4 (12) | Bronze | ||
4 | Uwe Prenzel | GDR | +1:10.7 | 207.6 (13) | 38:18.8 (4) | |||
5 | Andreas Schaad | SUI | +1:12.5 | 207.2 (14) | 38:18.0 (3) | |||
6 | Torbjørn Løkken | NOR | +1:25.5 | 199.4 (19) | 37:39.0 (1) | |||
7 | Miroslav Kopal | TCH | +1:32.5 | 208.7 (12) | 38:48.0 (8) | |||
8 | Marko Frank | GDR | +1:48.1 | 209.4 (10) | 39:08.2 (11) | |||
9 | Thomas Prenzel | GDR | +1:50.6 | 215.5 (5) | 39:51.4 (20) | |||
10 | Vasily Savin | URS | +1:55.4 | 203.7 (17) | 38:37.5 (6) | |||
11 | Trond Arne Bredesen | NOR | +2:15.1 | 215.2 (6) | 40:13.9 (23) | |||
12 | Andrey Dundukov | URS | +2:53.6 | 194.0 (26) | 38:31.1 (5) | |||
13 | Hubert Schwarz | FRG | +3:08.3 | 219.2 (2) | 41:33.8 (33) | |||
14 | Sergey Nikiforov | URS | +3:15.5 | 191.8 (30) | 38:38.3 (7) | |||
15 | Pasi Saapunki | FIN | +3:16.6 | 193.3 (28) | 38:49.4 (9) | |||
16 | Jukka Ylipulli | FIN | +3:28.1 | 196.7 (24) | 39:23.6 (14) | |||
17 | Sami Leinonen | FIN | +3:30.9 | 202.4 (18) | 40:04.4 (22) | |||
18 | Tadeusz Bafia | POL | +3:32.5 | 211.3 (8) | 41:05.3 (29) | |||
19 | Joe Holland | USA | +3:35.0 | 210.4 (9) | 41:01.8 (28) | |||
20 | Fabrice Guy | FRA | +3:54.9 | 192.1 (29) | 39:19.7 (13) | |||
21 | Ladislav Patráš | TCH | +3:57.4 | 196.8 (23) | 39:53.5 (21) | |||
22 | Klaus Ofner | AUT | +3:58.8 | 208.9 (11) | 41:15.6 (31) | |||
23 | Hallstein Bøgseth | NOR | +4:11.9 | 197.7 (22) | 40:14.0 (24) | |||
24 | Hansjörg Aschenwald | AUT | +4:28.0 | 214.1 (7) | 42:19.5 (40) | |||
25 | Thomas Müller | FRG | +4:35.2 | 190.4 (31) | 39:48.7 (18) | |||
26 | Knut Leo Abrahamsen | NOR | +4:38.7 | 204.1 (16) | 41:23.5 (32) | |||
27 | Ján Klimko | TCH | +4:38.8 | 198.1 (21) | 40:43.6 (26) | |||
28 | Hans-Peter Pohl | FRG | +4:56.4 | 204.3 (15) | 41:42.5 (36) | |||
29 | Hermann Weinbuch | FRG | +4:58.9 | 179.6 (39) | 39:00.4 (10) | |||
30 | František Repka | TCH | +5:02.6 | 184.1 (34) | 39:34.1 (16) | |||
31 | Masashi Abe | JPN | +5:03.6 | 182.5 (36) | 39:24.4 (15) | |||
32 | Xavier Girard | FRA | +5:23.4 | 193.9 (27) | 41:00.2 (27) | |||
33 | Jouko Parviainen | FIN | +5:32.1 | 198.9 (20) | 41:42.2 (35) | |||
34 | Günther Csar | AUT | +5:58.7 | 196.2 (25) | 41:50.8 (37) | |||
35 | Fredy Glanzmann | SUI | +6:11.3 | 180.1 (=37) | 40:16.1 (25) | |||
36 | Kazuoki Kodama | JPN | +6:12.7 | 187.7 (32) | 41:08.2 (30) | |||
37 | Hideki Miyazaki | JPN | +6:13.3 | 175.8 (41) | 39:49.4 (19) | |||
38 | Jon Servold | CAN | +7:04.6 | 187.1 (33) | 41:56.1 (38) | |||
39 | Jean-Pierre Bohard | FRA | +7:08.4 | 183.2 (35) | 41:33.9 (34) | |||
40 | Todd Wilson | USA | +8:03.1 | 180.1 (=37) | 42:07.9 (39) | |||
41 | Gary Crawford | USA | +14:45.2 | 135.8 (43) | 43:54.7 (41) | |||
Francis Repellin | FRA | – | 159.9 (42) | – ( | ||||
Stefan Späni | SUI | – | 178.6 (40) | – ( | ||||
Hans Johnstone | USA | – | – ( | – |