| | Event type
5 kilometres, B1, Women
| Date | 17 February 1988 |
|---|---|
| Status | Olympic (non-medal) |
| Location | Canmore Nordic Centre, Canmore |
| Participants | 10 from 3 countries |
The B1 event is for competitors who are “legally blind”, or formally have a visual acuity of LogMAR 2.60 or worse. Competitors are accompanied by sighted guides.
The event was a fairly close contest between Kirsti Pennänen, who lost by a narrow 3.8 seconds to Veronika Preining. Preining had won three medals (gold-silver-bronze) in alpine skiing at the 1984 Paralympics, and would add three more in Innsbruck 1988, winning the 5 km, as in Calgary, and adding two silvers behind Pennänen.
| Pos | Competitors | NOC | Time | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austria |  AUT | 22:56.3 | ||||||
| Veronika Preining • Siegfried Haberl | |||||||||
| 2 | Finland |  FIN | 23:00.1 | ||||||
| Kirsti Pennanen • Antero Viljaharju | |||||||||
| 3 | Austria | AUT | 26:59.3 | ||||||
| Margaret Heger • Manfred Pucher | |||||||||
| 4 | Soviet Union |  URS | 27:44.3 | ||||||
| Valentina Grigoryeva • L. Fyodor | |||||||||
| 5 | Austria | AUT | 29:31.4 | ||||||
| Doris Campbell • Hermann Tidl | |||||||||