1988 Winter Olympics / speed skating

Speed ​​skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Calgary
Competition venue	Olympic oval
Nations	21st
Athletes	141 (88 , 53 )
date	14.-28. February 1988
decisions	10
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At the XV. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , ten speed skating competitions were held. The venue was the Olympic Oval . The women's 5000 meter run was on the program for the first time.

Tomas Gustafson was the most successful runner among men . He started over the two long distances and won gold in each case. In the women’s category, Yvonne van Gennip from the Netherlands won three gold medals over 1500, 3000 and 5000 meters, despite the large GDR dominance (eight out of twelve medals). She was next to the ski jumper Matti Nykänen the most successful participant in Calgary. Norway remained medalless for the first time at the Winter Games in speed skating, which had been held since 1924.

Balance sheet

Olympic Oval in December 2006

Medal table

space	country				total
1	GDR	3	6th	4th	13
2	Netherlands	3	2	2	7th
3	Sweden	2	-	-	2
4th	United States	1	1	1	3
5	Soviet Union	1	-	1	2
6th	Austria	-	1	1	2
7th	Japan	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze 500 m Uwe-Jens Mey Jan Ykema Akira Kuroiwa 1000 m Nikolai Gulyayev Uwe-Jens Mey Ihar Schaljasouski 1500 m André Hoffmann Eric Flaim Michael Hadschieff 5000 m Tomas Gustafson Leo Visser Gerard Kemkers 10,000 m Tomas Gustafson Michael Hadschieff Leo Visser

Women competitor gold silver bronze 500 m Bonnie Blair Christa Rothenburger Karin Kania-Enke 1000 m Christa Rothenburger Karin Kania-Enke Bonnie Blair 1500 m Yvonne van Gennip Karin Kania-Enke Andrea Ehrig 3000 m Yvonne van Gennip Andrea Ehrig Gabi Zange 5000 m Yvonne van Gennip Andrea Ehrig Gabi Zange

Results men

500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	GDR	Uwe-Jens Mey	36.45 ( WR )
2	NED	Jan Ykema	36.76
3	JPN	Akira Kuroiwa	36.77
4th	URS	Sergei Fokichev	36.82
5	COR	Bae Gi-tae	36.90
6th	URS	Ihar Schaljasouski	36.94
7th	CAN	Guy Thibault	36.96
8th	United States	Nick Thometz	37.16
9	JPN	Yasumitsu Kanehama	37.25
10	NOR	Frode Rønning	37.31
20th	FRG	Hans-Peter Oberhuber	37.73
21st	GDR	André Hoffmann	37.75
26th	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	37.90
27	FRG	Uwe Streb	38.03
28	GDR	Peter Adeberg	38.11
34	AUT	Christian Eminger	39.70

Date: February 14, 1988, 5:00 p.m.
37 participants from 15 countries, 36 of them in the ranking.

The runners who were drawn to the inner lane at the start were clearly preferred over the competitors: At speeds of around 55 km / h, those who had to complete the last curve on the inner lane lost their balance and fell (or had to go to the outer lane evade, which was only allowed if he did not hinder an opponent there).

1000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Nikolai Gulyayev	1: 13.03 ( OR )
2	GDR	Uwe-Jens Mey	1: 13.11
3	URS	Ihar Schaljasouski	1: 13.19
4th	United States	Eric Flaim	1: 13.53
5	CAN	Gaétan Boucher	1: 13.77
6th	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	1: 13.84
7th	CAN	Guy Thibault	1: 14.16
8th	GDR	Peter Adeberg	1: 14.19
9	COR	Bae Gi-tae	1: 14.36
	JPN	Yasumitsu Kanehama
15th	GDR	André Hoffmann	1: 14.62
32	FRG	Hans-Peter Oberhuber	1: 16.62

Date: February 18, 1988, 6:00 p.m.
40 participants from 16 countries, 36 of them in the ranking.

1500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GDR	André Hoffmann	1: 52.05 ( WR )
2	United States	Eric Flaim	1: 52.12
3	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	1: 52.31
4th	URS	Ihar Schaljasouski	1: 52.63
5	JPN	Toru Aoyanagi	1: 52.85
6th	URS	Alexander Klimov	1: 52.97
7th	URS	Nikolai Gulyayev	1: 53.04
8th	GDR	Peter Adeberg	1: 53.57
9	CAN	Gaétan Boucher	1: 54.18
10	CAN	Jean Pichett	1: 54.63
30th	FRG	Hansjörg Baltes	1: 57.08

Date: February 20, 1988, 5:00 p.m.
40 participants from 20 countries, 39 of them in the ranking.

Eric Flaim's record time was only ten minutes away. Eric Heiden's Olympic record (1: 55.44 min in Lake Placid 1980) was downright pulverized. Austria had remained on ice since 1972 ( Beatrix Schuba's gold in figure skating) without an Olympic medal, and it was the first Olympic speed skating medal for the Alpine republic in 52 years (bronze in 1936 by Max Stiepl over 10,000 m). Hadschieff improved his own Austrian record by 2.3 seconds.

5000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	SWE	Tomas Gustafson	6: 44.63 ( OR )
2	NED	Leo Visser	6: 44.98
3	NED	Gerard Kemkers	6: 45.92
4th	United States	Eric Flaim	6: 47.09
5	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	6: 48.72
6th	United States	David Silk	6: 49.95
7th	NOR	Geir Karlstad	6: 50.88
8th	GDR	Roland Freier	6: 51.42
9	United States	Mark Greenwald	6: 51.98
10	OUT	Danny Kah	6: 52.14
20th	AUT	Christian Eminger	6: 57.22
24	FRG	Hansjörg Baltes	6: 59.45

Date: February 17, 1988, 11:00 a.m.
38 participants from 18 countries, all in the ranking.

10,000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	SWE	Tomas Gustafson	13: 48.20 ( WR )
2	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	13: 56.11
3	NED	Leo Visser	14: 00.55
4th	United States	Eric Flaim	14: 05.57
5	NED	Gerard Kemkers	14: 08.34
6th	URS	Yuri Klijuew	14: 09.68
7th	ITA	Roberto Sighel	14: 13.60
8th	GDR	Roland Freier	14: 19.16
9	URS	Sergei Beresin	14: 20.48
10	CAN	Ben Lamarche	14: 21.39
19th	AUT	Christian Eminger	14: 30.21
27	FRG	Hansjörg Baltes	14: 45.41

Date: February 21, 1988, 12:00 p.m.
32 runners from 19 countries, 30 of them in the ranking.

Gustafson undercut the previous world record by 0.31 s.

Results women

500 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (s)
1	United States	Bonnie Blair	39.10 ( WR )
2	GDR	Christa Rothenburger	39.12
3	GDR	Karin Kania-Enke	39.24
4th	GDR	Angela Stahnke	39.68
5	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	39.74
6th	CAN	Shelley Rhead	40.36
7th	FRG	Monika Holzner-Gawenus	40.53
8th	JPN	Shoko Fusano	40.61
9	URS	Natalia Glebova	40.66
10	GDR	Andrea Ehrig	40.71
19th	AUT	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady	41.38

Date: February 22nd, 1988, 6:00 p.m.
30 participants from 15 countries, all rated.

The highly favored Rothenburger improved her world record from 39.39 s to 39.12 s. Kania-Enke also stayed below the old record.

1000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	GDR	Christa Rothenburger	1: 17.65 ( WR )
2	GDR	Karin Kania-Enke	1: 17.70
3	United States	Bonnie Blair	1: 18.31
4th	GDR	Andrea Ehrig	1: 19.32
5	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	1: 19.75
6th	GDR	Angela Stahnke	1: 20.05
7th	United States	Leslie Bader	1: 21.09
8th	United States	Katie Class	1: 21.10
9	CAN	Natalie Grenier	1: 21.15
10	POLE	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	1: 21.44
16	AUT	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady	1: 22.22

Date: February 26, 1988, 6:00 p.m.
27 participants from 12 countries, 26 of them in the evaluation.

Rothenburger prevailed against Kania, who had stayed below her world record (1: 18.11 min). Eleven runners remained below Kania's old Olympic record from 1984 (1: 21.61 min), Rothenburger would have won the men's title with her time at the 1976 Olympics.

1500 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	NED	Yvonne van Gennip	2: 00.68 ( OR )
2	GDR	Karin Kania-Enke	2: 00.82
3	GDR	Andrea Ehrig	2: 01.49
4th	United States	Bonnie Blair	2: 04.02
5	URS	Jelena Lapuga	2: 04.24
6th	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	2: 04.38
7th	GDR	Gunda Kleemann	2: 04.68
	POLE	Erwina Ryś-Ferens
9	PRK	Song Hwa-son	2: 05.25
10	United States	Leslie Bader	2: 05.53
16	FRG	Anja Mischke	2: 08.52

Date: February 27, 1988, 5:00 p.m.
28 participants from 13 countries, all rated. Not at the start due to fever: Emese Nemeth-Hunyady (AUT).

After 200 meters, Kania-Enke was more than half a second ahead of van Gennip and Ehrig. So far she was the only woman to stay under two minutes over this distance (1: 59.30 min), but this time she was unable to keep up her pace. Van Gennip started shortly after and ran an Olympic record. She improved her own national record by 3.84 s.

3000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	NED	Yvonne van Gennip	4: 11.94 ( WR )
2	GDR	Andrea Ehrig	4: 12.09
3	GDR	Gabi Zange	4: 16.92
4th	GDR	Karin Kania-Enke	4: 18.80
5	POLE	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	4: 22.59
6th	URS	Swetlana Boiko	4: 22.90
7th	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	4: 23.29
8th	URS	Jelena Lapuga	4: 23.29
9	URS	Elena Tumanova	4: 24.07
10	SWE	Jasmin Krohn	4: 25.06
12	FRG	Anja Mischke	4: 26.30
14th	AUT	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady	4: 27.56

Date: February 23, 1988, 6:00 p.m.
29 participants from 16 countries, 28 of them in the evaluation.

Mary Docter (USA) ran a new national record of 4: 29.93 minutes. Emese Hunyady improved her own national record by almost twelve seconds.

5000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	NED	Yvonne van Gennip	7: 14.13 ( WR )
2	GDR	Andrea Ehrig	7: 17.12
3	GDR	Gabi Zange	7: 21.61
4th	URS	Swetlana Boiko	7: 28.39
5	URS	Jelena Lapuga	7: 28.65
6th	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	7: 34.43
7th	GDR	Gunda Kleemann	7: 34.59
8th	SWE	Jasmin Krohn	7: 36.56
9	PRK	Han Chun-ok	7: 36.81
10	United States	Jane Goldman	7: 36.98

Date: February 28, 1988, 3:00 p.m.
25 participants from 14 countries, all rated. Not at the start due to fever: Emese Nemeth-Hunyady (AUT).

Web links

• Speed ​​skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1988 Winter Olympics (PDF; 11.1 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Only the GDR at Gustafson's level". In: Sport Zürich, February 24, 1988, p. 14.
2. ↑ «OLYMPIA TOTAL». In: Sport Zürich, February 17, 1988, p. 13.
3. ↑ «Favorites failed in the sprint». In: Sport Zürich, February 17, 1988, p. 16.
4. ↑ “Sensation: Gold for André Hoffmann!”. In: Sport Zürich, February 22, 1988, p. 18.
5. ^ Glossary «Under the magnifying glass» with the heading «Whistle for joy» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1988, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ↑ «" Magic Michi "with a secret weapon». In: Sport Zürich, February 24, 1988, p. 10.
7. ^ "Only the GDR at Gustafson's level". In: Sport Zürich, February 24, 1988, p. 14.
8. ↑ Bonnie Blair won the world record duel . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1988, p. 23 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
9. ↑ "OLYMPIA TOTAL": In: Sport Zürich, February 24, 1988, p. 11.
10. ↑ «OLYMPIA TOTAL». In: Sport Zürich, February 29, 1988, p. 18.
11. ^ "Second gold for Yvonne van Gennip". In: Sport Zürich, February 29, 1988, p. 18.
12. ↑ Second defeat of the GDR over 3000 meters . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 25, 1988, p. 23 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).