Olympic Winter Games 1988 / Luge

Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Calgary
Competition venue	Canada Olympic Park
Nations	22nd
Athletes	90 (66 , 24 )
date	14.-19. February 1988
decisions	3
← Sarajevo 1984 Albertville 1992 →

At the XV. 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary three competitions found luge instead. The venue was the Canada Olympic Park .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	GDR	3	2	1	6th
2	BR Germany	-	1	1	2
3	Soviet Union	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Single seater men	Jens Müller	Georg Hackl	Yuri Kharchenko
Single seater women	Steffi Walter	Ute Oberhoffner	Cerstin Schmidt
Two-seater	Jörg Hoffmann , Jochen Pietzsch	Stefan Krauße , Jan Behrendt	Thomas Schwab , Wolfgang Staudinger

Results

(all runtimes in seconds, total times in minutes)

Single seater men

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GDR	Jens Müller	46,301	46.444	46,436	46.367	3: 05.548
2	FRG	Georg Hackl	46.355	46.553	46,599	46,409	3: 05.916
3	URS	Yuri Kharchenko	46.391	46,605	46.475	46,803	3: 06.274
4th	GDR	Thomas Jacob	46.426	46.638	46.433	46.861	3: 06.358
5	GDR	Michael Walter	46.578	46.754	46.838	46.763	3: 06.933
6th	URS	Sergei Danilin	46.564	46.827	46.648	47.059	3: 07.098
7th	FRG	Johannes Schettel	46.725	46.928	46,805	46.913	3: 07.371
8th	ITA	Hansjörg Raffl	46,590	46.971	46.893	47,071	3: 07.525
9	AUT	Otto Mayregger	46.777	46.986	46.925	46.931	3: 07.619
10	ITA	Paul Hildgartner	46.844	46.854	46.764	47.234	3: 07.696
11	AUT	Markus Prock	46.637	46.632	47.637	46.829	3: 07.735
13	FRG	Max Burghardtswieser	46.874	46,949	47.083	47.280	3: 08.186
15th	ITA	Kurt Brugger	47.084	47,362	47.045	47.130	3: 08.621

Runs 1 and 2: February 14, 1988 (10:07 a.m. and 11:50 a.m.) Runs
3 and 4: February 15, 1988 (10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.)

38 participants from 18 countries, 36 of them in the rating.

After the first two runs, Müller was already in the lead ahead of Hackl, Chartschenko and Jacob. World champion Prock (who held the track record with 46.792 s) was fifth, Walter was sixth, Schettel ninth and Sarajevo Olympic champion Hildgartner was 10. Hackl failed the third run, so Jacobs finished second with the fastest time, which Hackl did fourth run countered. Prock, on the other hand, fell back to eleventh after the totally unsuccessful third run. Gerhard Sandbichler (AUT) was disqualified for being 30 grams overweight.

Single seater women

space	country	sportswoman	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GDR	Steffi Walter	46.828	46.173	45.969	46.003	3: 03.973
2	GDR	Ute Oberhoffner	45.906	46.057	46.150	45.992	3: 04.105
3	GDR	Cerstin Schmidt	46.078	46.020	46.059	46.024	3: 04.181
4th	FRG	Veronika Bilgeri	46.00	46.00	46.00	46.00	3: 05.670
5	URS	Yulia Antipova	46,321	46.375	46.369	46,605	3: 05.787
6th	United States	Bonny Warner	46,409	46.643	46.633	46.371	3: 06.056
7th	CAN	Marie-Claude Doyon	46.372	46,596	46.796	46,447	3: 06.211
8th	URS	Nadezhda Danilina	46,597	46,447	46.613	46.707	3: 06.364
9	United States	Cammy Myler	46.502	46.888	46.828	46.617	3: 06.835
10	URS	Irina Kussakina	46.690	47,071	46.643	46.639	3: 07.043
12	AUT	Andrea Tagwerker	46.787	47.140	46.735	46.839	3: 07.501
13	ITA	Veronika Oberhuber	46.720	46.963	47.118	46.715	3: 07.516
14th	ITA	Gerda Weissensteiner	46.814	47.183	46.908	46.760	3: 07.665
15th	ITA	Marie-Luise Rainer	47.142	46.947	47.064	46.992	3: 08.145

Runs 1 and 2: February 16, 1988 (10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.) Runs
3 and 4: February 17, 1988 (10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.)

24 participants from 14 countries, all in the ranking.

The female tobogganists of the GDR dominated the Olympic toboggan competitions. For the third time (after Sapporo 1972 and Sarajevo 1984 ) they celebrated a triple victory in Calgary.

Two-seater

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	total
1	GDR	Jörg Hoffmann , Jochen Pietzsch	45.786	46.154	1: 31.940
2	GDR	Stefan Krauße , Jan Behrendt	45.886	46.153	1: 32.039
3	FRG	Thomas Schwab , Wolfgang Staudinger	46.024	46.250	1: 32.274
4th	FRG	Stefan Ilsanker , Georg Hackl	46.054	46.244	1: 32.298
5	AUT	Georg Fluckinger , Robert Manzenreiter	46.135	46.229	1: 32.364
6th	URS	Vitaly Melnik , Dmitri Alexejew	46.060	46.399	1: 32.459
7th	ITA	Kurt Brugger , Wilfried Huber	45.973	46.580	1: 32.553
	URS	Evgeni Belousov , Alexander Belyakov	46.125	46.428	1: 32.553
9	ITA	Bernhard Kammerer , Walter Brunner	46.381	46.790	1: 33.171
10	CAN	Robert Gasper , André Benoît	46.240	47.066	1: 33.306
12	AUT	Gerhard Sandbichler , Franz Lechleitner	46.771	46.691	1: 33.462

Date: February 19, 1988, 10:00 a.m. (1st run), 11:00 a.m. (2nd run)

18 teams from 11 countries, all in the ranking.

Web links

• Luge 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. ↑ Disappointed Prock: "Risked everything, lost everything" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1988, p. 22 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
2. ↑ "Müller leads - Prock only 5." In: Sport Zürich, February 15, 1988, p. 10.
3. ↑ «OLYMPIA TOTAL». In: Sport Zürich, February 15, 1988, p. 27.