Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics explained

Figure skating at the XV Olympic Winter Games
Comptype:	Olympic Games
Venue:	Olympic Saddledome (finals) Stampede Corral (short program) Father David Bauer Olympic Arena (compulsory figures)
Championmen:	Brian Boitano
Championladies:	Katarina Witt
Championpairs:	Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov
Championdance:	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin
Previouscomp:	1984 Winter Olympics
Nextcomp:	1992 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place at the Stampede Corral, the Olympic Saddledome and the Father David Bauer Olympic Arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.^[1] This was the last Olympic competition where compulsory figures were contested for the men's and ladies' events.

Medal table

Participating NOCs

Twenty-five nations sent figure skaters to compete in the events at Calgary.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	CF	SP	FS	TFP
1			2	2	1	3.0
2			3	1	2	4.2
3			6	3	3	7.8
4			1	9	4	8.2
5			7	4	5	10.8
6			5	6	8	13.4
7			8	5	7	13.8
8			11	7	6	15.4
9			4	11	10	16.8
10			12	8	9	19.4
11			9	17	11	23.2
12			10	10	14	24.0
13			15	15	12	27.0
14			14	12	15	28.2
15			13	14	17	30.4
16			17	13	16	31.4
17			19	19	13	32.0
18			16	21	18	36.0
19			18	16	20	37.2
20			22	18	19	39.4
21			20	20	22	42.0
22			24	24	21	45.0
23			21	25	23	45.6
24			23	22	24	46.6
Free skate not reached
25			25	23
26			26	27
27			28	26
28			27	28

Free skating final standings (top 8)

Rank	Name	Figures	SP										Fract. Places
align=center	1	align=left		2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	3.0
align=center	2	align=left		3	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	4.2
align=center	3	align=left		6	3	3	3	3	2	4	3	5	3	3	7.8
align=center	4	align=left		1	9	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	8.2
align=center	5	align=left		7	4	7	6	5	8	8	6	6	6	6	10.8
align=center	6	align=left		5	6	8	9	7	6	9	5	4	8	5	13.4
align=center	7	align=left		8	5	5	5	8	7	5	8	8	5	8	13.8
align=center	8	align=left		11	7	6	7	6	9	7	9	7	7	9	15.4

Referee:

• Sonia Bianchetti

Assistant Referee:

• Benjamin T. Wright

Judges:

• Elfriede Beyer
• Janet G. Allen
• Linda Petersen
• Alexander Vedenin
• Jacqueline Itschner
• Junko Hiramatsu
• Günter Teichmann
• Jean Matthews
• Gerhardt Bubník
• Maria Zuchowicz (substitute)

Ladies

Katarina Witt became the first woman to repeat as champion since Sonja Henie.

Rank	Name	Nation	CF	SP	FS	TFP
1			3	1	2	4.2
2			4	3	1	4.6
3			2	2	4	6.0
4			5	6	5	10.4
5			10	4	3	10.6
6			6	9	6	13.2
7			1	10	9	13.6
8			9	7	7	15.2
9			14	8	8	19.6
10			12	11	10	21.6
11			15	17	11	26.8
12			8	18	16	28.0
13			18	14	13	29.4
14			16	15	14	29.6
15			21	16	12	31.0
16			13	21	18	34.2
17			11	20	20	34.6
18			17	19	17	34.8
19			19	22	15	35.2
20			22	12	19	37.0
21			25	13	21	41.2
22			20	25	22	44.0
23			24	24	23	47.0
WD			7	5
Free skate not reached
25			26	23
26			23	28
27			27	30
28			30	26
29			29	29
30			28	31
31			31	27

Free skating final standings (top 8)

Rank	Name	Figures	SP										Fract. Places
align=center	1	align=left		3	1	2	2	3	3	1	3	1	2	2	4.2
align=center	2	align=left		4	3	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	4.6
align=center	3	align=left		2	2	5	4	5	4	5	4	4	4	5	6.0
align=center	4	align=left		5	6	4	5	4	5	4	5	5	5	4	10.4
align=center	5	align=left		10	4	3	3	2	2	3	2	3	3	3	10.6
align=center	6	align=left		6	9	6	6	6	8	6	6	8	6	6	13.2
align=center	7	align=left		1	10	7	15	14	7	8	9	7	11	10	13.6
align=center	8	align=left		9	7	8	7	8	6	7	7	6	9	9	15.2

Referee:

• Donald H. Gilchrist

Assistant Referee:

• Jürg Wilhelm

Judges:

• Peter Moser
• Lucy C. Brennan
• Sally-Anne Stapleford
• Kazuo Ohashi
• Reinhard Mirmseker
• Willi Wernz
• Sergei Kononykhin
• Dennis McFarlane
• Vera Spurná
• Monique Georgelin (substitute)

Pairs

During Watson and Oppegard's free skating, a photographer dropped his camera bag onto the ice and an usher walked onto the ice to pick it up while the pair was performing a death spiral on the other side of the rink.^[2]

Rank	Name	Nation	SP	FS	TFP
1			1	1	1.4
2			2	2	2.8
3			3	3	4.2
4			6	4	6.4
5			4	5	6.6
6			5	7	9.0
7			11	6	10.4
8			8	8	11.2
9			7	9	11.8
10			10	10	14.0
11			13	11	16.2
12			12	12	16.8
13			14	13	18.6
14			15	14	20.0
WD			9	WD

Free skating final standings (top 8)

Rank	Name	SP										Fract. Places
align=center	1	align=left	Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1.4
align=center	2	align=left		2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2.8
align=center	3	align=left		3	4	3	3	4	5	3	3	3	3	4.2
align=center	4	align=left		6	3	5	6	6	3	4	4	4	4	6.4
align=center	5	align=left		4	5	7	4	8	6	5	5	8	8	6.6
align=center	6	align=left		5	7	4	7	3	4	7	8	5	7	9.0
align=center	7	align=left		11	6	6	9	7	7	6	7	6	5	10.4
align=center	8	align=left		8	9	8	10	4	8	9	6	7	9	11.2

Referee:

• Elemér Terták

Assistant Referee:

• Walburga Grimm

Judges:

• Mikhail Drei
• Elfriede Beyer
• Claire W. Ferguson
• Sally-Anne Stapleford
• Suzanne Francis
• Shirley Taylor
• Gerhardt Bubník
• Günter Teichmann
• Maria Zuchowicz
• Junko Hiramatsu (substitute)

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Nation	CD	OD	FD	TFP
1			1	1	1	2.0
2			2	2	2	4.0
3			3	3	3	6.0
4			4	4	4	8.0
5			5	5	5	10.0
6			6	6	6	12.0
7			7	7	7	14.0
8			8	8	8	16.0
9			9	9	9	18.0
10			10	10	10	20.0
11			11	11	11	22.0
12			12	12	12	24.0
13			13	13	13	26.0
14			15	14	14	28.4
15			14	15	15	29.6
16			16	16	16	32.0
17			17	17	17	34.0
18			18	18	18	36.0
19			19	19	19	38.0
20			20	20	20	40.0

Free dance final standings (top 8)

Rank	Name	CD	OD										Fract. Places
align=center	1	align=left		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2.0
align=center	2	align=left		2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4.0
align=center	3	align=left		3	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	6.0
align=center	4	align=left		4	4	4	4	6	4	4	4	4	4	4	8.0
align=center	5	align=left		5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	5	5	10.0
align=center	6	align=left		6	6	6	8	7	6	6	6	7	6	7	12.0
align=center	7	align=left		7	7	7	7	8	7	7	7	8	7	8	14.0
align=center	8	align=left		8	8	10	6	4	9	8	10	5	10	5	16.0

Referee:

• Hans Kutschera

Assistant Referee:

• Alexander Gorshkov

Judges:

• Irina Absaliamova
• Ann Shaw
• Nancy Meiss
• Willi Wernz
• Cia Bordogna
• Heide Maritczak
• Roy Mason
• István Sugár
• Daniel de Paix de Coeur
• Maria Miller (substitute)

See also

• Battle of the Brians
• Battle of the Carmens

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• Results of the Olympic Winter Games 1908-2006
• The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics by David Wallechinsky
• WINTER OLYMPICS : Orser Satisfied to Be Third After Figures; Boitano Second
• WINTER OLYMPICS : Women's Figure Skating : Thomas Is 2nd, Witt 3rd After Figures

Notes and References

1. Web site: Figure Skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics . Olympedia . 4 July 2020 . 5 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705143532/https://www.olympedia.org/games/43/sports/FSK . dead .
2. News: Soviet Skaters Prevail in Pairs . Michael . Janofsky . . 17 February 1988 . 21 March 2012.