Great Britain at the 1998 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	GBR
Nocname:	British Olympic Association
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1998
Flagcaption:	Flag of the United Kingdom
Location:	Nagano
Competitors:	34 (27 men, 7 women)
Sports:	7
Flagbearer:	Michael Dixon (opening) (biathlon) Sean Olsson (closing) (bobsleigh)
Rank:	22
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Alpine skiing	4	2	6
Biathlon	2	0	2
Bobsleigh	7	–	7
Curling	5	5	10
Figure skating	1	0	1
Freestyle skiing	3	0	3
Short track speed skating	5	0	5
Total	27	7	34

Alpine skiing

See main article: article and Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Andrew Freshwater	Downhill			DNF	-
Graham Bell				1:53.93	23
Andrew Freshwater	Super-G			1:39.89	33
Graham Bell				1:39.80	31
Alain Baxter	Giant Slalom	1:26.29	1:23.53	2:49.82	31
Alain Baxter	Slalom	DSQ	-	DSQ	-

Men's combined

Athlete	Slalom		Downhill	Total
	Time 1	Time 2	Time	Total time	Rank
Andrew Freshwater	DNF	-	-	DNF	-
James Ormond	DNF	-	-	DNF	-

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Sophie Ormond	Giant Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Emma Carrick-Anderson	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-

Biathlon

See main article: article and Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Mark Gee	5	33:00.3	68
	Mike Dixon	0	30:34.4	47

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Mark Gee	1'00:46.8	7	1'07:46.8	68
	Mike Dixon	1'00:08.0	1	1'01:08.0	33

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: article and Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GBR-1	Sean Olsson Lenny Paul	Two-man	55.24	14	55.12	18	54.85	16	54.73	12	3:39.94	15
GBR-2	Lee Johnston Eric Sekwalor	Two-man	55.51	22	55.19	19	55.16	18	55.02	18	3:40.88	20

Curling

See main article: article and Curling at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
		6	1
		5	2
		5	2
		3	4
		3	4
		3	4
7th		2	5
		1	6

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Contestants

Women's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
		6	1
		6	1
		5	2
		4	3
		2	5
		2	5
		2	5
		1	6

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Medal Round

Semi-final

Bronze medal game

Contestants

Figure skating

See main article: article and Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Freestyle skiing

See main article: article and Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Sam Temple	Moguls	DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-
Tim Dudgeon		32.64	16.32	28	did not advance
Kevin Harbut	Aerials		168.32	20	did not advance

Short track speed skating

See main article: article.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Nicky Gooch	500 m	1:08.907	4	did not advance
Matt Jasper		DSQ	-	did not advance
Nicky Gooch	1000 m	1:33.638	3	did not advance
Matt Jasper		1:32.709	1 Q	1:31.798	2 Q	1:32.549	3 QB	1:34.285	8
Dave Allardice Nicky Gooch Matt Jasper Matthew Rowe Robert Mitchell	5000 m relay		7:11.955	3 QB	7:06.462	7

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1998, full results by sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/USA/editions/46 United States at the 1998 Winter Olympics