Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Appearance
Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics was held at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Men's singles
Medal | Athlete | Time |
Gold | Jens Müller East Germany |
3:05.548 |
Silver | Georg Hackl West Germany |
3:05.916 |
Bronze | Yuri Kharchenko Soviet Union |
3:06.274 |
4 | Thomas Jacob (GDR) | 3:06.358 |
5 | Michael Walter (GDR) | 3:06.933 |
6 | Sergey Danilin (URS) | 3:07.098 |
7 | Johannes Schettel (FRG) | 3:07.371 |
8 | Hansjörg Raffl|ITA | 3:07.525 |
Doubles
Medal | Athlete | Time |
Gold | East Germany (GDR) (Jörg Hoffmann, Jochen Pietzsch) | 1:31.940 |
Silver | East Germany (GDR) (Stefan Krauße, Jan Behrendt) | 1:32.039 |
Bronze | West Germany (FRG) (Thomas Schwab, Wolfgang Staudinger) | 1:32.274 |
4 | West Germany (FRG) (Stefan Ilsanker, Georg Hackl) | 1:32.298 |
5 | Austria (AUT) (Georg Fluckinger, Robert Manzenreiter) | 1:32.364 |
6 | Soviet Union (URS) (Vitaly Melnik, Dmitry Alekseyev) | 1:32.459 |
7 | Italy (ITA) (Kurt Brugger, Wilfried Huber) | 1:32.553 |
7 | Soviet Union (URS) (Yevgeny Belousov, Aleksandr Belyakov) | 1:32.553 |
Women's singles
Medal | Athlete | Time |
Gold | Steffi Walter East Germany |
3:03.973 |
Silver | Ute Oberhoffner East Germany |
3:04.105 |
Bronze | Cerstin Schmidt East Germany |
3:04.181 |
4 | Veronika Bilgeri (FRG) | 3:05.670 |
5 | Yuliya Antipova (URS) | 3:05.787 |
6 | Bonny Warner (USA) | 3:06.056 |
7 | Marie-Claude Doyon (CAN) | 3:06.211 |
8 | Nadejda Danilina (URS) | 3:06.364 |
Walter becomes the first woman to repeat as women's singles champion.
Medal table
1 | East Germany (GDR) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
2 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |