Switzerland at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Switzerland at the 1988 Winter Olympics
IOC code	SUI
NOC	Swiss Olympic Association
Website	www.swissolympic.ch Template:De icon Template:Fr icon
in Calgary
Competitors	70 (56 men, 14 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Michela Figini (alpine skiing)
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold 5 Silver 5 Bronze 5 Total 15
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Switzerland competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Alpine skiing	Men's downhill
Gold	Vreni Schneider	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom
Gold	Vreni Schneider	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom
Gold	Ekkehard Fasser Kurt Meier Marcel Fässler Werner Stocker	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Gold	Hippolyt Kempf	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Silver	Peter Müller	Alpine skiing	Men's downhill
Silver	Brigitte Oertli	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill
Silver	Michela Figini	Alpine skiing	Women's super-G
Silver	Brigitte Oertli	Alpine skiing	Women's combined
Silver	Andreas Schaad Hippolyt Kempf Fredy Glanzmann	Nordic combined	Men's team
Bronze	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom
Bronze	Paul Accola	Alpine skiing	Men's combined
Bronze	Maria Walliser	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom
Bronze	Maria Walliser	Alpine skiing	Women's combined
Bronze	Andreas Grünenfelder	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km freestyle

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Franz Heinzer	Downhill			2:03.36	17
Daniel Mahrer				2:03.18	12
Peter Müller				2:00.14
Pirmin Zurbriggen				1:59.63
Martin Hangl	Super-G			DNF	–
Daniel Mahrer				DNF	–
Franz Heinzer				1:43.32	15
Pirmin Zurbriggen				1:41.96	5
Martin Hangl	Giant Slalom	1:07.51	DNF	DNF	–
Joël Gaspoz		1:06.70	1:02.87	2:09.57	10
Hans Pieren		1:06.46	1:04.22	2:10.68	14
Pirmin Zurbriggen		1:05.57	1:02.82	2:08.39
Paul Accola	Slalom	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Hans Pieren		DNF	–	DNF	–
Joël Gaspoz		DNF	–	DNF	–
Pirmin Zurbriggen		52.05	48.43	1:40.48	7

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Bernhard Fahner	1:51.78	47.56	45.81	120.45	15
Martin Hangl	1:51.48	DNF	–	DNF	–
Paul Accola	1:51.27	42.58	42.35	48.24
Pirmin Zurbriggen	1:46.90	44.32	DNF	DNF	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Chantal Bournissen	Downhill			1:27.46	11
Michela Figini				1:27.26	9
Maria Walliser				1:26.89	4
Brigitte Oertli				1:26.61
Brigitte Oertli	Super-G			1:21.56	17
Zoë Haas				1:20.91	7
Maria Walliser				1:20.48	6
Michela Figini				1:20.03
Michela Figini	Giant Slalom	1:02.35	DNF	DNF	–
Corinne Schmidhauser		1:00.67	DNF	DNF	–
Maria Walliser		1:00.57	1:07.15	2:07.72
Vreni Schneider		1:00.53	1:05.96	2:06.49
Corinne Schmidhauser	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Brigitte Oertli		49.95	DNF	DNF	–
Vreni Schneider		48.81	47.88	1:36.69

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Beatrice Gafner	DNF	–	–	DNF	–
Brigitte Oertli	1:18.37	39.24	41.47	29.48
Vreni Schneider	1:18.10	DNF	–	DNF	–
Maria Walliser	1:16.98	41.80	44.12	51.28

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SUI-1	Hans Hiltebrand André Kiser	Two-man	58.74	21	59.21	7	59.55	3	59.02	4	3:56.52	6
SUI-2	Gustav Weder Donat Acklin	Two-man	58.01	11	58.88	3	1:00.12	8	59.05	5	3:56.06	4

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
SUI-1	Ekkehard Fasser Kurt Meier Marcel Fässler Werner Stocker	Four-man	56.83	7	57.37	3	55.88	1	57.43	4	3:47.51
SUI-2	Hans Hiltebrand Urs Fehlmann Erwin Fassbind André Kiser	Four-man	56.39	2	57.91	12	57.13	15	57.82	6	3:49.25	9

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Giachem Guidon	DNF	–
	Konrad Hallenbarter	DNF	–
	Andi Grünenfelder	45:35.5	35
	Jürg Capol	43:59.5	22
30 km C	Andi Grünenfelder	DNF	–
	Jürg Capol	1'31:35.8	30
	Jeremias Wigger	1'30:47.1	26
	Giachem Guidon	1'28:05.9	13
50 km F	Markus Fähndrich	2'13:33.2	35
	Jeremias Wigger	2'09:05.3	14
	Giachem Guidon	2'09:02.2	13
	Andi Grünenfelder	2'06:01.9

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Andi Grünenfelder Jürg Capol Giachem Guidon Jeremias Wigger	1'46:16.3	4

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Karin Thomas	17:04.1	40
	Marianne Irniger	16:37.5	35
	Christina Gilli-Brügger	15:44.5	15
	Evi Kratzer	15:42.8	14
10 km C	Marianne Irniger	34:58.3	43
	Sandra Parpan	33:02.0	32
	Christina Gilli-Brügger	31:37.4	18
	Evi Kratzer	31:16.7	11
20 km F	Marianne Irniger	1'01:51.5	30
	Karin Thomas	59:17.2	16
	Evi Kratzer	58:56.1	14
	Christina Gilli-Brügger	57:37.4	4

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Karin Thomas Sandra Parpan Evi Kratzer Christina Gilli-Brügger	1'01:59.4	4

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Oliver Höner	10	10	14	24.0	12

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Stéfanie Schmid	21	16	12	31.0	15

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Group A

Top three teams (shaded ones) entered the medal round.

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Finland	5	3	1	1	22	8	7
Sweden	5	2	0	3	23	10	7
Canada	5	3	1	1	17	12	7
Switzerland	5	3	2	0	19	10	6
Poland	5	1	3	1	9	13	3
France	5	0	5	0	10	47	0

• Switzerland 2-1 Finland
• Canada 4-2 Switzerland
• Sweden 4-2 Switzerland
• Switzerland 4-1 Poland
• Switzerland 9-0 France

Game for 7th place

Team 1	Score	Team 2
United States	8–4	Switzerland

Team Roster

• Jakob Kölliker
• Patrice Brasey
• André Künzi
• Manuele Celio
• Thomas Vrabec
• Jörg Eberle
• Peter Jaks
• Fredy Lüthi
• Gil Montandon
• Fausto Mazzoleni
• Andreas Ritsch
• Bruno Rogger
• Philipp Neuenschwander
• Gaëtan Boucher
• Felix Hollenstein
• Roman Wäger
• Markus Leuenberger
• Peter Schlagenhauf
• Urs Burkart
• Pietro Cunti
• Olivier Anken
• Richard Bucher

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country		Total
		Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Points	Rank
Stefan Späni	Individual	178.6	40	5:32.7	DNF	DNF	–
Fredy Glanzmann		180.1	37	5:22.7	45:38.8	376.535	35
Andreas Schaad		207.2	14	2:22.0	40:40.0	421.350	5
Hippolyt Kempf		217.9	3	1:10.7	39:27.5	432.230

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps per team member per round, best two rounds counted.)
• 10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Fredy Glanzmann Hippolyt Kempf Andreas Schaad	571.4	6	4:52.0	1'20:49.4

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Christoph Lehmann	Normal hill	74.0	76.0	73.0	74.9	150.9	56
Gérard Balanche		78.0	85.9	78.0	87.9	173.8	37
Christian Hauswirth		79.5	90.3	73.0	74.4	164.7	48
Fabrice Piazzini		83.0	99.9	78.0	88.9	188.8	17
Fabrice Piazzini	Large hill	105.0	73.9	99.0	83.0	156.9	43
Christoph Lehmann		101.0	87.3	90.0	65.9	153.2	44
Christian Hauswirth		105.0	94.9	97.0	82.2	177.1	27
Gérard Balanche		105.0	95.4	94.5	77.2	172.6	30

Men's team large hill

Athletes	Result
	Points 1	Rank
Gérard Balanche Christoph Lehmann Fabrice Piazzini Christian Hauswirth	516.1	8

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1988, full results by sports-reference.com