# 1987–88 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

The 22nd World Cup season began in November 1987 in Italy and concluded in March 1988 in Austria. The overall champions were Pirmin Zurbriggen and Michela Figini, both of Switzerland. Zurbriggen won his third overall title; Figini her second.
Beginning this year, the limitation on the number of events that would count for overall and discipline championships, which had been present since the founding of the World Cup, was eliminated. The intent was to eliminate ties for discipline titles, although the first tiebreaker (number of wins) was retained; additionally, this would permit skiers to accumulate more points toward the overall title from their strongest disciplines.
A break in the schedule in February was for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The alpine events were held at the new Nakiska ski area. As the Olympics was in the process of eliminating its prior ban on professionals being allowed to compete, Swedish star Ingemar Stenmark returned to the Olympics after having been banned in 1984 (although Stenmark still received his payments from sponsors at his Monaco address, not through the Swedish federation). Accordingly, from this point forward, skiers were able to turn professional and still continue to compete in the World Cup, which caused the demise of the former professional skiing circuit within a decade.

## Men
### Overall

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In men's overall World Cup 1987/88 all results count. Pirmin Zurbriggen won his third Overall World Cup. The two parallel slaloms did not count for the Overall World Cup.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | DH | SG | GS | SL | KB |
| 1 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 310 | 122 | 58 | 65 | 45 | 20 |
| 2 | Alberto Tomba | Italy | 281 | 0 | 29 | 82 | 170 | 0 |
| 3 | Hubert Strolz | Austria | 190 | 0 | 31 | 69 | 50 | 40 |
| 4 | Günther Mader | Austria | 189 | 2 | 24 | 57 | 69 | 37 |
| 5 | Marc Girardelli | Luxembourg | 142 | 59 | 38 | 30 | 15 | 0 |
| 6 | Markus Wasmeier | West Germany | 138 | 37 | 57 | 24 | 0 | 20 |
| 7 | Franck Piccard | France | 123 | 42 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 8 | Franz Heinzer | Switzerland | 112 | 94 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 9 | Peter Müller | Switzerland | 109 | 90 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 | Michael Mair | Italy | 108 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Rob Boyd | Canada | 100 | 94 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 12 | Helmut Mayer | Austria | 78 | 0 | 11 | 67 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Martin Hangl | Switzerland | 76 | 0 | 30 | 46 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Leonhard Stock | Austria | 72 | 42 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Daniel Mahrer | Switzerland | 68 | 64 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Felix McGrath | United States | 68 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 53 | 7 |
| 17 | Rudolf Nierlich | Austria | 67 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 20 | 0 |
| 18 | Bernhard Gstrein | Austria | 66 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 49 | 0 |
| 19 | Felix Belczyk | Canada | 65 | 38 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Christophe Plé | France | 59 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Downhill

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In men's downhill World Cup 1987/88 all results count.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 26 |
| 1 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 122 | 20 | 20 | 25 | 20 | - | 3 | 25 | 5 | - | 4 |
| 2 | Michael Mair | Italy | 108 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 25 | 8 | - | 12 | 10 | 12 |
| 3 | Franz Heinzer | Switzerland | 94 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 20 | 20 | 25 | 7 | 15 |
| | Rob Boyd | Canada | 94 | 11 | 25 | - | 11 | 7 | 9 | - | 10 | 11 | 10 |
| 5 | Peter Müller | Switzerland | 90 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 25 | - | - | 6 | 11 | 25 | 9 |
| 6 | Daniel Mahrer | Switzerland | 64 | 25 | 2 | - | - | - | 25 | 12 | - | - | - |
| 7 | Marc Girardelli | Luxembourg | 59 | 4 | 10 | 15 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 15 | - |
| | Christophe Plé | France | 59 | 10 | - | 10 | - | 10 | - | - | 20 | 9 | - |
| 9 | Karl Alpiger | Switzerland | 50 | 12 | - | 6 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 25 |
| 10 | Danilo Sbardellotto | Italy | 42 | 9 | - | - | 6 | - | 7 | - | - | - | 20 |
| | Leonhard Stock | Austria | 42 | - | 9 | 9 | 12 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 7 |
| | Franck Piccard | France | 42 | - | - | 12 | 15 | - | - | 10 | - | - | 5 |

### Super G

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In men's super G World Cup 1987/88 all four results count. Pirmin Zurbriggen won the cup without a single race-win. All events were won by a different racer.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 11 | 19 | 24 | 29 |
| 1 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 58 | 15 | 20 | 12 | 11 |
| 2 | Markus Wasmeier | West Germany | 57 | 25 | 12 | 20 | - |
| 3 | Franck Piccard | France | 54 | 20 | - | 25 | 9 |
| 4 | Marc Girardelli | Luxembourg | 38 | 8 | - | 15 | 15 |
| 5 | Hubert Strolz | Austria | 31 | 4 | - | 7 | 20 |
| 6 | Martin Hangl | Switzerland | 30 | 5 | - | - | 25 |
| | Leonhard Stock | Austria | 30 | 10 | - | 10 | 10 |
| 8 | Alberto Tomba | Italy | 29 | 11 | - | 11 | 7 |
| 9 | Felix Belczyk | Canada | 27 | - | 25 | 2 | - |
| 10 | Hans Enn | Austria | 24 | 6 | 6 | - | 12 |
| | Günther Mader | Austria | 24 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 1 |

### Giant slalom

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In men's giant slalom World Cup 1987/88 all results count.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 2 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 30 |
| 1 | Alberto Tomba | Italy | 82 | 25 | 25 | - | 25 | 7 | - |
| 2 | Hubert Strolz | Austria | 69 | - | 11 | 15 | 11 | 20 | 12 |
| 3 | Helmut Mayer | Austria | 67 | 12 | - | 25 | 15 | 15 | - |
| 4 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 65 | - | 10 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 15 |
| 5 | Günther Mader | Austria | 57 | - | 5 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 10 |
| 6 | Hans Pieren | Switzerland | 48 | 6 | 15 | 12 | - | 11 | 4 |
| 7 | Rudolf Nierlich | Austria | 47 | - | 20 | - | 2 | 25 | - |
| 8 | Martin Hangl | Switzerland | 46 | 5 | - | 11 | 5 | - | 25 |
| 9 | Ingemar Stenmark | Sweden | 37 | 20 | - | 6 | - | - | 11 |
| 10 | Frank Wörndl | West Germany | 36 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 6 |

### Slalom

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In men's slalom World Cup 1987/88 all results count. Alberto Tomba was able to win six races out of eight.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 1 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 25 | 28 | 31 |
| 1 | Alberto Tomba | Italy | 170 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 25 | - |
| 2 | Günther Mader | Austria | 69 | 15 | - | 15 | 7 | - | 15 | 11 | 6 |
| 3 | Felix McGrath | United States | 53 | - | - | 4 | 9 | 9 | 20 | - | 11 |
| 4 | Paul Frommelt | Liechtenstein | 52 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 25 |
| | Armin Bittner | West Germany | 52 | - | 12 | - | 12 | - | - | 8 | 20 |
| 6 | Hubert Strolz | Austria | 50 | - | 8 | 8 | - | 11 | 8 | - | 15 |
| 7 | Bernhard Gstrein | Austria | 49 | - | - | - | 25 | 15 | - | - | 9 |
| | Jonas Nilsson | Sweden | 49 | 20 | - | - | 15 | - | - | 7 | 7 |
| 9 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 45 | 9 | - | 12 | - | - | - | 12 | 12 |
| 10 | Grega Benedik | Yugoslavia | 44 | 5 | 5 | 9 | - | 6 | 9 | 10 | - |

### Combined

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In men's combined World Cup 1987/88 both results count.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 15 | 27 |
| 1 | Hubert Strolz | Austria | 40 | 25 | 15 |
| 2 | Günther Mader | Austria | 37 | 12 | 25 |
| 3 | Franck Piccard | France | 27 | 15 | 12 |
| 4 | Markus Wasmeier | West Germany | 20 | 20 | - |
| | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 20 | - | 20 |
| 6 | Peter Jurko | Czechoslovakia | 11 | 11 | - |
| | Lars-Göran Halvarsson | Sweden | 11 | - | 11 |
| | Denis Rey | France | 11 | 8 | 3 |
| 9 | Ole Kristian Furuseth | Norway | 10 | 10 | - |
| | Peter Müller | Switzerland | 10 | - | 10 |

## Ladies
### Overall

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In women's overall World Cup 1987/88 all results count. The two parallel slaloms did not count for the Overall World Cup.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | DH | SG | GS | SL | KB |
| 1 | Michela Figini | Switzerland | 244 | 143 | 65 | 29 | 0 | 7 |
| 2 | Brigitte Oertli | Switzerland | 226 | 119 | 12 | 4 | 41 | 50 |
| 3 | Anita Wachter | Austria | 211 | 8 | 22 | 74 | 75 | 32 |
| 4 | Blanca Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 190 | 0 | 40 | 66 | 73 | 11 |
| 5 | Vreni Schneider | Switzerland | 185 | 0 | 9 | 76 | 80 | 20 |
| 6 | Mateja Svet | Yugoslavia | 167 | 0 | 24 | 87 | 56 | 0 |
| 7 | Maria Walliser | Switzerland | 143 | 82 | 5 | 40 | 0 | 16 |
| 8 | Ulrike Maier | Austria | 132 | 0 | 34 | 39 | 49 | 10 |
| 9 | Catherine Quittet | France | 116 | 12 | 26 | 78 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Sigrid Wolf | Austria | 110 | 55 | 36 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Karen Percy | Canada | 107 | 59 | 15 | 0 | 9 | 24 |
| 12 | Christa Kinshofer | West Germany | 105 | 0 | 16 | 22 | 67 | 0 |
| 13 | Roswitha Steiner | Austria | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 0 |
| 14 | Michaela Gerg | West Germany | 84 | 24 | 32 | 16 | 0 | 12 |
| 15 | Regine Mösenlechner | West Germany | 80 | 38 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Corinne Schmidhauser | Switzerland | 77 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 66 | 0 |
| 17 | Petra Kronberger | Austria | 76 | 37 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| 18 | Marina Kiehl | West Germany | 70 | 40 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Carole Merle | France | 69 | 10 | 0 | 59 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Camilla Nilsson | Sweden | 66 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 50 | 0 |

### Downhill

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In women's downhill World Cup 1987/88 all results count. Michela Figini won her third Downhill World Cup. Swiss athletes were able to win all races.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 24 | 27 |
| 1 | Michela Figini | Switzerland | 143 | 20 | 7 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 12 | 9 | 25 |
| 2 | Brigitte Oertli | Switzerland | 119 | 11 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 20 |
| 3 | Maria Walliser | Switzerland | 82 | 25 | - | 10 | 12 | 25 | 10 | - | - |
| 4 | Veronika Wallinger | Austria | 59 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 15 |
| | Karen Percy | Canada | 59 | 7 | - | 8 | 20 | 6 | 7 | - | 11 |
| 6 | Sigrid Wolf | Austria | 55 | 3 | 9 | 20 | 11 | 7 | - | - | 5 |
| 7 | Beatrice Gafner | Switzerland | 43 | - | - | - | 9 | 9 | 25 | - | - |
| 8 | Marina Kiehl | West Germany | 40 | 10 | 20 | - | - | - | 10 | - | - |
| 9 | Regine Mösenlechner | West Germany | 38 | 5 | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | 20 | 3 |
| 10 | Petra Kronberger | Austria | 37 | - | - | 1 | 15 | - | 11 | - | 10 |
| | Kerrin Lee | Canada | 37 | 2 | 8 | - | - | 3 | 5 | 10 | 9 |
| | Laurie Graham | Canada | 37 | 12 | 2 | 11 | - | 10 | - | - | 2 |
| 13 | Katrin Gutensohn | Austria | 36 | - | - | - | 4 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 12 |
| | Chantal Bournissen | Switzerland | 36 | 6 | 25 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | 1 |

### Super G

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In women's super G World Cup 1987/88 all four results count.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 2 | 7 | 15 | 28 |
| 1 | Michela Figini | Switzerland | 65 | - | 25 | 15 | 25 |
| 2 | Sylvia Eder | Austria | 45 | 15 | 20 | - | 10 |
| 3 | Regine Mösenlechner | West Germany | 40 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 12 |
| | Blanca Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 40 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 8 |
| 5 | Sigrid Wolf | Austria | 36 | 25 | - | - | 11 |
| 6 | Ulrike Maier | Austria | 34 | - | 4 | 10 | 20 |
| 7 | Michaela Gerg | West Germany | 32 | 12 | 8 | 12 | - |
| 8 | Catherine Quittet | France | 26 | - | - | 20 | 6 |
| 9 | Zoe Haas | Switzerland | 25 | - | - | 25 | - |
| 10 | Mateja Svet | Yugoslavia | 24 | 20 | - | 4 | - |

### Giant slalom

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In women's giant slalom World Cup 1987/88 all results count.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 11 | 13 | 14 | 22 | 26 | 29 |
| 1 | Mateja Svet | Yugoslavia | 87 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 25 | 12 | 25 |
| 2 | Catherine Quittet | France | 78 | 25 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 10 | - |
| 3 | Vreni Schneider | Switzerland | 76 | 20 | 25 | 11 | 20 | - | - |
| 4 | Anita Wachter | Austria | 74 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 20 |
| 5 | Blanca Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 66 | 8 | - | 15 | 15 | 20 | 8 |
| 6 | Carole Merle | France | 59 | 7 | 15 | 25 | 5 | 7 | - |
| 7 | Christina Meier | West Germany | 53 | 5 | - | 1 | 10 | 25 | 12 |
| 8 | Maria Walliser | Switzerland | 40 | 11 | 9 | 20 | - | - | - |
| 9 | Ulrike Maier | Austria | 39 | - | - | - | 9 | 15 | 15 |
| 10 | Michela Figini | Switzerland | 29 | 15 | 12 | 2 | - | - | - |

### Slalom

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In women's slalom World Cup 1987/88 all results count. Every race saw a different winner.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 25 |
| 1 | Roswitha Steiner | Austria | 87 | 11 | - | 11 | 11 | 9 | - | 20 | 25 |
| 2 | Vreni Schneider | Switzerland | 80 | 15 | - | - | - | 20 | 25 | 20 | - |
| 3 | Anita Wachter | Austria | 75 | - | 25 | 8 | - | 3 | 7 | 12 | 20 |
| 4 | Blanca Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 73 | 25 | - | 15 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 11 | - |
| 5 | Christa Kinshofer | West Germany | 67 | 12 | - | - | 25 | - | 20 | 10 | - |
| 6 | Corinne Schmidhauser | Switzerland | 66 | 10 | - | 10 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 7 | - |
| 7 | Ida Ladstätter | Austria | 60 | 2 | 20 | 25 | - | 4 | 9 | - | - |
| 8 | Mateja Svet | Yugoslavia | 56 | 20 | - | - | - | - | 11 | 25 | - |
| 9 | Camilla Nilsson | Sweden | 50 | 6 | 12 | 20 | - | - | 12 | - | - |
| 10 | Ulrike Maier | Austria | 49 | 3 | 15 | - | 10 | 7 | 8 | 6 | - |
| 11 | Patricia Chauvet | France | 48 | - | 11 | 2 | 20 | 15 | - | - | - |
| 12 | Brigitte Oertli | Switzerland | 41 | - | - | 4 | 8 | 25 | 4 | - | - |

### Combined

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In women's combined World Cup 1987/88 both results count.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 9 | 21 |
| 1 | Brigitte Oertli | Switzerland | 50 | 25 | 25 |
| 2 | Anita Wachter | Austria | 32 | 20 | 12 |
| 3 | Petra Kronberger | Austria | 24 | 9 | 15 |
| | Karen Percy | Canada | 24 | 15 | 9 |
| 5 | Vreni Schneider | Switzerland | 20 | - | 20 |
| 6 | Maria Walliser | Switzerland | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| 7 | Lucia Medzihradzká | Czechoslovakia | 15 | 11 | 4 |
| 8 | Michaela Gerg | West Germany | 12 | 12 | - |
| 9 | Blanca Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 11 | - | 11 |
| 10 | Ulrike Maier | Austria | 10 | - | 10 |

## Nations Cup
### Overall

| Place | Country | Total | Men | Ladies |
| 1 | Austria | 2004 | 980 | 1024 |
| 2 | Switzerland | 1975 | 891 | 1084 |
| 3 | West Germany | 845 | 328 | 517 |
| 4 | Italy | 727 | 687 | 40 |
| 5 | France | 578 | 247 | 331 |
| 6 | Canada | 471 | 246 | 225 |
| 7 | Yugoslavia | 310 | 113 | 197 |
| 8 | Sweden | 290 | 197 | 93 |
| 9 | United States | 191 | 85 | 106 |
| 10 | Spain | 190 | 0 | 190 |
| 11 | Luxembourg | 142 | 142 | 0 |
| 12 | Norway | 77 | 77 | 0 |
| 13 | Liechtenstein | 76 | 70 | 6 |
| 14 | Japan | 51 | 46 | 5 |
| 15 | Czechoslovakia | 49 | 18 | 31 |
| 16 | United Kingdom | 21 | 18 | 3 |
| 17 | Soviet Union | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| 18 | Australia | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| 19 | New Zealand | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 20 | Denmark | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| | Chile | 1 | 0 | 1 |

### Men

All points were shown. But without parallel slaloms, because result ? (Also possible, that the parallel slaloms were only show-events.)
| Place | Country | Total | DH | SG | GS | SL | KB | Racers | Wins |
| 1 | Austria | 980 | 148 | 149 | 293 | 313 | 77 | 22 | 5 |
| 2 | Switzerland | 891 | 477 | 111 | 194 | 56 | 53 | 15 | 10 |
| 3 | Italy | 687 | 210 | 65 | 133 | 279 | 0 | 20 | 10 |
| 4 | West Germany | 328 | 75 | 58 | 73 | 97 | 25 | 14 | 1 |
| 5 | France | 247 | 117 | 64 | 23 | 5 | 38 | 8 | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | 246 | 211 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 2 |
| 7 | Sweden | 197 | 22 | 15 | 46 | 94 | 20 | 6 | 0 |
| 8 | Luxembourg | 142 | 59 | 38 | 30 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | Yugoslavia | 113 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 89 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 10 | United States | 85 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 53 | 15 | 5 | 0 |
| 11 | Norway | 77 | 38 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 19 | 6 | 0 |
| 12 | Liechtenstein | 70 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 52 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 13 | Japan | 46 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | Czechoslovakia | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 0 |
| | United Kingdom | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | Australia | 13 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | Denmark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |

### Ladies

All points were shown. But without parallel slaloms, because result ? (Also possible, that the parallel slaloms were only show-events.)
| Place | Country | Total | DH | SG | GS | SL | KB | Racers | Wins |
| 1 | Switzerland | 1084 | 484 | 126 | 167 | 214 | 93 | 15 | 16 |
| 2 | Austria | 1024 | 243 | 167 | 150 | 390 | 74 | 19 | 4 |
| 3 | West Germany | 517 | 130 | 125 | 154 | 75 | 33 | 12 | 2 |
| 4 | France | 331 | 22 | 26 | 172 | 111 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| 5 | Canada | 225 | 167 | 19 | 0 | 10 | 29 | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | Yugoslavia | 197 | 0 | 24 | 87 | 86 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 7 | Spain | 190 | 0 | 40 | 66 | 73 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | United States | 106 | 29 | 12 | 15 | 44 | 6 | 14 | 0 |
| 9 | Sweden | 93 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 77 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 10 | Italy | 40 | 18 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | Soviet Union | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | Liechtenstein | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | Japan | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | United Kingdom | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | New Zealand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | Chile | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |