# Figure skating at the 1988 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. This was the last Olympic competition where compulsory figures were contested for the men's and ladies' events.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | United States | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | East Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Canada | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

### Participating NOCs

Twenty-five nations sent figure skaters to compete in the events at Calgary.
* Australia
* Austria
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Canada
* China
* Czechoslovakia
* Chinese Taipei
* East Germany
* France
* Great Britain
* Hungary
* Italy
* Japan
* Mexico
* North Korea
* Poland
* South Korea
* Soviet Union
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* United States
* West Germany
* Yugoslavia

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | CF | SP | FS | TFP |
| 1 | Brian Boitano | United States | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3.0 |
| 2 | Brian Orser | Canada | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4.2 |
| 3 | Viktor Petrenko | Soviet Union | 6 | 3 | 3 | 7.8 |
| 4 | Alexander Fadeev | Soviet Union | 1 | 9 | 4 | 8.2 |
| 5 | Grzegorz Filipowski | Poland | 7 | 4 | 5 | 10.8 |
| 6 | Vladimir Kotin | Soviet Union | 5 | 6 | 8 | 13.4 |
| 7 | Christopher Bowman | United States | 8 | 5 | 7 | 13.8 |
| 8 | Kurt Browning | Canada | 11 | 7 | 6 | 15.4 |
| 9 | Heiko Fischer | West Germany | 4 | 11 | 10 | 16.8 |
| 10 | Paul Wylie | United States | 12 | 8 | 9 | 19.4 |
| 11 | Richard Zander | West Germany | 9 | 17 | 11 | 23.2 |
| 12 | Oliver Höner | Switzerland | 10 | 10 | 14 | 24.0 |
| 13 | Petr Barna | Czechoslovakia | 15 | 15 | 12 | 27.0 |
| 14 | Lars Dresler | Denmark | 14 | 12 | 15 | 28.2 |
| 15 | Axel Médéric | France | 13 | 14 | 17 | 30.4 |
| 16 | Neil Paterson | Canada | 17 | 13 | 16 | 31.4 |
| 17 | Makoto Kano | Japan | 19 | 19 | 13 | 32.0 |
| 18 | Paul Robinson | Great Britain | 16 | 21 | 18 | 36.0 |
| 19 | Cameron Medhurst | Australia | 18 | 16 | 20 | 37.2 |
| 20 | Zhang Shubin | China | 22 | 18 | 19 | 39.4 |
| 21 | Alessandro Riccitelli | Italy | 20 | 20 | 22 | 42.0 |
| 22 | Jung Sung-Il | South Korea | 24 | 24 | 21 | 45.0 |
| 23 | Michael Huth | East Germany | 21 | 25 | 23 | 45.6 |
| 24 | Peter Johansson | Sweden | 23 | 22 | 24 | 46.6 |
| Free skate not reached |||||||
| 25 | David Liu | Chinese Taipei | 25 | 23 | | |
| 26 | Boyko Aleksiev | Bulgaria | 26 | 27 | | |
| 27 | Riccardo Olavarrieta | Mexico | 28 | 26 | | |
| 28 | Ho Kang | North Korea | 27 | 28 | | |

#### Free skating final standings (top 8)

| Rank | Name | Figures | SP | | | | | | | | | | Fract. Places |
| 1 | Brian Boitano | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3.0 |
| 2 | Brian Orser | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.2 |
| 3 | Viktor Petrenko | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7.8 |
| 4 | Aleksandr Fadeyev | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8.2 |
| 5 | Grzegorz Filipowski | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10.8 |
| 6 | Vladimir Kotin | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 13.4 |
| 7 | Christopher Bowman | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 13.8 |
| 8 | Kurt Browning | 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 | Katarina Witt | East Germany | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4.2 |
| 2 | Elizabeth Manley | Canada | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4.6 |
| 3 | Debi Thomas | United States | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6.0 |
| 4 | Jill Trenary | United States | 5 | 6 | 5 | 10.4 |
| 5 | Midori Ito | Japan | 10 | 4 | 3 | 10.6 |
| 6 | Claudia Leistner | West Germany | 6 | 9 | 6 | 13.2 |
| 7 | Kira Ivanova | Soviet Union | 1 | 10 | 9 | 13.6 |
| 8 | Anna Kondrashova | Soviet Union | 9 | 7 | 7 | 15.2 |
| 9 | Simone Koch | East Germany | 14 | 8 | 8 | 19.6 |
| 10 | Marina Kielmann | West Germany | 12 | 11 | 10 | 21.6 |
| 11 | Beatrice Gelmini | Italy | 15 | 17 | 11 | 26.8 |
| 12 | Joanne Conway | Great Britain | 8 | 18 | 16 | 28.0 |
| 13 | Charlene Wong | Canada | 18 | 14 | 13 | 29.4 |
| 14 | Junko Yaginuma | Japan | 16 | 15 | 14 | 29.6 |
| 15 | Stéfanie Schmid | Switzerland | 21 | 16 | 12 | 31.0 |
| 16 | Agnès Gosselin | France | 13 | 21 | 18 | 34.2 |
| 17 | Katrien Pauwels | Belgium | 11 | 20 | 20 | 34.6 |
| 18 | Yvonne Gómez | Spain | 17 | 19 | 17 | 34.8 |
| 19 | Tamara Téglássy | Hungary | 19 | 22 | 15 | 35.2 |
| 20 | Iveta Voralová | Czechoslovakia | 22 | 12 | 19 | 37.0 |
| 21 | Lotta Falkenbäck | Sweden | 25 | 13 | 21 | 41.2 |
| 22 | Željka Čižmešija | Yugoslavia | 20 | 25 | 22 | 44.0 |
| 23 | Gina Fulton | Great Britain | 24 | 24 | 23 | 47.0 |
| WD | Caryn Kadavy | United States | 7 | 5 | | |
| Free skate not reached |||||||
| 25 | Tracy Brook | Australia | 26 | 23 | | |
| 26 | Jiang Yibing | China | 23 | 28 | | |
| 27 | Byun Sung-jin | South Korea | 27 | 30 | | |
| 28 | Petya Gavazova | Bulgaria | 30 | 26 | | |
| 29 | Pauline Lee | Chinese Taipei | 29 | 29 | | |
| 30 | Diana Encinas | Mexico | 28 | 31 | | |
| 31 | Kim Song-suk | North Korea | 31 | 27 | | |

#### Free skating final standings (top 8)

| Rank | Name | Figures | SP | | | | | | | | | | Fract. Places |
| 1 | Katarina Witt | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4.2 |
| 2 | Elizabeth Manley | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4.6 |
| 3 | Debi Thomas | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6.0 |
| 4 | Jill Trenary | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 10.4 |
| 5 | Midori Ito | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10.6 |
| 6 | Claudia Leistner | 6 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 13.2 |
| 7 | Kira Ivanova | 1 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 13.6 |
| 8 | Anna Kondrashova | 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.
| Rank | Name | Nation | SP | FS | TFP |
| 1 | Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 1.4 |
| 2 | Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 2.8 |
| 3 | Jill Watson / Peter Oppegard | United States | 3 | 3 | 4.2 |
| 4 | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | Soviet Union | 6 | 4 | 6.4 |
| 5 | Gillian Wachsman / Todd Waggoner | United States | 4 | 5 | 6.6 |
| 6 | Denise Benning / Lyndon Johnston | Canada | 5 | 7 | 9.0 |
| 7 | Peggy Schwarz / Alexander König | East Germany | 11 | 6 | 10.4 |
| 8 | Christine Hough / Doug Ladret | Canada | 8 | 8 | 11.2 |
| 9 | Isabelle Brasseur / Lloyd Eisler | Canada | 7 | 9 | 11.8 |
| 10 | Natalie Seybold / Wayne Seybold | United States | 10 | 10 | 14.0 |
| 11 | Brigitte Groh / Holger Maletz | West Germany | 13 | 11 | 16.2 |
| 12 | Cheryl Peake / Andrew Naylor | Great Britain | 12 | 12 | 16.8 |
| 13 | Lisa Cushley / Neil Cushley | Great Britain | 14 | 13 | 18.6 |
| 14 | Mei Zhibin / Li Wei | China | 15 | 14 | 20.0 |
| WD | Lenka Knapová / René Novotný | Czechoslovakia | 9 | WD | |

#### Free skating final standings (top 8)

| Rank | Name | SP | | | | | | | | | | Fract. Places |
| 1 | Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.4 |
| 2 | Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2.8 |
| 3 | Jill Watson / Peter Oppegard | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4.2 |
| 4 | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6.4 |
| 5 | Gillian Wachsman / Todd Waggoner | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6.6 |
| 6 | Denise Benning / Lyndon Johnston | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9.0 |
| 7 | Peggy Schwarz / Alexander König | 11 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 10.4 |
| 8 | Christine Hough / Doug Ladret | 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 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.0 |
| 2 | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4.0 |
| 3 | Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall | Canada | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6.0 |
| 4 | Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski | Soviet Union | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8.0 |
| 5 | Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck | Austria | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10.0 |
| 6 | Suzanne Semanick / Scott Gregory | United States | 6 | 6 | 6 | 12.0 |
| 7 | Klára Engi / Attila Tóth | Hungary | 7 | 7 | 7 | 14.0 |
| 8 | Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay | France | 8 | 8 | 8 | 16.0 |
| 9 | Antonia Becherer / Ferdinand Becherer | West Germany | 9 | 9 | 9 | 18.0 |
| 10 | Lia Trovati / Roberto Pelizzola | Italy | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20.0 |
| 11 | Susan Wynne / Joseph Druar | United States | 11 | 11 | 11 | 22.0 |
| 12 | Karyn Garossino / Rodney Garossino | Canada | 12 | 12 | 12 | 24.0 |
| 13 | Sharon Jones / Paul Askham | Great Britain | 13 | 13 | 13 | 26.0 |
| 14 | Corinne Paliard / Didier Courtois | France | 15 | 14 | 14 | 28.4 |
| 15 | Viera Řeháková / Ivan Havránek | Czechoslovakia | 14 | 15 | 15 | 29.6 |
| 16 | Melanie Cole / Michael Farrington | Canada | 16 | 16 | 16 | 32.0 |
| 17 | Honorata Górna / Andrzej Dostatni | Poland | 17 | 17 | 17 | 34.0 |
| 18 | Tomoko Tanaka / Hiroyuki Suzuki | Japan | 18 | 18 | 18 | 36.0 |
| 19 | Liu Luyang / Zhao Xiaolei | China | 19 | 19 | 19 | 38.0 |
| 20 | Monica MacDonald / Rodney Clarke | Australia | 20 | 20 | 20 | 40.0 |

#### Free dance final standings (top 8)

| Rank | Name | CD | OD | | | | | | | | | | Fract. Places |
| 1 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.0 |
| 2 | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4.0 |
| 3 | Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6.0 |
| 4 | Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8.0 |
| 5 | Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 10.0 |
| 6 | Suzanne Semanick / Scott Gregory | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 12.0 |
| 7 | Klára Engi / Attila Tóth | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 14.0 |
| 8 | Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay | 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)