Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Canada was the host nation for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. It was the first time that Canada had hosted the Winter Olympic Games, and second time overall, after the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Vancouver would eventually host the 2010 Winter Olympics which makes it the second city in Canada to host the Winter Olympics and the third overall.

Medalists
For the second time Canada failed to obtain a gold medal on home soil. 22 years later, Alexandre Bilodeau was the first Canadian to obtain a gold medal on home soil in the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first of a Winter Olympics record for most gold medals of 14.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Alpine skiing
A total of 14 competitors, including the entire Canadian team was disqualified from the event after organizers became aware their ski suits were not previously approved by the International Ski Federation.


 * Men

Men's combined


 * Women

Women's combined

Biathlon

 * Men


 * Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay


 * 1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
 * 2 One minute added per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

 * Men


 * C = Classical style, F = Freestyle


 * Men's 4 × 10 km relay


 * Women


 * C = Classical style, F = Freestyle


 * Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

 * Men


 * Women


 * Pairs


 * Ice Dancing

Group A

 * Canada 1-0 Poland
 * Canada 4-2 Switzerland
 * Finland 3-1 Canada
 * Canada 9-5 France
 * Canada 2-2 Sweden

Medal round
The top three teams from each group play the top three teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over.


 * Soviet Union 5-0 Canada
 * Canada 8-1 West Germany
 * Canada 6-3 Czechoslovakia

Team Roster
 * Sean Burke
 * Andy Moog
 * Chris Felix
 * Randy Gregg
 * Serge Roy
 * Tony Stiles
 * Tim Watters
 * Trent Yawney
 * Zarley Zalapski
 * Ken Berry
 * Marc Habscheid
 * Vaughn Karpan
 * Wally Schreiber
 * Gord Sherven
 * Claude Vilgrain
 * Serge Boisvert
 * Brian Bradley
 * Bob Joyce
 * Steve Tambellini
 * Merlin Malinowski
 * Jim Peplinski
 * Ken Yaremchuk


 * Head coach: Dave King

Luge

 * Men

(Men's) Doubles


 * Women

Nordic combined
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.)

Ski jumping

 * Men's team large hill


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

Speed skating

 * Men


 * Women