Finland at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Finland competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Finland at the 1988 Winter Olympics
IOC code	FIN
NOC	Finnish Olympic Committee
Website	sport.fi/olympiakomitea (in Finnish and Swedish)
in Calgary
Competitors	53 (46 men, 7 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Pertti Niittylä (speed skating)
Medals Ranked 4th	Gold 4 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 7
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Matti Nykänen	Ski jumping	Normal hill individual	14 February
Gold	Marjo Matikainen	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 kilometre classical	17 February
Gold	Matti Nykänen	Ski jumping	Large hill individual	23 February
Gold	Ari-Pekka Nikkola Matti Nykänen Jari Puikkonen Tuomo Ylipulli	Ski jumping	Large hill team	24 February
Silver	Finland men's national ice hockey team Timo Blomqvist Kari Eloranta Raimo Helminen Iiro Järvi Esa Keskinen Erkki Laine Kari Laitinen Jukka Virtanen Erkki Lehtonen Jyrki Lumme Reijo Mikkolainen Jarmo Myllys Teppo Numminen Janne Ojanen Arto Ruotanen Reijo Ruotsalainen Simo Saarinen Kai Suikkanen Timo Susi Jukka Tammi Jari Torkki Pekka Tuomisto	Ice hockey	Men's competition	28 February
Bronze	Marjo Matikainen	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 kilometre classical	14 February
Bronze	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi Marjo Matikainen Pirkko Määttä Jaana Savolainen	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay	21 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	0	1	1
Biathlon	5	–	5
Cross-country skiing	7	6	13
Ice hockey	22	–	22
Nordic combined	4	–	4
Ski jumping	6	–	6
Speed skating	2	0	2
Total	46	7	53

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Nina Ehrnrooth	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Nina Ehrnrooth	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Antero Lähde	3	27:59.9	42
	Juha Tella	3	27:58.3	41
	Harri Eloranta	3	27:15.2	25
	Tapio Piipponen	1	26:02.2	7

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Arto Jääskeläinen	58:29.5	11	1'09:29.5	58
	Harri Eloranta	58:10.6	7	1'05:10.6	50
	Juha Tella	57:39.0	6	1'03:39.0	38
	Tapio Piipponen	55:18.3	3	58:18.3	8

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Juha Tella Antero Lähde Arto Jääskeläinen Tapio Piipponen	5	1'30:54.4	12

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

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

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Jari Räsänen	45:04.5	30
	Jari Laukkanen	44:22.0	25
	Aki Karvonen	43:54.5	20
	Harri Kirvesniemi	42:42.8	8
30 km C	Jari Laukkanen	1'35:51.6	52
	Kari Ristanen	1'31:05.2	27
	Aki Karvonen	1'29:49.5	19
	Harri Kirvesniemi	1'26:59.6	9
50 km F	Antti Ticklén	2'18:41.8	45
	Heikki Kivikko	2'12:27.1	29
	Harri Kirvesniemi	2'11:41.8	22
	Kari Ristanen	2'08:08.1	7

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Jari Laukkanen Harri Kirvesniemi Jari Räsänen Kari Ristanen	1'48:24.0	8

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Pirkko Määttä	15:51.8	16
	Tuulikki Pyykkönen	15:38.1	12
	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi	15:16.7	5
	Marjo Matikainen	15:04.0
10 km C	Tuulikki Pyykkönen	32:37.7	29
	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi	30:57.0	9
	Pirkko Määttä	30:52.4	7
	Marjo Matikainen	30:20.5
20 km F	Eija Hyytiäinen	1'02:06.9	32
	Jaana Savolainen	1'01:26.8	28
	Marjo Matikainen	58:50.7	12
	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi	58:45.6	11

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Pirkko Määttä Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi Marjo Matikainen Jaana Savolainen	1'01:53.8

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Team roster

• Head Coach: Pentti Matikainen
• Assistant Coach: Hannu Jortikka

Pos.	No.	Name	1987–88 team
G	1	Sakari Lindfors	HIFK
G	19	Jarmo Myllys	Rauman Lukko
G	30	Jukka Tammi	Tampereen Ilves
D	2	Teppo Numminen	Tampereen Tappara
D	3	Timo Blomqvist	MODO Hockey
D	4	Jyrki Lumme	Tampereen Ilves
D	6	Arto Ruotanen	HV71
D	7	Simo Saarinen	HIFK
D	9	Kari Eloranta	HC Lugano
D	16	Jukka Virtanen	TPS
D	29	Reijo Ruotsalainen	HV71
F	10	Timo Susi	Tampereen Tappara
F	11	Kai Suikkanen	Oulun Kärpät
F	13	Jari Torkki	Rauman Lukko
F	14	Raimo Helminen	Tampereen Ilves
F	15	Iiro Järvi	HIFK
F	17	Erkki Laine	Färjestad BK
F	18	Pekka Tuomisto	HIFK
F	20	Janne Ojanen	Tampereen Tappara
F	21	Erkki Lehtonen	Tampereen Tappara
F	24	Reijo Mikkolainen	Tampereen Tappara
F	26	Esa Keskinen	TPS
F	27	Kari Laitinen	HIFK

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Group A

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

Team v t e	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Finland	5	3	1	1	22	8	+14	7
Sweden	5	2	0	3	23	10	+13	7
Canada	5	3	1	1	17	12	+5	7
Switzerland	5	3	2	0	19	10	+9	6
Poland	5	0	4	1	9	13	−4	1
France	5	1	4	0	10	47	−37	2

Source: HockeyCanada.ca

• Switzerland 2-1 Finland
• Finland 10-1 France
• Finland 3-1 Canada
• Finland 3-3 Sweden
• Finland 5-1 Poland

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.

Team v t e	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Soviet Union	5	4	1	0	25	7	+18	8
Finland	5	3	1	1	18	10	+8	7
Sweden	5	2	1	2	15	16	−1	6
Canada	5	2	2	1	17	14	+3	5
West Germany	5	1	4	0	8	26	−18	2
Czechoslovakia	5	1	4	0	12	22	−10	2

Source: HockeyCanada.ca

• Finland 8-0 West Germany
• Czechoslovakia 5-2 Finland
• Finland 2-1 Soviet Union

Leading scorers

Rk		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
7th	Erkki Lehtonen	8	4	6	10	2

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
Pasi Saapunki	Individual	193.3	28	3:54.7	42:44.1	402.740	15
Jukka Ylipulli		196.7	24	3:32.0	42:55.6	401.010	16
Jouko Parviainen		198.9	20	3:17.4	44:59.6	382.420	33
Sami Leinonen		202.4	18	2:54.0	42:58.4	400.590	17

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
Pasi Saapunki Jouko Parviainen Jukka Ylipulli	561.3	7	5:42.5	1'25:38.3	7

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Risto Laakkonen	Normal hill	81.0	97.2	76.5	86.0	183.2	23
Ari-Pekka Nikkola		83.5	100.2	79.0	90.5	190.7	15
Jari Puikkonen		84.0	105.5	80.0	93.6	199.1	7
Matti Nykänen		89.5	114.8	89.5	114.3	229.1
Pekka Suorsa	Large hill	99.5	83.7	97.0	79.7	163.4	38
Ari-Pekka Nikkola		106.0	97.3	102.0	91.7	189.0	16
Jari Puikkonen		106.0	99.3	103.5	95.3	194.6	11
Matti Nykänen		118.5	120.8	107.0	103.2	224.0

Men's team large hill

Athletes	Result
	Points 1	Rank
Matti Nykänen Ari-Pekka Nikkola Tuomo Ylipulli Jari Puikkonen	634.4

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

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
1500 m	Pertti Niittylä	1:56.48	25
5000 m	Timo Järvinen	6:56.68	18
	Pertti Niittylä	6:55.18	16
10,000 m	Timo Järvinen	14:27.69	17
	Pertti Niittylä	14:26.57	15

References

1. "Olympedia – Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics". www.olympedia.org.
2. "Finland at eliteprospects.com". www.eliteprospects.com.

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