Slalom, Women
| Date | 26 February 1988 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Nakiska (Eagle Tail - Whiskey Gap) | |
| Participants | 57 from 25 countries | |
| Format | Two runs, total time determined placement. | |
| Details | Gates: 63 Length: ? Start Altitude: 2060 m Vertical Drop: 180 m | |
Roswitha Steiner was leading the slalom World Cup at the start of the 1988 Calgary Olympics, but the woman who had won the giant slalom two days earlier, Vreni Schneider, was highly considered. Schneider would eventually become the greatest female technical skier in the world, but she was not yet there in the slalom. That would soon change. Schneider posted the best time on both runs of the slalom to win the gold medal by almost two seconds. The silver medal went to Slovenian Yugoslav Mateja Svet, who had won three medals at the 1987 World Championships, including a bronze in the slalom, and in 1989 would become World Champion in the slalom. The bronze medalist was Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein, who in 1980 as Christa Kinshofer, had won a silver medal in this event at Lake Placid. In the forthcoming 1988-89 season, Schneider would establish her dominance, winning a record 14 World Cup races, and she would win the slalom World Cup in six of the next seven years.
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Time | Run #1 | Run #2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | Vreni Schneider |  SUI | 1:36.69 | 48.81 (1) | 47.88 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | 12 | Mateja Svet |  YUG | 1:38.37 | 49.21 (3) | 49.16 (4) | Silver | ||
| 3 | 2 | Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein |  FRG | 1:38.40 | 49.84 (5) | 48.56 (3) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 10 | Roswitha Steiner |  AUT | 1:38.77 | 50.43 (10) | 48.34 (2) | |||
| 5 | 6 | Blanca Fernández Ochoa |  ESP | 1:39.44 | 49.89 (6) | 49.55 (7) | |||
| 6 | 3 | Ida Ladstätter | AUT | 1:39.59 | 49.71 (4) | 49.88 (10) | |||
| 7 | 19 | Paola Magoni-Sforza |  ITA | 1:39.76 | 50.42 (9) | 49.34 (5) | |||
| 8 | 7 | Dorota Tlałka-Mogore |  FRA | 1:39.86 | 50.28 (8) | 49.58 (8) | |||
| 9 | 22 | Mojca Dežman | YUG | 1:40.21 | 50.86 (11) | 49.35 (6) | |||
| 10 | 8 | Ulrike Maier | AUT | 1:40.54 | 50.94 (13) | 49.60 (9) | |||
| 11 | 29 | Beth Madsen |  USA | 1:41.18 | 51.09 (17) | 50.09 (11) | |||
| 12 | 24 | Lenka Kebrlová |  TCH | 1:42.12 | 51.01 (14) | 51.11 (13) | |||
| 13 | 27 | Lucia Medzihradská | TCH | 1:42.18 | 51.08 (16) | 51.10 (12) | |||
| 14 | 11 | Patricia Chauvet | FRA | 1:42.79 | 51.48 (19) | 51.31 (15) | |||
| 15 | 35 | Diann Roffe | USA | 1:42.88 | 51.74 (22) | 51.14 (14) | |||
| 16 | 31 | Josée Lacasse |  CAN | 1:43.14 | 51.63 (20) | 51.51 (16) | |||
| 17 | 36 | Katarzyna Szafrańska |  POL | 1:44.21 | 52.15 (24) | 52.06 (17) | |||
| 18 | 38 | Michelle McKendry | CAN | 1:45.79 | 53.16 (27) | 52.63 (18) | |||
| 19 | 40 | Emi Kawabata |  JPN | 1:49.35 | 54.70 (30) | 54.65 (19) | |||
| 20 | 47 | Carolina Eiras |  ARG | 1:52.73 | 57.17 (32) | 55.56 (20) | |||
| 21 | 49 | Kate Rattray |  NZL | 1:52.94 | 56.79 (31) | 56.15 (21) | |||
| 22 | 53 | Carolina Birkner | ARG | 1:57.72 | 59.57 (34) | 58.15 (22) | |||
| 23 | 51 | Sandra Grau |  AND | 1:58.44 | 1:00.09 (35) | 58.35 (23) | |||
| 24 | 56 | Astrid Steverlynck | ARG | 2:05.02 | 1:03.06 (37) | 1:01.96 (24) | |||
| 25 | 54 | Thomai Lefousi |  GRE | 2:07.01 | 1:02.82 (36) | 1:04.19 (25) | |||
| 26 | 57 | Karolina Fotiadou |  CYP | 2:14.92 | 1:07.36 (38) | 1:07.56 (26) | |||
| 27 | 59 | Fiamma Smith |  GUA | 2:45.50 | 1:23.56 (39) | 1:21.94 (27) | |||
| 28 | 60 | Shailaja Kumar |  IND | 2:52.27 | 1:26.98 (40) | 1:25.29 (28) | |||
| 50 | Mihaela Fera |  ROU | – | 58.35 (33) | – ( | ||||
| 44 | Jacqueline Vogt |  LIE | – | 53.94 (29) | – ( | ||||
| 30 | Ľudmila Milanová | TCH | – | 53.93 (28) | – ( | ||||
| 39 | Eva Moga | ESP | – | 52.79 (26) | – ( | ||||
| 26 | Nadia Bonfini | ITA | – | 51.95 (23) | – ( | ||||
| 28 | Lesley Beck |  GBR | – | 51.70 (21) | – ( | ||||
| 21 | Pascaline Freiher | FRA | – | 51.37 (18) | – ( | ||||
| 5 | Camilla Nilsson |  SWE | – | 48.82 (2) | – ( | ||||
| 1 | Brigitte Oertli | SUI | – | 49.95 (7) | – ( | ||||
| 17 | Catharina Glassér-Bjerner | SWE | – | 50.88 (12) | – ( | ||||
| 20 | Katra Zajc | YUG | – | 51.06 (15) | – ( | ||||
| 4 | Tamara McKinney | USA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 9 | Anita Wachter | AUT | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 13 | Christelle Guignard | FRA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 15 | Corinne Schmidhauser | SUI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 16 | Veronika Šarec | YUG | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 18 | Monika Äijä | SWE | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 23 | Kristina Andersson | SWE | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 25 | Anette Gersch | FRG | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 32 | Heidi Voelker | USA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 34 | Karen Percy | CAN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 37 | Nina Ehrnrooth |  FIN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 42 | Sarah Lewis | GBR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 45 | Kirstin Cairns | GBR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 46 | Sachiko Yamamoto | JPN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 58 | Mary Pat Wilson |  PUR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 33 | Jolanda Kindle | LIE | – | 52.56 (25) | – ( | ||||
| 41 | Kerrin Lee | CAN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 55 | Magdalena Birkner | ARG | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 43 | Ainhoa Ibarra | ESP | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 48 | Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir |  ISL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 52 | Michaela Marzola | ITA | – | – ( | – |