1988 Alpine Skiing 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.

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.

Men

Calendar

Race No	Discipline	Place	Country	Date
1	Slalom	Sestriere	Italy	November 27, 1987
2	Giant	Sestriere	Italy	November 29, 1987
3	Downhill	Val d'Isère	France	December 7, 1987
4	Downhill	Val Gardena	Italy	December 12, 1987
5	Giant	Alta Badia	Italy	December 13, 1987
6	Slalom	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	December 16, 1987
7	Giant	Kranjska Gora	Yugoslavia	December 19, 1987
8	Slalom	Kranjska Gora	Yugoslavia	December 20, 1987
9	Parallel slalom	Bormio	Italy	December 22, 1987
10	Downhill	Val d'Isère	France	January 9, 1988
11	Super G	Val d'Isère	France	January 10, 1988
12	Slalom	Lienz	Austria	January 12, 1988
13	Downhill	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Austria	January 16, 1988
14	Slalom	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Austria	January 17, 1988
15	Combined	Race 12 and 13
16	Giant	Saas-Fee	Switzerland	January 19, 1988
17	Downhill	Leukerbad	Switzerland	January 23, 1988
18	Downhill	Leukerbad	Switzerland	January 24, 1988
19	Super G	Leukerbad	Switzerland	January 25, 1988
20	Downhill	Schladming	Austria	January 29, 1988
21	Giant	Schladming	Austria	January 30, 1988
	1988 Winter Olympics	Calgary, AB	Canada	February 15–27
22	Downhill	Beaver Creek, Colorado	United States	March 11, 1988
23	Downhill	Beaver Creek, Colorado	United States	March 12, 1988
24	Super G	Beaver Creek, Colorado	United States	March 13, 1988
25	Slalom	Åre	Sweden	March 19, 1988
26	Downhill	Åre	Sweden	March 20, 1988
27	Combined	Race 24 and 25
28	Slalom	Oppdal	Norway	March 22, 1988
29	Super G	Saalbach	Austria	March 24, 1988
30	Giant	Saalbach	Austria	March 25, 1988
31	Slalom	Saalbach	Austria	March 26, 1988
32	Parallel slalom	Saalbach	Austria	March 27, 1988

Men's overall results

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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 Points	Downhill	Super G	Giant	Slalom	Combined
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

Men's Downhill results

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In Men's Downhill World Cup 1987/88 all results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	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

Men's Super G results

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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 Points	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

Men's Giant Slalom results

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In Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1987/88 all results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	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

Men's Slalom results

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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 Points	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	-

Men's combined results

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In Men's Combined World Cup 1987/88 both results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	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

Men's Team results

All points were shown. But without parallel slaloms, because result ? (Also possible, that the parallel slaloms were only show-events.)

Place	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Super G	Giant	Slalom	Combined	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

Women

Calendar

Race No	Discipline	Place	Country	Date
1	Slalom	Sestriere	Italy	November 26, 1987
2	Super G	Sestriere	Italy	November 28, 1987
3	Slalom	Courmayeur	Italy	November 30, 1987
4	Downhill	Val d'Isère	France	December 4, 1987
5	Downhill	Val d'Isère	France	December 5, 1987
6	Downhill	Leukerbad	Switzerland	December 11, 1987
7	Super G	Leukerbad	Switzerland	December 12, 1987
8	Slalom	Leukerbad	Switzerland	December 13, 1987
9	Combined	Race 6 (or 7) and 8
10	Slalom	Piancavallo	Italy	December 19, 1987
11	Giant	Piancavallo	Italy	December 20, 1987
12	Parallel slalom	Bormio	Italy	December 22, 1987
13	Giant	Tignes	France	January 5, 1988
14	Giant	Tignes	France	January 6, 1988
15	Super G	Lech am Arlberg	Austria	January 9, 1988
16	Downhill	Zinal	Switzerland	January 14, 1988
17	Downhill	Zinal	Switzerland	January 16, 1988
18	Slalom	Saas-Fee	Switzerland	January 18, 1988
19	Downhill	Badgastein	Austria	January 23, 1988
20	Slalom	Badgastein	Austria	January 24, 1988
21	Combined	Race 18 and 19
22	Giant	Kranjska Gora	Yugoslavia	January 30, 1988
23	Slalom	Kranjska Gora	Yugoslavia	January 31, 1988
	1988 Winter Olympics	Calgary, AB	Canada	February 15–27
24	Downhill	Aspen, Colorado	United States	March 5, 1988
25	Slalom	Aspen, Colorado	United States	March 6, 1988
26	Giant	Aspen, Colorado	United States	March 7, 1988
27	Downhill	Rossland, BC	Canada	March 12, 1988
28	Super G	Rossland, BC	Canada	March 13, 1988
29	Giant	Saalbach	Austria	March 23, 1988
30	Parallel slalom	Saalbach	Austria	March 27, 1988

Women's overall results

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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 Points	Downhill	Super G	Giant	Slalom	Combined
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

Women's Downhill results

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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 Points	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

Women's Super G results

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In Women's Super G World Cup 1987/88 all four results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	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	-

Women's Giant Slalom results

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In Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1987/88 all results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	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	-	-	-

Women's Slalom results

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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 Points	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	-	-

Women's combined results

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In Women's Combined World Cup 1987/88 both results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	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

Women's Team results

All points were shown. But without parallel slaloms, because result ? (Also possible, that the parallel slaloms were only show-events.)

Place	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Super G	Giant	Slalom	Combined	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

Nationscup

Place	Country	Total Points	Men	Women
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

External links

• FIS-ski.com - World Cup standings - 1988