Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Paralympics

Cross-country skiing at the IV Paralympic Winter Games
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Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Paralympics consisted of 38 events, 23 for men and 15 for women.

Medal table[]

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Rank	Nation				Total
1	Norway (NOR)	14	11	4	29
2	Finland (FIN)	8	7	7	22
3	Canada (CAN)	4	0	1	5
4	Switzerland (SUI)	3	2	3	8
5	West Germany (FRG)	2	6	4	12
6	France (FRA)	2	1	1	4
7	Austria (AUT)	1	3	4	8
8	Sweden (SWE)	1	3	2	6
9	Poland (POL)	1	1	3	5
10	Italy (ITA)	1	0	2	3
11	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
12	Spain (ESP)	0	2	0	2
13	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	2	2
Total		38	36	34	108

Medal summary[]

The competition events were:

• 2.5 km: - women
• 5 km: men - women
• 10 km: men - women
• 15 km: men
• 20 km: men
• 30 km: men
• 3x2.5 km relay: men
• 3x5 km relay: - women
• 4x5 km relay: men
• 4x10 km relay: men

Each event had separate standing, sitting, or visually impaired classifications:

• LW2 - standing: single leg amputation above the knee
• LW 3 - standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
• LW4 - standing: single leg amputation below the knee
• LW5/7 - standing: double arm amputation
• LW6/8 - standing: single arm amputation
• LW9 - standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg
• Gr I - sitting: paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
• Gr II - sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
• B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision
• B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision

Men's events[]

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km - short distance	Grade I	Heinz Frei  Switzerland
	Grade II	Knut Lundstroem  Norway	Erik Sandbraaten  Norway
	LW2	Switzerland	Finland	Finland
	LW3/9	Norway	Miguel Angel Perez Tello  Spain	Poland
	LW4	Finland	Svein Lilleberg  Norway	Norway
	LW5/7	Pierre Delaval  France	Poland	Finland
10 km - short distance	LW6/8	Finland	Jouko Grip  Finland	France
10 km - long distance	Grade I	Terje Johansen  Norway		Heinz Frei  Switzerland
	Grade II	Knut Lundstroem  Norway	Switzerland	Erik Sandbraaten  Norway
	LW2	Switzerland	Norway	Finland
	LW3/9	Norway	Miguel Angel Perez Tello  Spain	Poland
15 km - short distance	B1	Hans Anton Aalien  Norway	Norway	Sweden
	B2	Frank Hoefle	Norway	Sweden
	B3	United States	Sweden	Italy
15 km - long distance	LW4	Finland	Svein Lilleberg  Norway	Norway
	LW5/7	Poland	Pierre Delaval  France	Poland
20 km - long distance	LW6/8	France	Jouko Grip  Finland	Finland
30 km - long distance	B1	Sweden	Hans Anton Aalien  Norway	Norway
	B2	Frank Hoefle	Norway	Finland
	B3	Italy	Sweden	United States
3x2.5 km relay	Grade I-II	Norway (NOR) Terje Johansen Knut Lundstroem Erik Sandbraaten	Switzerland (SUI) Heinz Frei	(FRG)
4x5 km relay	LW2-9	Norway (NOR) Svein Lilleberg	Finland (FIN) Jouko Grip	(FRG) Martin Haag
4x10 km relay	B1-3	Norway (NOR) Hans Anton Aalien	Sweden (SWE)	Italy (ITA)

Women's events[]

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2.5 km - short distance	Grade I	Norway		None
	Grade II	Ragnhild Myklebust  Norway	Norway	Austria
5 km - short distance	B1	Austria	Finland	Valentina Grigoryeva  Soviet Union
	B2	Sandra Lecour  Canada	Austria	Marian Susitz  Austria
	B3	Finland	Norway	Finland
	LW3/4/9	Francine Lemire  Canada		Switzerland
	LW6/8	Tanja Tervonen  Finland	None	None
5 km - long distance	Grade I	Norway		None
	Grade II	Ragnhild Myklebust  Norway	Norway	Austria
10 km - long distance	B1	Finland	Austria	Valentina Grigoryeva  Soviet Union
	B2	Sandra Lecour  Canada	Finland	Austria
	B3	Norway	Finland	Finland
	LW3/4/9	Francine Lemire  Canada		Switzerland
	LW6/8	Tanja Tervonen  Finland	None	None
3x5 km relay	B1-3	Finland (FIN)	Austria (AUT) Marian Susitz	Canada (CAN) Sandra Lecour Tricia Lovegrove Kim Umback

See also[]

• Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

References[]

• "IPC Historical Results Database". International Paralympic Committee (IPC). 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
  • The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier Paralympic Games (1960-1984), such as relay and team members.[1] (Per nov.20, 2010)
• "Innsbruck 1988". paralympia.de. 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
• Historical Medallists : Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics, Official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee