Canada at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Canada at the Olympic Games
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At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano
Competitors	144 (81 men, 63 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Jean-Luc Brassard (opening) Catriona Le May Doan (closing)
Medals Rank: 4	Gold 6	Silver 5	Bronze 4	Total 15
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Canada competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.

Canada's biggest story at these games was the failure of the men's ice hockey team to win a medal. For the first time, Canada's best players (professional players from the National Hockey League) were able to compete at the Olympics, so Canadians had high expectations. The team lost its semi-final game to the Czech Republic when goaltender Dominik Hašek stopped all five shots he faced in the tie-breaking shootout. Canada then lost the bronze medal game to Finland.

The women's ice hockey team, on the other hand, captured a silver medal in the first Games to feature the women's event.

For the first time, curling was included as an official event, having been showcased as a demonstration sport at Lillehammer in 1994, and both Canadian teams reached the podium.

Also making the news was Ross Rebagliati's disqualification for marijuana being found in his system and having his gold medal stripped. The IOC reinstated the medal days later.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Pierre Lueders David MacEachern	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Gold	Jan Betker Atina Ford Marcia Gudereit Joan McCusker Sandra Schmirler	Curling	Women's competition
Gold	Eric Bedard Derrick Campbell François Drolet Marc Gagnon	Short track speed skating	Men's 5000 m relay
Gold	Annie Perreault	Short track speed skating	Women's 500 m
Gold	Ross Rebagliati	Snowboarding	Men's giant slalom
Gold	Catriona Le May Doan	Speed skating	Women's 500 m
Silver	Mike Harris Richard Hart George Karrys Collin Mitchell Paul Savage	Curling	Men's competition
Silver	Elvis Stojko	Figure skating	Men's singles
Silver	Canada women's national ice hockey team Stacey Wilson   Danielle Goyette   Manon Rhéaume Jennifer Botterill   Geraldine Heaney   Laura Schuler Thérèse Brisson   Jayna Hefford   Fiona Smith Cassie Campbell   Becky Kellar   France St-Louis Judy Diduck   Kathy McCormack   Vicky Sunohara Nancy Drolet   Karen Nystrom   Hayley Wickenheiser Lori Dupuis   Lesley Reddon	Ice hockey	Women's competition
Silver	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Speed skating	Men's 500 m
Silver	Susan Auch	Speed skating	Women's 500 m
Bronze	Christine Boudrias Isabelle Charest Annie Perreault Tania Vicent	Short track speed skating	Women's 3000 m relay
Bronze	Eric Bedard	Short track speed skating	Men's 1000 m
Bronze	Kevin Overland	Speed skating	Men's 500 m
Bronze	Catriona Le May Doan	Speed skating	Women's 1000 m

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Short track speed skating	2	0	2	4
Speed skating	1	2	2	5
Curling	1	1	0	2
Bobsleigh	1	0	0	1
Snowboarding	1	0	0	1
Ice hockey	0	1	0	1
Figure skating	0	1	0	1
Total	6	5	4	15

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Brian Stemmle	Downhill			DNF	–
Luke Sauder				DNF	–
Kevin Wert				1:52.67	19
Ed Podivinsky				1:50.71	5
Ed Podivinsky	Super-G			DSQ	–
Brian Stemmle				1:36.40	12
Thomas Grandi	Giant Slalom	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Thomas Grandi	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–

Men's combined

Athlete	Slalom		Downhill	Total
	Time 1	Time 2	Time	Total time	Rank
Ed Podivinsky	51.48	DNF	–	DNF	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Mélanie Turgeon	Downhill			1:31.45	22
Kate Pace-Lindsay				1:31.30	19
Kate Pace-Lindsay	Super-G			1:19.89	27
Mélanie Turgeon				1:19.20	20
Katerina Tichy	Slalom	47.93	DNF	DNF	–

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Mélanie Turgeon	DNF	–	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Kevin Quintilio	3	32:32.6	66
	Steve Cyr	3	30:35.0	48

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Kevin Quintilio	1'01:37.2	4	1'05:37.2	64
	Steve Cyr	58:12.9	6	1'04:12.9	55

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Michelle Collard	0	25:26.1	38
	Myriam Bédard	0	25:11.3	32

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 2	Rank
15 km	Nikki Keddie	1'03:46.5	5	1'08:46.5	60
	Myriam Bédard	59:44.1	3	1'02:44.1	50

Women's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Kristin Berg Myriam Bédard Nikki Keddie Michelle Collard	3	1'53:15.0	17

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

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
CAN-1	Pierre Lueders Dave MacEachern	Two-man	54.56	2	54.28	1	54.16	2	54.24	1	3:37.24
CAN-2	Chris Lori Jack Pyc	Two-man	54.74	5	54.72	10	54.71	12	54.79	14	3:38.98	12

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
CAN-1	Pierre Lueders Ricardo Greenidge Jack Pyc Dave MacEachern	Four-man	53.14	10	53.44	5	53.81	8	2:40.39	9
CAN-2	Chris Lori Ben Hindle Matt Hindle Ian Danney	Four-man	53.52	11	53.69	13	53.93	13	2:41.14	11

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Yves Bilodeau	31:56.9	75
	Guido Visser	31:50.8	71
	Chris Blanchard	30:37.1	51
	Robin McKeever	30:32.2	48
15 km pursuit1 F	Guido Visser	48:43.5	58
	Chris Blanchard	47:44.3	56
30 km C	Guido Visser	1'55:04.1	64
	Robin McKeever	1'51:23.5	62
	Donald Farley	1'50:47.8	61
50 km F	Donald Farley	DNF	–
	Guido Visser	2'33:49.7	62
	Robin McKeever	2'28:19.0	58
	Chris Blanchard	2'26:58.9	56

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Donald Farley Robin McKeever Chris Blanchard Guido Visser	1'49:27.4	18

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Jaime Fortier	21:20.8	77
	Sara Renner	21:02.4	74
	Milaine Thériault	19:41.8	54
	Beckie Scott	19:32.6	47
10 km pursuit2 F	Sara Renner	36:36.7	64
	Milaine Thériault	34:29.8	56
	Beckie Scott	33:04.8	45
15 km C	Marie-Odile Raymond	56:53.3	62
	Beckie Scott	55:43.7	60
	Milaine Thériault	55:38.2	59
30 km F	Marie-Odile Raymond	1'41:07.2	56
	Sara Renner	1'40:14.6	54
	Beckie Scott	1'35:47.4	51

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Beckie Scott Milaine Thériault Sara Renner Jaime Fortier	1'01:09.9	16

Curling

Main article: Curling at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
Canada	Mike Harris	6	1
Norway	Eigil Ramsfjell	5	2
Switzerland	Patrick Hürlimann	5	2
United States	Tim Somerville	3	4
Japan	Makoto Tsuruga	3	4
Sweden	Peja Lindholm	3	4
Great Britain	Douglas Dryburgh	2	5
Germany	Andy Kapp	1	6

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Canada	7–4	Japan
Canada	11–3	United States
Canada	10–3	United Kingdom
Germany	6–10	Canada
Canada	8–3	Switzerland
Sweden	3–6	Canada
Norway	10–8	Canada

Medal round

Semi-final

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Harris)	2	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	X	X	7
United States (Somerville)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	1

Gold medal match

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Harris)	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	X	X	3
Switzerland (Hürlimann)	0	2	0	2	2	3	0	0	X	X	9

Contestants	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate
Silver medal	Mike Harris	Richard Hart	Collin Mitchell	George Karrys	Paul Savage

Women's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
Canada	Sandra Schmirler	6	1
Sweden	Elisabet Gustafson	6	1
Denmark	Helena Blach Lavrsen	5	2
Great Britain	Kirsty Hay	4	3
Japan	Mayumi Ohkutsu	2	5
Norway	Dordi Nordby	2	5
United States	Lisa Schoeneberg	2	5
Germany	Andrea Schöpp	1	6

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Canada	7–6	United States
Norway	6–5	Canada
Japan	4–7	Canada
Canada	9–5	Denmark
Canada	8–3	United Kingdom
Sweden	5–7	Canada
Canada	8–5	Germany

Medal round

Semi-final

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Schmirler)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	6
Great Britain (Hay)	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	5

Gold medal match

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Lavrsen)	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	X	5
Canada (Schmirler)	3	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	X	7

Contestants	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate
Gold medal	Sandra Schmirler	Jan Betker	Joan McCusker	Marcia Gudereit	Atina Ford

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Jeff Langdon	17	10	18.5	12
Elvis Stojko	2	3	4.0

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon Luc Bradet	12	16	22.0	16
Kristy Sargeant Kris Wirtz	11	12	17.5	12

Ice dancing

Athletes	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Chantal Lefebvre Michel Brunet	19	19	19	19	38.0	19
Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz	5	4	4	3	7.2	4

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Dominick Gauthier	Moguls	28.19	23.90	17	Did not advance
Stéphane Rochon		28.11	24.62	8 Q	24.64	25.01	8
Jean-Luc Brassard		27.40	24.73	7 Q	25.22	25.52	4
Ryan Johnson		27.98	25.12	5 Q	27.35	25.25	7
Nicolas Fontaine	Aerials		219.60	8 Q		216.93	10
Jeff Bean			224.86	7 Q		210.77	11
Andy Capicik			227.39	5 Q		209.01	12

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Josée Charbonneau	Moguls	36.02	18.54	24	Did not advance
Tami Bradley		35.53	21.28	15 Q	34.96	15.02	16
Ann-Marie Pelchat		33.47	23.35	1 Q	33.36	23.95	5
Caroline Olivier	Aerials		133.94	19	Did not advance
Veronica Brenner			174.86	3 Q		151.15	9

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's tournament

Group C

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Canada	3	3	0	0	12	3	+9	6
Sweden	3	2	1	0	11	7	+4	4
United States	3	1	2	0	8	10	-2	2
Belarus	3	0	3	0	4	15	-11	0

All times are local (UTC-7).

13 February 1998

Canada

5 – 0 (0-2, 0-2, 0-1)

Belarus

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,960

14 February 1998

Canada

3 – 2 (0-1, 3-0, 0-1)

Sweden

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,945

16 February 1998

Canada

4 – 1 (0-1, 0-2, 1-1)

United States

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,863

Quarter-final

All times are local (UTC-7).

18 February 1998

Canada

4 – 1 (2-1, 2-0, 0-0)

Kazakhstan

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,602

Semi-final

All times are local (UTC-7).

20 February 1998

Canada

1 – 2 (SO) (0-0, 0-0, 1-1, 0-0, 0-1)

Czech Republic

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,279

Bronze medal game

All times are local (UTC-7).

21 February 1998

Finland

3 – 2 (2-1, 0-1, 1-0)

Canada 4th

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,875

• Team roster
• Martin Brodeur
• Patrick Roy
• Curtis Joseph
• Ray Bourque
• Al MacInnis
• Rob Blake
• Adam Foote
• Éric Desjardins
• Chris Pronger
• Scott Stevens
• Eric Lindros
• Joe Nieuwendyk
• Theoren Fleury
• Wayne Gretzky
• Keith Primeau
• Joe Sakic
• Rod Brind'Amour
• Brendan Shanahan
• Shayne Corson
• Steve Yzerman
• Mark Recchi
• Rob Zamuner
• Trevor Linden
• Head coach: Marc Crawford

Women's tournament

Group stage

The first 4 teams (shaded green) advanced to medal round games.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
United States	5	5	0	0	33	7	10
Canada	5	4	1	0	28	12	8
Finland	5	3	2	0	27	10	6
China	5	2	3	0	10	15	4
Sweden	5	1	4	0	10	21	2
Japan	5	0	5	0	2	45	0

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Canada	13–0	Japan
Canada	2–0	China
Sweden	3–5	Canada
Finland	2–4	Canada
Canada	4–7	United States

Gold medal game

17 February
	United States	3 – 1	Canada		Big Hat (8,626)
		First period			Ref: Marina Zenk
		no scoring
		Second period
	G. Ulion (S. Whyte, S. Merz) (pp) 2:38
		Third period
	S. Looney (S. Whyte, G. Ulion) (pp) 10:57
			D. Goyette (H. Wickenheiser, G. Heaney) (pp) 15:59
	S. Whyte (en) 19:52
		Game stats

Silver:

Canada Jennifer Botterill Thérèse Brisson Cassie Campbell Judy Diduck Nancy Drolet Lori Dupuis Danielle Goyette Geraldine Heaney Jayna Hefford Becky Kellar Kathy McCormack Karen Nystrom Lesley Reddon Manon Rhéaume France St-Louis Laura Schuler Fiona Smith Vicky Sunohara Hayley Wickenheiser Stacy Wilson-C

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tyler Seitz	50.689	19	50.948	23	50.400	14	50.405	14	3:22.442	18
Clay Ives	50.632	17	50.348	16	50.858	21	50.437	16	3:22.275	15

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
François Drolet	500 m	43.551	1 Q	DSQ	–	Did not advance
Marc Gagnon		43.901	2 Q	43.254	1 Q	42.780	2 Q	1:15.60	4
Éric Bédard		43.342	1 Q	43.113	3	Did not advance
Éric Bédard	1000 m	1:32.975	2 Q	1:29.622	2 Q	1:36.233	2 QA	1:32.661
François Drolet		1:32.949	1 Q	1:32.513	3	Did not advance
Marc Gagnon		1:30.476	2 Q	DSQ	–	Did not advance
Éric Bédard Derrick Campbell François Drolet Marc Gagnon	5000 m relay					7:05.766	1 QA	7:06.075

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Tania Vicent	500 m	1:10.212	4	Did not advance
Annie Perreault		45.866	2 Q	46.421	1 Q	45.612	1 QA	46.568
Isabelle Charest		46.085	1 Q	46.194	2 Q	44.991 OR	1 QA	DSQ	–
Isabelle Charest	1000 m	1:39.729	1 Q	1:37.200	1 Q	1:35.741	3 QB	1:37.813	7
Annie Perreault		1:39.128	2 Q	1:35.302	5	Did not advance
Tania Vicent		1:40.923	3	Did not advance
Christine Boudrias Isabelle Charest Annie Perreault Tania Vicent	3000 m relay					4:24.152	2 QA	4:21.205

Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's giant slalom

Athlete	Race 1	Race 2	Total
	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Mark Fawcett	DNF	–	DNF	–
Darren Chalmers	1:04.09	DSQ	DSQ	–
Ross Rebagliati	59.87	1:04.09	2:03.96
Jasey-Jay Anderson	59.31	1:12.02	2:11.33	16

Men's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Trevor Andrew	24.1	36	32.4	21	Did not advance
Mike Michalchuk	32.3	27	41.4	2 QF	76.0	8
Derek Heidt	35.6	16	35.8	17	Did not advance
Brett Carpentier	36.3	13	41.8	1 QF	75.6	9

Women's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Lori Glazier	25.9	19	29.1	13	Did not advance
Tara Teigen	32.9	8	33.3	6	Did not advance
Natasza Zurek	33.9	6	11.6	21	Did not advance
Maëlle Ricker	34.4	4 QF			71.1	5

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Jeremy Wotherspoon	36.04	7	35.80	2	71.84
	Pat Bouchard	35.96	5	36.09	4	72.05	5
	Sylvain Bouchard	35.90	4	36.10	5	72.00	4
	Kevin Overland	35.78	2	36.08	3	71.86
1000 m	Pat Bouchard					1:12.49	19
	Kevin Overland					1:11.90	9
	Jeremy Wotherspoon					1:11.39	6
	Sylvain Bouchard					1:11.29	5
1500 m	Neal Marshall					1:52.93	30
	Kevin Marshall					1:52.77	26
	Steven Elm					1:52.70	25
	Kevin Overland					1:52.07	20
5000 m	Mark Knoll					6:50.55	24
	Steven Elm					6:48.67	23

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Michelle Morton	42.95	36	39.84	17	82.79	33
	Linda Johnson-Blair	39.24	11	39.57	14	78.81	13
	Susan Auch	38.42	2	38.51	2	76.93
	Catriona Le May Doan	38.39	1	38.21 OR	1	76.60
1000 m	Sylvie Cantin					1:22.46	33
	Linda Johnson-Blair					1:20.42	21
	Susan Auch					1:19.82	18
	Catriona Le May Doan					1:17.37
1500 m	Isabelle Doucet					2:06.45	29
	Ingrid Liepa					2:04.60	24
	Catriona Le May Doan					2:02.19	13
3000 m	Ingrid Liepa					4:27.99	25
	Susan Massitti					4:21.66	21
	Cindy Overland					4:20.81	19

Official outfitter

• Roots Canada became the official outfitter of clothing for members of the Canadian Olympic team. The same clothing was also sold at Roots stores in Canada.

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1998, full results by sports-reference.com