Host country Canada Teams 12 | Dates February 13–28, 1988 Runner-up Finland | |
Venue(s) Olympic Saddledome
Stampede Corral
Father David Bauer Olympic Arena (in 1 host city) Champions Soviet Union (7th title) | ||
The men's ice hockey tournament (women's was added in 1998) at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, was the 16th Olympic Championship. The Soviet Union – in their last Winter Olympics as a unified nation – won its seventh gold medal, surpassing Canada for most in Olympic ice hockey at that point (Canada won its ninth in 2014). The silver medal was won by Finland, marking its first ever Olympic ice hockey medal. Sweden won the bronze medal. Games were held in the Olympic Saddledome, the Stampede Corral, and Father David Bauer Olympic Arena.
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The IIHF did not run a championship in Olympic years at this time. Nations that did not participate in the Calgary Olympics were invited to compete in the final Thayer Tutt Trophy.
Medalists
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Qualification
The top eleven nations from the 1987 World Championships (eight from pool A, top three from pool B) qualified directly, while the twelfth ranked nation had to play off against the winner of that year's pool C. France beat Japan 8 goals to 6.
Group A
* The Polish team was stripped of its victory after Jarosław Morawiecki tested positive for testosterone. France was recorded as having a 2-nil win, but received no points in the standings.
Group B
Final 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, excluding teams who failed to make the medal round. First place team wins gold, second silver and third bronze.
11th place game
9th place game
7th place game
Final ranking
- Soviet Union
- Finland
- Sweden
- Canada
- West Germany
- Czechoslovakia
- United States
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Poland
- France
- Norway