Canada at the 1998 Winter Olympics
IOC code	CAN
NOC	Canadian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.ca (in English and French)
in Nagano, Japan 7 February 1998 (1998-02-07) – 22 February 1998 (1998-02-22)
Competitors	144 (81 men, 63 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearers	Jean-Luc Brassard (opening) Catriona Le May Doan (closing)
Medals Ranked 4th	Gold 6 Silver 5 Bronze 4 Total 15
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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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 Calgary in 1988, and Albertville in 1992.

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 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 Laura Schuler Fiona Smith France St-Louis Vicky Sunohara Hayley Wickenheiser 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

Men

Men's combined

Women

Women's combined

Biathlon

Men

Women

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Bobsleigh

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

Cross-country skiing

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Men

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Curling

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

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

Figure skating

Men

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

Pairs

Ice dancing

Freestyle skiing

Men

Women

Ice hockey

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

Men

Short track speed skating

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

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

Women's halfpipe

Speed skating

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.