1984 Winter Olympics

XIV Olympic Winter Games
Image:1984 wolympics logo.png The emblem symbolizes a stylized snowflake, as well as the embroidery produced in the Sarajevo region with the Olympic rings above.
Host city	Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Nations participating	49
Athletes participating	1272 (998 men, 274 women)
Events	49 in 6 sports
Opening ceremony	February 8, 1984
Closing ceremony	February 19, 1984
Officially opened by	Mika Špiljak
Athlete's Oath	Bojan Križaj
Judge's Oath	Dragan Perović
Olympic Torch	Sanda Dubravčić
Stadium	Asim Ferhatović Stadion

The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, were held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which at the time was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun/Gothenburg, Sweden.

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The first, and so far only, Winter Games held in a Socialist country.
First Games under the presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.
The 20 km race was added to women's Nordic skiing.
Skier Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympic medal; a silver in the giant slalom.
Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen won all three individual cross-country races for women.
Gaétan Boucher and Karin Enke each won two gold medals in speed skating, while East German women win all but 3 of the 12 medals in the sport.
Biathlete Eirik Kvalfoss earned a complete set of medals.
Twin brothers Phil and Steve Mahre took first and second place in the slalom.
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean earned across-the-board perfect scores for artistic impression in the free dance figure skating competition.
Disabled skiing was a demonstration sport for the first time.
Bill Johnson became the first American to win an Olympic downhill event.
The closing ceremony was held indoors in the figure skating venue. This would be the last time the closing ceremony for the Winter Games was held indoors.

See also: 1984 Winter Paralympics

Readers of Yugoslav newspapers were asked to choose the mascot for the 1984 Winter Olympics from a list of six finalists. The winner was Vucko, the little wolf, designed by Joze Trebec. The other finalists were a chipmunk, a lamb, a mountain goat, a porcupine, and a snowball.

Olympic Village, Mojmilo
Press Village, Dobrinja
Hotels: Igman (Igman), Famos (Bjelašnica), Smuk (Bjelašnica), Bistrica (Jahorina)

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

(Greatest number of medals in each category is in bold.)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Image:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany (GDR)	9	9	6	24
2	Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR	6	10	9	25
3	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States	4	4	0	8
4	Image:Flag of Finland (bordered).svg Finland	4	3	6	13
5	Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	4	2	2	8
6	Image:Flag of Norway.svg Norway	3	2	4	9
7	Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland	2	2	1	5
8	Image:Flag of Canada (bordered).svg Canada	2	1	1	4
8	Image:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany (FRG)	2	1	1	4
10	Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy	2	0	0	2

Further information: 1984 Winter Olympics medal count

A record of 49 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) entered athletes at the 1984 Winter Olympic Games.

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