1992 Winter Olympics

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XVI Olympic Winter Games
Image:1992 wolympics logo.png The emblem is the Olympic flame in the colors of the Savoie region. Below it are the Olympic rings.
Host city	Albertville, France
Nations participating	64
Athletes participating	1801 (1313 men, 488 women)
Events	57 in 7 sports
Opening ceremony	February 8, 1992
Closing ceremony	February 23, 1992
Officially opened by	François Mitterrand French President
Athlete's Oath	Surya Bonaly
Judge's Oath	Pierre Bornat
Olympic Torch	Michel Platini and François-Cyrille Grange
Stadium	Théâtre des Cérémonies

The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1992 in Albertville, France. Other candidate cities were Anchorage, USA; Berchtesgaden, Germany; Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; Lillehammer, Norway; Falun, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria.

These were the last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games. They were also the first Games where the Winter Paralympics and the Winter Olympics were held at the same site.

1 Highlights
2 Medals awarded
- 2.1 Demonstration sports
3 Venues
4 Medal count
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Highlights

Freestyle skiing event of moguls and short-track speedskating made their debuts as medal disciplines, as did women's biathlon.
Norwegian skiers won every male cross-country skiing race. Bjørn Dæhlie and Vegard Ulvang each won three gold medals.
Speedskater Bonnie Blair won both the 500 and 1,000 m events; Gunda Niemann took both of the longest races.
Ski jumper Toni Nieminen, 16, became the youngest male gold medalist of a Winter Olympic event.
Mark Kirchner became the first biathlete to win medals in all three biathlon events.
Alpine skier Petra Kronberger won both the combined event and the slalom.
Kim Kihoon earned gold medals in both men's short-track events.
Curling was the demo sport; Freestyle skiing and Speed skiing, demo disciplines
Annelise Coberger of New Zealand wins the southern hemisphere's first Winter Olympic medal—a silver in the women's slalom.
Germany won the games with a total of 10 gold medals, 10 silver and 6 bronze.

[edit] Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

[edit] Demonstration sports

[edit] Venues

The 1992 Games were as of today the last ones where the speed skating venue was outdoors.

Albertville
- Halle Olympique - Figure Skating and Short Track
- Anneau de vitesse - Speed skating
- Théâtre des Cérémonies - Opening and Closing Ceremonies
Les Arcs - Speed skiing
Courchevel - Ski jumping and nordic combined
Les Ménuires - Slalom men
Méribel - Alpine Skiing Women
- Méribel Ice Palace - Hockey
La Plagne - Luge and Bobsled
Pralognan-la-Vanoise - Curling
Les Saisies - Nordic skiing and biathlon
Tignes - Freestyle skiing
Val d'Isère - Giant, Super G, downhill, combined men

[edit] Medal count

(Host nation is highlighted, greatest number of medals in each category is in bold.)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	10	10	6	26
2	Image:Flag of the Olympic Movement (bordered).svg Unified Team¹	9	6	8	23
3	Image:Flag of Norway.svg Norway	9	6	5	20
4	Image:Flag of Austria.svg Austria	6	7	8	21
5	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States	5	4	2	11
6	Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy	4	6	4	14
7	Image:Flag of France.svg France	3	5	1	9
8	Image:Flag of Finland (bordered).svg Finland	3	1	3	7
9	Image:Flag of Canada (bordered).svg Canada	2	3	2	7
10	Image:Flag of South Korea (bordered).svg South Korea	2	1	1	4

Further information: 1992 Winter Olympics medal count

(¹ combined team with athletes from 6 nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States; team only appeared in these Winter Olympics)

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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Sports • Medal counts • NOCs Medalists • Symbols
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Winter Games: 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940)², (1944)², 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022
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