1984 Winter Olympics

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XIV Olympic Winter Games
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 7
Closing ceremony	February 19
Officially opened by	Mika Špiljak
Athlete's Oath	Bojan Križaj (Alpine skiing)
Judge's Oath	Dragan Perović
Olympic Torch	Sanda Dubravčić (Figure skating)
Stadium	Asim Ferhatović Stadion

The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was at the time part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun, Sweden. It was the first Winter Games and the second Olympics held in a socialist country (the first was the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow).

Contents 1 Highlights 2 Official Mascot 3 Venues 3.1 City venues 3.2 Mountain venues 3.3 Other facilities 4 Medals awarded 4.1 Demonstration sport 5 Medal count 6 Participants 7 See also 8 External links

[edit] Highlights

• The first, and so far the 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.
• Team of Austria, usually a formidable winter sport nation faced a disaster winning only one bronze medal.
• 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, though the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are likely to hold the closing ceremonies indoors.

See also: 1984 Winter Paralympics

[edit] Official Mascot

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

[edit] Venues

[edit] City venues

• Koševo Olympic Stadium - opening ceremonies
• Zetra Ice Hall - figure skating, ice hockey, closing ceremonies
• Zetra Ice Rink - speed skating
• Skenderija II Hall - ice hockey

[edit] Mountain venues

• Mount Bjelašnica - men's alpine skiing
• Mount Jahorina - women's alpine skiing
• Igman, Veliko Polje - cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, biathlon
• Igman, Malo Polje - * Trebević - bobsleigh, luge

[edit] Other facilities

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

[edit] Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

• Alpine skiing
• Biathlon
• Bobsleigh
• Ice hockey
• Figure skating
• Luge
• Nordic skiing
  • Cross-country skiing
  • Nordic combined
  • Ski jumping
• Speed skating

[edit] Demonstration sport

• Disabled skiing

[edit] Medal count

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	9	9	6	24
2	Soviet Union (URS)	6	10	9	25
3	United States (USA)	4	4	0	8
4	Finland (FIN)	4	3	6	13
5	Sweden (SWE)	4	2	2	8
6	Norway (NOR)	3	2	4	9
7	Switzerland (SUI)	2	2	1	5
8	Canada (CAN)	2	1	1	4
	West Germany (FRG)	2	1	1	4
10	Italy (ITA)	2	0	0	2

Further information: 1984 Winter Olympics medal count

[edit] Participants

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

Andorra Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Bolivia Bulgaria Canada Chile China Chinese Taipei Costa Rica Cyprus Czechoslovakia North Korea East Germany Egypt

Finland France Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Japan South Korea Lebanon Liechtenstein Mexico Monaco Mongolia Morocco Netherlands

New Zealand Norway Poland Puerto Rico Romania San Marino Senegal Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United States Soviet Union Virgin Islands West Germany Yugoslavia

[edit] See also

• Olympic Games
• Summer Olympic Games
• International Olympic Committee
• IOC country codes

[edit] External links

• Official site

• IOC Site on 1984 Winter Olympics

• Official Report from the Organizing Committee on the AAFLA website

• Olympic Review 1984 - Official results

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