1984 Winter Olympics

The XIV Olympic Winter Games were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun/Gothenburg, Sweden.

Contents

1 Highlights

2 Medals awarded

3 Medal count

4 References

Highlights

The first Winter Games held in a socialist country.
First Games under the presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.
The 20km race is added to women's Nordic skiing.
Skier Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympics 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.
Handicapped Ski was the demo event.

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

Top medal-collecting nations:
(for the full table, see 1984 Winter Olympics medal count)