XVI Olympic Winter Games
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
Official's Oath	Pierre Bornat
Olympic Torch	Michel Platini and François-Cyrille Grange

The XVI Olympic Winter Games were held 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.

Contents

1 Highlights 2 Medals awarded 3 Medal count 4 See also 5 External links

Highlights

• Freestyle skiing and short-track speedskating made their debuts as medal disciplines, as did women's biathlon.
• Norwegian skiers won every cross-country skiing race. Bjørn Dæhlie and Vegard Ulvang each won three gold medals.
• Speedskater Bonnie Blair won both the 500 and 1,000m events; Gunda Niemann took both of the longest races.
• Ski jumper Toni Nieminen , 16, became the youngest male winner of a Winter 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 short-track events.
• Alex Flanagan won gold medal in biathlon and 1000m cross-country.
• Curling was the demo sport; Freestyle Skiing and Speed Skiing, demo disciplines
• Annaliese Coberger of New Zealand wins the southern hemisphere's first Winter Olympic Medal—a silver in the women's slalom.

Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

• Biathlon
• Bobsleigh
• Curling
• Ice Hockey
• Luge
• Skating
• Skiing

Medal count

Top medal-collecting nations:
(for the full table, see 1992 Winter Olympics medal count)

1992 Winter Olympics medal count
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	10	10	6	26
2	Unified Team¹	9	6	8	23
3	Norway	9	6	5	20
4	Austria	6	7	8	21
5	United States	5	4	2	11
6	Italy	4	6	4	14
7	France	3	5	1	9
8	Finland	3	1	3	7
9	Canada	2	3	2	7
10	South Korea	2	1	1	4

(¹ part of CIS; team only appeared in these Winter Olympics)

See also

• 1992 Winter Paralympics
• Olympic Games
• Winter Olympic Games
• International Olympic Committee

External links

• IOC Site on 1992 Winter Olympics http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1992

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