1984 Winter Olympics

XIV Olympic Winter Games
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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
Official's Oath	Dragan Perović
Olympic Torch	Sanda Dubravčić
Stadium	Koševo

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

Highlights

* The first Winter Games held in a Communist 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 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.
* Handicapped Ski was the demo event.

See also: 1984 Winter Paralympics

Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

* Biathlon
* Bobsleigh
* Ice Hockey
* Luge
* Skating
* Skiing

Medal count

Top medal-collecting nations:

(for the full table, see 1984 Winter Olympics medal count)

1984 Winter Olympics medal count
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	9	9	6	24
2	USSR	6	10	9	25
3	United States	4	4	0	8
4	Finland	4	3	6	13
5	Sweden	4	2	2	8
6	Norway	3	2	4	9
7	Switzerland	2	2	1	5
8	Canada	2	1	1	4
9	West Germany	2	1	1	4
10		2	0	0	2

References

Internal links

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

External links

* IOC Site on 1984 Winter Olympics

*Official Report from the Organizing Committee on the AAFLA website

Bibliography