1992 Winter Olympics

See also: 1992 Winter Paralympics

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The Games of the XVI Winter Olympiad 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.

Games of the XVI Winter Olympiad
Nations participating	64
Athletes participating	1,801 (488 women, 1,313 men)
Events	57 in 7 sports
Opening ceremonies	February 8, 1992
Closing ceremonies	February 23, 1992
Officially opened by	President of the French Republic François Mitterrand
Athlete's Oath	Surya Bonaly
Judge's Oath:	Pierre Bornat
Olympic Torch	Michel Platini, François-Cyrille Grange

Table of contents

1 Highlights 2 Medals awarded 3 Medal count 4 References 4.1 Internal links 4.2 External links 4.3 Bibliography

Highlights

• The last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.
• 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. Björn Daehlie 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.
• 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 Ki-hoon earned gold medals in both short-track events.
• Alex Flanagan won gold medal in biathalon and 1000m cross-country.
• Curling is the demo sport

FREESTYLE SKIING,SPEED SKIING are the demo events

Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

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

Medal count

Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	10	10	6	26
2	Unified Team (former Soviet Union)	9	6	8	23
3	Norway	9	6	5	20
4	Austria	6	7	8	21
5	United States of America	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	Korea	2	1	1	4
11	Japan	1	2	4	7
12	Netherlands	1	1	2	4
13	Sweden	1	0	3	4
14	Switzerland	1	0	2	3
15	People's Republic of China	0	3	0	3
16	Luxembourg	0	2	0	2
17	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
18	Czechoslovakia	0	0	3	3
19	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	0	0	1	1
20	Spain	0	0	1	1

References

Internal links

• Olympic Games
• Summer Olympic Games
• International Olympic Committee
• WikiProject Sports Olympics
• IOC country codes

External links

• IOC Site on 1992 Winter Olympics

Bibliography

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