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The '1984 Winter Olympics', officially known as the 'XIV Olympic Winter Games', were celebrated in Sarajevo, then in Yugoslavia and now in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun, Sweden. It was the first Winter Games and the second Olympics held in Eastern Europe (the first was the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow).

Contents

Highlights

Official Mascot

Venues

City venues

Mountain venues

Other facilities

Medals awarded

Demonstration sport

Medal count

Participants

See also

External links

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.

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.

Venues

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

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 - ski jumping

★ Trebević - bobsled, luge

Other facilities

★ Olympic Village, Mojmilo

★ Press Village, Dobrinja

★ Hotels: Igman (Igman), Famos (Bjelašnica), Smuk (Bjelašnica), Bistrica (Jahorina)

Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

★ Alpine skiing

★ Biathlon

★ Bobsleigh

★ Ice hockey

★ Figure skating

★ Luge

★ Nordic skiing

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★ Cross-country skiing

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★ Nordic combined

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★ Ski jumping

★ Speed skating

Demonstration sport

★ Disabled skiing

Medal count

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

1		'9'	9	6	24
2		6	'10'	'9'	'25'
3		4	4	0	8
4		4	3	6	13
5		4	2	2	8
6		3	2	4	9
7		2	2	1	5
8		2	1	1	4
		2	1	1	4
10		2	0	0	2

Participants

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

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See also

★ 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

★ ''Olympic Review'' 1984 - Official results

★ ''ZOI '84 Logo'' 1984 - Official logo - in vector format