1992 Winter Olympics
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 first Games where the Winter Paralympics and the Winter Olympics were held at the same site.
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. 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 Ki-hoon earned gold medals in both short-track events.
- Alex Flanagan won gold medal in biathalon 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:
| 1992 Winter Olympics medal count
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| Rank
| Nation
| Gold
| Silver
| Bronze
| Total
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| 1 | Germany | 10 | 10 | 6 | 26
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| 2 | Unified Team¹ | 9 | 6 | 8 | 23
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| 3 | Norway | 9 | 6 | 5 | 20
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| 4 | Austria | 6 | 7 | 8 | 21
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| 5 | United States | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11
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| 6 | Italy | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14
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| 7 | France | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9
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| 8 | Finland | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7
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| 9 | Canada | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7
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| 10 | South Korea | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4
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(¹ part of CIS; team only appeared in these Winter Olympics)
See also
