The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known by the International Olympic Committee as the XVI Olympic Winter Games, were a multi-sport event held in Albertville, France, from February 8 through February 23, 1992. A total of 1,801 athletes representing 64 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated at the Games in 57 events across 12 disciplines.[1][2]
Two disciplines were contested for medals for the first time after being demonstration sports four years prior in Calgary: freestyle skiing and short track speed skating.[3][4][5] In addition, the first women's events were held in biathlon[6] and a pursuit event was added in cross-country skiing for both men and women.[7]
Following the late-1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, six of the newly independent countries participated together as the Unified Team, the only Winter Olympics at which they would do so.[8][9] The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania chose to compete independently from the Unified Team.[8] The republics of Croatia and Slovenia made their Olympic debuts, being newly independent from Yugoslavia.[8] Following German reunification, the combined Federal Republic of Germany was represented by one combined team.[10]
Germany was the most successful team at these Olympics, winning 10 gold medals out of 26 total; both were the most of any nation.[11] The Unified Team came in second in both tallies, with 9 golds and 23 total medals – Norway tied the Unified Team with 9 golds, but had only 20 total medals.[11] New Zealand's Annelise Coberger won the country's first Winter Olympics medal, the first by someone representing a Southern Hemisphere nation.[12] Lyubov Yegorova was the most successful athlete, with five medals: three golds and two silvers. Her teammate on the Unified Team and fellow cross-country skier Yelena Välbe also won five medals; she had one gold and four bronze medals.[11] Thirty-eight athletes won more than one medal in Albertville, and twenty NOCs won at least one medal.[11]
Alpine skiing
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's downhill[13] | Patrick Ortlieb Austria | Franck Piccard France | Günther Mader Austria |
Men's super-G[14] | Kjetil André Aamodt Norway | Marc Girardelli Luxembourg | Jan Einar Thorsen Norway |
Men's giant slalom[15] | Alberto Tomba Italy | Marc Girardelli Luxembourg | Kjetil André Aamodt Norway |
Men's slalom[16] | Finn Christian Jagge Norway | Alberto Tomba Italy | Michael Tritscher Austria |
Men's combined[17] | Josef Polig Italy | Gianfranco Martin Italy | Steve Locher Switzerland |
Women's downhill[18] | Kerrin Lee-Gartner Canada | Hilary Lindh United States | Veronika Wallinger Austria |
Women's super-G[19] | Deborah Compagnoni Italy | Carole Merle France | Katja Seizinger Germany |
Women's giant slalom[20] | Pernilla Wiberg Sweden | Anita Wachter Austria Diann Roffe United States | Not awarded[a] |
Women's slalom[21] | Petra Kronberger Austria | Annelise Coberger New Zealand | Blanca Fernández Ochoa Spain |
Women's combined[22] | Petra Kronberger Austria | Anita Wachter Austria | Florence Masnada France |
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Two-man | Switzerland (SUI)[32] Gustav Weder Donat Acklin | Germany (GER)[33] Rudi Lochner Markus Zimmermann | Germany (GER)[33] Christoph Langen Günther Eger |
Four-man | Austria (AUT)[34] Ingo Appelt Harald Winkler Gerhard Haidacher Thomas Schroll | Germany (GER)[33] Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musioł Axel Kühn René Hannemann | Switzerland (SUI)[32] Gustav Weder Donat Acklin Lorenz Schindelholz Curdin Morell |
Cross-country skiing
Figure skating
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Ladies' singles[47] | Kristi Yamaguchi United States | Midori Ito Japan | Nancy Kerrigan United States |
Men's singles[48] | Viktor Petrenko Unified Team | Paul Wylie United States | Petr Barna Czechoslovakia |
Pairs | Unified Team (EUN)[49] Natalia Mishkutionok Artur Dmitriev | Unified Team (EUN)[49] Elena Bechke Denis Petrov | Canada (CAN)[50] Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler |
Ice dance | Unified Team (EUN)[49] Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko | France (FRA)[51] Isabelle Duchesnay Paul Duchesnay | Unified Team (EUN)[49] Maya Usova Alexander Zhulin |
Freestyle skiing
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's moguls[52] | Edgar Grospiron France | Olivier Allamand France | Nelson Carmichael United States |
Women's moguls[53] | Donna Weinbrecht United States | Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova Unified Team | Stine Lise Hattestad Norway |
Ice hockey
Luge
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's singles[57] | Georg Hackl Germany | Markus Prock Austria | Markus Schmidt Austria |
Women's singles[58] | Doris Neuner Austria | Angelika Neuner Austria | Susi Erdmann Germany |
Doubles | Germany (GER)[59] Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt | Germany (GER)[59] Yves Mankel Thomas Rudolph | Italy (ITA)[60] Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber |
Nordic combined
Short track speed skating
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's 1000 metres[65] | Kim Ki-hoon South Korea | Frédéric Blackburn Canada | Lee Joon-ho South Korea |
Men's 5000 metre relay | South Korea (KOR)[66] Song Jae-kun Kim Ki-hoon Lee Joon-ho Mo Ji-soo | Canada (CAN)[67] Mark Lackie Frédéric Blackburn Michel Daignault Laurent Daignault Sylvain Gagnon | Japan (JPN)[68] Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki |
Women's 500 metres[69] | Cathy Turner United States | Li Yan China | Hwang Ok-sil North Korea |
Women's 3000 metre relay | Canada (CAN)[67] Angela Cutrone Sylvie Daigle Nathalie Lambert Annie Perreault | United States (USA)[70] Darcie Dohnal Amy Peterson Cathy Turner Nikki Ziegelmeyer | Unified Team (EUN)[71] Yuliya Allagulova Natalya Isakova Viktoriya Troitskaya-Taranina Yuliya Vlasova |
Ski jumping
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Normal hill individual[72] | Ernst Vettori Austria | Martin Höllwarth Austria | Toni Nieminen Finland |
Large hill individual[73] | Toni Nieminen Finland | Martin Höllwarth Austria | Heinz Kuttin Austria |
Large hill team | Finland[74] Ari-Pekka Nikkola Mika Laitinen Risto Laakkonen Toni Nieminen | Austria[75] Heinz Kuttin Ernst Vettori Martin Höllwarth Andreas Felder | Czechoslovakia[76] Tomáš Goder František Jež Jaroslav Sakala Jiří Parma |
Speed skating
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's 500 metres[77] | Uwe-Jens Mey Germany | Toshiyuki Kuroiwa Japan | Junichi Inoue Japan |
Men's 1000 metres[78] | Olaf Zinke Germany | Kim Yoon-man South Korea | Yukinori Miyabe Japan |
Men's 1500 metres[79] | Johann Olav Koss Norway | Ådne Søndrål Norway | Leo Visser Netherlands |
Men's 5000 metres[80] | Geir Karlstad Norway | Falko Zandstra Netherlands | Leo Visser Netherlands |
Men's 10000 metres[81] | Bart Veldkamp Netherlands | Johann Olav Koss Norway | Geir Karlstad Norway |
Women's 500 metres[82] | Bonnie Blair United States | Ye Qiaobo China | Christa Luding-Rothenburger Germany |
Women's 1000 metres[83] | Bonnie Blair United States | Ye Qiaobo China | Monique Garbrecht Germany |
Women's 1500 metres[84] | Jacqueline Börner Germany | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany | Seiko Hashimoto Japan |
Women's 3000 metres[85] | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany | Heike Warnicke Germany | Emese Hunyady Austria |
Women's 5000 metres[86] | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany | Heike Warnicke Germany | Claudia Pechstein Germany |
Multiple medalists
Athletes who won three or more medals during the 1992 Winter Olympics are listed below.[11]
Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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Lyubov Yegorova | Unified Team (EUN) | Cross-country skiing | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Yelena Välbe | Unified Team (EUN) | Cross-country skiing | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Bjørn Dæhlie | Norway (NOR) | Cross-country skiing | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Vegard Ulvang | Norway (NOR) | Cross-country skiing | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann | Germany (GER) | Speed skating | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Mark Kirchner | Germany (GER) | Biathlon | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Toni Nieminen | Finland (FIN) | Ski jumping | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Antje Misersky-Harvey | Germany (GER) | Biathlon | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Stefania Belmondo | Italy (ITA) | Cross-country skiing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Martin Höllwarth | Austria (AUT) | Ski jumping | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Giorgio Vanzetta | Italy (ITA) | Cross-country skiing | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Notes
See also
References
External links
- "Albertville 1992". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.