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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]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's downhill [13] | Patrick Ortlieb ![]() | Franck Piccard ![]() | Günther Mader ![]() |
Men's super-G [14] | Kjetil André Aamodt ![]() | Marc Girardelli ![]() | Jan Einar Thorsen ![]() |
Men's giant slalom [15] | Alberto Tomba ![]() | Marc Girardelli ![]() | Kjetil André Aamodt ![]() |
Men's slalom [16] | Finn Christian Jagge ![]() | Alberto Tomba ![]() | Michael Tritscher ![]() |
Men's combined [17] | Josef Polig ![]() | Gianfranco Martin ![]() | Steve Locher ![]() |
Women's downhill [18] | Kerrin Lee-Gartner ![]() | Hilary Lindh ![]() | Veronika Wallinger ![]() |
Women's super-G [19] | Deborah Compagnoni ![]() | Carole Merle ![]() | Katja Seizinger ![]() |
Women's giant slalom [20] | Pernilla Wiberg ![]() | Anita Wachter ![]() Diann Roffe ![]() | Not awarded [a] |
Women's slalom [21] | Petra Kronberger ![]() | Annelise Coberger ![]() | Blanca Fernández Ochoa ![]() |
Women's combined [22] | Petra Kronberger ![]() | Anita Wachter ![]() | Florence Masnada ![]() |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's individual [24] | Evgeny Redkin ![]() | Mark Kirchner ![]() | Mikael Löfgren ![]() |
Men's sprint [25] | Mark Kirchner ![]() | Ricco Groß ![]() | Harri Eloranta ![]() |
Men's relay | ![]() Ricco Groß Jens Steinigen Mark Kirchner Fritz Fischer | ![]() Valeriy Medvedtsev Alexandr Popov Valeri Kiriyenko Sergei Tchepikov | ![]() Ulf Johansson Leif Andersson Tord Wiksten Mikael Löfgren |
Women's individual [29] | Antje Misersky-Harvey ![]() | Svetlana Petcherskaia ![]() | Myriam Bédard ![]() |
Women's sprint [30] | Anfisa Reztsova ![]() | Antje Misersky-Harvey ![]() | Elena Belova ![]() |
Women's relay | ![]() Corinne Niogret Véronique Claudel Anne Briand-Bouthiaux | ![]() Uschi Disl Antje Misersky-Harvey Petra Behle-Schaaf | ![]() Elena Belova Anfisa Reztsova Yelena Melnikova |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Two-man | ![]() Gustav Weder Donat Acklin | ![]() Rudi Lochner Markus Zimmermann | ![]() Christoph Langen Günther Eger |
Four-man | ![]() Ingo Appelt Harald Winkler Gerhard Haidacher Thomas Schroll | ![]() Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musioł Axel Kühn René Hannemann | ![]() Gustav Weder Donat Acklin Lorenz Schindelholz Curdin Morell |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Ladies' singles [47] | Kristi Yamaguchi ![]() | Midori Ito ![]() | Nancy Kerrigan ![]() |
Men's singles [48] | Viktor Petrenko ![]() | Paul Wylie ![]() | Petr Barna ![]() |
Pairs | ![]() Natalia Mishkutionok Artur Dmitriev | ![]() Elena Bechke Denis Petrov | ![]() Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler |
Ice dance | ![]() Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko | ![]() Isabelle Duchesnay Paul Duchesnay | ![]() Maya Usova Alexander Zhulin |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's moguls [52] | Edgar Grospiron ![]() | Olivier Allamand ![]() | Nelson Carmichael ![]() |
Women's moguls [53] | Donna Weinbrecht ![]() | Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova ![]() | Stine Lise Hattestad ![]() |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's singles [57] | Georg Hackl ![]() | Markus Prock ![]() | Markus Schmidt ![]() |
Women's singles [58] | Doris Neuner ![]() | Angelika Neuner ![]() | Susi Erdmann ![]() |
Doubles | ![]() Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt | ![]() Yves Mankel Thomas Rudolph | ![]() Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's 1000 metres [65] | Kim Ki-hoon ![]() | Frédéric Blackburn ![]() | Lee Joon-ho ![]() |
Men's 5000 metre relay | ![]() Song Jae-kun Kim Ki-hoon Lee Joon-ho Mo Ji-soo | ![]() Mark Lackie Frédéric Blackburn Michel Daignault Laurent Daignault Sylvain Gagnon | ![]() Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki |
Women's 500 metres [69] | Cathy Turner ![]() | Li Yan ![]() | Hwang Ok-sil ![]() |
Women's 3000 metre relay | ![]() Angela Cutrone Sylvie Daigle Nathalie Lambert Annie Perreault | ![]() Darcie Dohnal Amy Peterson Cathy Turner Nikki Ziegelmeyer | ![]() Yuliya Allagulova Natalya Isakova Viktoriya Troitskaya-Taranina Yuliya Vlasova |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Normal hill individual [72] | Ernst Vettori ![]() | Martin Höllwarth ![]() | Toni Nieminen ![]() |
Large hill individual [73] | Toni Nieminen ![]() | Martin Höllwarth ![]() | Heinz Kuttin ![]() |
Large hill team | ![]() Ari-Pekka Nikkola Mika Laitinen Risto Laakkonen Toni Nieminen | ![]() Heinz Kuttin Ernst Vettori Martin Höllwarth Andreas Felder | ![]() Tomáš Goder František Jež Jaroslav Sakala Jiří Parma |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's 500 metres [77] | Uwe-Jens Mey ![]() | Toshiyuki Kuroiwa ![]() | Junichi Inoue ![]() |
Men's 1000 metres [78] | Olaf Zinke ![]() | Kim Yoon-man ![]() | Yukinori Miyabe ![]() |
Men's 1500 metres [79] | Johann Olav Koss ![]() | Ådne Søndrål ![]() | Leo Visser ![]() |
Men's 5000 metres [80] | Geir Karlstad ![]() | Falko Zandstra ![]() | Leo Visser ![]() |
Men's 10000 metres [81] | Bart Veldkamp ![]() | Johann Olav Koss ![]() | Geir Karlstad ![]() |
Women's 500 metres [82] | Bonnie Blair ![]() | Ye Qiaobo ![]() | Christa Luding-Rothenburger ![]() |
Women's 1000 metres [83] | Bonnie Blair ![]() | Ye Qiaobo ![]() | Monique Garbrecht ![]() |
Women's 1500 metres [84] | Jacqueline Börner ![]() | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann ![]() | Seiko Hashimoto ![]() |
Women's 3000 metres [85] | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann ![]() | Heike Warnicke ![]() | Emese Hunyady ![]() |
Women's 5000 metres [86] | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann ![]() | Heike Warnicke ![]() | Claudia Pechstein ![]() |
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 | ![]() | Cross-country skiing | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Yelena Välbe | ![]() | Cross-country skiing | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Bjørn Dæhlie | ![]() | Cross-country skiing | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Vegard Ulvang | ![]() | Cross-country skiing | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann | ![]() | Speed skating | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Mark Kirchner | ![]() | Biathlon | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Toni Nieminen | ![]() | Ski jumping | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Antje Misersky-Harvey | ![]() | Biathlon | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Stefania Belmondo | ![]() | Cross-country skiing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Martin Höllwarth | ![]() | Ski jumping | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Giorgio Vanzetta | ![]() | Cross-country skiing | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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