List of 1984 Winter Olympics medal winners
Karin Enke , an East German speed skater, was one of three athletes who won four medals at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
The 1984 Winter Olympics – officially known by the International Olympic Committee as the XIV Olympic Winter Games – were a winter multi-sport event held between 8 and 19 February 1984 in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia (currently Bosnia and Herzegovina ). A total of 1,272 athletes, representing a record 49 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), competed in 39 events across 10 disciplines of 6 sports .[ 1] The official program was the same as that of the 1980 Winter Olympics , with the addition of a 20-kilometer event in women's cross-country skiing.[ 1] Disabled skiing was featured for the first time as an Olympic demonstration sport .[ 2]
The 117 Olympic medals in dispute at these Games were awarded to athletes from 17 NOCs. The athletes from the Soviet Union collected 25 medals and secured their NOC a top spot in the overall medal count, ahead of East Germany (24 medals ) and Finland (13 medals ). East Germany, however, topped the gold medal count with nine medals, three more than those won by Soviet athletes. Finland, the United States and Sweden followed with four gold medals each.[ 3] The host delegation won the nation's first medal at the Winter Olympics , through alpine skier Jure Franko 's silver in the men's giant slalom event.[ 4]
American skier Phil Mahre , runner-up in 1980, won the slalom event and saw his twin brother Steve secure the silver medal.[ 5] In biathlon, Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway and Peter Angerer of West Germany won six medals between them, each securing a complete set.[ 6]
The Nordic countries displayed their strength in the cross-country skiing competition: from the 24 medals in dispute, 17 were won by athletes from Finland (8), Sweden (5), and Norway (4). Finnish skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen won four medals, including a gold medal sweep in the three individual cross-country distances, becoming the most successful athlete at these Games.[ 7] In the men's section, Gunde Svan of Sweden also won four medals, though one less gold than Hämäläinen.[ 8] Katarina Witt , a young figure skater from East Germany, narrowly defeated the reigning World champion, Rosalynn Sumners of the United States, to collect the first of two successive Olympic gold medals.[ 9] The British ice dancing pair, Torvill and Dean , took the gold medal after giving performances that earned them not only the first-ever perfect scores (6.0) in Olympic ice dancing compulsories,[ 10] but also a complete set of perfect artistic impression scores in the free program.[ 11]
The Soviet Union dominated the ice hockey competition , winning every match to take their sixth Olympic gold in eight Winter Games.[ 3] East German sledders fully demonstrated their prowess at the Trebević track. Wolfgang Hoppe and Dietmar Schauerhammer clinched gold in both bobsleigh events, while Bernhard Lehmann and Bogdan Musioł secured both silvers.[ 12] Led by Steffi Martin , who won the first of her two back-to-back Olympic titles, East German lugers swept the women's singles medals. This show of strength was also observed in the women's speed skating, where East German athletes grabbed nine of the twelve medals in dispute. Four of these were won by Karin Enke (matching the total tallies of Hämäläinen and Svan),[ 13] and three by Andrea Schöne – in direct competition with Enke. Speed skater Gaétan Boucher won three of Canada's four medals in Sarajevo, including two golds.[ 14]
Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway won gold, silver and bronze in biathlon.
Bobsleigh
Hoppe , Musioł , Voge and Schauerhammer (left to right) contributed to East Germany's four medals in bobsleigh.
Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov (left) gave the Soviet Union a gold medal in the 30 km and a silver medal in the team relay.
Katarina Witt won her first Olympic figure skating singles gold medal in Sarajevo.
Ice hockey
Vladislav Tretiak , the Soviet Union ice hockey goaltender, won his third Olympic gold and fourth and last Olympic medal in Sarajevo.
Luge
East Germany's Steffi Martin (second from left), Jörg Hoffmann (second from right) and Jochen Pietzsch (first from right) won the luge women's singles gold and doubles bronze medals, respectively.
Nordic combined
Ski jumping
Ski jumper Jens Weißflog of East Germany won the normal hill event over Finland's Matti Nykänen , but could not outpass the Finnish in the large hill.
Speed skating
Tomas Gustafson clinched gold and silver in the men's 5,000 and 10,000 metres, to give Sweden its only speed skating medals at the 1984 Games.
Medal leaders
East Germany's speed skaters Andrea Schöne (first from left) and Karin Enke (second from right) stood among the most successful athletes at these Games.
Athletes that won at least two gold medals or at least three total medals are listed below.
See also
References
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^ Kubatko, Justin. "Alpine Skiing at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Women's Slalom" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2011 .
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^ Kubatko, Justin. "Bobsleigh at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Men's Four" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2011 .
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^ Kubatko, Justin. "Cross Country Skiing at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Men's 4 x 10 kilometres Relay" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2011 .
^ Kubatko, Justin. "Cross Country Skiing at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Women's 5 kilometres" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2011 .
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^ Kubatko, Justin. "Speed Skating at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Women's 3,000 metres" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2011 .
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