1992 Winter Olympics
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{{Olympics infobox|1992|Winter |
Name = XVI Olympic Winter Games |
Logo = 1992_wolympics_logo.png|
Size = 150 |
Optional caption = The emblem is the Olympic flame<br> in the colors of the Savoie region.|
Host city = [[Albertville]], [[France]] |
Nations participating = 64 |
Athletes participating = 1801 (1313 men, 488 women) |
Events = 57 in 7 [[sport]]s |
Opening ceremony = [[February 8]], [[1992]] |
Closing ceremony = [[February 23]], [[1992]] |
Officially opened by = [[François Mitterrand]]<br/> French President|
Athlete's Oath = [[Surya Bonaly]] |
Judge's Oath = [[Pierre Bornat]] |
Olympic Torch = [[Michel Platini]] and<br/> [[François-Cyrille Grange]] |
Stadium = [[Théâtre des Cérémonies]]|
}}
The '''1992 [[Winter Olympics]]''', officially known as the '''XVI Olympic Winter Games,''' were a [[winter]] [[multi-sport event]] which was celebrated in [[1992]] in [[Albertville]], [[France]]. Other candidate cities were [[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]], [[United States|USA]]; [[Berchtesgaden]], [[Germany]]; [[Cortina d'Ampezzo]], [[Italy]]; [[Lillehammer]], [[Norway]]; [[Falun]], [[Sweden]]; and [[Sofia]], [[Bulgaria]].
These were the last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games. They were also the first Games where the [[Winter Paralympics]] and the Winter Olympics were held at the same site. The opening ceremony was choregraphed by Philippe Découflé and was a show in itself. The information below comes from [http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html the International Olympic Committee Vote History] web page.
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! colspan="8" | 1992 Winter Olympics Bidding Results
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| '''City'''
| '''NOC Name'''
| bgcolor=""|'''Round 1'''
| bgcolor="" |'''Round 2'''
| bgcolor="" |'''Round 3'''
| bgcolor="" |'''Round 4'''
| bgcolor="" |'''Round 5'''
| bgcolor="" |'''Round 6'''
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||[[Albertville]]||{{FRA}}
||19||'''26'''||'''29'''||'''42'''||-||'''51
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||[[Sofia]]||{{BUL}}
||'''25'''||25||28||24||-||25
|-
||[[Falun]]||{{SWE}}
||10||11||11||11||'''41'''||9
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||[[Lillehammer]]||{{NOR}}
||10||11||9||11||40||-
|-
||[[Cortina d'Ampezzo]]||{{ITA}}
||7||6||7||-||-||-
|-
||[[Anchorage, Alaska]]||{{USA}}
||7||5||-||-||-||-
|-
||[[Berchtesgaden]]||{{GER}}
||6||-||-||-||-||-
|}
== Athletic highlights ==
* Freestyle skiing event of moguls and short-track speedskating made their debuts as medal disciplines, as did women's biathlon.
* Norwegian skiers won every male cross-country skiing race. [[Bjørn Dæhlie]] and [[Vegard Ulvang]] each won three gold medals.
* Speedskater [[Bonnie Blair]] won both the 500 and 1,000 m events; [[Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann|Gunda Niemann]] took both of the longest races.
* Ski jumper [[Toni Nieminen]], 16, became the youngest male gold medalist of a Winter Olympic event.
* Italian alpine skier [[Alberto Tomba]] won the Giant Slalom for the second time in a row.
* Austrian alpine skier [[Petra Kronberger]] won both the combined event and the slalom.
* [[Kim Kihoon]] earned gold medals in both men's short-track events.
* [[Annelise Coberger]] of [[New Zealand]] wins the southern hemisphere's first Winter Olympic medal—a silver in the women's slalom.
* [[Kristi Yamaguchi]] and [[Midori Ito]] of the United States and Japan respectively, became the first persons of Asian descent to win Olympic medals in figure skating.
== Medals awarded ==
See the medal winners, ordered by sport:
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* [[Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Alpine skiing]]
* [[Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Biathlon]]
* [[Bobsleigh at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Bobsleigh]]
* [[Figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Figure skating]]
* [[Freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Freestyle skiing]] (moguls)
* [[Ice hockey at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Ice hockey]]
* [[Luge at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Luge]]
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* [[Nordic skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Nordic skiing]]
** [[Cross-country skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Cross-country skiing]]
** [[Nordic combined at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Nordic combined]]
** [[Ski jumping at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Ski jumping]]
* [[Short track speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Short track speed skating]]
* [[Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Speed skating]]
|}
===Demonstration sports===
* [[Curling at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Curling]] - Competed for the first time since [[1924 Winter Olympics|1924]]. It became a regular discipline in [[Curling at the 1998 Winter Olympics|1998]].
* [[Freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Freestyle skiing]] - While [[moguls skiing]] was an official discipline, aerials and ski ballet were still considered as demonstration events.
* [[Speed skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics|Speed skiing]] - The sport has not made a return to the Winter Olympics program. A tragic death occurred during a training session.
==Participating nations==
A total of 64 nations sent athletes to compete in these Games. With the [[History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)|collapse of the Soviet Union]], six states formed a [[Unified Team]], while the [[Baltic States]] of [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]] and [[Lithuania]] had their own teams. [[Croatia]] and [[Slovenia]], who were making their first appearance at the Winter Olympics, competed as independent nations after leaving [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]. The UN sanctions against Yugoslavia that saw them miss the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] had yet to come into effect.
The German team won most medals in the games, with a total of 10 gold medals, 10 silver and 6 bronze. It was the first time since the [[1936 Winter Olympics]] that Germany competed with a unified team after the [[German reunification|reunification]].
Making their debuts were [[Algeria]], [[Bermuda]], [[Brazil]], [[Honduras]], [[Ireland]] and [[Swaziland]]. It would also be the only appearance for both Honduras and Swaziland in Winter Olympics to date.
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==Venues==
The 1992 Games were as of today the last ones where the speed skating venue was outdoors.
*[[Albertville]]
**Halle Olympique - Figure Skating and Short Track
**Anneau de vitesse - Speed skating
**[[Théâtre des Cérémonies]] - Opening and Closing Ceremonies
*[[Les Arcs]] - Speed skiing
*[[Courchevel]] - Ski jumping and Nordic combined
*[[Les Menuires|Les Ménuires]] - Slalom men
*[[Méribel]] - Alpine Skiing Women
**[[Méribel Ice Palace]] - Hockey
*[[La Plagne bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track|La Plagne]] - Luge and Bobsled
*Pralognan-la-Vanoise - Curling
*Les Saisies - Nordic skiing and biathlon
*[[Tignes]] - Freestyle skiing
*[[Val d'Isère]] - Giant, Super G, downhill, combined men
== Medal count ==
(''Host nation is highlighted, greatest number of medals in each category is in '''bold'''.'')
{| {{RankedMedalTable}}
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|1||align=left| {{flagIOC|GER|1992 Winter}} || '''10''' || '''10''' || 6 || '''26'''
|-
|2||align=left| {{flagIOC|EUN|1992 Winter}}¹ || 9 || 6 || '''8''' || 23
|-
|3||align=left| {{flagIOC|NOR|1992 Winter}} || 9 || 6 || 5 || 20
|-
|4||align=left| {{flagIOC|AUT|1992 Winter}} || 6 || 7 || '''8''' || 21
|-
|5||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1992 Winter}} || 5 || 4 || 2 || 11
|-
|6||align=left| {{flagIOC|ITA|1992 Winter}} || 4 || 6 || 4 || 14
|- bgcolor=ccccff
|7||align=left| {{flagIOC|FRA|1992 Winter}} || 3 || 5 || 1 || 9
|-
|8||align=left| {{flagIOC|FIN|1992 Winter}} || 3 || 1 || 3 || 7
|-
|9||align=left| {{flagIOC|CAN|1992 Winter}} || 2 || 3 || 2 || 7
|-
|10||align=left| {{flagIOC|KOR|1992 Winter}} || 2 || 1 || 1 || 4
|}
{{see|1992 Winter Olympics medal count}}
(¹ combined team with athletes from 6 nations of the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]]; team only appeared in these Winter Olympics)
== See also ==
*[[1992 Winter Paralympics]]
*[[Olympic Games]]
*[[Winter Olympic Games]]
*[[International Olympic Committee]]
== External links ==
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* [http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1992 IOC Site on 1992 Winter Olympics]
* [http://www.aafla.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1992/ore294/ORE294o.pdf ''Olympic Review'' - Official Results]
* [http://collectionolympique.free.fr/siteanglais/colang.html Pins collection on Albertville 1992 Olympic Winter Games]
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