1984 Winter Olympics
| XIV Olympic Winter Games | |
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| Nations participating | 49 |
| Athletes participating | 1272 (998 men, 274 women) |
| Events | 49 in 6 sports |
| Opening ceremony | February 8, 1984 |
| Closing ceremony | February 19, 1984 |
| Officially opened by | Mika piljak |
| Athlete's Oath | Bojan Kriaj |
| Official's Oath | Dragan Perović |
| Olympic Torch | Sanda Dubravčić |
The XIV Olympic Winter Games were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun/Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Highlights
- The first Winter Games held in a Communist country.
- First Games under the presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.
- The 20km race is added to women's Nordic skiing.
- Skier Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympic medal; a silver in the giant slalom.
- Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen won all three individual cross-country races for women.
- Gaétan Boucher and Karin Enke each won two gold medals in speed skating, while East German women win all but 3 of the 12 medals in the sport.
- Biathlete Eirik Kvalfoss earned a complete set of medals.
- Twin brothers Phil and Steve Mahre took first and second place in the slalom.
- Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean earned across-the-board perfect scores for artistic impression in the free dance figure skating competition.
- Handicapped Ski was the demo event.
See also: 1984 Winter Paralympics
Medals awarded
See the medal winners, ordered by sport:
- Biathlon
- Bobsleigh
- Ice Hockey
- Luge
- Skating
- Skiing
Medal count
Top medal-collecting nations:
(for the full table, see 1984 Winter Olympics medal count)
| 1984 Winter Olympics medal count | Missing image Olympic-rings.png | ||||
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| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Missing image East_Germany_flag.png East Germany | 9 | 9 | 6 | 24 |
| 2 | Missing image Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.png USSR | 6 | 10 | 9 | 25 |
| 3 | Missing image USA_flag.png United States | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | Missing image Finland_flag_large.png Finland | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | Missing image Sweden_flag_large.png Sweden | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | Missing image Norway_flag_large.png Norway | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | Missing image Switzerland_flag_large.png Switzerland | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Missing image Canada_flag_large.png Canada | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Missing image Germany_flag_large.png West Germany | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italy Italy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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