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Innsbruck, Austria
IXth WINTER GAMES |
January 29 -
February 9, 1964 |
Mascot - none |
36 countries, 1091 athletes (200 women) |
6 sports, 34 events |
Opening -
President Dr. Adolf Scharf |
Torch lit by -
Joseph Rieder |
Candidates:
Calgary, Lahti/Are (FIN) |
 The IOC unanimously selected
Innsbruck for the Games which returned to Europe. The competitions were
held all over the city with distances of over 30 kilometres between
facilities. For the first time there were more than 1,000 athletes
present and there were over a million spectators. The Innsbruck games
were also the first ones to be fully "covered" by television
which contributed to increasing their success. The only real problem was
the lack of snow, a circumstance which involved a tremendous amount of
work by whole detachments of the Austrian army who transported over
20,000 cubic metres of snow from the seas of the North. Computers
appeared at the Innsbruck Olympics and the timing became electronic.
Luge made its debut; ski jumping was divided into two
separate events; and bobsledding returned.
The unquestionable star of
Innsbruck was Lydia Skoblikova. A double-gold medalist at Squaw Valley,
the Soviet speed skater swept all four speed skating events to become
the first person to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Winter
Games. Almost equally impressive was the performance by another Siberia
native, Klaudia Boyarskikh, a Nordic skier who won the 5km, 10km, and
3x5km relay.
The Americans' success in figure
skating ended as they failed to win a gold for the first time. But it
was more a story of tragedy than failure. In 1961 the entire U.S. figure
skating team, including coaches, died in a plane crash on the way to the
World Championships. In light of this, the bronze medal that 14-year-old
Scott Allen won was quite remarkable.
Richard Terrence McDermott, a
23-year-old barber, became the only American to win a gold medal when he
captured the 500m speed skating title in an Olympic-record 40.1 seconds.
The rest of the U.S. medals came in alpine skiing.
In the bobsled competition, two
surprise winners surfaced. In the four-man, Canada upset the Italians,
and the British upset the Italians in the two-man. The only other major
upset of the Games was that of the Canadian hockey team failing to medal
in an event once again won by the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union continued its
domination with 25 medals.
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BIATHLON |
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1 |
BOBSLEIGH |
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1 |
2 |
ICE HOCKEY |
1 |
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1 |
LUGE |
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1 |
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3 |
SKATING |
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Figure Skating |
1 |
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1 |
1 |
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3 |
Speed Skating |
5 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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9 |
SKIING |
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Alpine Skiing |
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3 |
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3 |
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6 |
Cross-Country Skiing |
3 |
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2 |
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2 |
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7 |
Nordic Combined |
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1 |
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1 |
Ski Jumping |
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1 |
1 |
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2 |
TOTAL |
11 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
34 |
GOLD MEDAL
WINNERS
(7 new events added, Reinstated sports - Bobsled &
Luge)
(21 Men, 12 Women, 1 Combined Events)
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BIATHLON
M\20km: Vladimir Melyanin, USSR
BOBSLEIGH
(NEW)
M\Two-Man: Anthony Nash/Robin Dixon, GBR
M\Four-Man: Canada
ICE HOCKEY
Men's Team: Soviet Union
LUGE (NEW)
M\Single: Thomas
Köhler, Germany
M\Double: Josef Feistmantl/Manfred
Stengl, AUT
W\Single: Ortrun Enderlein, Germany |
SKIING
ALPINE SKIING
M\Downhill: Egon Zimmermann, Austria
M\Slalom: Josef Stiegler, Austria
M\Giant Slalom: Francois Bonlieu, France
W\Downhill: Christl Haas, Austria
W\Slalom: Christine Goitschel, France
W\Giant Slalom: Marielle Goitschel, France
CROSS-COUNTRY
SKIING
M\15km Classical: Eero
MÄNTYRANTA, Finland
M\30km Classical: Eero
MÄNTYRANTA, Finland
M\50km Classical: Sixten Jernberg, Sweden
M\4x10km Relay: Sweden
W\5km Classical: Klavdiya Boyarskikh, USSR
W\10km Classical: Klavdiya Boyarskikh, USSR
W\3x5km Relay: Soviet Union
NORDIC COMBINED
M\Individual: Tormod Knutsen, Norway
SKI JUMPING
M\K-90 Individual: Veikko Kankkonen, Finland
M\K-120 Individual: Toralf Engan, Norway
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FIGURE SKATING
M\Singles: Manfred Schnelldorfer, Germany
W\Singles: Sjoukje Dijkstra, Netherlands
Pairs: Lyudmila Belousova/Oleg Protopopov, USSR
SPEED SKATING
M\500m: Richard McDermott, United States
M\1500m: Ants Antson, USSR
M\5000m: Knut Johannesen, Norway
M\10000m: Jonny Nilsson, Sweden
W\500m: Lydia Skoblikova, USSR
W\1000m: Lydia Skoblikova, USSR
W\1500m: Lydia Skoblikova, USSR
W\3000m: Lydia Skoblikova, USSR
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Country
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G
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B |
TTL |
USSR |
11 |
8 |
6 |
25 |
Austria |
4 |
5 |
3 |
12 |
Norway |
3 |
6 |
6 |
15 |
Finland |
3 |
4 |
3 |
10 |
France |
3 |
4 |
0 |
7 |
Germany |
3 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
Sweden |
3 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
United
States |
1 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
Netherlands |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
Canada |
1 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
Great
Britain |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Italy |
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
North
Korea |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Czechoslovakia |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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TOTAL
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34 |
38 |
41 |
113 |
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