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Lillehammer, Norway
XVIIth WINTER GAMES |
February 12 -
27, 1994 |
Mascot -
Kristin & Haakon |
67 countries, 1739 athletes
(522 women) |
6 sports, 61 events |
Opening - King Harald
V |
Torch lit by -
Prince Haakon |
Candidates:
Anchorage, Ostersund (SWE), Sofia |
15 September 1988 - 94th IOC Session in
Seoul, South Korea - Lillehammer was elected to be the host of the
XVIIth Olympic Winter Games in 1994.
Round |
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2 |
3 |
Anchorage |
23 |
22 |
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Lillehammer |
25 |
30 |
45 |
Oestersund/Are |
19 |
33 |
39 |
Sofia |
17 |
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 At the seventh edition of the
Winter Olympic Games Oslo had showed what great organizational ability
the Norwegians had. Nobody thought they would be able to do better but,
for the eighteenth edition, Lillehammer succeeded in showing us
Norway’s heart and soul. The Games were held only two years after the
Albertville ones because the had IOC decided that the winter and summer
Games should be two years apart. Norway seized the opportunity to offer
us the most beautiful edition ever.
The opening ceremony - not by any
means simple yet not "American style" - gave a wonderful
summary of thousands of years of history. The actress, Liv Ulmann, whose
face the great director Ingmar Bergman preferred, tells a child the
story of his people through the Trolls, small, horrible but good-natured
Nordic gnomes. The simplicity of the decor ignored the fact that there
were millions of people watching it live on television. And that was not
all: just imagine, ninety thousand anemones were brought into the great
jumping square of Lillehammer for the ceremony and the plants were not
destroyed afterwards but replanted elsewhere. The King took the oath
while a jumper carried the flame to the Olympic brazier.
During the weeks leading up to
the Games, excessive public interest was generated by the vicious attack
on American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, and the subsequent news that
teammate Tonya Harding was involved. When all was said and done in
ladies' figure skating, it was Ukrainian Oksana Baiul that won gold,
barely edging out Kerrigan. Harding finished in eighth place and has not
competed since.
The biggest winner of the
Lillehammer Games was Italian Manuela Di Centa who won five medals in
cross-country skiing. Russian nordic skier Lyubov Egorova won three more
golds and a silver to bring her total to a record-tying six golds.
Gustav Weder and Donat Acklin of
Switzerland became the first men to successfully defend a two-man
bobsled title, and German four-man bobsled veteran Wolfgang Hoppe
medaled in his fourth consecutive Games, also a record.
Speed skater Bonnie Blair also
set a record with her third consecutive 500m gold, and Dan Jansen
finally won a gold in his final chance in the 1,000m -- setting a world
record in the process -- after stumbling and failing to medal in the
500m. Neither of these achievements could overshadow the remarkable
speed skating of Norwegian Johann Olav Koss, who won three gold medals,
all in world-record times.
In hockey, the United States and
Russia suffered early losses, and Sweden surprised Canada in the final
to take the gold.
In the year that the Games came
to Norway, the Norwegians returned to the top of the medals table with
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BIATHLON
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BOBSLED |
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1 |
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1 |
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ICE
HOCKEY |
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1 |
LUGE |
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2 |
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SKATING |
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Figure
Skating (UKR) |
3 |
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4 |
Short
Track Speed Skating |
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1 |
1 |
4 |
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6 |
Speed Skating |
2 |
3 |
1 |
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3 |
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1 |
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10 |
SKIING |
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Alpine
Skiing |
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1 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
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1 |
1 |
1 |
10 |
Cross-Country
Skiing (KAZ) |
3 |
3 |
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3 |
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10 |
Freestyle
Skiing (UZB) |
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1 |
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1 |
1 |
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4 |
Nordic
Combined (JPN) |
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1 |
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Ski
Jumping |
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1 |
2 |
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3 |
TOTAL |
11 |
10 |
9 |
7 |
6 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
61 |
GOLD MEDAL
WINNERS
(4 new events)
(34 Men, 25 Women, 2 Combined Events)
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BIATHLON
M\10km: Sergei Tchepikov, Russia
M\20km: Sergei Tarasov, Russia
M\4x7.5km Relay: Germany
W\7.5km: Myriam Bedard, Canada
W\15km: Myriam Bedard, Canada
W\4x7.5km: Russia
BOBSLEIGH
M\Two-Man: Gustav Weder/Donat Acklin, Switzerland
M\Four-Man: Germany
ICE HOCKEY
Men's Team: Sweden
LUGE
M\Single: Georg Hackl, Germany
O\Double: Kurt Brugger/Wilfried Huber, Italy
W\Single: Gerda Weissensteiner, Italy |
SKIING
ALPINE SKIING
M\Downhill: Tommy Moe, United States
M\Slalom: Thomas Stangassinger, Austria
M\Giant Slalom: Markus Wasmeier, Germany
M\Super Giant Slalom: Markus Wasmeier, Germany
M\Combined: Lasse Kjus, Norway
W\Downhill: Katja Seizinger, Germany
W\Slalom: Vreni Schneider, Switzerland
W\Giant Slalom: Deborah Compagnoni, Italy
W\Super Giant Slalom: Diann Roffe, United States
W\Combined: Pernilla Wiberg, Sweden
CROSS-COUNTRY
SKIING
M\10km classical: Bjorn Daehlie, Norway
M\15km freestyle/pursuit: Bjorn Daehlie, Norway
M\30km freestyle: Thomas Alsgaard, Norway
M\50km classical: Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakhstan
M\4x10km Relay: Italy
W\5km classical: Lyubov Egorova, Russia
W\10km freestyle/pursuit: Lyubov Egorova, Russia
W\15km freestyle: Manuela Di Centa, Italy
W\30km classical: Julija Tchepalova, Russia
W\4x5km Relay: Russia
FREESTYLE SKIING
M\Aerials: Andreas SCHÖNBÄCHLER,
Switzerland
M\Moguls: Jean-Luc Brassard, Canada
W\Aerials: Lina Cheryazova,
Uzbekistan
W\Moguls: Stine Lise Hattestad, Norway
NORDIC COMBINED
Individual: Fred Boerre Lundberg, Norway
Team: Japan
SKI-JUMPING
M\K-90 Individual: Espen Bredesen, Norway
M\K-120 Individual: Jens Wiessflog, Germany
M\K-120 Team: Germany
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SKATING
FIGURE SKATING
M\Singles: Aleksei Urmanov, Russia
W\Singles: Oksana Baiul, Ukraine
Pairs: Ekaterina Gordeeva/Sergei Grinkov, Russia
Ice-Dancing: Oksana Grichtchuk/Yevgeny Platov, Russia
SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING
M\500m: Ji-Hoon Chae, South Korea
M\1000m: Ki-Hoon Kim, South Korea
M\5000m Relay: Italy
W\500m: Cathy Turner, United States
W\1000m: Lee-Kyung Chun, South Korea
W\3000m Relay: South Korea
SPEED SKATING
M\500m: Aleksandr Golubev, Russia
M\1000m: Daniel Jansen, United States
M\1500m: Johann Koss, Norway
M\5000m: Johann Koss, Norway
M\10000m: Johann Koss, Norway
W\500m: Bonnie Blair, United States
W\1000m: Bonnie Blair, United States
W\1500m: Emese Hunyady, Austria
W\3000m: Svetlana Bazhanova, Russia
W\5000m: Claudia Pechstein, Germany |
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COUNTRY
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TTL
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Norway |
10 |
11 |
5 |
26 |
Germany |
9 |
7 |
8 |
24 |
Russia |
11 |
8 |
4 |
23 |
Italy |
7 |
5 |
8 |
20 |
United
States |
6 |
5 |
2 |
13 |
Canada |
3 |
6 |
4 |
13 |
Switzerland |
3 |
4 |
2 |
9 |
Austria |
2 |
3 |
4 |
9 |
South
Korea |
4 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
Finland |
0 |
1 |
5 |
6 |
Japan |
1 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
France |
0 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
Netherlands |
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
Sweden |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
Kazakhstan |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
China |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
Slovenia |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
Ukraine |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
Belarus |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
Uzbekistan |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Australia |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Great
Britain |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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TOTAL
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61 |
61 |
61 |
183 |
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