1992 Winter Olympics

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XVI Olympic Winter Games
Image:1992 wolympics logo.jpg
Nations participating	64
Athletes participating	1801 (1313 men, 488 women)
Events	57 in 7 sports
Opening ceremony	February 8, 1992
Closing ceremony	February 23, 1992
Officially opened by	François Mitterrand French President
Athlete's Oath	Surya Bonaly
Judge's Oath	Pierre Bornat
Olympic Torch	Michel Platini and François-Cyrille Grange
Stadium

The XVI Olympic Winter Games were held in 1992 in Albertville, France. Other candidate cities were Anchorage, 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.

1 Highlights
2 Medals awarded
3 Medal count
4 See also
5 External links

Highlights

Freestyle skiing and short-track speedskating made their debuts as medal disciplines, as did women's biathlon.
Norwegian skiers won every cross-country skiing race. Bjørn Dæhlie and Vegard Ulvang each won three gold medals.
Speedskater Bonnie Blair won both the 500 and 1,000m events; Gunda Niemann took both of the longest races.
Ski jumper Toni Nieminen, 16, became the youngest male winner of a Winter event.
Mark Kirchner became the first biathlete to win medals in all three biathlon events.
Alpine skier Petra Kronberger won both the combined event and the slalom.
Kim Kihoon earned gold medals in both short-track events.
Alex Flanagan won gold medal in biathlon and 1000m cross-country.
Curling was the demo sport; Freestyle Skiing and Speed Skiing, demo disciplines
Annaliese Coberger of New Zealand wins the southern hemisphere's first Winter Olympic Medal—a silver in the women's slalom.

Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

Aerials (demonstration sport)
Ballet (demonstration sport)

Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Curling (demonstration sport)
- Ice Hockey
Luge
Skating

Medal count

Top medal-collecting nations:
(for the full table, see 1992 Winter Olympics medal count)

(Host nation in bold.)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1992 Winter Olympics medal count					Image:Olympic-rings.png
1	Image:Germany flag large.png Germany	10	10	6	26
2	Image:Olympic-rings.png Unified Team¹	9	6	8	23
3	Image:Norway flag large.png Norway	9	6	5	20
4	Image:Austria flag large.png Austria	6	7	8	21
5	Image:USA flag.png United States	5	4	2	11
6	Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy	4	6	4	14
7	Image:France flag large.png France	3	5	1	9
8	Image:Finland flag large.png Finland	3	1	3	7
9	Image:Canada flag large.png Canada	2	3	2	7
10	Image:South korea flag large.png South Korea	2	1	1	4