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President François Mitterrand
XVI Olympic Winter Games
	; The emblem is the Olympic flame; 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 sports
Opening ceremony	February 8
Closing ceremony	February 23
Officially opened by	President François Mitterrand
Athlete's Oath	Surya Bonaly
Judge's Oath	Pierre Bornat
Olympic Torch	Michel Platini and; 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 staged in 1992 in Albertville, France. Other candidate cities were Anchorage, Alaska, USA; Berchtesgaden, Germany; Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; Lillehammer, Norway; Falun, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 1986, the International Olympic Committee voted to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same year since 1924, and place them in alternating even-numbered years, beginning in 1994. The 1992 Winter Games were the last to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.^[1] They were also the first Games where the Winter Paralympics and the Winter Olympics were held at the same site. The opening and closing ceremonies were choregraphed by Philippe Decouflé and were a show in themselves. The information below comes from the International Olympic Committee Vote History web page.

1992 Winter Olympics Bidding Results
City	NOC Name	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5 (Runoff)	Round 6
Albertville	France	19	26	29	42	-	51
Sofia	Bulgaria	25	25	28	24	-	25
Falun	Sweden	10	11	11	11	41	9
Lillehammer	Norway	10	11	9	11	40	-
Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	7	6	7	-	-	-
Anchorage, Alaska	United States	7	5	-	-	-	-
Berchtesgaden	Germany	6	-	-	-	-	-

[edit] 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 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.

[edit] Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

[edit] Demonstration sports

Curling - Competed for the first time since 1924. It became a regular discipline in 1998.
Freestyle skiing - While moguls skiing was an official discipline, aerials and ski ballet were still considered as demonstration events.
Speed skiing - The sport has not made a return to the Winter Olympics program. A death occurred during a training session.

[edit] Participating nations

A total of 64 nations sent athletes to compete in these Games. With the 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 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 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.

Algeria (4)
Andorra (5)
Argentina (20)
Australia (21)
Austria (58)
Belgium (5)
Bermuda (1)
Bolivia (4)
Brazil (7)
Bulgaria (31)
Canada (109)
Chile (5)
China (32)
Costa Rica (4)
Croatia (4)
Cyprus (4)

Czechoslovakia (74)
Denmark (6)
Estonia (19)
Finland (62)
France (109) (Host country)
Germany (111)
Great Britain (49)
Greece (8)
Honduras (1)
Hungary (24)
Iceland (5)
India (2)
Ireland (4)
Italy (107)
Jamaica (5)
Japan (60)

Poland (53)
Puerto Rico (6)
Romania (23)
San Marino (3)
Senegal (2)
Slovenia (27)
Spain (17)
Swaziland (1)
Sweden (73)
Switzerland (74)
Chinese Taipei (8)
Turkey (8)
Unified Team (129)
United States (147)
Virgin Islands (12)
Yugoslavia (25)

[edit] 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 Ménuires - Slalom men
Méribel - Alpine Skiing Women
- Méribel Ice Palace - Hockey
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

[edit] Medal count

(Host nation is highlighted.)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	10	10	6	26
2	Unified Team¹	9	6	8	23
3	Norway	9	6	5	20
4	Austria	6	7	8	21
5	United States	5	4	2	11
6	Italy	4	6	4	14
7	France	3	5	1	9
8	Finland	3	1	3	7
9	Canada	2	3	2	7
10	South Korea	2	1	1	4

Further information: 1992 Winter Olympics medal table

(¹ combined team with athletes from 6 nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States; team only appeared in these Winter Olympics)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ "Albertville 1992". www.olympic.org. http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1992. Retrieved 2008-09-12.

[edit] External links

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[0] "Albertville 1992". www.olympic.org. http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1992. Retrieved 2008-09-12.

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