1984 Winter Olympics

Template:Olympics infobox The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun/Gothenburg, Sweden.

Highlights

The first Winter Games held in a Socialist country.
First Games under the presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.
The 20 km race was 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.
Bill Johnson became the first American to win an Olympic downhill event.
The closing ceremony was held indoors in the figure skating venue. This would be the last time the closing ceremony for the Winter Games was held indoors until 2010.

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

(Greatest number of medals in each category is in bold.)

1984 Winter Olympics medal count					Image:Olympische Ringe.svg
Pos	Country	Image:Med 1.png	Image:Med 2.png	Image:Med 3.png	Total
1	Image:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany	9	9	6	24
2	Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR	6	10	9	25
3	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States	4	4	0	8
4	Image:Flag of Finland.svg Finland	4	3	6	13
5	Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	4	2	2	8
6	Image:Flag of Norway.svg Norway	3	2	4	9
7	Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland	2	2	1	5
8	Image:Flag of Canada.svg Canada	2	1	1	4
8	Image:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany	2	1	1	4
10	Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy	2	0	0	2
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