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1984 Winter Olympic Games

Highlights

The first Winter Games held in a Socialist country.
First Games under the presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.
The 20km race is added to women's Nordic skiing.
Skier Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympics 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.
Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean earned across-the-board perfect scores for artistic impression in the free dance figure skating competition.
Handicapped Ski are the demo event

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

Pos Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 German Democratic Republic 9 9 6 24

2 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 6 10 9 25

3 United States of America 4 4 0 8

4 Finland 4 3 6 13

5 Sweden 4 2 2 8

6 Norway 3 2 4 9

7 Switzerland 2 2 1 5

8 Canada 2 1 1 4

9 Federal Republic of Germany 2 1 1 4

10 Italy 2 0 0 2

11 Great Britain 1 0 0 1

12 Czechoslovakia 0 2 4 6

13 France 0 1 2 3

14 Japan 0 1 0 1

15 Yugoslavia 0 1 0 1

16 Liechtenstein 0 0 2 2

17 Austria 0 0 1 1