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XIV Olympic Winter Games
The emblem symbolizes a stylized snowflake, as well as the embroidery produced in the Sarajevo region with the Olympic rings above.
Host city	Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Nations participating	49
Athletes participating	1272 (998 men, 274 women)
Events	49 in 6 sports
Opening ceremony	February 7
Closing ceremony	February 19
Officially opened by	Mika Špiljak
Athlete's Oath	Bojan Križaj (Alpine skiing)
Judge's Oath	Dragan Perović
Olympic Torch	Sanda Dubravčić (Figure skating)
Stadium	Asim Ferhatović Stadion

The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was at the time part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Gothenburg, Sweden. It was the first Winter Games and the second Olympics held in a socialist country (the first was the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union). The chart's information comes from the International Olympic Committee Vote History web page.

1984 Winter Olympics Bidding Results
City	NOC Name	Round 1	Round 2
Sarajevo	Yugoslavia	31	39
Sapporo	Japan	33	36
Gothenburg	Sweden	10	-

Torch Relay

The torch relay for the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic games started in Olympia-Athens and then by Airplane to Dubrovnik (Route One) Split- Ljubljana– Zagreb - Sarajevo(Route Two) Skopje – Novi Sad – Belgrade – Sarajevo The total distance of the Torch relay was 5,289 km (plus 2,879 km of local routes). Two Routes main routes and one in the west (2,602 km), the other in the east (2,687 km). The final torchbearer, from a total of 1600, was Sanda Dubravcic.

Highlights

• First Games under the presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.
• The 20 kilometre 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 three out of the twelve medals in the sport.
• Austria, usually a formidable winter sports nation, won only one bronze medal.
• Biathlete Eirik Kvalfoss earned a complete set of medals.
• Twin brothers Phil and Steve Mahre took first and second place in the slalom.
• Torvill and Dean (Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean) from the United Kingdom earned across-the-board perfect 6.0 system scores for artistic impression in the free dance ice dancing competition, a feat that, as of 2009, was yet to be matched.
• Disabled skiing was a demonstration sport for the first time.
• Bill Johnson became the first American to win an Olympic downhill event.
• Lamine Guèye of Senegal was the first Black African skier to compete in the Winter Olympics.
• 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, though the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are likely to hold the closing ceremonies indoors.
• ABC Sports aired a special called The Gold and Beyond, hosted by Jim McKay with John Denver.^[1]

Official mascot

Readers of Yugoslav newspapers were asked to choose the mascot for the 1984 Winter Olympics from a list of six finalists. The winner was Vučko, the little wolf, designed by Slovenian designer and illustrator Jože Trobec. The other finalists were a chipmunk, a lamb, a mountain goat, a porcupine, and a snowball.

Venues

City venues

• Koševo Stadion - opening ceremonies
• Zetra Ice Hall - figure skating, ice hockey, closing ceremonies
• Zetra Ice Rink - speed skating
• Skenderija II Hall - ice hockey

Mountain venues

• Mount Bjelašnica - men's alpine skiing
• Mount Jahorina - women's alpine skiing
• Igman, Veliko Polje - cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, biathlon
• Igman, Malo Polje - * Trebević - bobsleigh, luge

Other facilities

• Olympic Village, Mojmilo
• Press Village, Dobrinja
• Hotels: Igman (Igman), Famos (Bjelašnica), Smuk (Bjelašnica), Bistrica (Jahorina)

Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

Demonstration sport

• Disabled skiing

Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	9	9	6	24
2	Soviet Union (URS)	6	10	9	25
3	United States (USA)	4	4	0	8
4	Finland (FIN)	4	3	6	13
5	Sweden (SWE)	4	2	2	8
6	Norway (NOR)	3	2	4	9
7	Switzerland (SUI)	2	2	1	5
8	Canada (CAN)	2	1	1	4
	West Germany (FRG)	2	1	1	4
10	Italy (ITA)	2	0	0	2

Participants

A then record of 49 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) entered athletes at the 1984 Winter Olympic Games.

Egypt, Monaco, Puerto Rico, Senegal, and Virgin Islands participated in their 1st Winter Olympic Games.

The Republic of China ended its boycott of the Olympic Games over the controversy regarding the IOC's recognition of the People's Republic of China, and competed as Chinese Taipei for the first time.

See also

Olympics portal

• 1984 Summer Olympics
• Olympic Games
• Winter Olympic Games
• International Olympic Committee
• IOC country codes

Notes

External links

• Sarajevo 1984 from the International Olympic Committee
• Official site
• Official Report from the Organizing Committee on the AAFLA website
• Olympic Review 1984 - Official results
• The program of the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics