14th Winter Olympic Games. Fourteenth Winter Olympic Games. Venue of the competition
Was played out 39 sets of awards in six types of sports.
The history of the development of winter sports in Yugoslavia dates back to the times of the Ottoman Empire. Indeed, in this region, where the town of Sarajevo is located, surrounded by mountains, the area is covered in deep snow for more than 100 days a year. And winter sports in this country received a new life thanks to their enthusiasts, who in the period 1937 - 1968 created an excellent base: cross-country skiing tracks, speed skating tracks, jumps and much more. Of course, the National Olympic Committee of Yugoslavia and the country’s sports federations subsequently took an active part in the development of the region’s sports infrastructure.
1. Official poster of the 1984 Olympics.
2. Mascot of the 1984 Olympic Games Vuchko the wolf cub.
To ensure the successful implementation of the program of the XIV Winter Olympic Games 1984 in Sarajevo (Yugoslavia), which took place from February 8 to February 16, all the necessary sports facilities were prepared:
- Skating- Ice arena “Zetra”;
- Figure skating
- Hockey- Ice Arena “Zetra” and Ice Arena “Skenderija”;
Champions and medalists of the 1984 Olympics
Men's single skating
Gold - Scott Scovell Hamilton, born 1958, USA.
Silver- Brian Ernest Orser, born 1961, Canada.
Bronze- Josef Sabovčík, born 1963, Czechoslovakia.
Women's single skating
Gold- Katarina Witt, born 1965, East Germany.
Silver- Rosalynn Diane Sumners, born 1964, USA.
Bronze- Kira Ivanova (1963 - 2001), USSR.
Sports couples
Gold- Elena Valova (born 1963) – Oleg Vasiliev (born 1959), USSR.
Silver- Kitty Carruthers (Caitlin A. “Kitty” Carruthers, born 1961) - Peter W. Carruthers, born 1959), USA.
Bronze- Larisa Selezneva (born 1963) - Oleg Makarov (born 1962), USSR.
Dancing couples
Gold- Jayne Torvill, born 1957 - Christopher Colin Dean, born 1958, UK.
Silver- Natalya Bestemyanova (born 1960) - Andrey Bukin (born 1957), USSR.
Bronze- Marina Klimova (born - 1966) - Sergey Ponomarenko (born - 1960), USSR.
- Cross-country skiing and biathlon- ski stadium in the area “Igman - Veliko polje”;
- Alpine skiing (men)- ski slopes in the Bjelasnica area;
- Alpine skiing (women)- ski slopes in the Jahorina area;
- Ski jumping- reconstructed jumps in the area “Igman - Malo polje”;
- Bobsleigh and Luge- on the bobsleigh track in the Trebevic area;
- Nordic combined- ski stadium and jumping hill in the area “Igman - Veliko polje”.
In the suburbs of Sarajevo, the Olympic Village was built in 1982, which consisted of two complexes - the main "Mojmilo" and auxiliary "Dobrinja" for 2750 apartments.
The main facilities supporting the preparation and holding of the XIV Winter Olympic Games in 1984 were the Zetra Olympic Complex and the Skenderija Cultural Sports Center.
One of the notable aspects of the opening ceremony of the 1984 Winter Olympics was that the event took place during the 60th anniversary of the 1st Winter Olympics, which took place in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
In figure skating, all four gold medals went to representatives of different countries: Katharina Witt (GDR), Scott Hamilton (USA) - in single skating, Jane Torvill And Christopher Dean (Great Britain) - in ice dancing, Elena Valova And Oleg Vasiliev (USSR) - in pair skating. USSR athletes traditionally won in pair skating, but the unique talent of the outstanding English dance couple pushed the USSR representatives to second and third places.
Jane Torvill And Christopher Colin Dean- famous British couple, Olympic champions in 1984, four-time world champions (1981 – 1984).
Jayne Torvill began skating playing hockey after school at the age of eight. Then she started figure skating. At the age of 14 she won the British Junior Pair Skating Championships with Michael Hutchinson. After the breakup of this couple, Jane competed in single skating for three years, and then, in 1975, she teamed up with Christopher Dean and the new couple took up ice dancing.
Jane worked as a clerk at an insurance company, and Christopher was a policeman. It wasn't until they finished fifth at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid that they were able to quit their jobs and pursue figure skating full-time. They developed an unusually creative original style, significantly changing the existing stereotypes in sports dances:
Opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics.
In the 1982-83 season, the couple and coach staged a program in an eccentric style based on the musical "Barnum", introducing for the first time in history new circus movements into the program, depicting balancing on a rope, juggling, as well as new steps, lifts, flips, spins, etc. , combining amazing style with almost absolute technical purity and exciting emotionality, for the first time in the history of the European and World Championships, the judges gave all scores 6.0 for artistry.
- in the 1983/84 season, in a completely different style program to the music of M. Ravel “Bolero”, the couple was distinguished by its exceptional smoothness, purity and beauty of lines, the judges gave not only all marks of 6.0 for artistry, but also 3 marks of 6.0 for technique. However, this program caused controversy among specialists and judges, primarily because for the first 40 seconds of the program the couple performed movements in one place (and the partner did not rise from the ice), but the ISU rules at that time did not regulate this, so the scores were not reduced (then The ISU has introduced corresponding restrictions of up to 10 seconds). In total, at the Olympics - 84 Torvill - Dean received 19 ratings of 6.0 out of 63 possible.
1. Podium at the 1984 Olympics in ice dancing.
2-3. 1984 Olympic champions in ice dancing Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
Speed skating competitions were characterized by intense rivalry. Medals of varying denominations went to representatives of six countries. However, the GDR athletes clearly dominated ( 11 medals) with the main contribution of the women's team ( victory in all four distances - full East German podium at 3000 m).
USSR speed skaters won 2 gold medals ( S. Fokichev at a distance of 500 m and I. Malkov at a distance of 10000 m). What was unusual was the absence of representatives from the Netherlands among the winners. The winners in speed skating were athletes from four countries - the GDR ( 4 gold medals), USSR (2), Canada (2), Sweden (1).
After these two seasons, the couple gained worldwide fame. Then Torvill and Dean turned professional, winning the professional world championships three times in a row and participating in various shows. In 1989, the names of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean were inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
In 1993, the ISU released rules relaxations to allow some skaters to return to the amateur sport, allowing Torvill and Dean to compete in the 1994 Olympics, where they won bronze medals. After the Olympics, Torvill and Dean returned to the professionals and won two more world championships.
The pair Torvill - Dean is deservedly considered the best dance duet in history. Perfect gliding and absolute synchronicity, impeccable clean lines of the compulsory dances and, of course, imagination in the free dance - this is the kind of memory the English dance duo Torvill - Dean left behind.
A brilliant pair from the USSR confidently won gold in pair skating - Elena Valova And Oleg Vasiliev. They are Olympic champions of 1984, silver medalists of the 1988 Olympics, three-time world champions (1983, 1985, 1988), three-time European champions (1984 - 1986), multiple champions of the USSR, Honored Masters of Sports (1983).
Valova and Vasiliev became the first sports couple to perform a triple parallel jump.
Oleg Vasiliev - coach of the 2006 Olympic champions in pair skating Tatiana Totmyanina And Maxima Marinina. Now the most successful duo training with Vasiliev are Maria Mukhortova And Maxim Trankov.
1. Silver medalists of the 1984 Olympics in ice dancing Natalya Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin.
2. Silver medalists of the 1984 Olympics with their coach Tatyana Tarasova.
3. Bronze medalists of the 1984 Olympics Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko.
The American won the men's singles skating competition. Scott Hamilton- Olympic champion in 1984, four-time world champion (1981 – 1984).
Despite the fact that he only had three triple jumps in his arsenal ( Lutz, Salchow and sheepskin coat), in contrast to a number of skaters who owned six triples ( including triple axel), he managed to become an Olympic champion. Among men's singles there has always been fierce competition and champions in this event change frequently. But it was Scott Hamilton who was able to stay at the top for four years. Together with him they fought on equal terms for the highest awards. B. Orser from Canada, N. Schramm from Germany, I. Sabovchik from Czechoslovakia and our skaters Alexander Fadeev And Vladimir Kotin.
Scott Hamilton was not your typical champion. He was seriously ill as a child - Shwachman syndrome ( Schwachman-Diamond Syndrome), but overcame the disease, although he remained very miniature forever. After the 1984 Games, he turned professional and performed on the ice show “Stars on Ice”, and also commentated on figure skating competitions on television. Despite the fact that he was diagnosed with cancer in 1997, and a brain tumor in 2004, he overcame these terrible diseases. A true fighter is a fighter in everything. One cannot help but admire this brilliant skater and courageous man!
1. Podium at the 1984 Olympics in pair skating.
2. 1984 Olympic champions in pair skating Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev.
3. Bronze medalists of the 1984 Olympics in pair skating Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov.
In biathlon, a clear advantage was shown by representatives of Norway and Germany, who received three medals, one of each value. Norwegian E. Kvalfoss won the 10 km race, P. Angerer from Germany - in the 20 km race, and the USSR team was first in the relay.
In the luge competitions, the largest number of medals - 4 (1, 1, 2) - were also achieved by representatives of the GDR. The USSR national team has 3 medals ( 2 silver and 1 bronze), one medal each ( gold) among athletes from Italy and Germany.
In the decisive match of the hockey tournament, the USSR national team won a bitter struggle (2:0) over the athletes of Czechoslovakia.
A star shone at the 1984 Olympics Katharina Witt- an outstanding figure skater from the GDR, two-time Olympic champion (1984, 1988), four-time world champion (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988), six-time European champion (1983 - 1988), eight-time champion of the GDR.
Witt trained with a famous coach from the GDR Jutta Müller in the famous sports club SK Karl-Marx-Stadt. She often performed unsuccessfully in compulsory figures, but was distinguished by her exceptionally harmonious short and free programs. She was one of the first in the history of the World Championships to perform a triple flip jump (1981). In 1984-88 she mastered only two triple jumps, the toe loop and the Salchow, with the exception of the 1987 World Championships, where she also achieved the triple loop. In total, Katarina Witt has won 20 international and national awards, which is a record in women's singles skating.
After leaving amateur sports, she acted in films and hosted sports television programs. In 1990, she received an Emmy award for her participation in the film Carmen on Ice. In 1995, Witt received the John Thorpe Award for her achievements in professional sports. In 1999, she was chosen as “Favorite Female Athlete” in the United States and “Skater of the Century” in Germany. K. Witt pays a lot of attention to the charitable foundation she founded in 2006, which provides assistance to disabled children.
When talking about the 1984 Games, one cannot fail to mention the remarkable Soviet athlete - Kira Ivanova. She is the first Soviet figure skater to win a medal at the Olympic Games in women's single skating. In addition, Ivanova is a silver medalist at the World Championships, a four-time silver medalist at the European Championships, and the 1978 USSR champion. After finishing her sports career, she acted in films and worked at the Ice Miniatures Theatre. Igor Bobrin and a coach at the Dynamo sports club.
Unfortunately, the fate of Kira Ivanova is tragic - in 2001 she was found murdered, with multiple stab wounds, in her apartment.
Bronze medalist of the 1984 Olympics in women's single skating Kira Ivanova. We remember you!
In general, the 1984 Olympics was successful for Soviet figure skaters. Silver medalists among dance couples were Natalya Bestemyanova – Andrey Bukin, bronze – Marina Klimova – Sergei Ponomarenko. Won bronze in the pairs competition Larisa Selezneva – Oleg Makarov.
1. 1984 Olympic champion in men's singles Scott Hamilton.
2. 1984 Olympic champion in women's singles Katarina Witt.
From February 8-23, 1984, the XIV Winter Olympic Games were held in Sarajevo (Yugoslavia). 1,581 athletes (including 368 women) from 49 countries competed for 39 sets of Olympic medals.
In cross-country skiing, Scandinavian athletes had a traditional advantage: the Finnish team received 8 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze), the Swedish team received 5 (3, 1, 1, respectively). The USSR athletes also had 5 medals (1, 4, 0). Finnish athlete M.-L. was recognized as the heroine of the Olympics. Hämälainen, who won all three individual distances and received a bronze medal for her participation in the relay. Among the men, the greatest success was achieved by Swede Gunde Svan, who won the 15 km race, and also won a second gold medal in the relay and prizes in the 30 and 50 km races. Gold medals went to representatives of four countries - Finland (3), Sweden (3), USSR (1), Norway (1).
Speed skating competitions were also characterized by intense rivalry. Medals of varying denominations went to representatives of six countries. However, the GDR athletes clearly dominated (11 medals), with the main contribution from the women's team (victory in all four distances - a full East German podium at 3000 m). The best results in the competition were speed skaters K. Enke from the GDR (2 gold and 2 silver medals) and Canadian Gaetan Boucher - two gold and one bronze. USSR speed skaters won two gold medals (S. Fokichev - 500 m and I. Malkov - 10,000 m) and nine medals in total. What was unusual was the absence of representatives from the Netherlands among the winners. The winners in speed skating were athletes from four countries - the GDR (4 gold medals), the USSR (2), Canada (2), Sweden (1).
In ski jumping, gold and silver medals went to two athletes - Jen Weisflog from the GDR (victory in the 70-meter and second place in the 90-meter springboard) and Matti Nykänen from Finland (win in the 90-meter and second place in the 70-meter). meter springboard).
In alpine skiing, the Americans, who were awarded the largest number of medals - 5 (3, 2, 0, respectively), turned out to be unexpectedly sharp rivals for the athletes of the Alpine states. W. Johnson won the men's downhill skiing, F. Mars won the slalom, and the Americans D. Armstrong and K. Cooler took the first two places on the podium in the giant slalom. Olympic gold medals were won by representatives of three countries - the USA (3), Switzerland (2), Italy (2).
In biathlon, a clear advantage was shown by representatives of Norway and Germany, who received three medals, one of each value. Norwegian E. Kvalfoss won the 10 km race, P. Angerer from Germany won the 20 km race, and the USSR team was first in the relay.
No one could resist the bobsledders from the GDR, who won the first two places in both the two and four. Hoppe and Dietmar Schauerhammer especially distinguished themselves, becoming two-time champions.
In figure skating, all four gold medals went to representatives of different countries - Katharina Witt (GDR), Scott Hamilton (USA) - in single skating, Joan Torvill and Christopher Dean (Great Britain) - in ice dancing, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev ( USSR) - in pair skating. USSR athletes traditionally won in pair skating, but the unique talent of the outstanding English dance couple pushed the USSR representatives to second and third places.
In the luge competitions, the largest number of medals - 4 (respectively 1, 1, 2) were also achieved by representatives of the GDR. The USSR national team has 3 medals (2 silver and 1 bronze), and athletes from Italy and Germany have one medal each (gold).
In Nordic combined, the podium was “Scandinavian”, and Tom Sandberg (Norway) won.
In the final match of the hockey tournament, the USSR national team won a bitter struggle (2:0) over the athletes of Czechoslovakia.
Photo: AFP
In the unofficial team competition, the USSR athletes were first - 167 points. The GDR team took second place with 165 points, and Finnish athletes who performed successfully took third place. The USSR athletes received the largest number of medals - 25 (6, 10, 9, respectively), the GDR team had one less medal - 24 (9, 9, 6). However, the GDR team won the largest number of gold medals. The Finnish team received 13 medals (4, 3, 6).
Information provided by the Russian Olympic Committee.
Sarajevo (Yugoslavia)
The 1984 Games were the first after the Spanish Marquis Juan Antonio Samaranch came to power in the IOC. Therefore, the competition turned out to be experimental in many respects. A socialist country won the Winter Olympics for the first and last time. True, the vote, in which Sarajevo beat Gothenburg and Sapporo, took place two years before Samaranch was elected. The arrival of the White Games in the Balkans was used as an occasion to expand the geography of snow and ice sports. The IOC has promised to sponsor one male and one female athlete from any country to travel to Sarajevo. As a result, such hot powers as Mexico, Egypt and Senegal made their debut at the winter sports forum. The appearance of an African skier on the slopes was one of the shocks of the Olympics.
Venue: Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
February 7 - 19, 1984
Number of participating countries - 49
Number of participating athletes - 1272 (274 women, 998 men)
Medal sets - 39
Winner in the team competition - GDR
Three main characters of the Games according to SE
Katharina Witt (GDR),
figure skating
Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen (Finland),
ski race
Zintis Ekmanis (USSR),
bobsled
BEFORE THE STORM
SEEING AWAY FOR TRETYAK
The main event of the 1984 Games for Soviet sports was the victory of the USSR national team in the hockey tournament and the third Olympic gold in the career of the famous goalkeeper Vladislav Tretyak, who ended his international career after Sarajevo. In a head-to-head match, our hockey players failed to take revenge on the Americans for “Miracle 1980” - the US team ended up in another subgroup and did not reach the final stage. Viktor Tikhonov's team won all eight matches with a total score of 58:6. None of the opponents were able to hit the goal of the Soviet team more than once during the match. Canadians have long sought the right to use players drafted in the NHL. But in the end, the founders of hockey were still left without Olympic medals.
Soviet skier Nikolai Zimyatov, in an unequal battle with Swede Gunde Swan, managed to snatch the fourth Olympic gold in his career. The real hero of the Sarajevo ski track was the Finnish skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, who beat the Soviet competition favorite Raisa Smetanina and won all three individual distances. Subsequently, the iron Finn, the daughter of the 1960 Olympic champion in the marathon skiing Kalevi Hämäläinen, will become the first woman in history to take part in six Olympics. At the same time, Marja-Liisa managed to avoid doping revelations, which affected many of her rivals and friends on the national team, as well as her husband, skier Harri Kirvisniemi.
For the first time in the history of the USSR, the USSR lost its primacy in the competition of dance duets in figure skating - Natalya Bestemyanova and Andrei Bukin lost first place to the impeccable Britons Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean, who received 12 maximum marks from the judges, 6.0 out of 18 possible, for their performance of their “Bolero”. Serious competition for the champion dancers in terms of the number of fans was 19-year-old Katarina Witt, who quickly turned into a sex symbol of the entire winter sport. Western media will soon call Witt “the most beautiful face of socialism,” and the Stasi (GDR secret police), tasked with preventing the star from escaping to the West, will collect an eight-volume dossier of 1,354 pages on the skater. However, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Katarina will still sign a contract with an ice show in the USA.
STEEP SLOPES
The battle of slender men - Finn Matti Nykänen and East German Jens Weissflog - marked a new trend in ski jumping. From this moment on, the weight of all elite jumpers will begin to rapidly decline, which in the future will force the International Ski Federation to fight the “flying skeletons”. A new word in the Olympic movement was the performance on the ski slopes of Sarajevo by Senegalese Lamine Gueye, the first representative of Black Africa at the Winter Games. The African living in Paris did not achieve any particular sporting success, but then took part in two more Olympics, and in the 2000s he became famous for his loud speeches for expanding quotas for “small countries” during the selection for the Games.
Many colorful characters gathered on the mountain slopes of the 1984 Games. Thus, student from Ljubljana Jure Franko won silver for the hosts of the Olympics - Yugoslavia - the country's first award in the history of the Winter Games. In subsequent years, skiers from the former Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia will add 15 more Olympic medals. In slalom at the 1984 Olympics, the first two places were taken by American twin brothers Phil and Steve Marais. Moreover, both performed against the backdrop of numerous injuries. Perhaps an athlete from our team, Alexander Zhirov, who took third place in the overall World Cup in 1981, could compete with them. But a year before Sarajevo, the most talented Soviet skier died in a car accident at the age of 24.
Another example of the uselessness and abandonment of Olympic venues is Sarajevo, where the 1984 Winter Olympics took place. But unlike Athens, there is a completely different story and reasons. Less than ten years after the end of the games, war broke out in Yugoslavia, and the territory went to Bosnia. During the fighting, many Olympic venues were completely destroyed or abandoned and fell into deep disrepair. You can see what’s wrong with them now in this post.
The symbol of the Olympics was chosen in an open competition, in which the Slovenian illustrator Josef Trobec won, and the wolf cub Vuchko became the symbol.
Another symbol of the Olympics is the angular snowflake, which still adorns the urban landscape of Sarajevo. The wolf cub and the snowflake are still in high demand among tourists; in souvenir and antique shops you can even now buy paraphernalia with these symbols. For example, I bought a magnet from Vuchko. I have never seen anything like this in Athens, although the Olympics took place there not so long ago relative to Sarajevo.
The Olympic Games venues are scattered throughout different parts of the city and beyond, so to see everything you need to travel around and spend a lot of time. Considering that we were in our own car, it took almost the entire day. For those tourists who are going to Sarajevo without a car, please note that there is no public transport to these sites. There is an option to buy the services of a guide, which will cost a pretty penny, take a taxi or hitch a ride. The most easily accessible facility is the stadium, where the opening and closing ceremonies of the games took place, located in the very center of Sarajevo. Nearby is a pillar with the symbols of the Olympic Games, which is now used to advertise McDonald's, whose logo is placed on the side.
The park and the area near the stadium turned into a cemetery during the war.
Another wartime photo, with the Kosevo stadium in the background, where all the ceremonies took place.
Now this area looks like this.
The stadium was finally restored in 1998. But, unfortunately, not all Olympic venues have found a new life.
The next interesting object is the bobsleigh and luge tracks in Mount Trebevic. At the entrance to them you can see elements of the gutter, which apparently served as a demonstration.
Interestingly, luge and bobsleigh never existed in Yugoslavia, so the track was built from scratch, and team members were recruited from representatives of other sports.
The track, built in just a year, became the pride of Yugoslavia. Encircling Mount Trebevich, it repeated its natural landscape.
A then-record $10 million was spent on construction, which met all international standards. In the future, it was planned to create a sports school on its basis and continue to train Yugoslav athletes for the next competitions. By the way, World Cup competitions and national championships were also held on this luge and bobsleigh track.
But 1991 came. And during the war, the military used the steep modern track with comfortable sides to organize artillery firing points.
Now it has turned into a favorite place for adventure seekers, as well as creativity and street art lovers. I'm not a fan of this kind of art, but in some places it's very beautiful.
Acceleration location
To be honest, before I met this track, I had never been interested in bobsleigh and did not even think that the chute was designed in such a way as to be able to change the configuration of the track.
This is what systems that provide this capability look like:
We managed to walk along the entire route.
It is advised not to leave the concrete chute; you can still find mines in the forest.
During our walks, we met one man with a metal detector, who, apparently, was searching for them. This is the only treasure you can find in these places.
By the way, from the very top of Mount Trebevich there is a stunning view of the entire city.
The most distant object is the ski jumps in the town of Malo Pole on Mount Igman.
On the way to the ski jumps you can see the Igman Hotel, built for the Olympic Games. The building is huge and has unusual architecture. During the war it was used by Muslim Bosniaks as a prison for Serbian soldiers. As a result, in 1993 the building, used for less than 8 years, was burned down. After the end of the war, the government tried many times to sell the hotel. In 2004 the price was 2.5 million euros. No buyers were found, which is not surprising.
A little more from the hotel and you are already near the ski jumps.
The most interesting thing can be seen if you climb to the very top.
Along crumbling and overgrown steps
Symbol of the Olympics
The view from the top is amazing
I don't know about you, but I always feel creepy when looking from above the diving board. What metal should the eggs of athletes who jump from here be made of?
Igor decided to experience this feeling
And got ready to jump :)
The building where the judge and the media were located
Nowadays only the landing area is used; there are sports attractions for children here, but the place is not very popular
There have been no spectators for a long time and, most likely, there never will be again.
There is a cafe
Game logos are everywhere
Pedestal where the winners were awarded.
And, finally, the Olympic Village, which has been preserved on the outskirts of Sarajevo.
Refugees and those left homeless after the war received apartments here.
Sports represented
Biathlon
Bobsled
Skiing
Skating
Nordic combined
Ski race
Ski jumping
Luge
Figure skating
Hockey
At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, 1,581 athletes, including 368 women from 49 countries, competed for 39 sets of Olympic medals.
In cross-country skiing, Scandinavian athletes had a traditional advantage: the Finnish team received 8 medals - 3 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze; Sweden 5 medals - 3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze. The USSR athletes also had 5 medals - 1 gold and 4 silver. The Finnish athlete Hämälainen was recognized as the heroine of the Olympics, winning all three individual distances and receiving a bronze medal for participating in the relay. Among the men, the greatest success was achieved by Swede Gunde Svan, who won the 15 km race, and also won a second gold medal in the relay and prizes in the 30 and 50 km races. Gold medals went to representatives of four countries: Finland - 3, Sweden - 3, USSR - 1, Norway - 1.
Speed skating competitions were also characterized by intense rivalry. Medals of varying denominations went to representatives of six countries. However, the GDR athletes clearly dominated, winning 11 medals, with the main contribution of the women's team - victory in all four distances - a full East German podium at the 3000 m distance. The best results in speed skating competitions were achieved by Karl Encke from the GDR - 2 gold and 2 silver medals, and the Canadian Gaetan Boucher - two gold and one bronze. Two gold medals were awarded to: Fokichev at a distance of 500 m and Malkov at a distance of 10,000 m. What was unusual was the absence of representatives from the Netherlands among the winners. The winners in speed skating were athletes from four countries: East Germany - 4 gold medals, USSR - 2, Canada - 2, Sweden - 1.
In ski jumping, gold and silver medals went to two athletes: Jens Weisflog from the GDR, who won the 70-meter and took second place on the 90-meter springboard, and Matti Nykänen from Finland, who won the 90-meter and took second place on the 90-meter springboard. 70-meter springboard.
In alpine skiing, the athletes of the Alpine states had unexpectedly strong competition from the Americans, who were awarded the largest number of medals - 5, respectively 3 gold and 2 silver. Johnson won the men's downhill skiing, Mare won the slalom, and in the giant slalom, Americans Armstrong and Cooper took the first two places on the podium. Representatives of three countries won Olympic gold medals: USA - 3, Switzerland - 2, Italy - 2.
In biathlon, a clear advantage was shown by representatives of Norway and Germany, who received three medals, one of each value. Norwegian Kvalfoss won the 10 km race, Angerer from Germany won the 20 km race, and the USSR team was first in the relay.
In bobsleigh, no one could resist the representatives of the GDR, who won the first two places, both in the two-man and in the four-man races. Wolfgang Hoppe and Dietmar Schauerhammer especially distinguished themselves, becoming two-time Olympic champions.
In figure skating, all four gold medals went to representatives of different countries - Katharina Witt from the GDR, Scott Hamilton from the USA - in single skating, Joan Torvill and Christopher Dean from Great Britain - in ice dancing, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev from the USSR - in pair skating USSR athletes traditionally won in pair skating, but the unique talent of the outstanding English dance couple pushed the USSR representatives to second and third places.
In the luge competitions, the representatives of the GDR also achieved the largest number of medals - 4, respectively 1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze. The USSR national team has 3 medals - 2 silver and 1 bronze, one medal each - gold, and athletes from Italy and Germany.
In Nordic combined, the podium was “Scandinavian”. The winner was Tom Sandberg from Norway.
In the final match of the hockey tournament, the USSR national team, in a bitter struggle, won with a score of 2:0 over the athletes of Czechoslovakia.
In the unofficial team competition, the USSR athletes were first, winning 167 points. The GDR team took second place with 165 points. Finnish athletes who performed successfully took third place. The USSR athletes received the largest number of medals - 25, respectively 6 gold, 10 silver, 9 bronze, the GDR team had one less medal - 24, respectively 9 gold, 9 silver, 6 bronze. However, the GDR team won the largest number of gold medals. The Finnish team received 13 medals - 4 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze.