1984 Winter Olympics medal table
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, from 8 to 19 February 1984. A total of 1,272 athletes representing 49 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in 39 events from 10 different sports and disciplines.<ref name="sarajevo 1984">Template:Cite web</ref> First time NOCs to enter were Egypt, Monaco, Puerto Rico, Senegal, and British Virgin Islands.<ref name="sarajevo 1984" />
Seventeen NOCs won at least one medal and, among these, eleven secured at least one gold medal. For the first time since its debut at the 1968 Winter Olympics, East Germany topped the gold medal count with nine, three more than the Soviet Union, which had led this count in the past three Games. The Soviet delegation won the most overall medals (25), including the most silvers (10) and bronzes (9). The host nation, Yugoslavia, collected its first-ever medal at the Winter Olympics: a silver by alpine skier Jure Franko in the men's giant slalom.<ref name="Jure Franko">Template:Cite news</ref> This was the third time that the Winter Olympics host team failed to win a gold medal, after France in 1924 and Switzerland in 1928.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Austrian athletes secured a single medal—a bronze in men's alpine skiing downhill—in what is the nation's worst ever result at the Winter Games.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref> In contrast, Czechoslovakia and Finland's performances in Sarajevo were historical bests, after collecting a total of six and thirteen medals, respectively.<ref name="CZE">Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref><ref name="FIN">Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref> Finnish cross-country skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen was responsible for three of her NOC's four gold medals with a sweep of victories in the women's individual events, and contributed to the bronze in the team relay event.<ref name="Kirvesniemi">Template:Cite web</ref> These Games also witnessed the best result by a Canadian team since the 1960 Winter Olympics, thanks mostly to the achievements of speed skater Gaétan Boucher.<ref name="Gaetan Boucher">Template:Cite news</ref> His wins in the men's 1,000 and 1,500 metres, and a third place in the 500 metres, earned Canada's two gold medals and three of its four medals.<ref name="Gaetan Boucher" /> Sweden secured four golds for the first time since St. Moritz 1948,<ref name="SWE">Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref> of which three were obtained by cross-country skiers Gunde Svan and Thomas Wassberg. Svan and Wassberg won the men's 15 km and 50 km, respectively, and also clinched the first place in the team relay.<ref name="svan-wassberg">Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref> Svan was also awarded with a silver and bronze medals, thus contributing half of his NOC's medal tally.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For the third consecutive Winter Olympics, Great Britain's sole medal was a gold at a figure skating event,<ref name="GBR">Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref> this time in ice dancing by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who received the first-ever set of perfect scores in their free program routine.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Medal table
Template:Stack Template:See also The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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Medal distribution
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