1994 Winter Olympics medal table
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The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Winter Olympics, were an international winter multi-sport event held in Lillehammer, Norway, from 12 to 27 February 1994.<ref name="Britannica">Template:Cite web</ref> 1,737 athletes representing 67 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.<ref name="IOC table" /> The games featured 61 events in 6 sports and 12 disciplines.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Due to scheduling changes made in 1986 with the intent to begin holding the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics in different years for the first time and moving forward, this edition of the Winter Olympics took place only two years after the previous event.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Athletes representing 22 NOCs received at least one medal, with 14 NOCs winning at least one gold medal.<ref name="IOC table" /> Six NOCs won their first Winter Olympic medals: Australia,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Belarus,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Kazakhstan,<ref name="Britannica" /> Slovenia,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Ukraine,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Uzbekistan.<ref name="Uzbekistan first">Template:Cite web</ref> Three of these, Kazakhstan,<ref name="Britannica" /> Ukraine,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Uzbekistan, won their first Winter Olympic gold medals.<ref name="Uzbekistan first" /> The three first-time gold medalist NOCs and Belarus were all competing in their first Olympic Games as independent National Olympic Committees following the breakup of the Soviet Union.<ref name="Soviet Empire NYT">Template:Cite web</ref>
Russia, in its first Winter Olympics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, won the most gold medals, with 11, while host nation Norway had the most medals overall, with 26.<ref name="Soviet Empire NYT" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Among individual participants, Norwegian speed skater Johann Olav Koss and Russian cross-country skier Lyubov Yegorova tied for the most gold medals, with three each, while Italian cross-country skier Manuela Di Centa had the most medals overall with five (two gold, two silver, and one bronze).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Medal table
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting 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 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>
See also
References
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