List Of 1984 Winter Olympics Medal Winners
The 117 Olympic medals in dispute at these Games were awarded to athletes from 17 NOCs. The athletes from the Soviet Union collected 25 medals and secured their NOC a top spot in the overall medal count, ahead of East Germany (24 medals) and Finland (13 medals). East Germany, however, topped the gold medal count with nine medals, three more than those won by Soviet athletes. Finland, the United States and Sweden followed with four gold medals each. The host delegation won the nation's first medal at the Winter Olympics, through alpine skier Jure Franko's silver in the men's giant slalom event.
American skier Phil Mahre, runner-up in 1980, won the slalom event and saw his twin brother Steve secure the silver medal. In biathlon, Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway and Peter Angerer of West Germany won six medals between them, each securing a complete set. The Nordic countries displayed their strength in the cross-country skiing competition: from the 24 medals in dispute, 17 were won by athletes from Finland (8), Sweden (5), and Norway (4). Finnish skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen won four medals, including a gold medal sweep in the three individual cross-country distances, becoming the most successful athlete at these Games. In the men's section, Gunde Svan of Sweden also won four medals, though one less gold than Hämäläinen. Katarina Witt, a young figure skater from East Germany, narrowly defeated the reigning World champion, Rosalynn Sumners of the United States, to collect the first of two successive Olympic gold medals. The British ice dancing pair, Torvill and Dean, took the gold medal after giving performances that earned them not only the first-ever perfect scores (6.0) in Olympic ice dancing compulsories, but also a complete set of perfect artistic impression scores in the free program.
The Soviet Union dominated the ice hockey competition, winning every match to take their sixth Olympic gold in eight Winter Games. East German sledders fully demonstrated their prowess at the Trebević track. Wolfgang Hoppe and Dietmar Schauerhammer clinched gold in both bobsleigh events, while Bernhard Lehmann and Bogdan Musioł secured both silvers. Led by Steffi Martin, who won the first of her two back-to-back Olympic titles, East German lugers swept the women's singles medals. This show of strength was also observed in the women's speed skating, where East German athletes grabbed nine of the twelve medals in dispute. Four of these were won by Karin Enke (matching the total tallies of Hämäläinen and Svan), and three by Andrea Schöne – in direct competition with Enke. Speed skater Gaétan Boucher won three of Canada's four medals in Sarajevo, including two golds.
Alpine skiing
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's downhill |
Bill Johnson![]() |
Peter Müller![]() |
Anton Steiner![]() |
Men's slalom |
Phil Mahre![]() |
Steve Mahre![]() |
Didier Bouvet![]() |
Men's giant slalom |
Max Julen![]() |
Jure Franko![]() |
Andreas Wenzel![]() |
Women's downhill |
Michela Figini![]() |
Maria Walliser![]() |
Olga Charvátová![]() |
Women's slalom |
Paoletta Magoni![]() |
Perrine Pelen![]() |
Ursula Konzett![]() |
Women's giant slalom |
Debbie Armstrong![]() |
Christin Cooper![]() |
Perrine Pelen![]() |
Biathlon
![A man skies on a snow-covered course. He wears a white vest on top of a blue unitard, a white winter cap, and red ski boots. On his back, he carries a rifle.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Eirik_Kvalfoss_1986.jpg/170px-Eirik_Kvalfoss_1986.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's 10 km |
Eirik Kvalfoss![]() |
Peter Angerer![]() |
Matthias Jacob![]() |
Men's 20 km |
Peter Angerer![]() |
Frank-Peter Roetsch![]() |
Eirik Kvalfoss![]() |
Men's 4 × 7.5 km |
![]() Dmitry Vasilyev Juri Kashkarov Algimantas Šalna Sergei Bulygin |
![]() Odd Lirhus Eirik Kvalfoss Rolf Storsveen Kjell Søbak |
![]() Ernst Reiter Walter Pichler Peter Angerer Fritz Fischer |
Bobsleigh
![Four men in winter tracksuits stand at the side of a bobsled. They are outdoors, at a snow-covered hill top, with many people behind them.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1987-0322-006%2C_Wolfgang_Hoppe%2C_Bogdan_Musiol%2C_Ingo_Voge%2C_Dietmar_Schauerhammer.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1987-0322-006%2C_Wolfgang_Hoppe%2C_Bogdan_Musiol%2C_Ingo_Voge%2C_Dietmar_Schauerhammer.jpg)
Cross-country skiing
Figure skating
![A female figure skater holds up her right leg with her right hand.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1987-0402-037%2C_Katarina_Witt.jpg/170px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1987-0402-037%2C_Katarina_Witt.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men |
Scott Hamilton![]() |
Brian Orser![]() |
Jozef Sabovčík![]() |
Ladies |
Katarina Witt![]() |
Rosalynn Sumners![]() |
Kira Ivanova![]() |
Pairs |
![]() Elena Valova Oleg Vasiliev |
![]() Kitty Carruthers Peter Carruthers |
![]() Larisa Selezneva Oleg Vitalyevich Makarov |
Ice dancing |
![]() Jayne Torvill Christopher Dean |
![]() Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin |
![]() Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko |
Ice hockey
Luge
![Three men and a woman are lined up side-by-side wearing winter caps and identical winter jackets. They are outdoors and snow is falling.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1983-0327-005%2C_Wilfried_Vogel%2C_Steffi_Martin%2C_J%C3%B6rg_Hoffmann%2C_Jochen_Pietzsch.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1983-0327-005%2C_Wilfried_Vogel%2C_Steffi_Martin%2C_J%C3%B6rg_Hoffmann%2C_Jochen_Pietzsch.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's singles |
Paul Hildgartner![]() |
Sergey Danilin![]() |
Valery Dudin![]() |
Doubles |
![]() Hans Stangassinger Franz Wembacher |
![]() Yevgeny Belousov Aleksandr Belyakov |
![]() Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch |
Women's singles |
Steffi Martin![]() |
Bettina Schmidt![]() |
Ute Weiss![]() |
Nordic combined
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's individual |
Tom Sandberg![]() |
Jouko Karjalainen![]() |
Jukka Ylipulli![]() |
Ski jumping
![A man is shown with a white vest bearing the word Germany and a number printed in black on top of a ski jumping suit. He also wears a ski helmet with attached goggles and holds his skis upright over his left shoulder.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-0131-038%2C_Jens_Wei%C3%9Fflog_bei_DDR-Skimeisterschaften.jpg/170px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-0131-038%2C_Jens_Wei%C3%9Fflog_bei_DDR-Skimeisterschaften.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's normal hill |
Jens Weißflog![]() |
Matti Nykänen![]() |
Jari Puikkonen![]() |
Men's large hill |
Matti Nykänen![]() |
Jens Weißflog![]() |
Pavel Ploc![]() |
Speed skating
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's 500 metres |
Sergey Fokichev![]() |
Yoshihiro Kitazawa![]() |
Gaétan Boucher![]() |
Men's 1,000 metres |
Gaétan Boucher![]() |
Sergey Khlebnikov![]() |
Kai Arne Engelstad![]() |
Men's 1,500 metres |
Gaétan Boucher![]() |
Sergey Khlebnikov![]() |
Oleg Bozhev![]() |
Men's 5,000 metres |
Tomas Gustafson![]() |
Igor Malkov![]() |
René Schöfisch![]() |
Men's 10,000 metres |
Igor Malkov![]() |
Tomas Gustafson![]() |
René Schöfisch![]() |
Women's 500 metres |
Christa Rothenburger![]() |
Karin Enke![]() |
Natalya Glebova![]() |
Women's 1,000 metres |
Karin Enke![]() |
Andrea Schöne![]() |
Natalya Petrusyova![]() |
Women's 1,500 metres |
Karin Enke![]() |
Andrea Schöne![]() |
Natalya Petrusyova![]() |
Women's 3,000 metres |
Andrea Schöne![]() |
Karin Enke![]() |
Gabi Schönbrunn![]() |
Medal leaders
![Four women wearing tracksuits and speed skates are sitting on a bench. Three of them are smiling, and among these, two are tying up their skates while a third one is clapping her hands.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1988-1126-017%2C_Andrea_Ehrig%2C_Gabi_Zange%2C_Karin_Kania%2C_Sabine_Brehm.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1988-1126-017%2C_Andrea_Ehrig%2C_Gabi_Zange%2C_Karin_Kania%2C_Sabine_Brehm.jpg)
Athletes that won at least two gold medals or at least three total medals are listed below.
Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Karin Enke | ![]() |
Speed skating | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Gunde Svan | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Gaétan Boucher | ![]() |
Speed skating | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Andrea Schöne | ![]() |
Speed skating | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Peter Angerer | ![]() |
Biathlon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Eirik Kvalfoss | ![]() |
Biathlon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Aki Karvonen | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Wolfgang Hoppe | ![]() |
Bobsleigh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Dietmar Schauerhammer | ![]() |
Bobsleigh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Thomas Wassberg | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |