1984 Winter Olympics Medal

1984 Winter Olympics Medal
1984 Winter Olympics
Olympics 1984

XIV Olympic Winter Games
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (French: XIVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; Serbo-Croatian: XIV. zimske olimpijske igre / XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; Macedonian: XIV Зимски олимписки игри; Slovene: XIV olimpijske zimske igre), was a winter multi-sport event which took place from 8–19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Gothenburg, Sweden.

It was the first Winter Olympic Games held in a socialist state and in a Slavic language-speaking country. It was also the second Olympics overall, as well as the second consecutive Olympics, to be held in a socialist and in a Slavic language-speaking country after the 1980 Summer Olympics were held in Moscow, Soviet Union. Furthermore, it was the first Olympics held in the Balkans after the first modern Games in Athens.

Host city Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Nations 49
Athletes 1,272 (998 men, 274 women)
Events 39 in 6 sports (10 disciplines)
Opening 8 February
Closing 19 February
Opened by President of the Presidency
Mika Špiljak
Cauldron Sanda Dubravčić
Stadium Koševo Stadium

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