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12 to 27 February 1994
- The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games (Norwegian: De 17. olympiske vinterleker; Nynorsk: Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, were an international winter multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway.
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The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games (Norwegian: De 17. olympiske vinterleker; Nynorsk: Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, were an international winter multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway.
February 12, 1994 - February 17, 1994. Location: Lillehammer. Norway. Lillehammer 1994 Olympic Winter Games, athletic festival held in Lillehammer, Nor., that took place Feb. 12–27, 1994. The Lillehammer Games were the 17th occurrence of the Winter Olympic Games.
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In 1986, the IOC voted to change the schedule of the Olympic Games so that the Summer and Winter Games would be held in different years. To adjust to this new schedule, the Lillehammer Games were held in 1994, the only time that two winter Games have been staged two years apart.
Local hero Johann Olav Koss won three speed skating events and set a world record in every one. Vreni Schneider of Switzerland won a complete set of medals in Alpine skiing, and Manuela Di Centa of Italy earned medals in all five cross-country events. The women’s biathlon was dominated by Myriam Bédard of Canada, who won both individual races.
Swiss pair Gustav Weder and Donat Acklin became the first repeat winners of the two-man bobsleigh. Russian pairs skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov returned to repeat their Olympic victory of 1988. American Bonnie Blair made history by becoming the first woman to win three consecutive speed-skating titles in the 500m and to win a second ...
Dec 8, 2022 · This was the first, and as yet only, Winter Olympics to take place two years after the previous one. The winter and summer games had previously been held in the same year but in the mid-80s, the International Olympic Committee voted to separate the two events into alternating even-numbered years.
The 1994 Winter Olympics, held in Lillehammer, Norway, were the first Winter Games to be held in a different year from the Summer Games. This change resulted from the decision reached in the 91st IOC Session (1986) to separate the Summer and Winter Games and place them in alternating even-numbered years. [81]
Nov 4, 2021 · The 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer were held two years after the 1992 Olympics, putting the event on a two-year alternating schedule with the Summer Olympics.
And tragically, Lillehammer was haunted by the recent news from its sister Olympic Winter city of a decade ago, Sarajevo. Sarajevo, which had hosted a beautiful Olympic Winter Games in 1984 , now lay in ruins, its stadia and people destroyed by a senseless war in which the Serbs attempted an “ethnic cleansing” on Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing ...
