1994 Winter Olympics medal table

1994 Winter Olympics medals
Russian cross-country skier Lyubov Yegorova in a blue and red Adidas track suit, holding her three gold medals and smiling.
Russian cross-country skier Lyubov Yegorova finished tied for the most golds among individual athletes at the 1994 games, with three.
LocationLillehammer,  Norway
Highlights
Most gold medals Russia (11)
Most total medals Norway (26)
Medalling NOCs22
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1994 Winter Olympics

The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Winter Olympics, were a winter multi-sport event held in Lillehammer, Norway, from 12 to 27 February 1994.[1] 1,737 athletes representing 67 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.[2] The games featured 61 events in 6 sports and 12 disciplines.[3][4] 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.[5][6]

Athletes representing 22 NOCs received at least one medal, with 14 of them winning at least one gold medal.[2] Six NOCs won their first Winter Olympic medals: Australia,[7] Belarus,[8] Kazakhstan,[1] Slovenia,[9] Ukraine,[10] and Uzbekistan.[11] Three of these, Kazakhstan,[1] Ukraine,[12] and Uzbekistan, won their first Winter Olympic gold medals.[11] 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.[13]

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.[13][14] 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).[15]

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