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1992 Winter OlympicsRedirected from XVI Olympic Winter Games
See also: 1992 Winter Paralympics[?]
The Games of the XVI Winter Olympiad were held in 1992 in Albertville, France. Other candidate cities were Anchorage, USA; Berchtesgaden, Germany; Cortina d'Ampezzo[?], Italy; Lillehammer, Norway; Falun, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria.
- The last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.
- Freestyle skiing and short-track speedskating made their debuts as medal disciplines, as did women's biathlon.
- Norwegian skiers won every cross-country skiing race. Björn Daehlie[?] and Vegard Ulvang[?] each won three gold medals.
- Speedskater Bonnie Blair[?] won both the 500 and 1,000m events; Gunda Niemann[?] took both of the longest races.
- Toni Nieminen[?], 16, became the youngest male winner of a Winter event.
- Mark Kirchner[?] became the first biathlete to win medals in all three biathlon events.
- Alpine skier Petra Kronberger[?] won both the combined event and the slalom.
- Kim Ki-hoon[?] earned gold medals in both short-track events.
See the medal winners, ordered by sport:
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