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United States At The 1992 Winter Olympics
The United States competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Medalists The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded. , width="78%" align="left" valign="top" , , width=22% align=left valign=top , Alpine skiing Timed events Men Women Combined Biathlon Men Women Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Men Women Curling Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics. Figure skating Individual Mixed Freestyle skiing Men Women Ice hockey Summary ;Roster *Ray LeBlanc * Scott Gordon * Greg Brown *Guy Gosselin * Sean Hill *Scott Lachance * Dave Tretowicz * Moe Mantha *Clark Donatelli *Ted Donato *Ted Drury *David Emma * Steve Heinze *Jim Johannson *Shawn McEachern *Marty McInnis *Joe Sacco * Tim Sweeney *C. J. Young * Scott Young *''Head Coach'': Dave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Olympic Committee
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States. It was founded in 1895 as the United States Olympic Committee, and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The USOPC is one of only four NOCs in the world that also serve as the National Paralympic Committee for their country. The USOPC is responsible for supporting, entering and overseeing U.S. teams for the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Youth Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and Parapan American Games and serves as the steward of the Olympic and Paralympic Movements in the United States. The Olympic Movement is overseen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC is supported by 35 international federations that govern each sport on a global level, National Olympic Committees that oversee Olympic sport as a whole in their respective nations, and national federations that administer each sport at the nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ski Jumping At The 1992 Winter Olympics
Ski jumping at the 1992 Winter Olympics consisted of three events held from 9 February to 16 February, taking place at Tremplin du Praz. Medal summary Medal table Finland led the medal table with two golds, while Austria won the most medals with five, including sweeping the silver medals. Events Participating NOCs Seventeen nations participated in ski jumping at the Albertville Games. Slovenia and the Unified Team made their Olympic ski jumping debuts. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * References 1992 Winter Olympics events 1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ... 1992 in ski jumping Ski jumping competitions in France {{1992-winter-Olympic-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Blair
Bonnie Kathleen Blair (born March 18, 1964) is a retired American speed skater. She is one of the top skaters of her era, and one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history. Blair competed for the United States in four Olympics, winning five gold medals and one bronze medal. Blair made her Olympic debut in Sarajevo in 1984 where she finished eighth in the 500 meters. At the time, Blair trained in both short-track and long-track speed skating. She won the 1986 short-track world championship. Blair returned to the Olympics in 1988 competing in long-track at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. There she won her first Olympic gold medal in the 500 meters and a bronze medal in the 1,000 meter. Blair won two gold medals in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and her final two Olympic gold medals at the 1994 Lillehammer games. Blair continued competing through 1995 when the World Championships were held in Milwaukee, finally retiring in March 1995. After retiring from spee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freestyle Skiing At The 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's Moguls
The men's moguls event in freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville took place from 12 to 13 February at Tignes Tignes () is a commune in the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France, known for the highest skiable area and the longest ski season in Europe. It is located in the Savoie region with good tr .... Results Qualification The top 16 advanced to the final. Final References External linksSports-Reference - 1992 Men's Moguls {{DEFAULTSORT:Freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics - Men's moguls Men's freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Track Speed Skating At The 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 Metre Relay
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Nikki Ziegelmeyer
Nicole "Nikki" Ziegelmeyer (born September 24, 1975) is an American short track speed skater who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics. She was born in Imperial, Missouri and she graduated from Windsor Senior High in 1993 ,becoming a Hall of Fame inductee in 2006. She was a member of the American relay team at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France, which won the silver medal in the 3000 metre relay competition. Two years later she won the bronze medal with the American team in the 3000 metre relay event. Ziegelmeyer planned to compete for the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan but suffered a severe break to her back when she fell to the ice and skidded into the boards at 35 mph during a training session in Lake Placid, New York in 1997. Doctors weren't optimistic that she would ever walk again, but she recovered enough to walk eight weeks after surgery. She decided upon a broadcasting career but started her own residential and commerci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Turner
Cathy Ann Turner (born April 10, 1962, in Rochester, New York) is an American short track speed skater, who won gold medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics. Turner was the American short-track champion in 1979, but short-trak speed skating was not then an Olympic discipline, and in 1980 she left skating to pursue a career as a singer. She sang in bands, shows and then began writing her own songs. She became a studio singer and songwriter under the stage name Nikki Newland. After short-track was exhibited at the 1988 Winter Olympics she decided to return to the sport. " After nine years away from her sports, she resumed training. She qualified for the Albertville Olympics, where she won the 500-meter short track race and was a member of the silver medal-winning 3000-meter relay team. Turner retired from competitive skating after the 1992 Games to star with the Ice Capades as a singer and skater in the "Made In America" tour, but then returned yet again for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Peterson
Amy Peterson (born November 29, 1971) is an American short track speed skater. Peterson competed in five consecutive Olympic games from when short track speed skating was exhibition sport in 1988 to 2002. Peterson qualified for her first Olympic Games in 1988 for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary at age 16. In 1988 short track speed skating was just a demonstration sport and no medals were awarded. Peterson won the 1,000 meters, and 1,500 meters US speed skating titles at the U.S. Olympic Festival in 1989. She also placed third in the 500 meters. Peterson was born in Maplewood, Minnesota. She attended Johnson Senior High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota and graduated in 1990. Her uncle, Gene Sandvig, competed in speed skating in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games. Peterson returned to qualify for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan after overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome. Peterson's performance suffered during the time with her dropping from the number one U.S. woman to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's Giant Slalom
The Women's giant slalom competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Meribel. The defending world champion was Pernilla Wiberg of Sweden, while Switzerland's Vreni Schneider was the defending World Cup giant slalom champion and France's Carole Merle Carole Merle (; born 24 January 1964) is a former France, French Alpine skiing, Alpine skier. A specialist of Giant Slalom and Super-G, she won 22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup races, 6 World Cup season titles and 1 FIS Alpine World Ski Cha ... led the 1992 World Cup. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics - Women's giant slalom Women's giant slalom Alp Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's Downhill
The Women's downhill competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Meribel on Saturday, 15 February. The defending world champion was Petra Kronberger of Austria, while Switzerland's Chantal Bournissen was the defending World Cup downhill champion and Germany's Katja Seizinger led the current season. Kerrin Lee-Gartner of Canada won the gold medal, Hilary Lindh of the United States took the silver, and Veronika Wallinger of Austria was the bronze medalist. Seizinger and Kronberger were close behind and just off the podium, while Bournissen failed to finish. (Seizinger won the next two editions in 1994 and 1998.) The ''Roc de Fer'' (iron rock) course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Lee-Gartner's winning time was 112.55 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of . Lee-Gartner was the first from outside the Alps to win a women's speed event (downhill, sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Track Speed Skating At The 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 Metres
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Speed Skating At The 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 Metres
The women's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics took place on 14 February, at the L'anneau de vitesse L'Anneau de Vitesse ( en, The Speed Circuit) is an outdoor speed skating venue located in Grenoble, France. It hosted the speed skating events for the 1968 Winter Olympics. This Speed Circuit is located in a park of 27 hectares, the Park Paul Mist .... Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows: Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics - Women's 1000 metres Women's speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics Skat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
