Alpine Skiing at the
1994 Winter Olympics consisted of ten
alpine skiing
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events, held north of the host city of
Lillehammer,
Norway
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. The speed events were held at
Kvitfjell
Kvitfjell ( no, White mountain) is a ski resort in Norway, located in the municipality of Ringebu.
Developed for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, it is one of the most modern resorts in the world, with snowmaking on 80% of the alpine pist ...
and the technical events at
Hafjell
Hafjell is a village and a ski resort in Norway, in the Øyer municipality in the county of Oppland.
Hafjell hosted the alpine skiing technical events ( giant slalom and slalom) at the 1994 Winter Olympics; the speed events were held at Kvitfje ...
from 13 to 21 February.
Medal summary
Ten nations won medals in alpine skiing, with
Germany
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leading the medal table with three golds and one silver. The host team of
Norway
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won the most medals with five (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze).
Markus Wasmeier
Markus Wasmeier (; born 9 September 1963 is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Germany. He was world champion and twice Olympic champion.
At the 1985 World Championships at Bormio, Italy, he won the Giant Slalom at age 21, before recor ...
of Germany led the individual medal table with two gold medals (
super G and
giant slalom), while
Vreni Schneider
Verena "Vreni" Schneider (born 26 November 1964) is a retired ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the fourth most successful female ski racer ever (after Lindsey Vonn, Annemarie Moser-Pröll an ...
of
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
won the most medals with three, one of each type.
Tommy Moe
Thomas Sven Moe (born February 17, 1970) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. An Olympic gold and silver medalist in 1994, he specialized in the speed events of downhill and super G.
Early years
Born in Missoula, Mon ...
of the
United States
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won gold in the
downhill
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and silver in the
super G.
Kjetil André Aamodt
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Biography
Born in ...
of Norway won two silvers and a bronze.
Svetlana Gladishiva's silver medal was the first in alpine skiing won by
Russia
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(
Yevgeniya Sidorova
Yevgeniya Nikolaevna Sidorova (russian: Евгения Николаевна Сидорова, later ''Kabina'' russian: Кабина, 13 December 1930 – 29 January 2003) was a Soviet alpine skier who competed for the Soviet Union in the ...
won a bronze medal for the
Soviet Union
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in
1956).
Slovenia
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's three medals were the first for the country at the Winter Olympics.
Medal table
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Participating nations
Forty-six nations sent alpine skiers to compete in the events in Lillehammer. Bosnia & Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine made their Olympic alpine skiing debuts. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.[
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See also
*Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Paralympics, in Lillehammer (Norway), consisted of 66 events, 46 for men and 20 for women.
Medal table
Medal summary
The competition events were:
*Downhill: men - women
*Super-G: men - women
*Giant slalom ...
References
External links
FIS-Ski.com
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Alpine skiing competitions in Norway