1998 Winter Olympics
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Template:Olympics infobox The XVIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Other candidate cities were Aosta, Italy; Jaca, Spain; Östersund, Sweden; and Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
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Highlights
- XC skier Bjørn Dæhlie of Norway won three gold medals in Nordic skiing to become the first winter Olympian to earn eight career gold medals and twelve total medals.
- Snowboarding and curling debuted as official sports and women's ice hockey was introduced to the Olympic program.
- NHL players were able to compete in men's ice hockey due to a three week suspension of the competition.
- Tara Lipinski, 15, won the women's figure skating title to become the youngest champion in an individual event in the history of the Winter Olympics.
- Alpine skier Hermann Maier (Austria) survived a fall in the downhill and went on to gold in the super-g and giant slalom.
- Speed skaters Gianni Romme and Marianne Timmer won two gold medals each for the Netherlands; 5 out of 10 titles in speed skating went to the Netherlands.
- Snowboarder Ross Rebagliati won the gold medal, after initially being disqualified for marijuana usage.
- Azerbaijan, Kenya, the Republic of Macedonia, Uruguay, and Venezuela made their first appearance at these Olympic Winter Games.
Medals awarded
See the medal winners, ordered by sport:
Medal count
Top medal-collecting nations:
(for the full table, see 1998 Winter Olympics medal count)
(Host nation in bold.)
| 1998 Winter Olympics medal count | 
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| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 |  Germany | 12 | 9 | 8 | 29 |
| 2 |  Norway | 10 | 10 | 5 | 25 |
| 3 |  Russian Federation | 9 | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| 4 |  Canada | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 |
| 5 | Missing image USA_flag.png United States | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 6 |  Netherlands | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| 7 | Missing image Japan_flag_large.png Japan | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 8 |  Austria | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 |
| 9 |  Korea | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 10 | Template:ITA | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
See also
- 1998 Winter Paralympics
- Olympic Games
- Winter Olympic Games
- International Olympic Committee
- IOC country codes
External links
- IOC Site on 1998 Winter Olympics (http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1998)
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