1992 Winter Olympics - Athletic Highlights

Athletic Highlights

• Freestyle skiing event of moguls and short-track speedskating made their debuts as medal disciplines, as did women's biathlon.
• Norwegian skiers won every male cross-country skiing race. Bjørn Dæhlie and Vegard Ulvang each won three gold medals.
• Speedskater Bonnie Blair won both the 500 and 1,000 m events; Gunda Niemann took both of the longest races.
• Ski jumper Toni Nieminen, 16, became the youngest male gold medalist of a Winter Olympic event.
• Italian alpine skier Alberto Tomba won the Giant Slalom for the second time in a row.
• Austrian alpine skier Petra Kronberger won both the combined event and the slalom.
• Kim Kihoon earned gold medals in both men's short-track events.
• Annelise Coberger of New Zealand wins the southern hemisphere's first Winter Olympic medal—a silver in the women's slalom.
• Kristi Yamaguchi and Midori Ito of the United States and Japan respectively, became the first persons of Asian descent to win Olympic medals in figure skating.
• Midori Ito becomes the first woman to land a triple axel in Olympic competition.
• The Swiss speed skier Nicolas Bochatay died on the morning of the speed skiing finals, when he collided with a snow grooming vehicle while skiing on a public slope outside the racing area.