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List of 1998 Winter Olympics medal winners. Bjørn Dæhlie of Norway (pictured here in 2011) won four medals in cross-country skiing in Nagano. The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Nagano, Japan, from 7 to 22 February 1998. [1] A total of 2,176 athletes representing ...
6 lut 1998 · Björn Dählie of Norway won three gold medals in Nordic skiing to become the first athlete to earn eight career Winter Olympic gold medals and 12 medals in all. Tara Lipinski of the U.S. won the women’s figure skating title to become, at 15, the youngest champion in an individual event at the Olympic Winter Games.
Female competitors would begin competing in the two woman events at the subsequent Winter Olympics, the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. In all, 156 athletes took part from 28 countries. The bobsleigh events resulted in two ties, for the two-man gold and for the four-man bronze.
Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 1998. Official results of the figure-skating Individual women event at the Nagano Winter Olympics.
Japan was the host nation for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. It was the second time that Japan has hosted the Winter Games, after the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, and the third time overall, after the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Kazuyoshi Funaki in the ski jump and Hiroyasu Shimizu in speed skating won two medals each, while Tae Satoya became the first Japanese female to win gold at an Olympic Winter Games, in the women's moguls event in freestyle skiing.
14 lut 1998 · The figure skating events in 1998 were held at the White Ring in Nagano. There were no changes in the format or scoring systems from 1994. Professionals were again allowed to compete, although they had to declare that intention and compete in ISU-approved events to do so. Most of the top competitors by 1998 were now openly professional.
