1984 Winter Olympics

The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was at the time part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Gothenburg, Sweden. It was the first Winter Games and the second Olympics held in a socialist country (the first was the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow). The ... more

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Duration:

  • 11 days (Feb 8, 1984 — Feb 19, 1984)

Number Of Nations:

  • 49

Number Of Athletes:

  • 1,272

Also known as:

  • XIV Olympic Winter Games

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Host City

Sarajevo

Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 305,242 people in the four municipalities that make up the city proper, and a metro area population of 423,645 people in the Sarajevo Canton as of August 2009. It is also the capital of the Federation of Bosnia...

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  • 11 days (Feb 8, 1984 — Feb 19, 1984)

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