1984 Winter Olympics

14th edition of Winter Olympics, in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, were held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. (Sarajevo is now in Bosnia and Herzegovina.) Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan and Falun, Sweden. It was the first Winter Games and the second Olympics held in Eastern Europe (the first was the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow).

XIV Olympic Winter Games
Host citySarajevo, Yugoslavia
Nations49
Athletes1,272 (998 men, 274 women)
Events39 in 6 sports (10 disciplines)
Opening8 February
Closing19 February
Opened by
Cauldron
StadiumKoševo Stadium
Winter
Lake Placid 1980 Calgary 1988
Summer
Moscow 1980 Los Angeles 1984

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