page_title: List of 1998 Winter Olympics medal winners
section_title: Freestyle skiing
hierarchical_section_title: List of 1998 Winter Olympics medal winners / Freestyle skiing
caption_attribution_description: Kari Traa, Norwegian Olympic gold medalists
context_page_description: 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. A total of 2,176 athletes representing 72 National Olympic Committees participated in the Games in 68 events across 14 disciplines.
  The discipline of snowboarding made its debut, with four events contested, two for men and two for women. Additionally, the Olympic program saw the addition of a women's tournament in ice hockey, the first time that women had participated in that sport in Olympic history. At the time, it was believed that curling made its debut as a medal event, having been a demonstration sport three times at the 1932, 1988, and 1992 Winter Olympics; however, in 2006, the International Olympic Committee ruled that the 1924 Olympic tournament in Chamonix, France, had been an official medal event, retroactively making the Nagano tournament the second time curling has been contested for official medals.
  Germany won the most medals, with 29, and the most gold medals, with 12. Norway finished second in both tallies, with 10 gold medals and 25 medals of all colors.
caption: Kari Traa, bronze medalist in moguls
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