Hanni Wenzel Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Related Olympians: Sister of Petra Wenzel ; Wife of Harti Weirather ; Sister of Andi Wenzel ; Mother of Tina Weirather ; Aunt of Jessica Walter . Medals: 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze (4 Total) Biography With a total of four medals, Hanni Wenzel trails only Vreni Schneider and Katja Seizinger as the most successful of all women Olympic Alpine skiers. After winning a bronze medal in the slalom in 1976, Wenzel won gold in the slalom and giant slalom and a silver in the giant slalom in 1980. Born in Germany, Wenzel moved to Liechtenstein as an infant and was granted citizenship after winning the slalom at the 1974 World Championships. Both her brother and sister were Olympic Alpine skiers. Results Who Won at the 1980 Winter Olympics? Home » Winter Olympics » Who Won at the 1980 Winter Olympics? Who Won at the 1980 Winter Olympics?

Date: Feb 13, 1980 - Feb 24, 1980 The 1980 Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, New York. Taiwan boycotted the games because the IOC wanted them to use the name "Taiwan" instead of "The People's Republic of China." This was the year of the "Miracle on Ice" - the United States' hockey team defeating the Soviet Union and going on to win the gold medal. 1980 was also the year Eric Heiden won an incredible five speed skating medals. The men's and women's slalom events were swept by Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden and Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein.

Alpine Skiing Olympics-Alpine skiing-Weirather pulls out of downhill Olympics-Alpine skiing-Weirather pulls out of downhill * Injured Weirather out of women's downhill * Liechtenstein skier risks being out of the Games (Adds statement from skier) By Alan Baldwin ROSA KHUTOR, Russia, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Liechtenstein's Olympic medal hope Tina Weirather pulled out of the women's Alpine skiing downhill on Tuesday, saying she was heartbroken at an injury that could rule her out of the Sochi Games entirely. "Heartbroken that I can't compete tomorrow. My highlight, the Olympic downhill. I was ready," the Alpine skier, who has battled back from multiple knee inuries in the past, said on her facebook page and website. "I always felt responsible for my crashes and injuries, but this time I feel like it was just bad luck. I will fight to get ready for the Super-G in four days, but realistically and from a medical point of view its very unlikely. "Anyways, I'm hoping for a miracle!," she added.

Weirather missed the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, and the entire 2011 World Cup campaign, due to torn ligaments but has been a winner this season and carried the hopes of her tiny Alpine state. The daughter of double Olympic champion Hanni Wenzel and Austria's 1982 men's downhill world champion Harti Weirather, she suffered a heavy bruise to the top of her shin in training on Sunday. The skier was taken to hospital for checks that revealed bruising to the bone but no damage to her ligaments. Swiss coach Roland Platzer, who works with the 24-year-old, had earlier told Reuters at a team captains' meeting that a decision would be made shortly before the start of Wednesday's showcase race. She had been assigned bib number 16 in the draw to determine the starting order after final downhill training was cancelled to preserve the piste from damage due to warm conditions. Liechtenstein's flag bearer in the opening ceremony arrived in Sochi as a medal contender in the downhill, super-G and giant slalom races.

Her German-born mother became Liechtenstein's first gold medallist when she won the giant slalom and slalom at the Lake Placid Games in 1980. She also won downhill silver. Hanni's brother Andreas also won a silver in giant slalom that year to give Liechtenstein four medals - a feat calculated as being one for every 6,250 of the country's citizens. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ed Osmond/Peter Rutherford) Reblog Lake Placid 1980 - AOC Lake Placid 1980 United States of America (USA) Cauldron lit by: 1,072 (840 men, 232 women) Number of sports: View Full Medal Tally The 1980 Olympic Winter Games, held in Lake Placid, New York, were anything but placid. The Games produced a series of remarkable performances and not even a bus strike could deter crowds from getting to events in the freezing weather. Lake Placid also welcomed the first team from the People’s Republic of China to participate in a Winter Olympics. The Soviet Union again topped the medal table, winning 10 gold.

Pairs skater Irina Rodnina won her third gold medal for the USSR, this time with Alexander Zaitsev. Matching Rodnina’s marvellous hat-trick was East Germany’s Ulrich Wehling, who won the Nordic combined individual event for the third time. Ingemar Stenmark, the great Swedish alpine skier, rocketed to gold in both the men’s giant slalom and slalom. Hanni Wenzel entered all three women's alpine skiing events and won three medals for tiny Liechtenstein (population: 25,000). In the downhill she earned a silver medal. In the giant slalom she won the gold. Two days later she breezed through the slalom, registering the best time in each of the two runs to win her second gold. In the biathlon relay, the Soviet Union’s Aleksandr Tikhonov won his fourth straight gold medal, while his teammate Nikolay Zimyatov won three gold medals in cross-country skiing. The American fans had plenty to cheer about in Lake Placid.

In an unprecedented achievement, Eric Heiden of the United States won all five speed skating events, from 500m all the way up to 10,000m. It remains one of the most legendary performances in Winter Olympic history. However, for the home crowd, the stupefying climax of the Games was the unexpected victory of the US ice hockey team. The team was considered no hope against the might Soviet Union team, which had won four consecutive gold medals. The members of the winning US team were to enjoy another unforgettable Olympic moment 22 years later: together, the players lit the Olympic cauldron to open the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Sochi Winter Olympics 2014: Day 8 Medal Predictions, Results | Bleacher Report Sochi Winter Olympics 2014: Day 8 Medal Predictions, Results By Meri-Jo Borzilleri , Special to Bleacher Report Feb 14, 2014 Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse the slideshow Alex Livesey/Getty Images 20 Comments Saturday may have been marked down as a failure in the books of many Russian fans because of the loss by the men's hockey team to the United States in a shootout, but the host nation had a strong day in the medal events. The Russians earned two gold medals and a silver on Day 8 of competition as Victor An and Alexander Tretiakov celebrated wins in the men's short-track 1,000 meters and men's skeleton. With those two golds and the silver earned by Vladimir Grigorev in short-trac, the hosts catapulted over Norway in the lead for most medals with 15. The day started off with a tumultuous women's Super G as 18 competitors failed to finish in the race that was won by Austria's Anna Fenninger.

Poland was a surprise dual gold winner with Kamil Stoch and Zbigniew Brodka earning first-place positions in their respective events. Sweden and China also took home golds on a day that featured seven medal events. A complete list of the medal count can be found here . Continue reading for complete recaps and medal results from Day 8 at the 22nd Olympic Winter Games. Women’s Alpine Skiing: Super-G Charles Krupa/Associated Press Austrian Anna Fenninger won her first Olympic medal, taking gold in the super-G. Austrian Anna Fenninger continued her country's dominance in Olympic women's super-G competition, claiming the gold medal on Saturday at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center. The 24-year-old Fenninger managed to survive a course that caused 18 of 49 skiers to crash or miss a turn, particularly early on in the competition. She finished in a time of 1:25.52, a 0.55-second advantage over Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch. It was the first Olympic medal for Fenninger, who has three World Championship medals but had won only one previous super-G competition in her eight years of Alpine skiing.

She became the fourth Austrian woman to win the Olympic super-G, which has only been contested eight times. Hoefl-Riesch, who repeated as Olympic super-combined champion five days earlier, earned the silver for her fourth career Olympic medal. That put her into a tie for fifth most in Olympic women's Alpine history with three others, including American Julia Mancuso. The bronze went to Austria's Nicole Hosp, who was 0.11 behind Hoefl-Riesch and now has two medals in Sochi after earning the silver in the super combined. Along with Fenninger, that gives Austria eight of the 24 women's super-G medals in Olympic history. Mancuso, bronze medalist in the Sochi super combined, finished in eighth place at 1:27.04. She was in second place after finishing her run and was just the sixth woman in the first 14 skiers to complete the course.

Gold: Anna Fenninger, Austria, 1:25.52 Silver: Maria Hoefl-Riesch, Germany, 1:26.07 Bronze: Nicole Hosp, Austria, 1:26.18 Pre-Event Predictions Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather, 24, not only medaled in three of the last four World Cup super-G races, but she has the bloodlines to land on the Olympic podium. Her mother, Hanni Wenzel, was Olympic champion in giant slalom in Lake Placid in 1980. Coming into the Games, tiny Liechtenstein has won nine Olympic medals, all in Alpine skiing. Julia Mancuso, with a super-combined bronze in her pocket, is primed for another run at the podium here and hopes to make up for a disappointing eighth in downhill. Austria’s Nicole Hosp, combined gold medalist Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany and Slovenia’s Tina Maze, who tied for downhill gold with Dominique Gisin, are all skiing fast at these Olympics, but soft snow could make results unpredictable.

Women’s Cross-Country Skiing: 4x5-Kilometer Relay Matthias Schrader/Associated Press Charlotte Kalla erased a massive deficit on the final leg, pulling past two skiers over the last 100 meters to given Sweden the gold medal in the women's relay Saturday at the Laura Cross-Country Ski and Biathlon Center. Kalla, who already had silver medals in the 15-kilometer skiathlon and the 10-kilometer classic, started her five-kilometer anchor leg in third place, trailing Finland by 25.7 seconds and Germany by 19.9 seconds. She slowly cut into the lead, eventually getting right on the heels of Finland's Krista Lahteenmaki and Germany's Denise Herrmann as the skiers entered the skiing stadium. Kalla passed both on the final turn, winning by a half-second over Lahteenmaki as Finland earned the silver medal. Herrmann crossed the line four-tenths of a second later, giving Germany the bronze.

Russia led after the first leg—teams' first and second skiers use the classic skiing style, while the final two do the freestyle technique—but ended up finishing in sixth, just behind pre-race favorite Norway in fifth. It was the first time Norway did not win a relay event in international competition since 2009. The United States team placed ninth, finishing more than two and a half minutes behind Sweden. The Americans never recovered from the opening leg, when Kikkan Randall struggled mightily and had her team in 12th place after five kilometers. Pre-Event Predictions This will likely be a battle for silver and bronze. Norway, with skiathlon gold medalist Marit Bjoergen at the helm, is always strong. This Olympics, particularly so. The Norwegians are the strong favorites as defending world and Olympic champions. But Finland and the Scandinavian countries should figure in. Slow snow and warm temperatures could be a factor. The United States may be the spoiler here, led by Kikkan Randall. After the flame-out earlier this week in her strongest event, the freestyle individual sprint, Randall has an opportunity to redeem herself. Jessie Diggins, 22, is scheduled to anchor the U.S.

and is skiing strong, having finished a career-best eighth in the Olympic skiathlon and 13th in the sprint. Last year, the U.S. took bronze in the 4x5-km World Cup relay for the first time. Women's Short-Track Speedskating: 1,500 Meters Ivan Sekretarev/Associated Press China's Yang Zhou repeated as Olympic champion, winning the 1,500-meter event Saturday at the Iceberg Skating Palace. Zhou finished the race in a time of two minutes, 19.140 seconds, edging out South Korea's Suk Hee Sim by 0.099 seconds after pulling ahead with five laps left. The silver is the first Olympic medal for Sim, who is just 17 years old. Earning the bronze was Italy's Arianna Fontana, who already had a silver medal from the 500-meter competition on Thursday. American Emily Scott finished fifth overall, leading after four laps but later getting knocked down after falling back in the pack.

Gold: Yang Zhou, China, 2:19.140 Silver: Suk Hee Sim, South Korea, 2:19.239 Bronze: Arianna Fontana, Italy, 2:19.416 Pre-Event Predictions As unpredictable as this sport is, one thing is as close to certain as could be: South Korea rules here in the longest individual event on the women’s program. Then again, you need only look at Thursday’s crash-marred women’s 500-meter event, when China’s Jianrou Li won by keeping her feet after three of four skaters wiped out. So take these predictions with a grain of salt, but figure on South Korea to be in the mix somewhere. In each Olympics, South Korea has won two medals in this race. Suk Hee Sim dominates the distance on the World Cup circuit, followed by teammate Alang Kim, with Seung-Hi Park another medal favorite. China’s Yang Zhou is the defending Olympic champion and holds the world record. The Chinese women are skating without star Wang Meng, who suffered a broken ankle before the Games. Jessica Smith is the United States' best chance at a medal, but it’s a long one.

Then again, it’s short track. Gold: Suk Hee Sim, South Korea Silver: Yang Zhou, China Men's Short-Track Speedskating: 1,000 Meters Ivan Sekretarev/Associated Press Victor An completed his long journey back to the Olympics, one that had him change national allegiances, as the 28-year-old South Korean-born skater won the 1,000-meter gold medal for Russia on Saturday at the Iceberg Skating Palace. An, who won four medals (including three golds, one at this distance) for South Korea in 2006 but then failed to make the team in 2010, won in a time of one minute, 25.325 seconds. That was 0.074 seconds ahead of fellow Russian Vladimir Grigorev, giving the host country three medals in the short-track discipline. Earning the bronze was Sjinkie Knegt of the Netherlands, the 13th medal for his country but the first outside of traditional speedskating.

Gold: Victor An, Russia, 1:25.325 Silver: Vladimir Grigorev, Russia, 1:25.399 Bronze: Sjinkie Knegt, Netherlands, 1:25.611 Pre-Event Predictions Canada’s Charles Hamelin, a three-time Olympian, looks to add to his 1,500-meter gold here. But Russian skater Victor An, the three-time Olympic champion as South Korean-born Ahn Hyun-Soo, will be seeking his first gold of the Games after winning bronze behind Hamelin. An is ranked World Cup No. 3 at this distance. His 1,500-meter medal represents the first in short track for Russia. J.R. Celski, out of the medals in the 1,500 meters, was disqualified from this event in 2010 after pushing Hamelin’s brother, Francois. Celski, seeking his first medal in Sochi after Apolo Ohno’s retirement, has a decent medal chance here.

Men’s Speedskating: 1,500 Meters Patrick Semansky/Associated Press The Dutch dominance in men's speedskating was ended by a difference of three-thousandths of a second as Zbigniew Brodka of Poland bested Koen Verweij of the Netherlands by that time difference to win the gold medal in the men's 1,500 meters. Brodka skated a 1:45.006 in the 17th heat of 20 in the event and had to wait around for the computers to break down the minuscule time differential between he and Verweij. Verweij, who participated in the final pairing of the race, was heartbroken after finding out that his Polish counterpart had snagged the medal by that fractional margin. Verweij did earn the 13th speedskating medal of the Games for the Dutch, but it was a silver that he earned instead of the coveted gold. In the bronze-medal position, Denny Morrison skated the 1,500-meter distance in a time of 1:45.22 for Canada.

American Shani Davis finished down in 11th place, while Brian Hansen ended up as the fastest United States skater in seventh place. Gold: Zbigniew Brodka, Poland, 1:45.006 Silver: Koen Verweij, Netherlands, 1:45.009 Bronze: Denny Morrison, Canada, 1:45.22 Last Updated by Joe Tansey. Pre-Event Predictions This is the last chance for U.S. star Shani Davis to win an individual medal and salvage his Olympics. Davis already owns two Olympic silver medals in this event, plus he has held the world record since 2009. But with controversy erupting over the team’s Under Armour speed suits—suspicions are they might create a wind drag—you have to fear that the issue has gotten into the team’s heads. Going into Saturday, the Americans have, stunningly, yet to medal in speedskating—either long-track or short-track. Davis finished eighth in the 1,000-meter race, where he was the two-time Olympic champion, and 24th in the 500, where he was not expected to contend.

Meanwhile, the Dutch have won 12 medals at Sochi, including gold (Stefan Groothuis) and bronze (Michel Mulder) in the 1,000-meter race. Men’s Skeleton Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press After suffering hockey heartbreak earlier in the day, Russia was able to celebrate at the Sanki Sliding Center as Alexander Tretiakov won his country's first gold medal in skeleton. Tretiakov sent the home crowd into an uproar after dominating both of his runs Saturday. The Russian slider won the gold medal by just over eight-tenths of a second over world No. 1 Martins Dukurs of Latvia, who won the silver medal by a landslide. In the race for the bronze medal, Matt Antoine of the United States earned the second American skeleton medal of the Games with a fourth-run time of 56.73 that put him ahead of Latvia's Tomass Dukurs and his fellow American, John Daly, who lost out on a medal after his terrible start during his fourth run. Tretiakov's gold was the fourth of the Games for Russia, and the hosts moved past the Netherlands to the top of the overall medal chart with the win.

Gold: Alexander Tretiakov, Russia, 3:44.29 Silver: Martins Dukurs, Latvia, 3:45.10 Bronze: Matt Antoine, United States, 3:47.26 Last Updated by Joe Tansey. Pre-Event Predictions The U.S. is poised to win its first men’s medal in the event since skeleton’s debut in 2002 in what’s shaping up to be a battle for bronze. Both John Daly and Matt Antoine are in contention after Friday’s first two of four runs. Daly stands third, and Antoine fourth, with 0.26 of a second separating them. The biggest surprise is leader Alexander Tretiakov of Russia. Tretiakov holds a surprisingly commanding lead over Martins Dukurs of Latvia, second in the standings by more than a half-second. Daly trails Tretiakov by a whopping 1.59 seconds. Men’s Ski Jumping: Individual Large Hill Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press Poland's Kamil Stoch completed his sweep of the individual men's ski jumping events with a victory in the long hill competition to close out Saturday's schedule.

Stoch became the 10th athlete to win two golds in Sochi and just the fourth to win both in two individual events joining Dario Cologna, Martin Fourcade and Darya Domracheva. The Polish jumper also became the third person to sweep both individual events at the Winter Olympics . Seven-time Olympian Noriaki Kasai, 41, of Japan finished in second place with a silver medal in a competition that saw a few of the medal favorites knocked out in the first round. Peter Prevc of Slovenia took home the bronze medal to go along with his silver from the normal hill. Last Updated by Joe Tansey. Pre-Event Predicitions: Training has been hampered by mild temperatures causing soft snow in the hill’s landing area, with falls suffered by some of the sport’s top jumpers and more than a dozen competitors skipping a round of training in the days prior to Friday’s qualifier. Poland’s Kamil Stoch could sweep the gold medals after winning the normal hill title and jumping strongly on the big hill. Stoch is jumping well despite a crash during Wednesday’s training, which saw two other jumpers fall.

Stoch suffered minor injuries to his face and left arm, but was luckier than Russia’s Mikhail Maksimochkin, who broke ribs and was taken to the hospital and is expected to be out of the competition. Switzerland’s Simon Ammann, the defending Olympic champion going for a record fifth Olympic gold, walked away after a crash of his own. Top U.S. hopefuls Anders Johnson, Peter Frenette, Nick Fairall and Nick Alexander aren’t expected to contend for a medal. Olympic Winter Games Olympic Winter Games CHAMONIX 1924 I Olympic Winter Games In 1921, the International Olympic Committee voted to stage "International Sports Week 1924" in Chamonix, France. This event was a complete success and was retroactively named the First Olympic Winter Games. The first event to be decided in Chamonix was the men's 500m speed skating. The first gold medal went to Charles Jewtraw of the United States. A. Clas Thunberg of Finland earned medals in all five speed skating events: three gold, one silver and one bronze.

Norway's Thorleif Haug dominated Nordic skiing, winning both cross-country races and the Nordic combined. The Canadian ice hockey team won all five of their matches, outscoring their opponents 110 to 3. 16 NOCs (Nations) 258 athletes (11 women, 247 men) 16 events ST. MORITZ 1928 II Olympic Winter Games The 1928 Winter Games, hosted by St. Moritz, Switzerland, were the first to be held in a different nation than the Summer Games of the same year. A new event was contested: the skeleton, which is like luge except that the athletes descend headfirst. Speed skater A. Clas Thunberg added two more gold medals to the three he had won in 1924. Johan Grottumbraten of Norway won the 18km cross-country event and the Nordic combined. Another Norwegian, Sonja Henie, caused a sensation by winning the women's figure skating at the age of fifteen. Her record as the youngest winner of an individual event stood for 74 years.

In men's figure skating, Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden won his third straight gold medal. Canada again dominated the ice hockey tournament, winning their three matches 11-0, 14-0 and 13-0. 25 NOCs (Nations) 464 athletes (26 women, 438 men) 14 events LAKE PLACID 1932 III Olympic Winter Games The third Winter Olympics, in 1932, were held in Lake Placid, New York State, a town of fewer than 4,000 people. Faced with major obstacles raising money in the midst of a depression, the president of the organizing committee, Dr. Godfrey Dewey, donated land owned by his family to be used for construction of a bobsleigh run. Sonja Henie defended her figure skating title, as did the French pair of Andree and Pierre Brunet. However Gillis Grafstrom was thwarted in his attempt at winning a fourth gold medal, placing second behind Austrian Karl Schafer. Billy Fiske of the United States won a second gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh.

One member of Fiske's team was Eddie Eagan, who had won the light-heavyweight boxing championship at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. Eagan remains the only person in Olympic history to earn gold medals in both Summer and Winter sports. 17 NOCs (Nations) 252 athletes (21 women, 231 men) 14 events GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN 1936 IV Olympic Winter Games The 1936 Games were held in the twin Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen. An efficient bus service allowed 500,000 people to attend the final day's events. Alpine skiing events were included for the first time, and this led to a major controversy. The IOC, overruling the International Ski Federation (FIS), declared that ski instructors could not take part in the Olympics because they were professionals. Incensed, the Austrian and Swiss skiers boycotted the events. The dispute carried on after the Games and it was decided that skiing would not be included in the 1940 Olympics. Sonja Henie earned her third gold medal and Karl Schafer his second.

Speed skater Ivan Ballangrud of Norway won three of the four races, including the 500m, the shortest race, and the 10,000m, the longest. Great Britain upset Canada in ice hockey, but it should be noted that ten of the twelve British players lived in Canada. 28 NOCs (Nations) 646 athletes (80 women, 566 men) 17 events ST. MORITZ 1948 V Olympic Winter Games The 1940 Winter Olympics were scheduled for Sapporo, Japan. War with China forced the Japanese to admit, in July 1938, that they would be unable to host the Games. St. Moritz was chosen as an alternative site, but the continuing dispute about ski instructors led the Swiss to withdraw as well. The Germans volunteered Garmisch-Partenkirchen in July 1939, but four months later the reality of World War II forced the cancellation of the Olympics. The first postwar Games were held in St. Moritz in 1948.

Germany and Japan were barred from competing, but everyone else took part eagerly, and it was clear that the Winter Olympics had successfully survived the 12-year hiatus. For the first time, North Americans won gold medals in figure skating. Barbara Ann Scott of Canada took the women's title and Dick Button of the United States the men's. In general, athletic success was evenly divided. Although 22 events were contested, only French Alpine skier Henri Oreiller and Swedish Nordic skier Martin Lundstrom were able to win two gold medals. 28 NOCs (Nations) 669 athletes (77 women, 592 men) 22 events OSLO 1952 VI Olympic Winter Games In 1952, the Olympics were finally held in Norway, the birthplace of modern skiing. The Olympic flame was lit in the hearth of the home of Sondre Nordheim, the first famous skier, and relayed by 94 skiers to Oslo. Speed skater Hjalmar Andersen starred for the home team, winning three gold medals. His winning margins in the 5,000m and the 10,000m were the largest in Olympic history.

In Alpine skiing, the combined event was dropped and replaced by the giant slalom. Andrea Mead Lawrence won both the giant slalom and the slalom even though she was only nineteen years old. Canada won the ice hockey tournament for the fifth time, bringing their cumulative Olympic record to 37 wins, 1 loss and 3 ties. In those 41 games they scored 403 goals while conceding only 34. For the first time, a cross-country skiing event was held for women. The winner was Lydia Wideman of Finland. 30 NOCs (Nations) 694 athletes (109 women, 585 men) 22 events CORTINA D'AMPEZZO 1956 VII Olympic Winter Games The 1956 Winter Olympics, held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, were most notable for the first appearance by a team from the USSR. The Soviets immediately won more medals than any other nation. Their speed skaters won three of the four events, while their ice hockey team ended Canada's domination. Pavel Kolchin became the first non-Scandinavian to earn a medal in cross-country skiing.

Anton Sailer won all three men's races in Alpine skiing - the first clean sweep in Olympic history. Madeleine Berthod celebrated her birthday by winning the downhill by an amazing 4.7 seconds. The United States began to emerge as a definite power in figure skating as Tenley Albright won the women's title and Hayes Alan Jenkins led an American medal sweep on the men's side. The Cortina Games were the first to be televised and the last at which the figure skating competitions were held outdoors. 32 NOCs (Nations) 821 athletes (134 women, 687 men) 24 events SQUAW VALLEY 1960 VIII Olympic Winter Games The 1960 Squaw Valley Games were preceded by a controversy when the organizing committee refused to build a bobsleigh run because only nine nations had indicated an intention to take part. This was the only time that bobsledding was not included in the Olympic programme. As the Games were held in California, it seemed fitting that the chairman of the Pageantry Committee in charge of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies was none other than Walt Disney.

A new sport, biathlon (a combination of cross-country skiing and shooting) was added to the Olympic programme. The first race was won by Klas Lestander of Sweden. Women competed in speed skating for the first time. Male speed skater Yevgeny Grishin gained victories in the 500m and the 1,500m, just as he had in 1956. The United States ice hockey team won an unexpected championship, upsetting both Canada and the USSR. 30 NOCs (Nations) 665 athletes (144 women, 521 men) 27 events INNSBRUCK 1964 IX Olympic Winter Games The 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck were threatened by a lack of snow. The Austrian army rushed to the rescue, carving out 20,000 ice bricks from a mountain top and transporting them to the bobsled and luge runs. They also carried 40,000 cubic meters of snow to the Alpine skiing courses. When rain caused further havoc ten days before the Opening Ceremony, the army packed down the slopes by hand and foot.

Politically, the Games were notable because East and West Germany entered a combined team. Lydia Skoblikova won all four women's speed skating events to become the first athlete to win four gold medals in one Winter Olympics. Klavdiya Boyarskikh earned three gold medals in cross-country skiing and, on the men's side, Eero Mantyranta won two. Sisters Christine and Marielle Goitschel finished first and second in both the slalom and the giant slalom. Ski jumping gained a second event, and the sport of luge made its Olympic debut. 36 NOCs (Nations) 1,091 athletes (199 women, 892 men) 34 events GRENOBLE 1968 X Olympic Winter Games At the 1968 Grenoble Games, sex tests for women were introduced. French hero Jean-Claude Killy swept the men's Alpine events, but only after the greatest controversy in the history of the Winter Olympics. Killy's rival, Karl Schranz, claimed that a mysterious man in black crossed his path during the slalom race, causing him to skid to a halt.

Given a restart, Schranz beat Killy's time. However, a Jury of Appeal disqualified Schranz and gave the victory to Killy. There was also controversy in the women's luge when the three East German entrants, who had finished first, second and fourth, were disqualified for heating their runners. Toini Gustafsson starred in women's cross-country skiing, winning both individual races and earning a silver medal in the relay. Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, an elegant married couple, successfully defended their pairs figure skating title. Eugenio Monti piloted his two-man and four-man bobsleighs to gold medals. 37 NOCs (Nations) 1,158 athletes (211 women, 947 men) 35 events SAPPORO 1972 XI Olympic Winter Games The 1972 Sapporo Games in Japan were the first to be held outside Europe or the United States. The subject of amateurism stirred controversy when skier Karl Schranz was banned for receiving payment from ski product manufacturers, but full-time ice hockey players from Communist nations were allowed to compete.

Galina Kulakova of the USSR won all three cross-country skiing events for women. Ard Schenk of the Netherlands took three golds in speed skating. In Alpine skiing, little-known Marie-Theres Nadig of Switzerland won both the downhill and the giant slalom. Norway's Magnar Solberg won the 20km race to become the first repeat winner in an individual biathlon event. Before the Sapporo Games, Japan had never won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics, but in the normal hill ski jumping event, three Japanese jumpers, led by Yukio Kasaya, swept the medals. 35 NOCs (Nations) 1,006 athletes (205 women, 801 men) 35 events INNSBRUCK 1976 XII Olympic Winter Games The 1976 Winter Olympics were awarded to the U.S. city of Denver, but the people of the state of Colorado voted to prohibit public funds from being used to support the Games. Innsbruck stepped in and hosted the Games only 12 years after its last Olympics.

Rosi Mittermaier won two of the three Alpine skiing events and almost became the first woman to sweep all three events. But in the final race, Kathy Kreiner beat her by 12 hundredths of a second. The ice hockey team from the USSR won its fourth straight gold medal. A new figure skating event, ice dancing, was added to the programme and, like the pairs, it was dominated by Russian couples. The most memorable image of the Games was Franz Klammer flying wildly down the downhill course, barely keeping control, on his way to a gold medal. 37 NOCs (Nations) 1,123 athletes (231 women, 892 men) 37 events LAKE PLACID 1980 XIII Olympic Winter Games The 1980 Winter Games, held in Lake Placid, New York, were filled with impressive performances. The great Swedish skier, Ingemar Stenmark, won both the giant slalom and the slalom. Hanni Wenzel did the same in the women's races and her nation, Liechtenstein, became the smallest country to produce an Olympic champion.

Ulrich Wehling won the Nordic combined for the third time and pairs skater Irina Rodnina did the same in her event. In the biathlon relay, Aleksandr Tikhonov earned his fourth straight gold medal. Nikolay Zimyatov earned three gold medals in cross-country skiing. In an unprecedented achievement, Eric Heiden of the United States won all five speed skating races, from 500m all the way up to 10,000m. Nonetheless, for the home crowd, the highlight was the unexpected victory of the US ice hockey team. 37 NOCs (Nations) 1,072 athletes (232 women, 840 men) 38 events SARAJEVO 1984 XIV Olympic Winter Games In 1984, the Winter Games took place in a Socialist country for the first and only time. The people of Sarajevo gained high marks for their hospitality, and there was no indication of the tragic war that would engulf the city only a few years later. Skier Jure Franko brought joy to the host nation by earning Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympics medal : a silver in the giant slalom.

Marja-Liisa Hamalainen won all three individual cross-country races for women. In speed skating, Gaetan Boucher and Karin Enke each won two gold medals. Biathlete Eirik Kvalfoss earned a complete set of medals. Twin brothers Phil and Steve Mahre took first and second place in the slalom. The highlight of the figure skating competitions was the free dance performance of Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean. Their interpretation of Ravel's Bolero earned across-the-board perfect scores for artistic impression. 49 NOCs (Nations) 1,272 athletes (274 women, 998 men) 39 events 7,393 media (2,363 written press, 5,030 broadcasters) CALGARY 1988 XV Olympic Winter Games For the first time, the Winter Olympics were extended to 16 days, including three weekends. The Alpine events were expanded from three to five with the inclusion of the super giant slalom and the Alpine combined. Team events were added in Nordic combined and ski jumping. Jumper Matti Nykanen took advantage of this new programme to win three gold medals.

The speed skating races were held indoors. Yvonne van Gennip surprised the favourites with three victories. Christa Rothenburger won the 1,000m. Seven months later she earned a silver medal in cycling to become the only athlete ever to win medals in the Winter and Summer Olympics in the same year. Figure skater Katarina Witt defended her Olympic title, while on the men's side Brian Boitano edged Brian Orser in an extremely close decision. Charismatic skier Alberto Tomba made his first Olympic appearance, winning both the giant slalom and the slalom. 57 NOCs (Nations) 1,423 athletes (301 women, 1,122 men) 46 events 6,838 media (2,477 written press, 4,361 broadcasters) ALBERTVILLE 1992 XVI Olympic Winter Games The 1992 Albertville Olympic Games were the last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games. Only 18 of the 57 events were held in Albertville itself, while nearby resorts hosted the rest.

Freestyle skiing and short-track speed skating made their debuts as medal disciplines, as did women's biathlon. Norwegian skiers won every cross country skiing race, as Bjorn Daehlie and Vegard Ulvang each won three gold medals. Speedskater Bonnie Blair won the 500m and 1,000m events, while Gunda Niemann took both of the longest races. At age 16, ski jumper Toni Nieminen became the youngest male winner of a Winter event. Alpine skier Petra Kronberger won both the combined event and the slalom. Ki-hoon Kim earned gold medals in both short track events. 64 NOCs (Nations) 1,801 athletes (488 women, 1,313 men) 57 events 5,894 media (2,271 written press, 3,623 broadcasters) LILLEHAMMER 1994 XVII Olympic Winter Games In 1986 the IOC voted to change the schedule of the Olympic Games so that the Summer and Winter Games would be held in different years.

To adjust to this new schedule, the Lillehammer Games were held in 1994, the only time that two Games have been staged two years apart. The 1994 Games were extremely well organised and the Norwegian host' natural love of winter sports added a refreshing purity of spirit. Local hero Johann Koss won three speed skating events and set a world record in every one. Vreni Schneider won a complete set of medals in alpine skiing and Manuela Di Centa earned medals in all five cross-country events. Myriam Bedard won both women's individual biathlon races. Gustav Weder and Donat Acklin became the first repeat winners of the two-man bobsled. Pairs skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov returned to repeat their Olympic victory of 1988.

67 NOCs (Nations) 1,737 athletes (522 women, 1, 215 men) 61 events 6,633 media (2,615 written press, 4,018 broadcasters) NAGANO 1998 XVIII Olympic Winter Games In 1998 the Winter Olympic Games returned to Japan after 26 years. Snowboarding debuted as an official discipline. Curling was returned to the Olympic Winter programme this time with a tournament for both men and women. For the first time, the men's ice hockey tournament was opened to all professionals and women's ice hockey was introduced to the Olympic programme. The inspired team from the Czech Republic scored a surprise victory. Bjorn Dahlie won three gold medals in Nordic skiing to become the first winter athlete to earn eight career olympic gold medals and twelve total medals. Tara Lipinski won the women's figure skating title to become, at 15, the youngest champion in an individual event in the history of the Winter Olympics. The spirit of the Games was exemplified by Alpine skier Hermann Maier.

Maier survived a spectacular fall in the downhill, recovered and earned gold medals in both the super-G and the giant slalom. 72 NOCs (Nations) 2,176 athletes (787 women, 1,389 men) 68 events 8,329 media (2,586 written press, 5,743 broadcasters) SALT LAKE CITY 2002 XIX Olympic Winter Games The Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games saw the expansion of the Olympic programme to 78 events, including the return of skeleton and the introduction of women's bobsleigh. Athletes from a record 18 nations earned gold medals. Canadian teams won both the men's and women's ice hockey tournaments. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen earned gold medals in all four biathlon events and Samppa Lajunen in all three Nordic combined competitions. Alpine skier Janica Kostelic won three gold medals and one silver. Simon Ammann scored unexpected victories in both individual ski jump events.

Speedskater Claudia Pechstein earned her third straight gold medal in the 5,000m race and also won at 3,000m. By taking the silver medal in singles luge, Georg Hackl became the first person in Olympic history to earn a medal in the same individual event five times in a row. Short track speedskater Yang Yang (A) became the first Chinese athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Games. Competing in the women's bobsleigh, Vonetta Flowers became the first black athlete to earn winter gold, while ice hockey player Jarome Iginla followed as the first black male winner. 77 National Olympic Committees (Nations) 2,399 athletes (886 women, 1,513 men) 78 events 8,730 media (2,661 written press, 6,069 broadcasters) TURIN 2006 XX Olympic Winter Games A record 2,508 athletes from 80 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed at the Turin Winter Games, and 26 NOCs took home medals, another record.

Austrians dominated Alpine skiing, gaining 14 of the 30 medals awarded. South Korea displayed equal success in short-track speed skating (gaining 10 medals of the 24 awarded). On the women's side, Sun-Yu Jin earned three gold medals, and for the men Hyun-Soo Ahn won three golds and one bronze. The other triple-gold winner was Michael Greis in biathlon. Cindy Klassen earned medals in five of the six women's speed skating events. Another speed skater, Claudia Peschstein, won a gold and a silver to become the first athlete in her sport to earn nine career medals. With his victory in the Super G, Kjetil Andre Aamodt became the first Alpine skier to earn four medals in the same event and the first to win four gold medals in total. At the age of 39, skeleton specialist Duff Gibson became the oldest athlete in the history of the Olympic Winter Games to win a gold medal in an individual event. Andre Lange drove to victory in the two-man bobsleigh and then defended his Olympic championship in the four-man event. During the cross-country skiing team sprint, Sara Renner of Canada broke one of her poles.

Norwegian head coach Bjornar Hakensmoen, seeing her struggle, gave her one of his (albeit 12 cm too long). This allowed Renner to help her team win silver medals, and dropped Norway out of the medals. Bjornar Hakensmoen's display of fair play clearly demonstrates true sportsmanship. 80 National Olympic Committees (Nations) 2,508 athletes (960 women, 1,548 men) 84 events XXI Olympic Winter Games February 12 – 28 Total 2 621 athletes (1 558 men и 1 063 women) from 82 countries competed for the medals in Vancouver. 86 sets of medals were played in 15 winter sports. Belarus was represented by 49 athletes (38 men и 14 women). They participated in 6 sports. Belarusian athletes won 3 medals. Alexei Grishin (Freestyle Skiiing) claimed gold, Sergei Novikov (Biathlon) won silver and Darya Domracheva took bronze medal. Best results of the Olympiad were shown by Canadian team.

It won 14 gold medals, more than any other host nation in the Olympic history and enough to put the hosts at the top of the medals table. German athletes shown second result with 30 medals overall. The USA claimed 37 medals and finished third. Total 26 teams were success and won the Olympic medals. In the non official gold medals event Belarus finished seventeenth. By total amount of won medals Belarus took eighteenth place. The Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver were the fifth in the history of Belarus. Over it Winter Olympiads brought 9 medals overall to Belarus including 4 in Freestyle Skiiing, 4 in Biathlon and 1 in Speed Skating. XXI Olympic Winter Games Vancouver, Canada February 12 – 28, 2010 Total 2 621 athletes (1 558 men ? 1 063 women) from 82 countries competed for the medals in Vancouver. 86 sets of medals were played in 15 winter sports. Belarus was represented by 49 athletes (38 men ? 14 women). They participated in 6 sports. Belarusian athletes won 3 medals.

Alexei Grishin (Freestyle Skiiing) claimed gold, Sergei Novikov (Biathlon) won silver and Darya Domracheva took bronze medal. Best results of the Olympiad were shown by Canadian team. It won 14 gold medals, more than any other host nation in the Olympic history and enough to put the hosts at the top of the medals table. German athletes shown second result with 30 medals overall. The USA claimed 37 medals and finished third. Total 26 teams were success and won the Olympic medals.

Question: Which country was represented by Hanni Wenzel, who won the women's giant slalom and slalom at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in 1980?
Answer: Liechtenstein