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Culture8–23 February 1992

1992 Albertville Winter Olympics

Also called: XVI Olympic Winter Games, 1992 Winter Olympics

The last Winter Olympics held in the same year as the Summer Games; short track became an Olympic sport and Kim Ki-hoon won South Korea’s first Winter Olympic gold.

The Olympic cauldron of the 1992 Albertville Games
The Olympic cauldron of the 1992 Albertville Games

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Sixty-four nations competed from 8 to 23 February at Albertville, in Savoie, and the surrounding mountain villages. Just after the end of the Cold War, a reunified Germany sent a single team, the former Soviet republics competed together as the “Unified Team”, and Croatia and Slovenia appeared as new nations.

South Korea won its first Winter Olympic medals here. Speed skater Kim Yoon-man took silver in the men’s 1000 m for the first medal, and in short track, now an Olympic sport, Kim Ki-hoon won the men’s 1000 m in world-record time for the first gold. Kim Ki-hoon, Lee Joon-ho, Mo Ji-soo and Song Jae-kun also won the men’s 5000 m relay. Korea finished tenth overall with two golds, a silver and a bronze.

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States at the time
France · host

People

  • Kim Ki-hoon1967

    participant · South Korean short-track speed skater who won Korea’s first Winter Olympic gold in the 1000 m at Albertville in 1992 and retained the title at Lillehammer in 1994

Before and after

Earlier
1991 Inter-Korean Basic Agreement
Later
1993 First North Korean Nuclear Crisis

Themes that include this event

  • Winter Olympics1924 – 2026

    From the “International Winter Sports Week” at Chamonix to PyeongChang and Milano Cortina — a century on snow and ice, with Korea’s first appearance and first gold