March 1999
Slovenes have been among the competitors at the Winter Olympic
Games from their very beginning in 1924 when there were two
cross-country skiers from Slovenia on the four-man team that
Yugoslavia sent to Chamonix. With the exception of two Winter Olympics
held in the United States (1932 and 1960), Slovenes made up the
majority of all the Yugoslav Winter Olympics teams. Slovenia competed
for the first time as an independent country in 1992 and subsequently
competed at Lillehammer in 1994 and at Nagano in 1998.
The greatest number of winter athletes from Slovenia (52) competed
at the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo in 1984, and there were many
sport professionals from Slovenia among the organisers. Twenty-five
Slovenes competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics, twenty-two in 1994, and
thirty-four in 1998. Along with sixteen individual medals (5 gold, 4
silver, and 7 bronze) and twelve team medals (2-4-6) from the Summer
Olympic Games, Slovene athletes have won seven medals at the Winter
Olympic Games (3 silver and 4 bronze):
1984 - Sarajevo: Jure Franko, silver medal in giant slalom
1988 - Calgary: Matjaž Debelak, bronze medal in giant ski jumping
1988 - Calgary: silver medal in team ski jumping (Matjaž Debelak, Miran Tepeš, Primož Ulaga, Matjaž Zupan)
1988 - Calgary: Mateja Svet, silver medal in slalom
1994 - Lillehammer: Alenka Dovžan, bronze medal in alpine combination
1994 - Lillehammer: Katja Koren, bronze medal in slalom
1994 - Lillehammer: Jure Košir, bronze medal in slalom
 Katja Koren |
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 Mateja Svet |
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 Alenka Dovžan |
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 Matjaž Debelak |
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 Jure Franko |
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 Jure Košir |
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 Matjaž Debelak, Miran Tepeš, Primož Ulaga, Matjaž Zupan |
