Slovene Winter Olympic Medals

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

IMAGE: Katja Koren

IMAGE: Mateja Svet

IMAGE: Alenka Dovžan

IMAGE: Matjaž Debelak

IMAGE: Jure Franko

IMAGE: Jure Košir

IMAGE: Matjaž Debelak, Miran Tepeš, Primož Ulaga, Matjaž Zupan