1984 Winter Olympics Facts for Kids

The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, were held in Sarajevo. (At that time, Sarajevo was in Yugoslavia, but it is now in Bosnia and Herzegovina.) Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was the first Winter Games and the second Olympics held in Eastern Europe (the first was the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow).

Olympic Games

Summer Games: 1896, 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1912, (1916), 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940), (1944), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028
Winter Games: 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940), (1944), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022
Athens 2004 — Turin 2006 — Beijing 2008 — Vancouver 2010 — London 2012 — Sochi 2014 — Rio 2016 — Pyeongchang 2018 — Tokyo 2020 Games in italics will be held in the future, and those in (brackets) were cancelled because of war. See also: Ancient Olympic Games

Youth Olympic Games

Summer Games: 2010, 2014, 2018
Winter Games: 2012, 2016, 2020
Singapore 2010 — Innsbruck 2012 — Nanjing 2014

Images for kids

Sarajevo in 1982
Chair of the Organizing Committee Branko Mikulić
Olympic torch, Sarajevo 1984
Panoramic view of Koševo Stadium during the 1984 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
The official poster of the 1984 Winter Olympics
Bjelašnica alpine mountain
Igman Olympic Jumps
The Olympic champion Frank-Peter Rötsch in 1983
East Germans Wolfgang Hoppe and Dietmar Schauerhammer in 1985
Gold medalist Steffi Martin in 1983
Katarina Witt in 1985
Karin Enke (pictured in 1983) won four medals in Sarajevo.
The ski jumping hills of mount Igman
A gold medal from the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Olympic symbol damaged during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina
1984 Soviet postage stamp
1984 Soviet postage stamp
1984 East German postage stamp
1984 East German postage stamp
Igman ski-jumping hills during spring
Yugoslavia postage stamps FDC (Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics)
Asim Ferhatovic Stadion (Koševo Stadium then)