| 1994 Winter Olympics medals | ||||
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 Russian cross-country skierLyubov Yegorova finished tied for the most golds among individual athletes at the 1994 games, with three. | ||||
| Location | Lillehammer, Norway | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Most gold medals |  Russia (11) | |||
| Most total medals | Norway (26) | |||
| Medalling NOCs | 22 | |||
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The1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Winter Olympics, were an international wintermulti-sport event held inLillehammer,Norway, from 12 to 27 February 1994.[1] 1,737 athletes representing 67National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.[2] The games featured 61 events in 6sports and 12 disciplines.[3][4] Due to scheduling changes made in 1986 with the intent to begin holding theSummer Olympics andWinter Olympics in different years for the first time and moving forward, this edition of the Winter Olympics took place only two years after the previous event.[5][6]
Athletes representing 22 NOCs received at least one medal, with 14 NOCs winning at least one gold medal.[2] Six NOCs won their first Winter Olympic medals:Australia,[7]Belarus,[8]Kazakhstan,[1]Slovenia,[9]Ukraine,[10] andUzbekistan.[11] Three of these, Kazakhstan,[1] Ukraine,[12] and Uzbekistan, won their first Winter Olympic gold medals.[11] The three first-time gold medalist NOCs and Belarus were all competing in their first Olympic Games as independentNational Olympic Committees following thebreakup of the Soviet Union.[13]
Russia, in its first Winter Olympics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, won the most gold medals, with 11, while host nationNorway had the most medals overall, with 26.[13][14] Among individual participants, Norwegian speed skaterJohann Olav Koss and Russian cross-country skierLyubov Yegorova tied for the most gold medals, with three each, whileItalian cross-country skierManuela Di Centa had the most medals overall with five (two gold, two silver, and one bronze).[15]
The medal table is based on information provided by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses theOlympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[16][17] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by theirIOC country code.[18]
* Host nation (Norway)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russia | 11 | 8 | 4 | 23 |
| 2 | Norway* | 10 | 11 | 5 | 26 |
| 3 |  Germany | 9 | 7 | 8 | 24 |
| 4 |  Italy | 7 | 5 | 8 | 20 |
| 5 |  United States | 6 | 5 | 2 | 13 |
| 6 |  South Korea | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 |  Canada | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 |
| 8 |  Switzerland | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 9 |  Austria | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 10 |  Sweden | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 |  Japan | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 12 |  Kazakhstan | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 |  Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 |  Uzbekistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 |  Belarus | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 |  Finland | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 17 |  France | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 18 |  Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 19 |  China | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 20 |  Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 21 |  Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 22 |  Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (22 entries) | 61 | 61 | 61 | 183 | |
