List of 1998 Winter Olympics medal winners

The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Nagano, Japan, from 7 to 22 February 1998.^[1] A total of 2,176 athletes representing 72 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the Games in 68 events across 14 disciplines.^[2]

Bjørn Dæhlie of Norway (pictured here in 2011) won four medals in cross-country skiing in Nagano.

The discipline of snowboarding made its debut, with four events contested, two for men and two for women.^[3] Additionally, the Olympic program saw the addition of a women's tournament in ice hockey, the first time that women had participated in that sport in Olympic history.^[4] At the time, it was believed that curling made its debut as a medal event, having been a demonstration sport three times at the 1932, 1988, and 1992 Winter Olympics;^[5] however, in 2006, the International Olympic Committee ruled that the 1924 Olympic tournament in Chamonix, France, had been an official medal event,^[6] retroactively making the Nagano tournament the second time curling has been contested for official medals.^[5]

Germany won the most medals, with 29, and the most gold medals, with 12. Norway finished second in both tallies, with 10 gold medals and 25 medals of all colors. Of the 72 NOCs to participate at Nagano, 24 won at least one medal, 15 of those won at least one gold medal.^[7] Denmark, participating in a Winter Olympic Games for the ninth time, won its first-ever medal at a Winter Olympics.^[8][9] Bulgaria and the Czech Republic won their first Winter Olympic gold medals in Nagano. The Czech Republic had previously won two gold medals as part of Czechoslovakia,^[10] and Bulgaria had won a bronze medal in the 1980 Winter Olympics.^[11]

Larisa Lazutina of Russia won five medals, the most of any competitor; she won three golds, a silver, and a bronze medal in cross-country skiing, winning a medal in every women's event in her sport.^[12] Norwegian cross-country skier Bjørn Dæhlie won four medals, including three golds. A further nine competitors earned three medals apiece, with forty-seven total individuals winning multiple medals.^[13]

Alpine skiing

Hermann Maier, here pictured in 2009, won two gold medals at the 1998 Games.

See also: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's downhill[14] details	Jean-Luc Crétier  France	Lasse Kjus  Norway	Hannes Trinkl  Austria
Men's slalom[15] details	Hans Petter Buraas  Norway	Ole Kristian Furuseth  Norway	Thomas Sykora  Austria
Men's giant slalom[16] details	Hermann Maier  Austria	Stephan Eberharter  Austria	Michael von Grünigen  Switzerland
Men's super-G[17] details	Hermann Maier  Austria	Didier Cuche  Switzerland	None awarded[a]
		Hans Knauß  Austria
Men's combined[18] details	Mario Reiter  Austria	Lasse Kjus  Norway	Christian Mayer  Austria
Women's downhill[19] details	Katja Seizinger  Germany	Pernilla Wiberg  Sweden	Florence Masnada  France
Women's slalom[20] details	Hilde Gerg  Germany	Deborah Compagnoni  Italy	Zali Steggall  Australia
Women's giant slalom[21] details	Deborah Compagnoni  Italy	Alexandra Meissnitzer  Austria	Katja Seizinger  Germany
Women's super-G[22] details	Picabo Street  United States	Michaela Dorfmeister  Austria	Alexandra Meissnitzer  Austria
Women's combined[23] details	Katja Seizinger  Germany	Martina Ertl  Germany	Hilde Gerg  Germany

Biathlon

Uschi Disl won three medals in biathlon at Nagano.

See also: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 20 km[24] details	Halvard Hanevold  Norway	Pieralberto Carrara  Italy	Alexei Aidarov  Belarus
Men's 10 km[25] details	Ole Einar Bjørndalen  Norway	Frode Andresen  Norway	Ville Räikkönen  Finland
Men's 4 × 7.5 km details	Germany (GER)[26] Ricco Groß Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Frank Luck	Norway (NOR)[27] Egil Gjelland Halvard Hanevold Dag Bjørndalen Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Russia (RUS)[28] Pavel Muslimov Vladimir Drachev Sergei Tarasov Viktor Maigourov
Women's 15 km[29] details	Ekaterina Dafovska  Bulgaria	Olena Petrova  Ukraine	Uschi Disl  Germany
Women's 7.5 km[30] details	Galina Koukleva  Russia	Uschi Disl  Germany	Katrin Apel  Germany
Women's 4 × 7.5 km details	Germany (GER)[26] Uschi Disl Martina Zellner Katrin Apel Petra Behle	Russia (RUS)[28] Olga Melnik Galina Koukleva Albina Akhatova Olga Romasko	Norway (NOR)[27] Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Annette Sikveland Gunn Margit Andreassen Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée

Bobsleigh

See also: Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man details	Canada (CAN)[31] Pierre Lueders David MacEachern	none awarded[b]	Germany (GER)[32] Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann
	Italy (ITA)[33] Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia
Four-man details	Germany (GER)[32] Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel	Switzerland (SUI)[34] Marcel Rohner Markus Nüssli Markus Wasser Beat Seitz	France (FRA)[35] Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache Éric Le Chanony Max Robert
			Great Britain (GBR)[36] Sean Olsson Dean Ward Courtney Rumbolt Paul Attwood

Cross-country skiing

Kateřina Neumannová won a silver medal in the 5 km classical race.

See also: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 10 km classical[37] details	Bjørn Dæhlie  Norway	Markus Gandler  Austria	Mika Myllylä  Finland
Men's 15 km freestyle pursuit[38] details	Thomas Alsgaard  Norway	Bjørn Dæhlie  Norway	Vladimir Smirnov  Kazakhstan
Men's 30 km classical[39] details	Mika Myllylä  Finland	Erling Jevne  Norway	Silvio Fauner  Italy
Men's 50 km freestyle[40] details	Bjørn Dæhlie  Norway	Niklas Jonsson  Sweden	Christian Hoffmann  Austria
Men's 4 × 10 km relay details	Norway (NOR)[41] Sture Sivertsen Erling Jevne Bjørn Dæhlie Thomas Alsgaard	Italy (ITA)[42] Marco Albarello Fulvio Valbusa Fabio Maj Silvio Fauner	Finland (FIN)[43] Harri Kirvesniemi Mika Myllylä Sami Repo Jari Isometsä
Women's 5 km classical[44] details	Larisa Lazutina  Russia	Kateřina Neumannová  Czech Republic	Bente Martinsen  Norway
Women's Combined 5 km + 10 km pursuit[45] details	Larisa Lazutina  Russia	Olga Danilova  Russia	Kateřina Neumannová  Czech Republic
Women's 15 km classical[46] details	Olga Danilova  Russia	Larisa Lazutina  Russia	Anita Moen-Guidon  Norway
Women's 30 km freestyle[47] details	Yuliya Chepalova  Russia	Stefania Belmondo  Italy	Larisa Lazutina  Russia
Women's 4 × 5 km relay details	Russia (RUS)[48] Nina Gavrilyuk Olga Danilova Yelena Välbe Larisa Lazutina	Norway (NOR)[41] Bente Martinsen Marit Mikkelsplass Elin Nilsen Anita Moen-Guidon	Italy (ITA)[42] Karin Moroder Gabriella Paruzzi Manuela Di Centa Stefania Belmondo

Curling

See also: Curling at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	Switzerland (SUI)[49] Patrick Hürlimann Patrik Lörtscher Daniel Müller Diego Perren Dominic Andres	Canada (CAN)[50] Mike Harris Richard Hart George Karrys Collin Mitchell Paul Savage	Norway (NOR)[51] Eigil Ramsfjell Jan Thoresen Stig-Arne Gunnestad Anthon Grimsmo Tore Torvbråten
Women's details	Canada (CAN)[50] Sandra Schmirler Jan Betker Joan McCusker Marcia Gudereit Atina Ford	Denmark (DEN)[52] Helena Blach Lavrsen Margit Pörtner Dorthe Holm Trine Qvist Jane Bidstrup	Sweden (SWE)[53] Elisabet Gustafson Katarina Nyberg Louise Marmont Elisabeth Persson Margaretha Lindahl

Figure skating

Michelle Kwan, silver medalist in ladies' singles

See also: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles[54] details	Ilia Kulik  Russia	Elvis Stojko  Canada	Philippe Candeloro  France
Ladies' singles[55] details	Tara Lipinski  United States	Michelle Kwan  United States	Chen Lu  China
Pairs details	Russia (RUS)[56] Oksana Kazakova Artur Dmitriev	Russia (RUS)[56] Elena Berezhnaya Anton Sikharulidze	Germany (GER)[57] Mandy Wötzel Ingo Steuer
Ice dancing details	Russia (RUS)[56] Pasha Grishuk Evgeny Platov	Russia (RUS)[56] Anjelika Krylova Oleg Ovsyannikov	France (FRA)[58] Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat

Freestyle skiing

Kari Traa, bronze medalist in moguls

See also: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's moguls[59] details	Jonny Moseley  United States	Janne Lahtela  Finland	Sami Mustonen  Finland
Men's aerials[60] details	Eric Bergoust  United States	Sébastien Foucras  France	Dmitri Dashinski  Belarus
Women's moguls[61] details	Tae Satoya  Japan	Tatjana Mittermayer  Germany	Kari Traa  Norway
Women's aerials[62] details	Nikki Stone  United States	Xu Nannan  China	Colette Brand  Switzerland

Ice hockey

Angela Ruggiero was part of the United States gold medal-winning ice hockey team.

See also: Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team details	Czech Republic (CZE)[63] Josef Beránek Jan Čaloun Roman Čechmánek Jiří Dopita Roman Hamrlík Dominik Hašek Milan Hejduk Jaromír Jágr František Kučera Robert Lang David Moravec Pavel Patera Libor Procházka Martin Procházka Robert Reichel Martin Ručínský Vladimír Růžička Jiří Šlégr Richard Šmehlík Jaroslav Špaček Martin Straka Petr Svoboda	Russia (RUS)[64] Pavel Bure Valeri Bure Sergei Fedorov Sergei Gonchar Alexei Gusarov Valeri Kamensky Darius Kasparaitis Andrei Kovalenko Igor Kravchuk Sergei Krivokrasov Boris Mironov Dmitri Mironov Aleksey Morozov Sergei Nemchinov Oleg Shevtsov Mikhail Shtalenkov German Titov Andrei Trefilov Alexei Yashin Dmitri Yushkevich Valeri Zelepukin Alexei Zhamnov Alexei Zhitnik	Finland (FIN)[65] Aki-Petteri Berg Tuomas Grönman Raimo Helminen Sami Kapanen Saku Koivu Jari Kurri Janne Laukkanen Jere Lehtinen Juha Lind Jyrki Lumme Jarmo Myllys Mika Nieminen Janne Niinimaa Teppo Numminen Ville Peltonen Kimmo Rintanen Teemu Selänne Ari Sulander Jukka Tammi Esa Tikkanen Kimmo Timonen Antti Törmänen Juha Ylönen
Women's team details	United States (USA)[66] Chris Bailey Laurie Baker Alana Blahoski Lisa Brown-Miller Karyn Bye Colleen Coyne Sara Decosta Tricia Dunn-Luoma Cammi Granato Katie King Shelley Looney Sue Merz Allison Mleczko Tara Mounsey Vicki Movsessian Jenny Potter Angela Ruggiero Sarah Tueting Gretchen Ulion Sandra Whyte	Canada (CAN)[67] Jennifer Botterill Thérèse Brisson Cassie Campbell Judy Diduck Nancy Drolet Lori Dupuis Danielle Goyette Geraldine Heaney Jayna Hefford Becky Kellar Kathy McCormack Karen Nystrom Lesley Reddon Manon Rhéaume Laura Schuler Fiona Smith France St-Louis Vicky Sunohara Hayley Wickenheiser Stacy Wilson	Finland (FIN)[65] Sari Fisk Kirsi Hänninen Satu Huotari Marianne Ihalainen Johanna Ikonen Sari Krooks Emma Laaksonen Sanna Lankosaari Katja Lehto Marika Lehtimäki Riikka Nieminen Marja-Helena Pälvilä Tuula Puputti Karoliina Rantamäki Tiia Reima Katja Riipi Päivi Salo Maria Selin Liisa-Maria Sneck Petra Vaarakallio

Luge

See also: Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles[68] details	Georg Hackl  Germany	Armin Zöggeler  Italy	Jens Müller  Germany
Women's singles[69] details	Silke Kraushaar  Germany	Barbara Niedernhuber  Germany	Angelika Neuner  Austria
Men's doubles details	Stefan Krauße and Jan Behrendt  Germany[70]	Chris Thorpe and Gordon Sheer  United States[71]	Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin  United States[71]

Nordic combined

See also: Nordic combined at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual[72] details	Bjarte Engen Vik  Norway	Samppa Lajunen  Finland	Valeri Stolyarov  Russia
Team details	Norway (NOR)[73] Halldor Skard Kenneth Braaten Bjarte Engen Vik Fred Børre Lundberg	Finland (FIN)[74] Samppa Lajunen Jari Mantila Tapio Nurmela Hannu Manninen	France (FRA)[75] Sylvain Guillaume Nicolas Bal Ludovic Roux Fabrice Guy

Short track speed skating

See also: Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 500 m[76] details	Takafumi Nishitani  Japan	An Yulong  China	Hitoshi Uematsu  Japan
Men's 1,000 m[77] details	Kim Dong-sung  South Korea	Li Jiajun  China	Éric Bédard  Canada
Men's 5,000 m relay details	Canada (CAN)[78] Éric Bédard Derrick Campbell François Drolet Marc Gagnon	South Korea (KOR)[79] Chae Ji-hoon Lee Jun-hwan Lee Ho-eung Kim Dong-sung	China (CHN)[80] Li Jiajun Feng Kai Yuan Ye An Yulong
Women's 500 m[81] details	Annie Perreault  Canada	Yang Yang (S)  China	Chun Lee-kyung  South Korea
Women's 1,000 m[82] details	Chun Lee-kyung  South Korea	Yang Yang (S)  China	Won Hye-kyung  South Korea
Women's 3,000 m relay details	South Korea (KOR)[79] Chun Lee-kyung Won Hye-kyung An Sang-mi Kim Yun-mi	China (CHN)[80] Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S) Wang Chunlu Sun Dandan	Canada (CAN)[78] Christine Boudrias Isabelle Charest Annie Perreault Tania Vicent

Ski jumping

See also: Ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual, normal hill[83] details	Jani Soininen  Finland	Kazuyoshi Funaki  Japan	Andreas Widhölzl  Austria
Individual, large hill[84] details	Kazuyoshi Funaki  Japan	Jani Soininen  Finland	Masahiko Harada  Japan
Team details	Japan (JPN)[85] Takanobu Okabe Hiroya Saitō Masahiko Harada Kazuyoshi Funaki	Germany (GER)[86] Sven Hannawald Martin Schmitt Hansjörg Jäkle Dieter Thoma	Austria (AUT)[87] Reinhard Schwarzenberger Martin Höllwarth Stefan Horngacher Andreas Widhölzl

Snowboarding

See also: Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's halfpipe[88] details	Gian Simmen  Switzerland	Daniel Franck  Norway	Ross Powers  United States
Men's giant slalom[89] details	Ross Rebagliati  Canada	Thomas Prugger  Italy	Ueli Kestenholz  Switzerland
Women's halfpipe[90] details	Nicola Thost  Germany	Stine Brun Kjeldaas  Norway	Shannon Dunn-Downing  United States
Women's giant slalom[91] details	Karine Ruby  France	Heidi Maria Renoth  Germany	Brigitte Köck  Austria

Speed skating

Marianne Timmer won gold in the middle-distance races of 1,000 and 1,500 metres.

See also: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 500 m[92] details	Hiroyasu Shimizu  Japan	Jeremy Wotherspoon  Canada	Kevin Overland  Canada
Men's 1,000 m[93] details	Ids Postma  Netherlands	Jan Bos  Netherlands	Hiroyasu Shimizu  Japan
Men's 1,500 m[94] details	Ådne Søndrål  Norway	Ids Postma  Netherlands	Rintje Ritsma  Netherlands
Men's 5,000 m[95] details	Gianni Romme  Netherlands	Rintje Ritsma  Netherlands	Bart Veldkamp  Belgium
Men's 10,000 m[96] details	Gianni Romme  Netherlands	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	Rintje Ritsma  Netherlands
Women's 500 m[97] details	Catriona Le May Doan  Canada	Susan Auch  Canada	Tomomi Okazaki  Japan
Women's 1,000 m[98] details	Marianne Timmer  Netherlands	Christine Witty  United States	Catriona Le May Doan  Canada
Women's 1,500 m[99] details	Marianne Timmer  Netherlands	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  Germany	Christine Witty  United States
Women's 3,000 m[100] details	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  Germany	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	Anni Friesinger  Germany
Women's 5,000 m[101] details	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  Germany	Lyudmila Prokasheva  Kazakhstan

Multiple medalists

Athletes who won three or more medals during the 1998 Winter Olympics are listed below.^[13]

Athlete	Nation	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Larisa Lazutina	Russia (RUS)	Cross-country skiing	3	1	1	5
Bjørn Dæhlie	Norway (NOR)	Cross-country skiing	3	1	0	4
Olga Danilova	Russia (RUS)	Cross-country skiing	2	1	0	3
Kazuyoshi Funaki	Japan (JPN)	Ski jumping	2	1	0	3
Chun Lee-kyung	South Korea (KOR)	Short track speed skating	2	0	1	3
Katja Seizinger	Germany (GER)	Alpine skiing	2	0	1	3
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Germany (GER)	Speed skating	1	2	0	3
Uschi Disl	Germany (GER)	Biathlon	1	1	1	3
Mika Myllylä	Finland (FIN)	Cross-country skiing	1	0	2	3
Yang Yang (S)	China (CHN)	Short track speed skating	0	3	0	3
Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands (NED)	Short track speed skating	0	1	2	3

Notes

• ^a No bronze medal was awarded in this event because two competitors tied for second place with a time of 1 minute, 35.43 seconds.^[17]
• ^b No silver medal was awarded in this event because Italy and Canada tied for first place with a time of 3 minutes, 37.24 seconds.^[102]

See also

• 1998 Winter Olympics medal table