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| The Winter Olympics |
| Innsbruck 1964 |
| Grenoble 1968 |
| Innsbruck 1976 |
| Lake Placid 1980 |
| Sarajevo 1984 |
| Calgary 1988 |
| Lillehammer 1994 |
| Salt Lake City 2002 |
| Turin 2006 |
| Vancouver 2010 |
| Sochi 2014 |
The Winter Olympics were first held at Chamonix (in the French Alps) in 1924.
They were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics until 1992.
The first city to hold a Winter Olympics in a different year from the Summer Olympics was Lillehammer (Norway) in 1994.
For more details, see The Olympics.
This page is mainly about all the medals that Great Britain has won at the Winter Olympics since 1964. (In the UK, we're not really interested in the Winter Olympics, or winter sports in general, unless we win something. Which doesn't happen all that often.)
Winners of the Ice Hockey tournament the first team other than Canada to win (at the
fourth Winter Games, and the fifth Olympic ice hockey tournament)
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Great Britain |
| GBR gold medallists in the 2–man bobsleigh |
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Tony Nash |
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Robin Dixon |
| French winner of all three men's alpine skiing events (downhill, slalom, giant slalom) |
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Jean–Claude Killy |
| The UK's figure skating gold medallist |
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John Curry |
| The UK's figure skating gold medallist |
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Robin Cousins |
| The UK's ice dance gold medallists |
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Jayne Torvill |
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Christopher Dean | |
| Skier Hanni Wenzel won the first ever Olympic gold medal for |
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Liechtenstein |
| The UK's first ever Olympic ski jumper – finished last (by some distance) in both the 70m and 90m events |
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Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards |
| US skater: won a silver medal, one month after being attacked with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex–husband of her rival, Tonya Harding (who finished eighth) |
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Nancy Kerrigan |
| Scottish skier who finished third in the slalom, thus winning the UK's first ever Alpine skiing medal – but lost it after testing positive for a banned substance. He was cleared of the offence (he ingested it from a Vick's inhaler, unaware that the US version was different from the British) but the medal was not returned |
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Alain Baxter |
| Skip (captain) of the UK's gold medal winning women's curling team |
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Rhona Martin |
| The UK's only medal – silver in the women's Skeleton |
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Shelley Rudman |
| Winner of the skeleton – the UK's first individual Winter Olympics gold since Robin Cousins in 1980 |
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Amy Williams |
| Name of her sled |
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Arthur |
| Winner of the women's skeleton |
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Lizzy Yarnold |
| Won bronze in the women's slopestyle (snowboarding) – Great Britain's first ever Olympic medal on snow |
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Jenny Jones |
| Singapore–born British musician (with a Thai father), represented Thailand in the giant slalom (surname Vanakorn) |
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Vanessa–Mae |
Great Britain also won silver in the men's curling and bronze in the women's curling, making this our most successful Winter Olympiad since the very first one, in 1924, when we also won four medals.
| Flag carrier for Team GB at the opening ceremony; went on to win the skeleton competition for a second time (the first British competitor to retain a Winter Olympics title) |
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Lizzy Yarnold |
| Surname of the sister (Eve – 'skip' of the women's team) and two brothers (Thomas and Glen) who
represented Great Britain in Curling |
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Muirhead |
| 'Skip' (captain) of Great Britain's gold–medal–winning women's curling team – at her fourth Winter Olympics (see Pyongchang 2018, above) |
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Eve Muirhead |
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