"Salt Lake 2002" redirects here. For the video game, see Salt Lake 2002 (video game). For the Winter Paralympics, see 2002 Winter Paralympics.
XIX Olympic Winter Games
Emblem of the 2002 Winter Olympics[a]
Host city
Salt Lake City, United States
Motto
Light the Fire Within
Nations
78
Athletes
2,399 (1,513 men, 886 women)
Events
78 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)
Opening
February 8, 2002
Closing
February 24, 2002
Opened by
President George W. Bush
Cauldron
Members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, led by team captain Mike Eruzione
Stadium
Rice–Eccles Stadium
Winter
← Nagano 1998
Turin 2006 →
Summer
← Sydney 2000
Athens 2004 →
2002 Winter Paralympics
Part of a series on
2002 Winter Olympics
Bid process (bid details)
Venues
Opening ceremony (flag bearers)
Mascots
Torch relay
Medal table (medalists)
Closing ceremony (flag bearers)
Paralympics (medal table)
IOC
USOC
SLOC
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Countdown clock used for the games in the shape of an arrowheadSalt Lake City during the 2002 Winter OlympicsCurling at The Ice Sheet at Ogden on February 22, 20022002 Olympic Winter Games $5 coin created by the U.S. Mint
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (Arapaho: Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: Tit'-so-pi 2002; Navajo: Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: Soónkahni 2002), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from February 8 to 24, 2002, in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Salt Lake City was selected as the host city in June 1995 at the 104th IOC Session. They were the eighth Olympics to be hosted by the United States, and the most recent to be held in the country until 2028, when Los Angeles will host the 34th Summer Olympics. The 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics were both organized by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC), the first time that both events were organized by a single committee, and inspiring other Olympic and Paralympic Games to be organized by such since then.[1]
The Games featured 2,399 athletes from 78 nations, participating in 78 events in 15 disciplines. Norway topped the medal table, with 13 gold and 25 medals overall, while Germany finished with the most total medals, winning 36 (with 12 of them gold). The hosting United States was third by gold medals and second by overall medals, with 10 and 34 respectively. Australia notably became the first Southern Hemisphere country to ever win gold medals at the Winter Olympics.
The Games finished with a budgetary surplus of US$40 million; the surplus was used to fund the formation of the Utah Athletic Foundation—which has continued to maintain the facilities built for these Olympics. The venues have continued to be used for national and international winter sports events after the Olympics, while the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee has backed the possibility of Salt Lake City bidding for a future Winter Olympics, notably the 2034 Winter Olympics.
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^Salt Lake Organizing Committee (2002). Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games(PDF). p. 35. ISBN 978-0-9717961-0-2. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 8, 2010. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
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