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This Day in U. S. Winter Olympic History
// USOC // February 6, 2006
February 10
1968 - Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal. It was the only USA gold medal of seven medal finishes at Grenoble.
1992 - Bonnie Blair wins 500m speed skating event, one of five gold medals for USA at Albertville.
2002 - Kelly Clark became the first American ever to win gold in this American-invented sport, doing so by posting one of the highest scores ever awarded in a women's halfpipe competition at Salt Lake City.
February 11
2002 - Ross "The Boss" Powers took charge of the men's Olympic halfpipe, and "co-workers" Danny Kass and JJ Thomas did the rest as the U.S. Snowboard Team made history with the first Olympic medals sweep of any snowboarding event at Salt Lake City.
February 12
2002 - Casey FitzRandolph wins 500m speed skating event, one of 10 gold medals for the USA at Salt Lake City.
February 13
1976 - Dorothy Hamill wins women’s figure-skating event, one of three USA gold medals at Innsbruck.
1982 - 2006 Olympian Steve Nyman, skiing, birthday.
February 14
2002 – Timothy Goebel captures bronze medal at Salt Lake City, one of a record 34 medals for Team USA in Salt Lake City.
February 15
1932 - USA bobsled team member Eddie Eagan (April 26, 1897–June 14, 1967) becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer and Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold).
1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 seconds to capture the gold medal at Lake Placid.
February 16
1980 - Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7:02.29 to set an Olympic Record in winning a gold medal, one of five in claimed in Lake Placid.
February 17
2002 - Chris Witty wins 1,000m speed skating event at Salt Lake City.
February 18
1979 - 2006 Olympian Sarah Schleper, skiing, birthday
2002 - USA did not medal on this day in Salt Lake City, but the men’s hockey team defeated Belarus 8-1 while curling split a pair of matches with the women defeating Norway 11-2 while the men dropped a 7-6 decision to Great Britain.
February 19
1980 - Eric Heiden posts another Olympic record by winning the 1000m in 1:15.18 at Lake Placid.
1984 - Phil and Steve Mahre become the first brother combo to win Gold and Silver in the same event at the same Olympics in Sarajevo.
1985 - 2006 Olympian Dan Joye, luges, birthday
2002 - Vonetta Flowers and Jill Bakken with the women’s bobsleigh gold medal at Salt Lake City.
2002 - Derek Parra captures the 1,500m men’s speed skating gold medal at Salt Lake City.
This Day in U. S. Winter Olympic History
February 20
1988 - Brian Boitano wins gold medal in figure skating at Calgary
1998 - Tara Lipinski wins figure skating gold medal at Nagano.
2002 - Apolo Anton Ohno claims 1,500m short track speed skating gold at Salt Lake City.
2002 - Tristen Gale and Lea Ann Parsley claim gold and silver, respectively, in women’s skeleton at Salt Lake City.
2002 - Jim Shea captures men’s skeleton gold at Salt Lake City.
February 21
1973 - 2006 Olympian Brian Rolston, ice hockey, birthday
1977 - 2006 Olympian Tyler Jewell, snowboarding, birthday
1980 - Eric Heiden skates to another Olympic record by winning the 1500m in 1:55.44 at Lake Placid.
1992 - Kristi Yamaguchi wins gold medal in women's figure skating at Albertville.
2002 - Sarah Hughes skated a flawless long program to win the figure skating gold medal with Michelle Kwan capturing the bronze in Salt Lake City.
February 22
1980 - USA beats USSR in 4-3 en route to American’s second men’s gold medal in ice hockey in Lake Placid.
1982 - 2006 Olympian Travis Mayer, freestyle moguls, birthday
February 23
1980 - Eric Heiden wins his fifth speed skating gold medal at Lake Placid by capturing the 10,000 m with a world record time of 14:28:13.
February 24
1960 - USA beats Germany 9-1 to win its first men’s ice hockey gold medal at Squaw Valley.
2002 - XIX Winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City
February 25
1994 – Nancy Kerrigan captures silver medal at Lillehammer finishing behind Oksana Baijul of the Ukraine. Tonya Harding placed seventh.
February 26
1960 - David Jenkins wins gold medal for men's figure skating at Squaw Valley.
1986 - 2006 Olympian Hannah Kearney, freestyle moguls, birthday
Year Host city Country Held
1924 Chamonix France January 25 - February 5
1928 St. Moritz Switzerland February 11 - February 19
1932 Lake Placid United States February 4 - February 15
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany February 6 -February 16
1948 St. Moritz Switzerland January 30 - February 8
1952 Oslo Norway February 14 - February 25
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy January 26 - February 5
1960 Squaw Valley United States February 18-February 28
1964 Innsbruck Austria January 29-February 9
1968 Grenoble France February 6-February 18
1972 Sapporo Japan February 3-February 13
1976 Innsbruck Austria February 4-February 15
1980 Lake Placid United States February 13-February 24
1984 Sarajevo Yugoslavia February 8-February 19
1988 Calgary Canada February 13-February 28
1992 Albertville France February 8-February 23
1994 Lillehammer Norway February 12-February 27
1998 Nagano Japan February 7-February 22
2002 Salt Lake City United States February 8-February 24
2006 Torino Italy February 10-February 26
2010 Vancouver Canada February 12-February 28
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