Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results (2024)

ResultsHighlights

Mountain Cluster

The mountain cluster in Krasnaya Polyana was home to all the skiing and sliding sports. The mountain concept was, again, a very compact one, with only an average distance of 4km between the mountain sub-village and the venues. There was also a sub-media centre in the mountain cluster.

NOCs: 88 National Olympic Committees + 1 independent Olympic Participant, a new record

Athletes: A record number of 2,780 athletes were entered, more than 40 per cent of whom were women.

Tickets: More than 1.1 million tickets were sold.

Events: 98 titles awarded in 15 disciplines

Testing: 2,500 doping tests performed

Broadcasting: A record 102,000 hours of broadcasting on all platforms (television and digital), with 4.1 billion potential viewers

Social media: More than 2.2 million new followers on all platforms, and a total 7.7 million Facebook fans

First Time Participants

Six countries participated for the first time in the Olympic Winter Games: Malta, Paraguay, Timor Leste, Togo, Tonga and Zimbabwe.

New Events

Twelve new events were contested: team figure skating, luge relay, biathlon mixed relay, women’s ski jumping, snowboard and ski slopestyle (men and women), ski half-pipe (men and women) and snowboard parallel slalom (men and women).

Medals

Medals were won by athletes from 26 National Olympic Committees.

Before Sochi was Named Host

Seven cities, namely Sochi (Russian Federation), Salzburg (Austria), Jaca (Spain), Almaty (Kazakhstan), PyeongChang (Republic of Korea), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Borjomi (Georgia)—in the order of drawing of lots—initially submitted applications to host the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

Narrowing Down the Candidates

Based on the report by a working group, three of the seven cities were unanimously selected by the IOC’s Executive Board as Candidate Cities at its meeting on 22 June 2006: Sochi (Russian Federation), Salzburg (Austria), PyeongChang (Republic of Korea).

The Election of Sochi

Sochi was elected on 4 July 2007 by the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the 119th Session in Guatemala City. Sochi was elected in the second round with 51 votes, compared to PyeongChang’s 47.