1992 Winter Olympics, Legacy, Cost and cost overrun
The Oxford Olympics Study established the outturn cost of the Albertville 1992 Winter Olympics at US$2.0 billion (in 2015-dollars) and cost overrun at 137% in real terms. This includes sports-related costs only, that is: (i) operational costs incurred by the organizing committee to stage the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services; and (ii) direct capital costs incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build, e.g., the competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast center, and media and press center, which are required to host the Games.


1992 Winter Olympics, Legacy, Cost and cost overrun
Indirect capital costs were not included, e.g. road, rail, or airport infrastructure, or hotel upgrades or other business investment incurred in preparation for the Games but not directly related to their staging. In comparison, the cost and cost overrun of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics were US$2.5 billion and 13%, respectively, while the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics (the most costly Olympics to date) had costs and cost overrun at US$51 billion and 289%, respectively. The average cost for the Winter Games since 1960 is US$3.1 billion, while the average cost overrun is 142%.


1992 Winter Olympics, Mascot
The 1992 Winter Games mascot, Magique (Magic), was a small imp in the shape of a star and a cube. The mascot was created by Philippe Mairesse and replaced the original mascot, which was a mountain goat. The star shape symbolized dreams and imagination, while the mascot's red and blue colors originated from the French flag.


1992 Winter Olympics, Sports
There were 57 events contested in 6 sports (12 disciplines). See the medal winners, ordered by sport:


1992 Winter Olympics, Sports, Demonstration sports
This was the last time demonstration events were included in the Winter Olympics program. Of the 8 events that were under evaluation, 4 received the endorsement to be included in an official form in future editions of the Games (Curling tournaments and the aerials events on the freestyle skiing). The other four events (speed skiing and skiing ballet events on the freestyle skiing) were rejected and have not since returned.


1992 Winter Olympics, Participating nations
Sixty-four nations sent competitors to the 1992 Olympics, including seven nations making their first appearance at a Winter Olympics. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, six former-Soviet bloc nations chose to form a Unified Team, while the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania competed as independent nations for the first time since 1936. United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 took effect on 30 May 1992 (97 days after the closing ceremonies), and Yugoslav athletes were able to participate under their country's national symbols.


1992 Winter Olympics, Participating nations
It also suspended the activities of the Yugoslav Olympic Committee, making the country's athletes ineligible to compete on the 1992 Summer Olympics. Despite this, some of their athletes classified in individual sports and gained authorization to compete as Independent Olympic Participants (which also happened at the 1992 Summer Paralympics). Yugoslav athletes returned to the Olympic Games in the 1996 Summer Olympics, when only Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo were still part of the country. The 1992 Winter Olympics were the first time since the 1964 Summer Olympics that Germany competed with a unified team.


1992 Winter Olympics, Participating nations
Seven National Olympic Committees sent their first delegations to the Winter Olympics: Algeria, Bermuda, Brazil, Honduras, Ireland, Swaziland, Croatia, and Slovenia (the last two making their first appearances at any Olympics, just a few months after their respective declarations of independence from Yugoslavia). Until the 2018 Winter Olympics, this was the only participation of Swaziland and Honduras in an edition of the Winter Olympics.


1992 Winter Olympics, Venues
The 1992 Games are the last (as of 2020) in which the speed skating venue was outdoors.


1992 Winter Olympics, Medal table
(1 combined team with athletes from 6 nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States; the team only appeared in these Winter Olympics)


1992 Winter Olympics medal table
The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event held in Albertville, France, from February 8 to February 23. A total of 1,801 athletes representing 64 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (+7 from 1988 Olympics) participated in 57 events (+11 from 1988) from 12 different sports and disciplines (+2 from 1988). In a break from tradition, the medals were primarily made of crystal rather than metal: gold, silver, or bronze was used only on the border.


1992 Winter Olympics medal table
Athletes from 20 NOCs won at least one medal, and athletes from 14 secured at least one gold medal. Making their first Olympic appearance since German reunification in 1990, Germany led in both gold and overall medals, with 10 and 26 respectively. The Unified Team, consisting of athletes from six former Soviet republics, was second in both categories, with 9 gold and 23 overall medals. Four nations won their first Winter Olympic medal in Albertville. South Korea won the country's first Winter Olympic medal—a gold—when Kim Ki-hoon came first in the newly introduced Olympic sport of short track speed skating.


1992 Winter Olympics medal table
Silver medal-winning slalom skier Annelise Coberger—in addition to winning New Zealand's first Winter Olympic medal—became the first athlete from the Southern Hemisphere to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. Speed skater Ye Qiaobo of the People's Republic of China and alpine skier Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg also won their country's first ever Winter Olympic medals in Albertville. Croatia and Slovenia participated at their first Olympic Games as independent nations, though neither won a medal.


1992 Winter Olympics medal table
Two athletes, both cross-country skiers for the Unified Team, tied for the most medals for an individual athlete with five each. Lyubov Yegorova won three gold and two silver medals, while Yelena Välbe won one gold and four bronze medals. Ski jumper Toni Nieminen of Finland became the youngest male to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics at the age of 16.


1992 Winter Olympics medal table, Medal table
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where nation is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. Medals won in team competitions—such as ice hockey—are counted only once, no matter how many athletes won medals as part of the team.


1992 Winter Olympics medal table, Medal table
In the women's giant slalom alpine skiing event, two silver medals were awarded for a second place tie, so no bronze medal was awarded for that event.


1992 Winter Olympics national flag bearers
During the Parade of Nations section of the 1992 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, athletes from the participating countries marched into the arena. Each delegation was led by a flag bearer and a sign with the name of the country on it. The Parade of Nations was organized in French, the official languages of France. As tradition dictates, Greece led the parade and France was the last to march to the stadium as the host nation.


1992 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
The opening ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics took place at Théâtre des Cérémonies in Albertville, France, on 8 February 1992.


1992 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Ceremony, Parade of Nations
The flag bearers of 64 National Olympic Committees entered the stadium informally in single file, ordered by the French alphabet, and behind them marched the athletes with any distinction or grouping by nationality.


1992 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Opening
AOOC President Jean-Claude Killy delivered a speech in French, welcoming everyone. IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch delivered a speech in French and the President of France François Mitterrand declared the Games of the XVI Winter Olympiad in Albertville opened.


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay
The 1992 Winter Olympics torch relay took part as part of the build-up to the 1992 Winter Olympics hosted in Albertville, France. The route covered around 5,536 kilometres (3,440 mi) and involved 5,500. Michel Platini and François-Cyrille Grange lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony.


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Torch
Designed by French artist, Philippe Starck. The torch resembles a horn of a bull or a flame (if turned upside down).


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
December 14, 1991 (day 1): ParisDecember 15 (day 2): Fontainebleau


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
December 18 (day 5): PoitiersDecember 19 (day 6): NiortDecember 20 (day 7): La Rochelle


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
December 21 (day 8): La Roche-sur-YonDecember 22 (day 9): Nantes


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
December 25 (day 12): AvranchesDecember 26 (day 13): CaenDecember 27 (day 14): Le HavreDecember 28 (day 15): Rouen


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
December 29 (day 16): AmiensDecember 30 (day 17): ArrasDecember 31 (Day 18): LilleJanuary 1, 1992 (day 19): CambraiJanuary 2 (day 20): Laon


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
January 3 (day 21): Châlons-en-ChampagneJanuary 4 (day 22): MetzJanuary 5 (day 23): NancyJanuary 6 (day 24): SarrebourgJanuary 7 (day 25): StrasbourgJanuary 8 (day 26): Colmar


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
January 9 (day 27): BelfortJanuary 10 (day 28): BesançonJanuary 11 (day 29): DijonJanuary 12 (day 30): Autun


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
January 15 (day 33): AubussonJanuary 16 (day 34): LimogesJanuary 17 (day 35): PérigueuxJanuary 18 (day 36): BordeauxJanuary 19 (day 37): Mont-de-Marsan


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
January 20 (day 38): TarbesJanuary 21 (day 39): AuchJanuary 22 (day 40): ToulouseJanuary 23 (day 41): AlbiJanuary 24 (day 42): CarcassonneJanuary 25 (day 43): BéziersJanuary 26 (day 44): Montpellier


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
January 26 (day 44): BastiaJanuary 27 (day 45): CorteJanuary 28 (day 46): Ajaccio


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
January 28 (day 46): NiceJanuary 29 (day 47): ToulonJanuary 29 (day 47): MarseilleJanuary 30 (day 48): Avignon


1992 Winter Olympics torch relay, Route
January 31 (day 49): MontélimarFebruary 1 (day 50): ValenceFebruary 2 (day 51): Saint-ÉtienneFebruary 3 (day 52): LyonFebruary 4 (day 53): BelleyFebruary 5 (day 54): GrenobleFebruary 6 (day 55): Saint-Jean-de-MaurienneFebruary 7 (day 56): ChambéryFebruary 8 (Day 57): AlbertvilleFebruary 8 (Day 57): Théâtre des Cérémonies


1992 Winter Paralympics
The 1992 Winter Paralympics (French: Jeux paralympiques d'hiver de 1992) were the fifth Winter Paralympics. They were the first winter Paralympics to be celebrated concurrently with the Olympic Games. They were also the first ever Paralympics at any event in France. They were held in Tignes and Albertville, France, from 25 March to 1 April 1992. For the first time, demonstration events in Alpine and Nordic Skiing for athletes with an intellectual disability and Biathlon for athletes with a visual impairment were held.


1992 Winter Paralympics, Sports
The games consisted of 79 events in three disciplines of two sports.


1992 Winter Paralympics, Medal table
The top 10 NPCs by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation (France) is highlighted.


1992 Winter Paralympics, Participating nations
Twenty four nations participated in the 1992 Winter Paralympics. Germany became an independent country after their reunification while Soviet Union was in the process of their country's dissolution. Estonia, Liechtenstein and South Korea made their debut appearances at the Winter Games.


1992 Winter Paralympics, Mascot
The official mascot was Alpy, designed by Vincent Thiebaut, represented the summit of the Grande Motte mountain in Tignes. Alpy was shown on a mono-ski to demonstrate its athleticism and the colours of white, green and blue were used to represent purity/snow, hope/nature and discipline/the lake. The bird logo was designed by Jean-Michel Folon.


1992 Winter Paralympics medal table
The 1992 Winter Paralympics medal table is a list of National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 1992 Winter Paralympics, held in Albertville and Tignes, France, from March 25 to April 1, 1992.


1992 Winter Paralympics medal table, Medal table
The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a "nation" is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.


1992 Winter Paralympics medal table, Medal table
To sort this table by nation, total medal count, or any other column, click on the  icon next to the column title.


1992 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 1992 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 7 May 1992 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections.


1992 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Notes
• italics denote the sitting councillor • bold denotes the winning candidate


1992 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1992 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin–Madison during the 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season. They were led by third year head coach Barry Alvarez and participated as members of the Big Ten Conference. The Badgers played their home games at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin.


1992 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 7 May 1992. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party led the Council in coalition with the Liberal Democrats until the next round of elections in 1994.


1992 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election, Composition
Prior to the election, the composition of the council was:


1992 Women's British Open Squash Championship
The 1992 Hi-Tec British Open Squash Championships was held at the Lambs Squash Club with the later stages being held at the Wembley Conference Centre in London from 7–13 April 1992. The event was won by Susan Devoy who defeated Martine Le Moignan in the final.


1992 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup
The 1992 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup was the first ever roller hockey world cup for women, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports. It was contested by 12 national teams (6 from Europe, 2 from North America, 2 from Oceania, 1 from Africa and 1 from Asia). The chosen city to host the world cup was Springe, in Germany. This inaugural edition was won by Canada's squad, with eleven victories in eleven matches.


1992 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup
The tournament was played with the traditional quads except for the Canadian team, who wore inline skates.


1992 Women's World Open Squash Championship
The 1992 Women's Silver Unicorn World Open Squash Championship was the women's edition of the 1992 World Open, which serves as the individual world championship for squash players. The event took place in Vancouver in Canada between 4 October and 10 October 1992. Susan Devoy won her fourth World Open title, defeating Michelle Martin in the final.


1992 Women's World Open Squash Championship, Draw and results, Notes
Susan Devoy retired in 1992 after a career that saw four World Open successes and eight British Open titles.


1992 Women's World Team Squash Championships
The 1992 Women's Silver Unicorn World Team Squash Championships were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and took place from October 12 until October 17, 1992.


1992 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
The World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men took place on 21 and 22 March 1992 in Calgary at the Olympic Oval ice rink.


1992 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for women
The 53rd edition of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women took place on 7 and 8 March 1992 in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice rink.


1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 27th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Paris, France, from 14 to 19 April 1992.


1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The team and all-around events were not contested at the 1992 Worlds. The format was similar to that of the 2002 Worlds, with medals being awarded for the individual WAG and MAG apparatus. There were three rounds of competition: the preliminary round open to everyone; the semi-finals open to the top sixteen qualifiers; and the finals for the top nine gymnasts.


1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women, Floor Exercise
NB:  Gymnasts from the USSR competed at this meet for the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), also known as the Unified Team.


1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women, Floor Exercise
NB: In this competition, tie-breakers were not used. When two gymnasts received the same score, they received the same placement and medals.


1992 World Badminton Grand Prix Finals
The 1992 World Badminton Grand Prix was the tenth edition of the World Badminton Grand Prix finals. It was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from December 16 to December 20, 1992.


1992 World Club Challenge
The 1992 World Club Challenge match was contested by the 1991–92 Rugby Football League season champions Wigan and the 1992 NSWRL season's premiers, the Brisbane Broncos. The match took place on Friday night, 30 October in England, during the 1992–93 Rugby Football League season. It was also played less than a week after the 1992 Rugby League World Cup Final (from which many players on both sides were backing up). A crowd of 17,764 turned out at Central Park, Wigan for the match which was refereed by New Zealand's Dennis Hale, the same referee as for the World Cup final one week earlier.


1992 World Club Challenge
The game was broadcast throughout Great Britain by Sky Sports and was shown on delay in Australia by the Nine Network. Commentary was provided by Sky's regular rugby league commentary team of Eddie Hemmings and former Great Britain hooker Mike Stephenson along with Nine's former Australian test halfback Peter Sterling.


1992 World Club Challenge, Match details
Early in the match a chaotic all-in brawl erupted, with Brisbane's Andrew Gee seen as the instigator. Wigan later opened the scoring by kicking a penalty given for an obstruction by Kerrod Walters close to the Broncos' try-line. However a knock-on later by Wigan in their in-goal area gave Brisbane a scrum feed in an attacking position and Julian O'Neill capitalised, fending off one defender and avoiding another in his run for the line to score the first try of the match which was then converted by Terry Matterson. Another try, scored by Kerrod Walters as a result of good support play from the Broncos, brought the score to 2-10 at half time.


1992 World Club Challenge, Match details
Early in the second half another all-in brawl started, Andrew Gee again involved in the initial flareup. The Broncos scored first in the second half with Steve Renouf finding Michael Hancock out wide close to the Wigan try-line. However this was followed by a miraculous try from the home team. Around the halfway line, the Wigan hooker, Martin Dermott, chipped the ball over the top of the Broncos defenders and Shaun Edwards ran through to field it.


1992 World Club Challenge, Match details
Without missing a beat Edwards then sent a grubbing kick down past a complacent Julian O'Neill at fullback and won the race for it, with Wigan's goal-kicker Frano Botica adding the extra two. Later in the game Renouf again combined with Hancock out wide, throwing a looping pass over the Wigan defence to send the Broncos' number two over once more. The successful conversion attempt by Matterson, who was named man-of-the-match, left the final score at 22-8.


1992 World Club Challenge, Match details
The Brisbane Broncos' victory saw the first time that Australian premiers had won the World Club Challenge on British soil. It was also only the second time that an Australian team had won at all, the last time being in 1976, in the first ever match of its kind.


1992 World Cup (men's golf)
The 1992 World Cup took place 5–8 November 1992 at the Real Club La Moraleja in Madrid, Spain. It was the 38th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The United States team of Fred Couples and Davis Love won by one stroke over the defending champions, Swedish team of Anders Forsbrand and Per-Ulrik Johansson. The individual competition was won by Brett Ogle of Australia after a playoff with Ian Woosnam of Wales.


1992 World Fencing Championships
The 1992 World Fencing Championships were held from 10 July to 12 July 1992 in Havana, Cuba for women's team épée and women's individual épée, both of which were not held at the 1992 Summer Olympics.


1992 World Field Archery Championships
The 1992 World Field Archery Championships were held in Margraten, Netherlands.


1992 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1992 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena in Oakland, California, USA from March 24 to 29. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1992 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The 1992 Midland Bank World Indoor Bowls Championship  was held at Preston Guild Hall, Preston, England, from 21 February - 1 March 1992.


1992 World Indoor Bowls Championship
In the Singles Ian Schuback won the title beating John Price in the final. In the Pairs David Bryant and Tony Allcock secured their sixth world title and fourth consecutive title.


1992 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The Women's World Indoor Championship took place in Guernsey during April with the final being held on 5 April. The event was won by Sarah Gourlay.


1992 World Junior Canoe Slalom Championships
The 1992 ICF World Junior Canoe Slalom Championships were the 4th edition of the ICF World Junior Canoe Slalom Championships. The event took place on the Sjoa river in Norway from 5 to 12 July 1992 under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation (ICF).


1992 World Junior Canoe Slalom Championships
Seven medal events took place. The C2 team event was not held.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics
The 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was the fourth edition of the international athletics competition for athletes aged 19 years or under. It was held in Seoul, South Korea from September 16 to September 20, 1992.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics, Participation
According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, 954 athletes from 90 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres
The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 September. Josephat Machuka finished second, but as he was being passed just before the finish, he deliberately punched at the eventual winner Haile Gebrselassie during the final sprint and was disqualified.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres walk
The men's 10,000 metres walk event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres walk, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres
The men's 100 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 17 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 43 athletes from 31 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
The men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 17 and 18 September. 106.7 cm (3'6) (senior implement) hurdles were used.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres
The men's 1500 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
The men's 200 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 19 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
The men's 4x100 metres relay event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 19 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 52 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The men's 4x400 metres relay event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 19 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 63 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 18 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 24 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 18 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 24 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres
The men's 5000 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 17 and 19 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 19 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 34 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 17 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
The men's discus throw event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 17 September. A 2kg (senior implement) discus was used.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
The men's hammer throw event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 September. A 7257g (senior implement) hammer was used.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
The men's high jump event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw
The men's javelin throw event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 18 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump
The men's long jump event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 17 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 22 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 18 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
The men's shot put event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 19 September. A 7257g (Senior implement) shot was used.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 19 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
The women's 10,000 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 19 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres
The women's 100 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 17 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 27 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
The women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 17 and 18 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 34 athletes from 24 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres
The women's 200 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 19 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 25 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres
The women's 3000 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
The women's 4x100 metres relay event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 19 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 66 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
The women's 4x400 metres relay event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 19 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 44 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 18 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
The women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 18 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres walk
The women's 5000 metres walk event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, South Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres walk, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 24 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 18 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
The women's discus throw event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 19 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
The women's heptathlon event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 19 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
The women's high jump event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 17 and 19 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
The women's javelin throw event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 19 September. An old-specification 600 g javelin was used.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
The women's long jump event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 19 and 20 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
The women's shot put event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 17 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
The women's triple jump event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 17 September.


1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 15 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.


1992 World Junior Curling Championships
The 1992 World Junior Curling Championships were held from March 7 to 15 in Oberstdorf, Germany.


1992 World Junior Curling Championships
In was first-ever appearance at the championship for men's and women's national junior teams of Japan.


1992 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 1992 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held from November 26 to December 1, 1991 in Hull, Quebec, Canada. The event was sanctioned by the International Skating Union and open to ISU member nations. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1992 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1992 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1992 WJHC) was the 16th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held from December 26, 1991, until January 4, 1992. It was held in Füssen and Kaufbeuren, Germany. The Commonwealth of Independent States won gold, while Sweden won silver, and the United States took home the bronze medal.


1992 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Final standings
The 1992 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.


1992 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Final standings
The day the tournament began, the Soviet Union formally dissolved. In the week that followed the team continued to play as the Soviet Union, but on January 1, 1992, the team was renamed the Commonwealth of Independent States. However, three players on the team, Sergejs Žoltoks and Sandis Ozoliņš (from Latvia) and Darius Kasparaitis (from Lithuania) were from nations not part of the Commonwealth.


1992 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool B
Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Tychy and Oswiecim Poland from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. This tournament offered a rather improbable result; four of the eight teams finished tied for first.


1992 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool B
Japan was promoted to Pool A and North Korea was relegated to Pool C for 1993.


1992 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool C
Pool C was contested by nine teams from December 28, to January 4, in Marino and Rome Italy. In the first round the nine teams were divided into three groups of three. The second round pitted the three first place teams against each other, likewise for the second place teams. Greece was disqualified for using an ineligible player, so they did not participate in the final round.


1992 World Karate Championships
The 1992 World Karate Championships are the 11th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Granada, Spain from November 19 to November 22, 1992.


1992 World Masters Non-Stadia Athletics Championships
The inaugural World Masters Non-Stadia Athletics Championships were held in Birmingham, United Kingdom, from August 29-30, 1992. The World Masters Athletics Championships serve the division of the sport of athletics for people over 35 years of age, referred to as masters athletics.


1992 World Matchplay (snooker)
The 1992 Coalite World Matchplay was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4 and 12 December 1992 in Doncaster, England. This was the final year the tournament was held.


1992 World Matchplay (snooker)
James Wattana won the event, defeating Steve Davis 9–4 in the final.


1992 World Men's Curling Championship
The 1992 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as 1992 Canada Safeway World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) took place from March 28 – April 5, 1992, at the Olympic Eisstadion in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Hugh Millikin Third: Tom Kidd Second: Daniel Joyce Lead: Stephen Hewitt


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Vic Peters Third: Dan Carey Second: Chris Neufeld Lead: Don Rudd


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Alistair Burns Third: Neil Hardie Second: Martyn Deakin Lead: Stephen Watt Alternate: Ian Coutts


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Jussi Uusipaavalniemi Third: Jori Aro Second: Markku Uusipaavalniemi Lead: Mikko Orrainen Alternate: Juhani Heinonen


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Christophe Boan Third: Thierry Mercier Second: Spencer Mugnier Lead: Gerard Ravello


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Rodger Gustaf Schmidt Third: Wolfgang Burba Second: Hans-Joachim Burba Lead: Bernhard Mayr Alternate: Martin Beiser


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Hammy McMillan Third: Norman Brown Second: Gordon Muirhead Lead: Roger McIntyre


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Mikael Hasselborg Third: Hans Nordin Second: Lars Vågberg Lead: Stefan Hasselborg Alternate: Lars-Åke Nordström


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Markus Eggler Third: Frédéric Jean Second: Stefan Hofer Lead: Björn Schröder


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Doug Jones Third: Jason Larway Second: Joel Larway Lead: Tom Violette


1992 World Men's Curling Championship, Playoffs
Scotland skip Hammy McMillan made an incredible "around the horn" takeout in the 8th end of the semifinal against Canada to score 3 points en route to defeating the Canadians.


1992 World Mountain Running Trophy
The 1992 World Mountain Running Championships was the 8th edition of the global mountain running competition, World Mountain Running Championships, organised by the World Mountain Running Association and was held in Val di Susa, Italy on 30 August 1992.


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship
The 1992 Men's Woolwich World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at Beach House Park, Worthing, England, from 8–23 August 1992.


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship
The 1992 Women's Henselite World Championship was held at the Northfield Bowling Complex in Ayr, Scotland from 6–20 June 1992.


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, Results, Men's Singles - Round Robin
Third Place Play Off Rabkin bt  Thomas 25-24Final Allcock bt  Corsie 25-20


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, Results, Men's Pairs - Round Robin
Third Place Play Off Canada bt  Fiji 19-17Final Scotland bt  Ireland 35-14


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, Results, Men's Triples - Round Robin
Third Place Play Off Scotland bt  England 24-14Final Israel bt  South Africa 23-11


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, Results, Men's Fours - Round Robin
Third Place Play Off South Africa bt  Wales 21-15Final Scotland bt  Canada 18-15


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, Results, Women's Singles - Round Robin
Third Place Play Off Shaw bt  James 25-10Final Johnston bt  Rutherford 25-10


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, Results, Women's Pairs - Round Robin
Third Place Play Off Zambia bt  New Zealand 18-14Final Ireland bt  Jersey 23-11


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, Results, Women's Triples - Round Robin
Third Place Play Off England bt  Wales 18-14Final Scotland bt  New Zealand 27-16


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, Results, Women's Fours - Round Robin
Third Place Play Off England bt  Australia 22-2Final Scotland bt  New Zealand 22-21


1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, Results, Taylor Trophy
+ Scotland by virtue of +320 shots to +246 shots.


1992 World Polo Championship
The 1992 World Polo Championship was played in Santiago Chile during April 1992 and was won by Argentina. This event brought together six teams from around the world in the Club de Polo y Equitación San Cristóbal.


1992 World Rally Championship
The 1992 World Rally Championship was the 20th season of the FIA World Rally Championship. The season consisted of 14 rallies. Carlos Sainz won his second drivers' world championship in a Toyota Celica GT-Four ST185, ahead of Juha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol. The manufacturers' title was won by Lancia, ahead of Toyota and Ford.


1992 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
The XVI World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Brussels, Belgium, on November 20–22, 1992.


1992 World Rowing Championships
The 1992 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 13 to 16 August 1992 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Since 1992 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include Olympic events scheduled for the 1992 Summer Olympics.


1992 World Series
The 1992 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1992 season. The 89th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Toronto Blue Jays and the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves. Toronto defeated Atlanta four games to two, marking the first time a team based outside the United States won the World Series. The Blue Jays remain the only Canadian team to have appeared in, and won, a World Series (which they would do again the following year, in 1993). The 1992 World Series was the first World Series in which games were played outside the United States.


1992 World Series, Background
The Blue Jays won the American League Eastern Division title for the second consecutive season and third time in four years. They faced the winners of the Western Division, the Oakland Athletics, in the American League Championship Series. The A's were looking to advance to the World Series for the fourth time in five years, having previously been in the World Series in 1988, 1989, and 1990, winning it in 1989. The Blue Jays, meanwhile, were looking to become the first Canadian team to win a pennant. The Blue Jays lost the first game at home but then won the next three to take a commanding lead, eventually closing the series out at home in Game 6.


1992 World Series, Background
The Braves won the National League Western Division for the second straight season and earned another matchup with the three-time defending Eastern Division winners, the Pittsburgh Pirates, in the National League Championship Series. The Braves won three of the first four games in the series, but the Pirates won the next two and were leading in the bottom of the ninth in Game 7 before the Braves rallied, capped off by a single by seldom-used utility man Francisco Cabrera that drove in two runs and won the series.


1992 World Series, Summary
AL Toronto Blue Jays (4) vs. NL Atlanta Braves (2)


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Braves fans had plenty to worry about in regard to both starting pitchers. Tom Glavine's post-season career had been less than stellar, including giving up eight runs in the second inning of Game 6 of the NLCS against Pittsburgh. Entering Game 1, Glavine's career post-season record was 1–5 despite two starts where he had pitched well and only given up one earned run each time. Glavine was 0–2 in those starts. In addition to Glavine's struggles in the postseason, the Braves would be facing their nemesis from the previous postseason.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
In the offseason, the Blue Jays signed the MVP of the 1991 World Series, Jack Morris, away from the Minnesota Twins. The Braves were more than familiar with Morris' work, as he had defeated them twice in three starts and only allowed a total of three runs. One of the victories came in the decisive seventh game, where Morris pitched a ten-inning complete game shutout. Morris' fortunes in 1992, however, were quite the opposite. Despite leading the Blue Jays with 21 wins in the regular season, Morris had not performed well in the postseason. He lost one of his two starts in the 1992 American League Championship Series despite throwing a complete game and took a no-decision in the other despite giving up five early runs.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Toronto's other big offensive acquisition had been veteran Dave Winfield, who entered his 20th season in 1992 having yet to win a World Series ring. Winfield, primarily just the team's designated hitter by this point, paid dividends by recording his best batting average and runs batted in numbers in several years and added two home runs in the ALCS.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
His presence in the lineup was one that manager Cito Gaston wanted to keep, which forced some maneuvering of the lineup for the games to be played in Atlanta under National League rules; Winfield's natural position was right field, which was manned by All-Star Joe Carter during the season. Therefore, for Game 1, Winfield was inserted into Carter's place in the outfield. Carter, in turn, played first base in place of normal starter John Olerud.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Glavine gave up a home run to Joe Carter in the fourth for the first run of the Series, while Morris shut the Braves out for five innings. In the sixth, Morris ran into trouble by walking David Justice and Ron Gant. Damon Berryhill golfed a Morris pitch over the right-field wall for a three-run homer. Morris would finish the inning, but it was all the offense Atlanta needed, and the Braves took the game by a 3–1 count. Glavine went the distance for the victory, only giving up four total hits.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
In taking the loss, Morris suffered his first career World Series defeat in his sixth start, with one no-decision. Berryhill's home run marked the first runs Morris had given up in the World Series since a Terry Pendleton home run in the bottom of the third inning of Game 4 of the 1991 Series. Morris pitched an additional 3+1⁄3 innings in that game, all ten in Game 7, and the first 5+2⁄3 innings of this game to run his scoreless innings streak in the World Series to 19.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Before the game started, during the performance of the National Anthems of the United States and Canada, the U.S. Marine Corps Color Guard accidentally flew the flag of Canada upside down The Corps apologized for the error and took pains to carry the flag properly prior to Game 3 in Toronto after insisting that they would be honored to do so. On top of that, Canadian rock/country musician Tom Cochrane sang the Canadian national anthem incorrectly.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Instead of singing the line "... from far and wide, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee ...", Cochrane instead sang a lyric that was in the previous version of the anthem: "... O Canada, we stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee ...". Not only did Cochrane substitute the archaic lyric, he also did not sing it correctly, as the lyric said "we stand on guard, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee" before it was changed.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The pitching match-up featured, strangely, the top two pitchers in the National League in strikeouts for 1992. On August 27, 1992, the Blue Jays traded rookie infielder Jeff Kent and minor league outfield prospect Ryan Thompson to the New York Mets for their ace starting pitcher, David Cone. At the time of the trade, Cone had been leading the National League in strikeouts and was looking to do so for a third consecutive season.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Major League Baseball rules dictate that when a player changes leagues during a season, the statistics he earns in each league are kept separate from each other. As such, Cone's total of 214 strikeouts with the Mets was frozen. Smoltz eventually caught and passed Cone toward the end of the season, finishing with a total of 215 strikeouts to lead the league. Cone, meanwhile, settled for the overall major league lead at a career high 261 strikeouts after recording 47 with the Blue Jays.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
As far as the postseason had gone to that point, both men's fortunes varied. Smoltz had started three games in the NLCS, winning two and being saved from a loss when the Braves made a two-out rally in the decisive final game; his performance was enough to make him the series MVP. Cone started the second and fifth games of the ALCS, winning his first start by allowing one run over eight innings. His second start saw him give up five runs (three unearned) over four innings, saddling him with the loss.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
A controversial call was made by umpire Mike Reilly in the top of the fourth inning with Atlanta leading 1–0 after David Justice walked, stole second, advanced to third, and scored on a wild pitch from Cone in the bottom of the second. Roberto Alomar was at third base with John Olerud batting. On the first pitch of the at-bat, Smoltz threw a breaking ball that skipped past Damon Berryhill. Alomar broke for home plate while Berryhill went to retrieve the ball.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
As Smoltz moved in to receive the throw he nearly collided with a sliding Alomar, who had reached the plate at exactly the same time that both Smoltz and the ball did. Smoltz tagged Alomar and Reilly called him out on the close play, despite an angry Alomar's protest, and the inning came to an end. Replays shown by CBS showed that Alomar might have touched the plate with his hands before Smoltz was able to apply a tag. The Braves scored again in the bottom of the fourth, when Sid Bream walked and eventually scored on a Mark Lemke two-out single to make the score 2–0.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
In the top of the fifth Pat Borders and Manuel Lee both reached base in front of Cone, who had already singled earlier in the game. Cone responded with his second hit of the game (only the third hit for a pitcher in the World Series since 1979) to drive in Borders and cut the Atlanta lead to 2–1. Lee then scored on a single by Devon White, tying the game. The Braves rallied in the bottom half of the inning as Deion Sanders provided a spark. With one out, Sanders singled.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
He then immediately stole second, and after Borders made an errant throw he got up and ran to third. Cone then walked Terry Pendleton, then gave up the go-ahead run when David Justice singled in Sanders and moved Pendleton to third. Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston then pulled Cone in favor of David Wells, who gave up the fourth Atlanta run (which would be charged to Cone, as the runner had reached base while Cone was pitching) when pinch hitter Brian Hunter's sacrifice fly scored Pendleton.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Toronto made another rally in the eighth inning. After Alomar doubled to left with one out, Joe Carter and Dave Winfield hit back to back singles, the second of which scored Alomar and cut the lead to 4–3. Smoltz was then lifted in favor of left-handed specialist Mike Stanton, who retired Olerud for the second out.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The Braves then called on their own late season pitching acquisition. Needing to shore up their bullpen, Atlanta sent two minor leaguers to the Boston Red Sox at the August trade deadline to acquire Jeff Reardon, Boston’s closer who earlier in the season had broken Rollie Fingers’ career saves record. In his first appearance in a World Series since 1987, he struck out Kelly Gruber to end the threat.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The Jays entered the ninth trailing by the one run Reilly had cost them and turned to their bench, which the team had nicknamed "The Trenches". After a walk to pinch-hitter Derek Bell (batting for Lee), Toronto reserve infielder Ed Sprague drilled a pitch from Reardon to left for a two-run homer to give the Blue Jays the lead. The play was called by legendary Blue Jays announcer the late Tom Cheek, who said "Watch him hit a homer. ", during Sprague's at bat.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Atlanta tried to rally in the ninth. After Mark Lemke flew out, Toronto closer Tom Henke hit pinch hitter Lonnie Smith with a pitch. Ron Gant came in to pinch run for him and, after Otis Nixon recorded the second out, he stole second. Sanders then walked to put the winning run on base and Pendleton, an NL MVP candidate, came to the plate. Pendleton had led the majors with a .391 average with runners in scoring position and two out. However, he popped out to Jays third baseman Kelly Gruber to seal the victory for Toronto. Gruber then angered Braves fans and players by mocking the "Tomahawk Chop" as he left the field.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Before this game, the U.S. Marine Corps Color Guard offered to hoist the Canadian flag once more in order to make amends for the inverted flag incident of Game 2. Likewise, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police flew the flag of the United States. The two guards received a standing ovation from the Toronto fans.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
As Game 3 moved across the border (for the first Canadian Classic) the question still remained of the Blue Jays' ballpark benefit. Before this series, the Blue Jays had previously only gone 3–6 in the postseason in their home park. Two of the wins, however, had come in the American League Championship Series as the Blue Jays won Game 2 and the clinching Game 6 against Oakland at home. The starters for this game were Steve Avery for the Braves and Juan Guzman for the Blue Jays.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
In the fourth inning, the first big defensive play of the Series nearly resulted in a rare World Series triple play and another bit of World Series history was made. Deion Sanders and Terry Pendleton reached base to start the inning, and with nobody out in the top of the inning David Justice hit a deep fly to center field. Devon White was able to chase down the ball and make a leap to snare it before crashing into the wall.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
As White tracked down the ball, the baserunners watched the play develop and after he caught it, Pendleton inadvertently ran past Sanders and by rule was automatically out. While Sanders was still standing between second and third, first baseman John Olerud received the cutoff throw from Roberto Alomar (they had tried to double off Pendleton, who was already out) and relayed it to third baseman Kelly Gruber, who began chasing Sanders back to second. Sanders dove back toward the bag as Gruber lunged at him to try and tag him to complete the triple play.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Second base umpire Bob Davidson ruled that Sanders was able to return to the base, but Gruber protested that he had tagged Sanders on his foot before he could slide back in. The television replays backed up Gruber's case, as he appeared to clip Sanders' heel with his glove a split second before Sanders began his slide.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
In the bottom half of the fourth Joe Carter homered off of Braves starter Steve Avery, with the hit scoring the first ever World Series run in Canada. The Braves would tie the game in the sixth when Sanders ripped a double into the right-field corner and scored on a Justice single through the right side. They then took the lead in the top of the eighth.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Otis Nixon led off the inning and hit a ball to third base that Gruber attempted to field, but the ball popped out of his glove and went into left field for an error. Nixon then stole second and with two out stood on third. Juan Guzman then walked Justice to pitch to Lonnie Smith, who delivered with a single that scored Nixon but also ended the inning as Justice was tagged out going to third. Guzman would finish the inning but was in danger of a loss.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
With the Blue Jays coming to bat in the bottom half, Gruber received an immediate chance to make up for his gaffe in the field and in doing so, would erase a long hitless streak. After going hitless in the ALCS opener, Gruber had recorded a home run and a double in the second game, both of which led to runs that were necessary to win that game.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Those had been the only two hits he had recorded to that point in the postseason, as he failed to record a hit in either the remaining four ALCS games or the first two games in the World Series and was 0-for-1 in this game with a walk in his previous at bat. After going 23 consecutive at-bats without recording a single hit, Gruber worked a full count on Avery and then drilled a home run into left field to tie the game. Gruber would only record one more hit in the series after this.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The top of the ninth inning saw the first World Series ejection since 1985 (when St. Louis Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog and Joaquín Andújar were ejected). Sid Bream led off the inning with a single off of Game 2 winner Duane Ward. As was often the case late in games at this time, Braves manager Bobby Cox elected to pinch run for the slow-footed Bream with Brian Hunter, his backup and a legitimate threat to steal a base (although he only had one steal during the regular season).


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
With Jeff Blauser batting and the count at 2-2, Hunter took off from first. Blauser had thought about swinging, but attempted to stop himself as catcher Pat Borders threw down to second to beat the sliding Hunter to the bag. After he put the tag on Hunter, shortstop Manuel Lee jumped up and told Borders to appeal to first base umpire Dan Morrison, who ruled that Blauser had not checked his swing in time and was also out.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Cox, who said he had been frustrated with home plate umpire Joe West's strike calls the entire night, picked up a batting helmet and threw it down with enough force that it bounced out of the Braves' dugout and rolled out onto the field. West, seeing this, immediately ejected Cox from the game immediately after the incident (Cox would later get ejected in the 1996 World Series). Shortly thereafter Ward struck out Damon Berryhill to end the inning.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Avery started the bottom of the ninth for the Braves and gave up a single to Roberto Alomar. Acting manager Jimy Williams (usually the team's third base coach) pulled Avery from the game and brought in hard-throwing Mark Wohlers to face Carter, a right-handed batter. CBS announcer Tim McCarver questioned the strategy, as Alomar was a threat to steal a base and Avery, as a left-handed pitcher, had a quicker pickoff move than the right-handed Wohlers. The Blue Jays took advantage of this as Alomar stole second on a 2-0 pitch. With first base now open and Carter ahead 3–0, Wohlers put him on intentionally to keep a double play possibility alive.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The next batter was Dave Winfield, who had been told by manager Cito Gaston that if Alomar and Carter reached in front of him, he wanted to move them into scoring position. Winfield did as Gaston asked and laid down a sacrifice bunt, which was successful and put the winning run at third base with one out. With the left-handed Olerud due up, Williams took the ball from Wohlers and called in left-handed specialist Mike Stanton. Gaston called Olerud back to the dugout after the change and sent Game 2 hero Ed Sprague, a right-hander, to pinch hit for a better matchup against Stanton.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
With Candy Maldonado, a right-handed batter, due up next, Williams ordered Stanton to walk Sprague to load the bases and then lifted him from the game in favor of Game 2 loser Jeff Reardon, while also pulling his outfielders into very shallow positions, as a fly ball would result in a sacrifice and the winning run scoring from third, therefore the only hope was to induce a ground ball to force out the third base runner at home plate, and the outfielders could now assist on any ground ball, insuring no single could be hit.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Reardon had recorded some success against Maldonado in his career, and looked to do so again with two curveballs for strikes. However, instead of switching pitches, Reardon elected to throw a third curve and Maldonado, who was expecting it, hit a fly ball which fell into a now-empty center field for a single which brought in a Tomahawk Chopping Alomar from third with the winning run. Reardon later explained "People ask, why'd you throw another curve? Well, I threw another curve because he looked sick on the first two." Maldonado, for his part, said "I figured after he made me look so bad the first two that he wasn't going to change, and I guess I guessed right."


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Ward, the winner of Game 2, got his second victory of the series. The loss went to Avery as he was responsible for the lead runner (Alomar) on base when the game ended. Reardon would not pitch again in the series after his back to back poor performances, and would not pitch in a postseason game again in his career before his 1994 retirement.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Braves continued to employ the short rotation they had used during the postseason and sent Tom Glavine, the Game 1 winner, out for his second start of the series, bypassing 15-game-winner Charlie Leibrandt, who had only seen mop-up duty for Atlanta in Games 5 and 6 of the NLCS. For the Blue Jays, veteran Jimmy Key was given the start. Key had been with the Blue Jays since 1984 and was one of several players from their first ever division champion squad that were still with the team. However, he had not performed particularly well during the season and Cito Gaston had not included him in the ALCS rotation; Key only pitched in Toronto's Game 5 loss in relief.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Braves began the game with a single off the bat of Otis Nixon, who was a threat to steal a base. Although Key managed to pick Nixon off of first, he immediately gave up a single to Jeff Blauser, hitting second in place of the resting Deion Sanders, and allowed him to steal second. Key neutralized the threat by forcing Terry Pendleton to line out and Lonnie Smith to ground out. Over the next six innings, the Braves only recorded one hit (another single by Nixon) and did not advance the runner past first base.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
In the third inning, the Blue Jays scored their first run when Pat Borders hit a home run. They added a second run in the bottom of the seventh, which would prove decisive, when Kelly Gruber scored on a single by Devon White with two out.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Braves broke through against Key in the eighth. Ron Gant, starting in place of Sanders, led off with a double. Brian Hunter, starting at first base in place of Sid Bream, followed by beating out a bunt down the third base line to put runners on the corners with nobody out. Key recorded back-to-back outs, retiring Damon Berryhill on a failed sacrifice bunt attempt that didn't advance the runners and getting Mark Lemke to ground out to third.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
On the Lemke play, Gant scored the Braves' first run of the game and with the tying run now in scoring position as Hunter advanced to second on the groundout, Key was removed from the game. On his way off the field, he tipped his cap to the fans as they gave him a standing ovation.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Duane Ward was brought in for his third consecutive appearance and his first batter was Nixon, who had recorded two of the Braves' hits. Although Ward got Nixon to strike out swinging, the third strike got past Borders and Nixon took off for first base, and being a speedy runner he was able to reach first safely, ahead of the throw. Nixon then stole second to put the go-ahead runs in scoring position, with Hunter having advanced to third on the wild pitch. Blauser, however, ended the inning by grounding out to Olerud.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Tom Henke closed the game for the Blue Jays by retiring Pendleton, Smith, and David Justice in order in the ninth and Toronto found itself a win away from becoming the first world championship team from outside the United States.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Tom Glavine would pitch another solid complete game, but his bad luck in the postseason continued and he was charged with a loss--the third time he had lost a post-season game despite turning in a very solid outing, previously losing a 1–0 game to Pittsburgh and a 3–2 game to Minnesota (in which two of the three runs were unearned) along with the 2–1 loss in this game. He would later add another hard-luck World Series loss four years later despite another stellar outing giving up one earned run and four hits in seven innings.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
In what proved to be his last start for the Blue Jays after nine years, Key recorded his first victory in the postseason since he won Game 3 of the 1989 ALCS.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Down three games to one and facing elimination, the Braves returned John Smoltz to the mound for Game 5, who was still seeking his first World Series win after three previous solid starts all resulted in no decisions. Jack Morris, who had lost Game 1 of the series, was given the start for Toronto. Before the game Terry Pendleton, who had seen a 3–1 lead evaporate in the World Series before (having been a member of the 1985 St. Louis Cardinals), reminded his teammates that the possibility still existed that they may win the series.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
The middle of the Braves' lineup, which consisted that evening of Pendleton hitting third, David Justice fourth, and Lonnie Smith fifth, had been struggling with the rest of the team and to that point, none of the batters hitting in those three slots (Pendleton, Justice, Smith, or Sid Bream who had hit fifth in the first two games in Atlanta) had recorded an extra base hit. The Braves took care of that statistic quickly.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Otis Nixon led the game off for the Braves with a ground rule double due to fan interference. After Deion Sanders struck out, Nixon stole third as Pendleton batted. He then scored as Pendleton responded with a double of his own to right field, scoring the first run of the game and giving Justice a chance to drive in a runner in scoring position. Morris settled down, however, and retired Justice on a strikeout and Smith on a flyball to end the inning.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
The Blue Jays tied the game in the bottom of the second. With one out, John Olerud singled and Candy Maldonado reached on a walk. Smoltz struck out Kelly Gruber for the second out, but Pat Borders responded with a double. The slow-footed Olerud was sent home on the play and the throw to the plate was wide, which enabled him to score and put Maldonado on third with the lead run. Manuel Lee ended the threat, however, by lining out to Pendleton.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
The fourth inning saw the teams exchange runs again. In the visiting half, Justice led off with a home run for a 2–1 lead. Morris quickly retired Smith and Sid Bream, however, and Borders threw Jeff Blauser out stealing to keep the deficit at one. In the bottom half, Olerud and Maldonado reached base in front of Borders with one out, and as he had in the second inning he drove in Olerud with a single. But once again, the Blue Jays could not score the lead run as Lee grounded into a fielder's choice which forced Maldonado out at third and Smoltz struck Devon White out with Borders at second.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Morris started the fifth inning by striking out Damon Berryhill, whose home run in Game 1 saddled him with the loss, and forcing Mark Lemke to ground out. Nixon followed with his second hit of the game, then stole his second base of the game to put himself in scoring position. Sanders followed with a single to score Nixon, bringing Pendleton back to the plate. The third baseman followed with another ground rule double caused by fan interference. This forced Sanders, who had rounded third and was on his way to score the Braves' second run of the inning, to return to third base.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
However, the Braves now had two runners in scoring position instead of one and Justice, coming off his home run an inning earlier, was due up. With Toronto now behind by a run at 3-2 and with his ace in trouble, Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston decided to make a strategic play with the struggling Smith on deck. In a move mirroring the one he made in the eighth inning of Game 3, Gaston put Justice on with an intentional walk and decided to take his chances with the Braves' designated hitter.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Smith to this point in the series had only recorded one hit, coming after the aforementioned intentional walk to Justice two nights earlier and resulting in a run. Seeing the same strategic play angered the veteran Smith, who recalled that he felt insulted to be thought of in that way, believing they saw him as "an easy out" and would be able to escape the inning without further damage.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Smith fouled the first pitch off, then took a ball to even the count. Morris got Smith to foul off the next pitch, leaving him one strike away from escaping the jam and leaving the Braves with the bases loaded. Smith, however, was determined to make the Blue Jays pay for disrespecting his ability and after he fouled off two more pitches, he deposited Morris' sixth pitch over the wall and into the Atlanta bullpen. The grand slam home run gave the Braves a five-run lead and Gaston finally removed his starter from the game. David Wells retired Bream to end the inning, with the Blue Jays trailing 7–2.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Smoltz pitched into the seventh inning giving up one hit afterward, a single to Dave Winfield in the bottom of the fifth. After walking Lee to lead off the seventh, he was pulled in favor of Mike Stanton, who got White to ground into a fielder's choice and then induced a double play from Roberto Alomar to end the threat. The Blue Jays only received one more baserunner the rest of the night as Joe Carter singled, stole second, then advanced to third on a sacrifice fly by Ed Sprague in the eighth inning but got nothing additional.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Meanwhile, the Toronto relief corps of Wells, Mike Timlin, and Mark Eichhorn managed to keep the Braves in check for the remainder of the game. Atlanta threatened one more time in the ninth with one out as Lemke, Nixon, and Sanders all reached base, but Todd Stottlemyre induced a fly ball out to Maldonado off the bat of Pendleton and Lemke was thrown out trying to score.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Smoltz took the win, his first ever World Series victory, with Stanton getting the save and Morris taking his second loss. Morris would not pitch another postseason game after this, with Smith being the last batter he would face in the postseason. With Smoltz and Morris earning the decisions, this was, to date, the last World Series game in which both the winning and losing pitcher were later inducted into the Hall of Fame until Game 7 of the 2001 World Series (Randy Johnson and Mariano Rivera were the pitchers of record).


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Atlanta's offensive outburst ensured the series would return to the United States for at least one more game and dashed the Blue Jays' hopes of clinching the World Series at home on Canadian soil. The Braves would return home looking to force a second straight Game 7 of the World Series, and potentially supplant the 1985 Kansas City Royals as the most recent team to come back from 3-1 down to win the World Series.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Smoltz's win in Game 5 was the first of only two World Series wins he recorded in his Hall of Fame career. After recording three no decisions in as many starts (Games 4 and 7 in 1991 and Game 2 in this series), Smoltz would go another four years before winning another World Series game before winning Game 1 of the 1996 World Series. His overall record in World Series play was 2-2, despite a track record of seven quality starts out of eight.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
He lost Game 5 in 1996, 1-0 (the one run was unearned) and Game 4 in 1999. Smoltz's only other World Series start was in the 1995 World Series and this was his only poor start in a World Series, but this one also resulted in a no decision in Game 3 after the Braves rallied to force extra innings.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Morris, meanwhile, continued his struggles in the 1992 postseason. In four total appearances, Morris allowed a total of 19 runs and went 0–3 with an ERA above 7.00. In the World Series alone, his ERA was 8.44, over seven runs higher than his performance the year before when he recorded a 1.17 ERA. Game 5 would be his last postseason appearance for his career; Morris was injured toward the end of the following season and did not pitch in the postseason. He would retire from baseball in 1995.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Smith's grand slam was the first in a World Series since 1988, when Jose Canseco hit one in the Oakland Athletics' eventual 5–4 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Smith became the first player to hit one for the winning team since Kent Hrbek did so in Game 6 of the 1987 World Series for the Minnesota Twins, and was the last for a player on the visiting team until Addison Russell did so in Game 6 of the 2016 World Series for the Chicago Cubs.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
The sixth game saw Steve Avery return to the mound for Atlanta in an attempt to make up for his Game 3 loss. Toronto countered with Game 2 starter David Cone, who received a no-decision after Ed Sprague's heroics saved him from a loss.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
After playing the middle three games as the Blue Jays' designated hitter, Dave Winfield returned to playing right field as he had done in the first two games in Atlanta. Cito Gaston elected to start Joe Carter at first base again, as he had done in Game 1.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
The Blue Jays got on the board right out of the gate when David Justice misplayed a line drive by Carter to right field scoring Devon White who had singled. In the third, Atlanta's surprise hero of the Series Deion Sanders doubled off Carter's glove and scored when Terry Pendleton hit a sacrifice fly. Candy Maldonado responded by hitting a home run in the top of the fourth to give Toronto the lead again. The Blue Jays threatened again later in the inning as catcher Pat Borders reached on a double with one out. Three batters later, Borders attempted to score on a single and was thrown out at the plate by Sanders.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
The Braves threatened in the bottom of the fifth against Cone, as Mark Lemke walked to lead off the inning and advanced to third on a single by Sanders with two out. However, after Sanders stole second to put the go ahead run in scoring position, Terry Pendleton struck out to end the inning. Neither team saw a runner reach third base in the sixth, seventh, or eighth.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Cone left the game after six innings and gave way to Todd Stottlemyre, who recorded the first two outs of the seventh, and David Wells, who finished the inning. Duane Ward, who had won Games 2 and 3 of the series, shut down the Braves in the eighth. Avery was pulled after the fourth inning, but Pete Smith, Mike Stanton and Mark Wohlers combined for five scoreless innings and kept the score at 2-1 entering the home half of the ninth inning.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
With the Blue Jays three outs away from baseball history, Gaston again turned to his closer Tom Henke. He and his fellow relievers had not given up an earned run in the previous 77 postseason innings to this point, and the Blue Jays had also not blown any of their save opportunities in the ALCS or World Series. Jeff Blauser led off the inning with a single and with Damon Berryhill batting next, Braves manager Bobby Cox called for a sacrifice bunt.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Berryhill, who had not been called on to sacrifice to advance a runner in either the regular season or the NLCS and also had a failed bunt attempt in a crucial point in game 4, did as he was asked and successfully Blauser moved into scoring position with one out. Cox then called Lemke back to the dugout and sent up Lonnie Smith, whose home run in Game 5 clinched the victory and gave Atlanta the opportunity to play Game 6, to pinch hit. Smith got behind 0-2 but battled back to work the count full and drew a walk on the eighth pitch of the at bat.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
With his World Series hero now carrying the game winning run, Cox decided to call on the man whose single in Game 7 of the NLCS got the Braves into the Series and sent Francisco Cabrera to bat for the pitcher Wohlers. Once again, Henke was drawn into an eight pitch at bat, but he managed to record the second out when Cabrera lined out to left. Maldonado, however, had to leap at the last second to catch the ball as he initially lost sight of it.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Otis Nixon stood in against Henke next with his team down to its final out. After quickly picking up two strikes, Nixon slapped a single to left field. Blauser rounded third as Maldonado came up throwing, and he scored standing up as the throw sailed past Borders and into the protective netting behind home plate. With the save now blown, the scoreless innings streak over, and Smith, the winning run, advancing to third on the wild throw, Henke faced off with Ron Gant and retired him on a fly ball to end the inning. For the second consecutive year, Game 6 of the World Series was headed to extra innings.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Atlanta called on Charlie Leibrandt to make his first series appearance in the top of the tenth with Maldonado, Kelly Gruber, and Borders due to bat. He was able to retire Maldonado, and after giving up a single to Gruber (his first hit since his Game 3 homer) Leibrandt got Borders to fly out. Pat Tabler, hitting for the light-hitting Manuel Lee, then lined out to the mound to retire the side.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Henke started the bottom of the tenth by getting Pendleton to ground out. With two lefties coming up next, Gaston brought Game 4 winner Jimmy Key in on short rest to face Justice and Sid Bream. He responded by inducing two groundouts of his own to keep the game even.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Leibrandt started the visiting 11th by retiring Key on a foul pop. He followed that by hitting lead-off man Devon White with a pitch on a 1-2 count, and then allowed a single to Roberto Alomar to advance White to second. On the CBS television broadcast, analyst Tim McCarver theorized that with right-handed batters Carter and Winfield coming to the plate, Cox would bring in Jeff Reardon to pitch.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Although Reardon was warming up in the bullpen and had been ready for some time, he also had not pitched after his back-to-back bad outings in Games 2 and 3 (taking the loss and a blown save in game 2) where he allowed the winning runs to score. Perhaps having that in mind, Cox stuck with the veteran Leibrandt and he rewarded his manager by recording the second out as Carter flied to center.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
This brought a struggling Dave Winfield to the plate. Winfield, to this point in the series, was hitting below .250 and was hitless in his four previous at-bats in the game. He had also struggled in his only other appearance in the World Series (he had hit just .045), when he was a member of the 1981 New York Yankees team that lost that year's World Series. But he had had success against Leibrandt previously, with a lifetime average against him of .302 including four home runs.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Additionally, Winfield was known to feast on off-speed pitches like changeups, which were Leibrandt's strength, while Reardon in the bullpen was more of a fastball pitcher, making Cox's move more questionable in sticking with Leibrandt. He was worked to a full count by the 41-year-old veteran outfielder, and on the sixth pitch of the at-bat Winfield connected on a line drive down the left field line. White scored from second and after the ball took a bad hop off the left field corner and skipped away from Gant, Alomar scored without a play.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Winfield's hit was his first career World Series extra-base hit, and at 41 he was the oldest player in baseball history to record one in the World Series. Leibrandt managed to retire Maldonado to end the inning, but as he had done in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series, he gave up a run-scoring extra base hit to give the opposing team the lead; in that game, he allowed a walk-off home run by Kirby Puckett which forced Game 7. It was also the last time Leibrandt pitched for the Braves; he would retire after spending 1993 with the Texas Rangers.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
With a two-run lead, Gaston sent Key out for the last half of the inning to try and pick up his second win of the series. Blauser, as he had done in the ninth inning, led off with a single. On the very next pitch, Berryhill hit a ground ball to short that appeared to be an easy double play ball. However, the ball took a strange hop at the last moment and handcuffed veteran shortstop Alfredo Griffin, who had entered the game in the tenth as a replacement for Lee and was normally a sure-handed fielder.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Blauser advanced to third on the error, and Cox sent pitcher John Smoltz in to run for the slow-footed Berryhill. Light-hitting Rafael Belliard, who had taken Lemke's place in the field and in the lineup, stepped in to take his first at bat and Cox called for a sacrifice to move Smoltz into scoring position. With one out and the tying runs now both in scoring position, Brian Hunter was called on to pinch hit for Leibrandt. Key forced him to ground out to Carter at first, and while Blauser scored, the Braves were in the same position they were in two innings earlier: tying run on base, two outs, and Otis Nixon batting.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
As Nixon was announced, Gaston made his way to the mound to discuss strategy with his infielders. As the Blue Jays knew, Nixon was one of the fastest players in the game; he was one of two players, Sanders being the other, to record five stolen bases in the series. As many speedy players are known to do, Nixon would lay down bunts from time to time and try to beat them out for base hits.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Although doing so resulted in a relatively simple putout if not done properly, and despite the Braves being down to their last out, the Blue Jays still needed to consider the possibility of Nixon bunting. With this in mind, Gaston signaled to the Toronto bullpen to bring in Mike Timlin for his second appearance in the series. This move confused McCarver and his broadcast partner Sean McDonough, who believed Key was staying in the game. Nixon, in addition to all of the aforementioned attributes, was a switch hitter who had better statistics as a right-handed batter.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
(For the season he had batted .343 right-handed and .263 left-handed.) Since Timlin was a right-handed pitcher, Nixon would be hitting from his weaker side. But at the same time, the left-handed batter's box is located closer to the first base line than the right-handed box, which would give Nixon a faster jump toward first if he bunted.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
As the conference ended, Carter said to Timlin to be aware that the bunt was a possibility and "be careful". After fouling off the first pitch, Nixon did indeed lay down a bunt. Having listened to Carter, Timlin was able to field the ball quickly and throw to Carter at first in time to clinch the series for the Blue Jays. In the ensuing celebration Carter was trying to hold onto the ball.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Timlin stopped him as he was celebrating and asked for the ball, as even though Carter had recorded the last out Timlin had gotten the save, and said to him "gimme the ball, that's my save, that's my World Series save". With mock anger of resignation, Carter slammed the ball into Timlin's mitt but then hugged him joyfully. The next year Carter managed to keep the ball from the last at-bat of the World Series, as he would be the final batter and won the Series with a home run.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston became the first African American manager to win a World Series.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
American League president Dr. Bobby Brown presented the World Series Trophy in the place of the commissioner. Just a month earlier, Fay Vincent was forced to resign and was replaced by Bud Selig (then owner of the Milwaukee Brewers) on what was originally perceived to be an "interim basis." Dr. Brown also presented the Blue Jays the trophy in 1993. The last World Series not to be presided over by a Commissioner until this year had taken place in 1919; Selig officially became Commissioner of Baseball in 1998.


1992 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
It also marked the first world championship for the city of Toronto since the National Hockey League's Toronto Maple Leafs won the 1967 Stanley Cup Finals.


1992 World Series, Composite box
1992 World Series (4–2): Toronto Blue Jays (A.L.) over Atlanta Braves (N.L.)


1992 World Series, Composite box
This World Series is notable for being one of the few six-game series in which the winning team was outscored. It happened previously in 1918, 1959, and 1977; later in 1996 and 2003. Seven-game winners were outscored in 1957, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1991, 1997, and 2002; (equaled in 2016 and 2017).


1992 World Series, Broadcasting
At 30 years of age, CBS' Sean McDonough became the youngest man to call all nine innings and games of a World Series (while serving as a full network television employee). Although Vin Scully and Al Michaels were several years younger when they called their first World Series (1955 and 1972 respectively), they were products of the then broadcasting policy of announcers representing the participating teams (a process that ended following the 1976 World Series). McDonough's record would subsequently be broken by Fox's Joe Buck, who at 27 years of age, called the 1996 World Series.


1992 World Series, Broadcasting
Coincidentally, it was Joe Buck's father, Jack, that McDonough had replaced as CBS's lead play-by-play man. Serving as field reporters for CBS's coverage were Jim Kaat (in the Braves' dugout) and Lesley Visser (in the Blue Jays' dugout). The Series drew an overall Nielsen rating of 20.2, down from the previous year's 24.0 but higher than that of any subsequent World Series.


1992 World Series, Broadcasting
CBS Radio also broadcast the Series nationally, with Vin Scully and Johnny Bench announcing. Locally, the Series was called on WGST-AM in Atlanta by Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, Ernie Johnson, Joe Simpson, and Don Sutton, and on CJCL-AM in Toronto by Jerry Howarth and Tom Cheek.


1992 World Series of Poker
The 1992 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.


1992 World Series of Poker, Main Event
There were 201 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament. Until the 2007 WSOP Main Event, this was the only year that there were fewer participants in the main event than the prior year.


1992 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Other High Finishes
NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.


1992 World Snooker Championship
The 1992 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1992 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 18 April and 4 May 1992 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.


1992 World Snooker Championship
John Parrott was the defending champion but he lost 12–13 to Alan McManus in the quarter-finals and fell to the Crucible curse, becoming another champion unable to defend his first world title.


1992 World Snooker Championship
Stephen Hendry was the eventual winner, after defeating Jimmy White 18–14 in the final. At one point White led by 14–8, but Hendry then won 10 successive frames to secure his second World Championship title. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.


1992 World Snooker Championship, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


1992 World Snooker Championship, Main draw
Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).


1992 World Sports Acrobatics Championships
The 10th World Sports Acrobatics Championships were held in Rennes, France, in 1992.


1992 World Sportscar Championship
The 1992 Sportscar World Championship season was the 40th and final season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1992 FIA Sportscar World Championship, which was contested over a six race series which ran from 26 April to 18 October 1992. The championship was open to Group C Sportscars.


1992 World Sportscar Championship
The Drivers Championship was won jointly by Yannick Dalmas and Derek Warwick and the Teams Championship by Peugeot Talbot Sport. The FIA Cup for Drivers was awarded to Ferdinand de Lesseps and the FIA Cup for Teams to Chamberlain Engineering.


1992 World Sportscar Championship, Pre-Season
From the start, the 1992 season was in doubt. The FIA planned to cancel the season due to a lack of entrants, but pressure from Peugeot, who had poured a large sum of money into the sport and did not wish to see that money wasted after only a year of competition, convinced the FIA that there would be enough entries to make the season worthwhile. With this, the FIA allowed the season to move forward.