Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics was held from 9 February to 18 February. Nine events were contested at Zetra Ice Rink. East Germany topped the medal table with four gold medals, and eleven total, including a complete sweep of gold and silver medals in the four women's events. This was only the second Games in which the United States did not win a speed skating medal, and as of 2018, the only time since 1960 the Netherlands did not win a medal in the sport. Japan's Yoshihiro Kitazawa won his country's
China at the Olympics Olympics first round heats. No Chinese ball-game teams entered the final four, the worst performance in Chinese Summer Olympics history. China won 26 golds and ranked 3rd at the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sun Yang won a gold medal in men's 200 m freestyle, becoming the only Chinese male swimmer to have won gold in 2 olympic games. Gong Jinjie and Zhong Tianshi won China's first cycling gold medal in "women's team sprint". Feng Shanshan won China's first golf medal. Chinese women's volleyball team won a third gold medal after 12 years. China won medals in