Artefacts

Lillehammer 1994, sports poster, speed skating.

Physical description

Reproduction of a blurred photograph depicting a speed skater, speed skating pictogram and the short track skating one in the bottom right. Games emblem in the bottom left next to the captions in Norwegian, English and French: "The XVII Olympic / Winter Games / Lillehammer 1994 / Norway".

Created

Created: Lillehammer Organising Olympic Committee Created: Jim BENGSTON

Materials

paper

Colors

multi coloured

Dimension

70 x 50 cm

Literature

ed. by the Organizing Committee for the XVII Olympic Winter Games. The XVII Olympic Winter Games Lillehammer: the official report of the Organizing Committee. Lillehammer : Organizing Committee of the XVGames of the XVII Olympiad, 1994.

Type of item

Posters -> sport poster

Reference number

77056

Keywords

Lillehammer 1994, Olympic Winter Games Short Track Speed Skating Speed skating emblem Pictogram

Notes

Lillehammer 1994 Sports poster, speed skating. On this poster, the designer Jim BENGSTON shows a blurred photograph of a speed skater. Speed skating appeared for the first time in 1924 at the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix. Initially, only men were allowed to participate. It was only at the Lake Placid Games in 1932 that women were authorised to compete in speed skating, which was then only a demonstration sport. It was not until the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley that women’s speed skating was officially included in the Olympic programme. The mass start event gave birth to short-track speed skating, which was added to the Olympic programme in Albertville in 1992. The pictograms of these two sports can be seen on the right side of the poster. The Olympic Museum Collections