Artefacts

Nagano 1998, sports poster, biathlon.

Physical description

Reproduction of a painting of a shooting biathlete. Games emblem in the upper right. Title in French and English: "Nagano 1998 / The XVIII Olympic Winter Games / February 7-22". Trilingual caption in French-English-Japanese: "Games from the Heart-Together with Love". Reference to the sport in below the painting: "Biathlon".

Created

Created: Nagano Organizing Committee Created: Koji KINUTANI Created: Pierota Co. Ltd.

Materials

paper

Colors

multi coloured, blue, white

Dimension

103 x 73 cm

Literature

Les XVIIIes Jeux Olympiques d'hiver : rapport officiel Nagano 1998 / le comité d'organisation des XVIIIes Jeux Olympiques d'hiver, Nagano 1998. Nagano : NAOC, 1999. ISBN 4784098291.

Type of item

Posters -> sport poster

Reference number

41199

Keywords

Nagano 1998, Olympic Winter Games Biathlon Art emblem

Notes

Nagano 1998 Sports poster, biathlon. This poster, which is part of a series of seven posters, reproduces a painting by Koji KINUTANI featuring a shooting biathlete. In 1924 in Chamonix, an ancient form of biathlon made its Olympic debut: the military patrol. This event was then in demonstration in 1928, 1936 and 1948. After some attempts to incorporate it into a winter pentathlon, biathlon appeared at the Games in its current form in 1960 in Squaw Valley. Women’s biathlon made its first appearance on the Olympic programme in Albertville in 1992. The Olympic Museum Collections