IN THE history of the modern Winter Olympic Games, Slovakia has produced 18 medalists. Only one sportsman, however, has yet won the gold.
Figure skater Ondrej Nepela won a gold medal in 1972 and was recently announced as the top Slovak sportsman of the 20th century.
Of those sportsmen who own more than one Olympic medal, hockey goalkeeper Vladimír Dzurilla prides himself on the richest collection of medals - one silver and two bronze.
Hockey players Jozef Golonka and Igor Liba each own one silver and one bronze medal.
The first Slovak hockey player to win an Olympic medal was Ladislav Troják, who in 1948 was a member of the Czechoslovak hockey team which won silver.
Since 1993, when Slovakia became independent, the country's hockey team has not yet won any Olympic medals.
Here follows a list of Slovak sportsmen who have won medals in Winter Olympic Games since 1948:
* St. Moritz, 1948
Ladislav Troják, silver, ice-hockey
* Squaw valley, 1960
Karol Divín, silver, figure skating
* Innsbruck, 1964
Jozef Golonka, bronze, ice-hockey
František Gregor, bronze, ice-hockey
Vladimír Dzurilla, bronze, ice-hockey
* Grenoble, 1968
Jozef Golonka, silver, ice-hockey
Vladimír Dzurilla, silver, ice-hockey
* Sapporo, 1972
Ondrej Nepela, gold, figure skating
Vladimír Dzurilla, bronze, ice-hockey
Rudolf Tajcnár, bronze, ice-hockey
* Innsbruck, 1976
Pavol Svitana, silver, ice-hockey
* SaraJevo, 1984
Igor Liba, silver, ice-hockey
Dušan Pašek, silver, ice-hockey
Vincent Lukáč, silver, ice-hockey
Dárius Rusnák, silver, ice-hockey
Gabriela Svobodová-Sekajová, silver, downhill skiing
Jozef Sabovčík, bronze, figure skating
* Albertville, 1992
Jaromír Dragan, bronze, ice-hockey
Igor Liba, bronze, ice-hockey
Róbert Švehla, bronze, ice-hockey
Peter Veselovský, bronze, ice-hockey
With information from Sita and www.olympics.sk
