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II Olympic Winter Games

Hugo Laubi's poster for the 1928 Winter Olympics
Host city	St. Moritz, Switzerland
Nations	25
Athletes	464 (438 men, 26 women)
Events	14 in 4 sports (8 disciplines)
Opening	11 February
Closing	19 February
Opened by	President Edmund Schulthess
Stadium	St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink
Winter
← Chamonix 1924 Lake Placid 1932 →
Summer
← Paris 1924 Amsterdam 1928 →

The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (French: Les IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; German: Olympische Winterspiele 1928; Italian: II Giochi olimpici invernali; Romansh: Gieus olimpics d'enviern 1928), were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated February 11–19, 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics held on its own as they were not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics. The preceding 1924 Games were retroactively renamed the inaugural Winter Olympics, though they had been in fact part of the 1924 Summer Olympics. All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not held as a separate Winter Games. These games also replaced the now redundant Nordic Games, that were held quadrennially since early in the century.

Fluctuating weather conditions made these Olympics memorable. The opening ceremony was held in a blizzard.[10] In contrast, warm weather conditions plagued the Olympics for the remainder of the Games, requiring cancellations of one event with temperatures as high as 25 °C (77 °F). (See further description at the Wikipedia main article on Winter Olympic Games.)

Highlights

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  Sonja Henie wins her first gold medal in women's figure skating.


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  Ivar Ballangrud won the Olympic title in the 5,000m speed skating and Clas Thunberg won the 500m and the 1,500m.


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  Norway finished on top of the medal table with a total of 6 gold medals, 4 silver and 5 bronze, a total of 15 medals. The USA finished second in the table.


• The single bronze medal won by Switzerland is the lowest output by a host nation at an Olympics.

Events

Medals were awarded in 14 events contested in 4 sports (8 disciplines).

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  Bobsleigh
  
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    Bobsleigh (1) (details)
  
  
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    Skeleton (1) (details)
  
  


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  Ice hockey (1) (details)


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  Skating
  
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    Figure skating (3) (details)
  
  
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    Speed skating (4) (details)
  
  


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  Nordic skiing (details)
  
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    Cross-country skiing (2) (details)
  
  
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    Nordic combined (1) (details)
  
  
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    Ski jumping (1) (details)
  
  

Demonstration sports

• Military patrol


• Skijoring

Venues

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  St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink - Figure skating, Ice hockey, Speed Skating


• Around the hills of St. Moritz - Cross-country skiing, Nordic combined (cross-country skiing)


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  Olympiaschanze St. Moritz - Nordic combined (Ski jumping), Ski jumping


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  St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun - Bobsleigh


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  Cresta Run - Skeleton

Participating nations

Athletes from 25 nations competed at these Games, up from 16 in 1924. Nations making their first appearance at the Winter Olympic Games were Argentina (first participation of a delegation coming from a country belonging to the Southern Hemisphere), Estonia, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Romania.

Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees

IOC	Country	Athletes
GER	Germany	44
SUI	Switzerland	41
AUT	Austria	39
FRA	France	38
GBR	Great Britain	32
TCH	Czechoslovakia	29
POL	Poland	26
BEL	Belgium	25
NOR	Norway	25
SWE	Sweden	24
USA	United States	24
CAN	Canada	23
FIN	Finland	18
HUN	Hungary	13
ITA	Italy	13
ARG	Argentina	10
ROM	Romania	10
NED	Netherlands	7
JPN	Japan	6
YUG	Yugoslavia	6
LUX	Luxembourg	5
MEX	Mexico	5
EST	Estonia	2
LAT	Latvia	1
LTU	Lithuania	1
Total	464

Medal count

  *   Host nation (Switzerland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	6	4	5	15
2	United States	2	2	2	6
3	Sweden	2	2	1	5
4	Finland	2	1	1	4
5	Canada	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
7	Austria	0	3	1	4
8	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland*	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		14	12	15	41

See also

• List of 1928 Winter Olympics medal winners

• 1928 Summer Olympics


• Olympic Games celebrated in Switzerland
  
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    1948 Winter Olympics – Moscow
    
  
  
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    1948 Winter Olympics – St. Moritz
    
  
  

• Winter Olympic Games


• Olympic Games


• International Olympic Committee


• List of IOC country codes

External links

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  "Results and Medalists — 1928 Winter Olympics". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
  


• The program of the 1928 St. Moritz Winter Olympics