1928 Winter Olympics

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II Olympic Winter Games
Host city	St. Moritz, Switzerland
Nations participating	25
Athletes participating	464 (438 men, 26 women)
Events	14 in 6 sports
Opening ceremony	February 11, 1928
Closing ceremony	February 19, 1928
Officially opened by	Edmund Schulthess
Athlete's Oath	Hans Eidenbenz
Stadium	Olympic Ice Rink

The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games, were held in 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 Winter Olympics were retroactively renamed into Winter Olympics. They were actually 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 as a separate Winter Games. These games also replaced the now redundant Nordic Games, that were held quadrennially since early in the century.

Contents 1 Highlights 2 Events 2.1 Demonstration sports 3 Participating nations 4 Medal count

[edit] Highlights

• Sonja Henie wins her first gold medal in women's figure skating.
• Ivar Ballangrud won the olympic title in the 5,000m speed skating and Clas Thunberg won the 500m and the 10,000m.
• Norway won the games with a total accumilation of 6 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 5 bronze medals with total of 15 medals over the USA total amount of 6 medals.

[edit] Events

• Bobsleigh
• Figure skating
• Ice hockey
• Nordic skiing
  • Cross-country skiing
  • Nordic combined
  • Ski jumping
• Speed skating
• Tobogganing (skeleton)

[edit] Demonstration sports

• Military patrol
• Skijoring

[edit] 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, Estonia, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Romania.

Argentina Austria Belgium Canada Czechoslovakia Estonia Finland France Germany

Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Mexico

Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Sweden Switzerland United States Yugoslavia

[edit] Medal count

Main article: 1928 Winter Olympics medal count

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 (host nation)	0	0	1	1

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