1928 Winter Olympics

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 and not as a part of a Summer Olympics. The preceding 1924 Winter Olympics were later renamed as 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.

II Olympic Winter Games

Host city	St. Moritz, Grisons, 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 →

Participating nations

Athletes from 25 nations competed at these Games, up from 16 in 1924. This was the first time many countries attended the Winter Olympic Games, including 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

The Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Sweden Switzerland USA Yugoslavia

1928 Winter Olympics Media

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  • For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.

Other websites

• IOC page for the 1928 Winter Olympics

Olympic Games
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Winter Games: 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940), (1944), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022
Athens 2004 — Turin 2006 — Beijing 2008 — Vancouver 2010 — London 2012 — Sochi 2014 — Rio 2016 — Pyeongchang 2018 — Tokyo 2020 Games in italics will be held in the future, and those in (brackets) were cancelled because of war. See also: Ancient Olympic Games