1928 Winter Olympics Totally Explained

Everything about 1928 Winter Olympics totally explained

The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated 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.

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 1,500m.
Norway won the games with a total accumulation of 6 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 5 bronze medals, a total of 15 medals, over the USA total amount of 6 medals.

Events

Bobsleigh

Figure skating

Ice hockey

Nordic skiing

Speed skating

Tobogganing (skeleton)

Demonstration sports

Military patrol

Skijoring

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.

Medal count

1		6	4	5	15
2		2	2	2	6
3		2	2	1	5
4		2	1	1	4
5		1	0	0	1
5		1	0	0	1
7		0	3	1	4
8		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
	(host nation)	0	0	1	1

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