St. Moritz 1928

II Olympic Winter Games
Host city	St. Moritz, Switzerland
Opening ceremony	11 February
Closing ceremony	19 February
Stadium	St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink

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

Bidding

Voting results for the 1928 Winter Olympic Games
City	Country	Round 1
St. Moritz	Switzerland	Internal selection
Davos	Switzerland
Engelberg	Switzerland

Fluctuating weather conditions made these Olympics memorable. The opening ceremony was held in a blizzard. 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 main article on the Winter Olympic Games.)

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.

Medal table

Rank	Country				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
5	France	1	0	0	1
7	Austria	0	3	1	4
8	Belgium	0	0	1	1
8	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
8	Germany	0	0	1	1
8	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
8	Switzerland	0	0	1	1

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Preceded by Paris 1924	Olympics 1928	Succeeded by Amsterdam 1928
Preceded by Chamonix 1924	Winter Olympics 1928	Succeeded by Lake Placid 1932