List of Winter Olympic Games
Games | Year | Host | Opened by | Dates | Nations | Competitors | Sports | Events | Ref | ||
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Total | Men | Women | |||||||||
I | 1924 | Chamonix, France | Undersecretary Gaston Vidal | 25 January – 5 February | 16 | 258 | 247 | 11 | 6 | 16 | |
II | 1928 | St. Moritz, Switzerland | President Edmund Schulthess | 11–19 February | 25 | 464 | 438 | 26 | 6 | 14 | |
III | 1932 | Lake Placid, United States | Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt | 4–15 February | 17 | 252 | 231 | 21 | 5 | 14 | |
IV | 1936 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Chancellor Adolf Hitler | 6–16 February | 28 | 646 | 566 | 80 | 6 | 17 | |
1940 | Originally awarded to Sapporo, Japan, cancelled because of World War II | ||||||||||
1944 | Originally awarded to Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, cancelled because of World War II | ||||||||||
V | 1948 | St. Moritz, Switzerland | President Enrico Celio | 30 January – 8 February | 28 | 669 | 592 | 77 | 4 | 22 | |
VI | 1952 | Oslo, Norway | Princess Ragnhild | 14–25 February | 30 | 694 | 585 | 109 | 4 | 22 | |
VII | 1956 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | President Giovanni Gronchi | 26 January – 5 February | 32 | 821 | 687 | 134 | 4 | 24 | |
VIII | 1960 | Squaw Valley, United States | Vice President Richard Nixon | 18–28 February | 30 | 665 | 521 | 144 | 4 | 27 | |
IX | 1964 | Innsbruck, Austria | President Adolf Schärf | 29 January – 9 February | 36 | 1091 | 892 | 199 | 6 | 34 | |
X | 1968 | Grenoble, France | President Charles de Gaulle | 6–18 February | 37 | 1158 | 947 | 211 | 6 | 35 | |
XI | 1972 | Sapporo, Japan | Emperor Hirohito | 3–13 February | 35 | 1006 | 801 | 205 | 6 | 35 | |
XII | 1976 | Innsbruck, Austria | President Rudolf Kirchschläger | 4–15 February | 37 | 1123 | 892 | 231 | 6 | 37 | |
XIII | 1980 | Lake Placid, United States | Vice President Walter Mondale | 13–24 February | 37 | 1072 | 840 | 232 | 6 | 38 | |
XIV | 1984 | Sarajevo, Yugoslavia | President Mika Špiljak | 8–19 February | 49 | 1272 | 998 | 274 | 6 | 39 | |
XV | 1988 | Calgary, Canada | Governor-General Jeanne Sauvé | 13–28 February | 57 | 1423 | 1122 | 301 | 6 | 46 | |
XVI | 1992 | Albertville, France | President François Mitterrand | 8–23 February | 64 | 1801 | 1313 | 488 | 7 | 57 | |
XVII | 1994 | Lillehammer, Norway | King Harald V | 12–27 February | 67 | 1737 | 1215 | 522 | 6 | 61 | |
XVIII | 1998 | Nagano, Japan | Emperor Akihito | 7–22 February | 72 | 2176 | 1389 | 787 | 7 | 68 | |
XIX | 2002 | Salt Lake City, United States | President George W. Bush | 8–24 February | 77 | 2399 | 1513 | 886 | 7 | 78 | |
XX | 2006 | Turin, Italy | President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | 10–26 February | 80 | 2508 | 1548 | 960 | 7 | 84 | |
XXI | 2010 | Vancouver, Canada | Governor-General Michaëlle Jean | 12–28 February | 82 | 2566 | 1522 | 1044 | 7 | 86 | |
XXII | 2014 | Sochi, Russia | 7–23 February | future event | |||||||
XXIII | 2018 | Pyeongchang, South Korea | 9–25 February | future event | |||||||
XXIV | 2022 | TBD | future event |
Unlike the Summer Olympics, the cancelled 1940 Winter Olympics and 1944 Winter Olympics are not included in the official Roman numeral counts for the Winter Games. While the official titles of the Summer Games count Olympiads the titles of the Winter Games only count the Games themselves.
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