1928 Winter Olympics

II Olympic Winter Games
Nations participating	25
Athletes participating	464 (438 men, 26 women)
Events	14 events in 6 sports
Opening ceremony	February 11, 1928
Closing ceremony	February 19, 1928
Officially opened by	Edmund Schulthess
Athlete's Oath	Hans Eidenbenz
Judge's Oath	---
Olympic Torch	---

The II Olympic Winter Games were held in 1928 in Sankt-Moritz, Switzerland.

The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics, held on its own, and 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.

Medal winners

• Bobsleigh
• Figure skating
• Ice hockey
• Nordic skiing
• Speed skating
• Tobogganing (skeleton)

Medal Count

1928 Winter Olympics medal count
Pos.	Country	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	France	1	0	0	1
5	Canada	1	0	0	1
7	Austria	0	3	1	4
8	Belgium	0	0	1	1
8	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
8	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
8	Germany	0	0	1	1
8	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1