| II Olympic Winter Games | |
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| Host city | St. Moritz, Switzerland |
| Nations participating | 25 |
| Athletes participating | 464 (438 men, 26 women) |
| Events | 14 in 6 sports |
| Opening ceremony | February 11 |
| Closing ceremony | February 19 |
| Officially opened by | President Edmund Schulthess |
| Athlete's Oath | Hans Eidenbenz |
| 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 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.
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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.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 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 |
 France |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 |  Austria |
0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 |  Belgium |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Czechoslovakia |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Germany |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Great
Britain |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Switzerland
(host nation) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Preceded by Chamonix |
Winter Olympics St. Moritz II Olympic Winter Games (1928) |
Succeeded by Lake Placid |
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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 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.
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.
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| Olympic Games | ||
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| Summer Games: 1896, 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1912, (1916), 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940), (1944), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028 | ||
| 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 Games in italics will be held in the future, and those in (brackets) were cancelled because of war. See also: Ancient Olympic Games | ||
| Youth Olympic Games | ||
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| Summer Games:2010, 2014, 2018 | ||
| Winter Games:2012, 2016 | ||
| Singapore 2010 — Innsbruck 2012 — Nanjing 2014 | ||
  | The program of the 1928 St. Moritz Winter Olympics - The St Moritz 1928 Olympic Winter Game daily and sport program and result |
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