1928 Winter Olympics

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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.

1 Highlights
2 Medal winners
3 Medal count
4 Participating NOCs

Highlights

Sonja Henie wins her first gold medal in women's figure skating.

Medal winners

Medal count

(Host nation in bold.)

1928 Winter Olympics medal count					Image:Olympic-rings.png
Pos.	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Image:Norway flag large.png Norway	6	4	5	15
2	Image:Us flag large 48 stars.png United States	2	2	2	6
3	Image:Sweden flag large.png Sweden	2	2	1	5
4	Image:Finland flag large.png Finland	2	1	1	4
5	Image:France flag large.png France	1	0	0	1
5	Image:Redensign.png Canada	1	0	0	1
7	Image:Austria flag large.png Austria	0	3	1	4
8	Image:Belgium flag large.png Belgium	0	0	1	1
8	Image:Switzerland flag large.png Switzerland	0	0	1	1
8	Image:Uk flag large.png Great Britain	0	0	1	1
8	Image:Germany flag large.png Germany	0	0	1	1
8	Image:Czechoslovakia flag.png Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1