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1928 Winter Olympics

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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.

Fluctuating weather conditions made these Olympics memorable. The opening ceremony was held in a blizzard.[10] 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 Wikipedia main article on Winter Olympic Games.)

1928 Winter Olympics Video

Filmed in 1928 just after the Olympics in St. Moritz, this very rare Pathe film was sold to the general public. Sonja was only 15 here but shows all the great skills she demonstrated throughout her career.
3.50 min. | 5.0 user rating		 A great allround skier, Othmar Schneider's greatest success came at the 1952 Olympics, where he won the slalom and placed second. He might have won a third medal in the combined, but that event had been discontinued after 1948 and replaced by the giant slalom. It was held as a World Championship event in subsequent Olympics, but not in Oslo. While not managing to win any additional medals in international championships (Schneider ranked fourth in the 1954 World Championship giant slalom), he did win various honours in major races in Europe and North America. In 1951, he won the famous Arlberg-Kandahar slalom (held in Sestriere that year), while winning the Wengen downhill and combined two years in a row (1951-1952). After the 1956 Winter Olympics, Schneider switched to the pros, competing in two Professional World Championships. In the meanwhile, he switched focus to a second sport, pistol shooting. A 34-fold Austrian champion (17 individual titles), he won a World Championships team bronze in the free pistol (1974) and a European Championship team bronze in the center-fire pistol (1975). A third Olympic appearance in the sport was impossible because of Schneider's past, having been a pro and a skiing teacher in the US and Chile. Schneider, who was course manager at the 1966 World Championships in Chile, later managed his own hotel in Lech, and owned and managed Huber, a manufacturor of skiing apparel and accessories.
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2.52 min. | 5.0 user rating		 amateuraufnahmen amateurfootage Japan - Australia 13 : 3 Akiyoshi Segawa, Mamoru Takashima, Masami Tanabu, Shoichi Tomita, Kunito Takagi, Shigeru Shimada, Shoichi Tomita, Masao Murano, Yoshihiro Miyazaki, Takashi Kakihara, Yuji Iwaoka, Atsuo Irie, Hidenori Inatsu, Toshiei Honma, Shinichi Honma, Shikashi Akazawa Robert Reid, Noel McLoughlin, Basil Hansen, Ken Wellman, John Nicholas, Vic Ekberg, Russell Jones, Ivo Vesely, John Thomas, Clive Hitch, Noel Derrick, David Cunningham, Peter Parrott, Ben Acton, Ken Pawley, Ron Amess, Steve Tikal
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Preceded by
Chamonix		Winter Olympics
St. Moritz
II Olympic Winter Games (1928)		Succeeded by
Lake Placid

Demonstration sports :

Demonstration sports :
1 NO 6 4 5 15
2 US 2 2 2 6
3 SE 2 2 1 5
4 FI 2 1 1 4
5 CA 1 0 0 1
FR 1 0 0 1
7 AT 0 3 1 4
8 BE 0 0 1 1
TCH 0 0 1 1
DE 0 0 1 1
GB 0 0 1 1
CH (host nation) 0 0 1 1

Events at the 1928 Winter Olympics (St. Moritz)

Bobsleigh * Cross-country skiing * Figure skating * Ice hockey * Military patrol (demonstration) * Nordic combined * Skeleton * Skijoring (demonstration) * Ski jumping * Speed skating



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