When was the first Winter Olympic Games held?

The first Winter Olympic Games was held in Chamonix, Germany from October 25th to February 4th.

1908 The figure skating competition was included in the London Olympic Games for the first time, which aroused great interest. 1920 In addition to figure skating, ice hockey was added to the Antwerp Olympic Games, which attracted thousands of ice sports enthusiasts. Although, at the beginning of this century, ice and snow sports have been widely carried out in some countries in Europe and America, and these ice and snow sports competitions have formed a tradition since the 190 1 Nordic Games were held in Scandinavia, at that time, there was no World Tea Doctor Club to welcome you to participate in the ice and snow sports competition with Sina Pass, Happy E Privileged Boutique and free online listening to practical manuals. 192 1 International Amateur Athletics Joint Announcement During the Lager Conference, the issue of holding the Winter Olympics alone was formally put on the agenda, and relevant plans were put forward. At the 1922 International Olympic Committee Paris Conference, it was decided to hold this kind of competition before the 1924 Summer Olympic Games, but the word "Olympic Games" was avoided and it was called the "Eighth Olympic Yade Sports Week". The host country of the 8th Olympic Games is Germany. Therefore, the International Olympic Committee also entrusted Germany to host this sports week, and the address was set in Chamonix. 1925 the international Olympic Committee decided to hold it every four years in the same year as the summer Olympic games, and named this international competition the first winter Olympic games.

Chamonix is a small town in Germany with an altitude of1050m. Located in the north of Mont Blanc, it is the starting point for climbing the highest peak in Europe (4,807 meters). It is a famous resort for recuperation and snow sports in Germany, which attracts tens of thousands of tourists to travel and exercise every year. Chamonix has a population of only over 7,400, but it has complete tourist facilities, numerous restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and entertainment places, convenient transportation and the highest cable car in the world. Chamonix built a skating rink specially for hosting the Winter Olympics, which was used for skating and ice hockey competitions.

The first Winter Olympics was attended by 293 athletes from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, the United States, Canada, Germany, Britain, Italy, Belgium, the former Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Hungary, the former Yugoslavia, Poland *** 16 countries, including women athletes 13. This is actually an ice and snow competition in Europe and America.

These events include skiing, four-person sledding, men's speed skating and ice hockey. Among them, skiing includes 18km and 50km skiing, platform jumping, biathlon and military patrol; Men's speed skating includes 500m,1500m, 500m,10000m and all-around; Figure skating includes men's singles, women's singles and doubles.

On October 25th, 65438/KLOC-0, the first Winter Olympic Games was officially opened, and German Minister of Education gaston Vidal presided over the opening ceremony. The teams entered in French alphabetical order, with Austria leading and the host lagging behind. Athletes take the oath, and each team sends a representative to repeat the oath.

The first Winter Olympics champion was American man speed skater Charles Jutra, who won the 500-meter speed skating championship in 44 seconds. In this way, the first gold medals of the first Summer Olympic Games and the first Winter Olympic Games were taken away by the United States. The remaining four gold medals in speed skating in this Winter Olympics were all won by Finnish athletes, among which Kras Dunberg won three gold medals in1.500m, 5000m and all-around and a silver medal in1.0000m 65438, making him the best athlete in this Winter Olympics.

Austria, known as a figure skating power, sent the best players to participate. Austria won the women's singles and men's and women's doubles events, except that the men's singles champion was taken away by Sweden's Ji Graf Str? m with a slight advantage. Among them, the women's single skating champion was easily won by two-time world champion Hei plank Sobo; Hai engelmann and A Berger defeated Finland's Jacobson, who won the Olympic gold medal, with191and 1920 respectively, and German masters Ann Jolly and Pi brunet won the gold medal.

In skiing, Northern Europe has obvious advantages. In the four events of 18km, 50km, snow jumping and biathlon, except Taniku of Finland won the bronze medal of 18km, all the medals of 1 2 were won by Norway. Among them, the 29-year-old Tuohaoge won three of the four gold medals. After Chamonix, he won the 50-kilometer champion of Hollmen Kelun Skiing Competition, and was known as the "King of Skiing". Norway erected a monument for the skier in his hometown.

In the last century, some countries have carried out sledding, so the host listed this project as a competition. However, there are not many participating countries, and because of the uneven level, two teams are sent by more popular countries. There are only four men in this year's 1 event. The top six teams belong to Europe, and Switzerland 1 team won the championship.

Canada and the United States have obvious advantages in ice hockey. Canada beat the former Czechoslovakia 30-0, Sweden 22-0 and Switzerland 33-0 in the preliminaries. The United States beat Britain with 1 1: 0, Belgium beat Belgium with 19: 0 and Germany beat Germany with 22: 0. Judging from the scores, the gap between Europe and the United States was still quite large at that time. In the final, Canada beat the American team 6:/kloc-0: 0 and won the gold medal.

In this Winter Olympics *** 14, Norway won 4 gold, 7 silver and 7 bronze; Finland, ranked second, has the same number of gold medals as Norway, but less silver and bronze medals than Norway, both of which are three; Austria won two gold medals and 1 silver medal, ranking behind Norway and Finland. The other four gold medals are shared equally by the United States, Switzerland, Sweden and Canada.