Innsbruck 1964 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

29 Jan 1964

End:

09 Feb 1964

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Athletes:

1091

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City:

Innsbruck, Austria

In May 1959, at the 55th IOC session in Munich, Innsbruck, Austria was an almost unanimous choice to host the Winter Olympic Games in 1964.
Innsbruck got 49 votes, the other candidate cities - Calgary, Canada, with 9 votes, and Lahti, Finland did not get anything.

The President of Austria Adolf Scharf officially opened the 9th Winter Olympic Games in 1964.
It was the warmest winter in 58 years. Three thousand Austrian soldiers were called in to move 40,000 cubic meters of snow and 20,000 bricks of ice from Alpine peaks to ski, luge, and bobsleigh runs.
For the first time in the Winter Games, the Olympic flame was lit in Olympia, Greece.
Lydia SKOBLIKOVA from the USSR won all four women's events in Speed skating.
Soviet female athlete Claudia BOYARSKIKH won all three women's events in Cross-country.
In practice before the 1964 Games, Australian skier Ross Milne and Kazimierz Skrzypecki, a British luger, were tragically lost on olympic courses. In memory of these athletes, all flags were flown at half-staff during the Olympics, and a black ribbon was attached to the Olympic flag.
Multiple world champion Italian Eugenio MONTI, who never won an Olympic gold medal, had a great chance to win. Britain's crew, a main rival of Italy, had broken a bolt from their sled and didn't have a replacement. Eugenio Monti, who had finished, took a similar bolt from his sled and gave it to the British bobsledders, who went on to win the gold medal.