Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

06 Feb 1936

End:

16 Feb 1936

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Athletes:

646

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Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

In May 1931, at the 31st IOC session in Vienna, two Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen were awarded to host the Winter Olympic games.
Later, in 1935, Garmisch and Partenkirchen merged to form Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but this merger did not affect the IOC decision in any way.
The other candidate cities were Schreiberhau, Braunlage-Schierke - both Germany and St.Moritz, Switzerland.

Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler officially opened the 4 Winter Olympic Games 1936, and the Olympic flame was first lit at the Winter games.
When IOC president Henri Baillet-Latour had seen the roadsigns in Garmisch-Partenkirchen which declared "Dogs and Jews not allowed", he demanded to remove them. The German team included only one Jewish athlete - Rudi Ball, who played on the ice hockey team.
For the first time, Alpine skiing events were included in the Olympic program. However, the IOC declared that ski instructors could not participate in the Olympic games because they were professionals. In response, Swiss and Austrian skiers boycotted the Games.
The famous Norwegian Sonja HENIE, who had participated in all Winter Olympic games before, won her third gold medal in women's figure skating.