1936 Winter Olympics

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The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. Germany also hosted the Summer Olympics the same year in Berlin.

Highlights

Alpine skiing made its first appearance in the winter olympics as the combined, which added a skier's results in both the downhill and slalom. German athletes won both the men's and women's events:
Ivar Ballangrud won three out of the four speed skating races.
Sonja Henie won her third consecutive gold medal in woman's figure skating.
Switzerland won the 4 man bobsled in a time of 5:19.85.
The country who won the overall games was Norway with a total of 7 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 3 bronze medals.
These games had the largest and heaviest medals ever awarded to athletes: 100 mm diameter, 4 mm thick, 324 grams.

A total of 17 events in 8 sporting disciplines were contested at these Games:

28 nations sent athletes to compete in Germany, to date the largest number at a Winter Games. Australia, Bulgaria, Greece, Liechtenstein, Spain, and Turkey all made their Winter Olympic debut in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia all returned to the Games after having missed the 1932 Winter Olympics.

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