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The Olympic Winter Games Begin. In 1921, the International Olympic Committee gave its patronage to a Winter Sports Week to take place in 1924 in Chamonix, France. This event was a great success, attracting 10,004 paying spectators, and was retrospectively named the First Olympic Winter Games.
The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver) [a], also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held in Chamonix, France.
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (French: I ers Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 (Arpitan: Chamôni 1924), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
11 lut 2010 · On 25 January 1924, the first Olympic Winter Games got under way at the French resort of Chamonix, coiled at the foot of the imposing Mont Blanc, the highest summit of the Alps. For 12 days, 258 athletes tested their speed and mastery on snow and ice.
27 maj 2024 · Alle 24 Olympische Winterspiele von 1924-2022. Wann und wo fanden die ersten Olympische Winterspiele statt? Die ersten Olympische Winterspiele wurden 1924 im französischen Chamonix ausgetragen.
23 sty 2024 · American speed skater Charles Jewtraw won the first gold medal at the Chamonix Games on January 26, 1924. © Lake Placid Olympic Museum. The very next day, American athlete Charles Jewtraw also made history by dominating the speed skating event and winning the first gold medal of the Winter Olympics.
26 January 1924: Charles Jewtraw was the inaugural winner at the Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix. Today, we are celebrating the anniversary of the first gold medal given at the Olympic Winter Games on the morning of 26 January 1924 in Chamonix – for the 500m speed skating event, won against all expectations by the American from Lake Placid, Charles Jewtraw.
