1936 Winter Olympics

4th edition of Winter Olympics, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Event winter_olympic_games_edition Q9600
1936 Winter Olympics
Original author: Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

1936 Winter Olympics is a Winter Olympic Games edition[1]. It draws 2,267 Wikipedia views per month (winter olympic games edition category, ranking #16 of 29).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Nazi Germany[3]
  • Instance of: international sporting event[4]
  • Follows: 1932 Winter Olympics[5]
  • Followed by: 1940 Winter Olympics[6], 1948 Winter Olympics[7]
  • Location: Große Olympiaschanze[8], Garmisch-Partenkirchen[9]
  • Commons category: 1936 Winter Olympics[10]
  • Edition number: 4[11]
  • Has part(s): cross-country skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics[12], Nordic combined at the 1936 Winter Olympics[13], ski jumping at the 1936 Winter Olympics[14], Nordic skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics[15], alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics[16], ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics[17], bobsleigh at the 1936 Winter Olympics[18], ice stock sport at the 1936 Winter Olympics[19], military patrol at the 1936 Winter Olympics[20], speed skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics[21], figure skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics[22]
  • Officially opened by: Adolf Hitler[23]
  • Oath made by: Willy Bogner[24]
  • Start time: February 6, 1936[25]
  • End time: February 16, 1936[26]
  • Point in time: February 1936[27]
  • Sport: winter sport[28]
  • Participant: Zdeněk Jirotka[29]
  • Official website: https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/garmisch-partenkirchen-1936[30]
  • Topic's main category: Category:1936 Winter Olympics[31]
  • Described at URL: https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1936/[32]
  • Number of participants: 28[33], 646[34]
  • Official name: IV. Olympesch Wanterspiller[35]
  • Has part(s) of the class: Olympic sporting event[36]
  • Sports season of league or competition: Winter Olympic Games[37]

Why It Matters

1936 Winter Olympics has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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  31. [33] ↑ . olympic.org. Retrieved . olympic.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . olympic.org. Retrieved . olympic.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . olympic.org. Retrieved . olympic.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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