Applications for Winter Olympics

All applications for the Olympic Winter Games are listed in the following overview :

Overview of applications for the Olympic Winter Games

XXV. 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan - Cortina d'Ampezzo decision took place at the 134th session of the IOC in Lausanne on June 24, 2019.
Applicant city	1st ballot
Milan - Cortina d'Ampezzo	47
Stockholm	34
Calgary withdrew its application despite being accepted by the IOC.
Erzurum was not accepted by the IOC. Graz , Sapporo and Sion withdrew during the dialogue phase.
The XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing 2022 decision took place at the 128th session of the IOC in Kuala Lumpur on July 31, 2015.
Applicant city	1st ballot
Beijing	44
Almaty	40
Oslo withdrew the application even though it had been accepted by the IOC.
Krakow , Lviv and Stockholm withdrew their applications.
XXIII. Olympic Winter Games 2018 in Pyeongchang decision took place at the 123rd session of the IOC in Durban on July 6, 2011.
Applicant city	1st ballot
Pyeongchang	63
Munich	25th
Annecy	7th
Annecy prevailed against Nice and Pelvoux at national level .
XXII. Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi decision took place at the 119th Session of the IOC in Guatemala City held on 4 July 2007
Applicant city	1st ballot	2nd ballot
Sochi	34	51
Pyeongchang	36	47
Salzburg	25th
the IOC did not accept applications from Almaty , Borjomi , Jaca and Sofia .
Pyeongchang prevailed against Muyu at the national level . Salzburg prevailed against Innsbruck on a national level .
XXI. 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . The decision was made at the 115th session of the IOC in Prague on July 2, 2003.
Applicant city	1st ballot	2nd ballot
Vancouver	40	56
Pyeongchang	51	53
Salzburg	16
Bern withdrew the application even though it had been accepted by the IOC.
the IOC did not accept applications from Andorra la Vella , Harbin , Jaca and Sarajevo .
Vancouver prevailed against Calgary and Québec at the national level . Salzburg prevailed against Kitzbühel at national level .
XX. Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin decision took place at the 109th session of the IOC in Seoul on June 19, 1999.
Applicant city	1st ballot
Turin	53
Sion	36
the IOC did not accept the applications from Helsinki , Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Poprad and Zakopane .
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee prevailed against Kitzbühel at national level .
XIX. 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . The decision was made at the 104th session of the IOC in Budapest on June 16, 1995.
Applicant city	1st ballot
Salt Lake City	54
Ostersund	14th
Sion	14th
Quebec	7th
the IOC did not accept applications from Graz , Jaca , Poprad , Sochi and Tarvisio .
XVIII. 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . The decision was made at the 97th session of the IOC in Birmingham on June 15, 1991.
Applicant city	1st ballot	Runoff	2nd ballot	3rd ballot	4th ballot
Nagano	21st		30th	36	46
Salt Lake City	15th	59	27	29	42
Ostersund	18th		25th	23
Jaca	19th		5
Aosta	15th	29
XVII. 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . The decision was made at the 94th session of the IOC in Seoul on September 15, 1988.
Applicant city	1st ballot	2nd ballot	3rd ballot
Lillehammer	25th	30th	45
Ostersund	19th	33	39
Anchorage	23	22nd
Sofia	17th
XVI. 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . The decision was made at the 91st session of the IOC in Lausanne on October 17, 1986.
Applicant city	1st ballot	2nd ballot	3rd ballot	4th ballot	Runoff	5th ballot
Albertville	19th	26th	29	42		51
Sofia	25th	25th	28	24		25th
Falun	10	11	11	9	44	9
Lillehammer	10	11	9	9	40
Cortina d'Ampezzo	7th	6th	7th
Anchorage	7th	5
Berchtesgaden	6th
XV. 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary . The decision was made at the 84th session of the IOC in Baden-Baden on September 30, 1981.
Applicant city	1st ballot	2nd ballot
Calgary	35	48
Falun	25th	31
Cortina d'Ampezzo	18th
XIV. 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo . The decision was made at the 80th session of the IOC in Athens on May 18, 1978.
Applicant city	1st ballot	2nd ballot
Sarajevo	31	39
Sapporo	33	36
Gothenburg	10
XIII. 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid . The decision was made at the 75th session of the IOC in Vienna on October 23, 1974.
Lake Placid was the only applicant town.
Vancouver withdrew its application shortly before the decision.
XII. Olympic Winter Games 1976 in Innsbruck . IOC decided on February 4, 1973 about the award a second time.
Innsbruck prevailed against Chamonix-Mont-Blanc , Lake Placid and Tampere . The results of the ballot were not disclosed.
XII. 1976 Winter Olympics in Denver . The decision was made at the 69th session of the IOC in Amsterdam on May 12, 1970.
Applicant city	1st ballot	2nd ballot	3rd ballot
Denver	29	39	39
Sion	18th	31	30th
Tampere	12	8th
Vancouver	9
Granada	0
XI. 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo . The decision was made at the 64th session of the IOC in Rome on April 26, 1966.
Applicant city	1st ballot
Sapporo	32
Banff	16
Lahti	7th
Salt Lake City	7th
X. 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble . The decision was made at the 61st session of the IOC in Innsbruck on January 28, 1964.
Applicant city	1st ballot	2nd ballot	3rd ballot
Grenoble	15th	18th	27
Calgary	12	19th	24
Lahti	11	14th
Sapporo	6th
Oslo	6th
Lake Placid	3
IX. Olympic Winter Games 1964 in Innsbruck . The decision was made at the 55th session of the IOC in Munich on May 26, 1959.
Applicant city	1st ballot
innsbruck	49
Calgary	9
Lahti	0
VIII. 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley . The decision was made at the 50th session of the IOC in Paris on June 16, 1955.
Applicant city	1st ballot	2nd ballot
Squaw Valley	30th	32
innsbruck	24	30th
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	5
St. Moritz	3
VII. 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . The decision was made at the 43rd session of the IOC in Rome on April 28, 1949.
Applicant city	1st ballot
Cortina d'Ampezzo	18th
Montreal	7th
Colorado Springs	2
Lake Placid	1
VI. 1952 Olympic Winter Games in Oslo . The decision was made at the 40th session of the IOC in Stockholm on June 21, 1947.
Applicant city	1st ballot
Oslo	18th
Cortina d'Ampezzo	9
Lake Placid	1
V. Olympic Winter Games 1948 in St. Moritz . The decision was made at the 39th session of the IOC in Lausanne in September 1946.
St. Moritz prevailed against Lake Placid . The results of the ballot were not disclosed.
V. 1944 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . The decision was made at the 38th session of the IOC in London on June 9, 1939.
Applicant city	1st ballot	2nd ballot
Cortina d'Ampezzo	16	16
Montreal	11	12
Oslo	7th	2
V. Olympic Winter Games 1940 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The IOC awarded the Winter Games on June 9, 1939 for the third time.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen received the games after St. Moritz had to return the games to the IOC due to disputes.
V. Olympic Winter Games 1940 in St. Moritz . The IOC awarded the Winter Games on September 3, 1938 for the second time.
St. Moritz received the games after Sapporo had to return the games to the IOC because of the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War .
V. Olympic Winter Games 1940 in Sapporo . The decision was made at the 36th session of the IOC in Warsaw on June 9, 1937.
after the IOC entrusted Tokyo with hosting the 1940 Summer Games, Sapporo was chosen as the venue for the Winter Games.
IV. 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The decision was made at the 30th session of the IOC in Lausanne on May 13, 1931.
After the IOC entrusted Berlin with hosting the 1936 Summer Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen was chosen as the venue for the Winter Games
III. 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid . The decision was made at the 27th session of the IOC in Lausanne on April 10, 1929.
After the IOC entrusted Los Angeles with hosting the 1932 Summer Games, Lake Placid prevailed against Bear Mountain , Denver , Duluth , Lake Tahoe , Minneapolis , Montreal and Yosemite Valley as the host of the Winter Games.
II. Olympic Winter Games 1928 in St. Moritz . The decision was made at the 24th session of the IOC in Lisbon on May 6, 1926.
After the IOC entrusted Amsterdam with hosting the 1928 Summer Games, it became clear that the IOC had to outsource the Winter Games to another country. St. Moritz prevailed against Davos and Engelberg .
I. 1924 Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc . The decision was made at the 19th session of the IOC in Lausanne on June 2, 1921.
An "International Winter Sports Week" was to be held for the first time on the occasion of the Summer Olympics. After the IOC entrusted Paris with hosting the 1924 Summer Games, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc prevailed against Gérardmer and Luchon-Superbagnères . On May 27, 1925, the "International Winter Sports Week" was subsequently recognized by the IOC at the 23rd session in Prague as the 1st Olympic Winter Games.

Overview of the applicant cities

Bold = host or planned host of the Olympic Winter Games
Bold / Italic = the city was intended to host, but the Olympic Winter Games took place elsewhere or were canceled
Italic = the application was not accepted by the IOC or the application was withdrawn

Urban and countryside	Number of games	Number of evaluations	Number of not ac.	Number of withdrawn Assessment	Years
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc	1	2			1924 , 1976
St. Moritz	2	5			1928 , 1936, 1940 , 1948 , 1960
Davos		1			1928
Engelberg		1			1928
Bear Mountain		1			1932
Denver		2			1932, 1976
Duluth		1			1932
Lake Placid	2	7th			1932 , 1948, 1952, 1956, 1968, 1976, 1980
Lake Tahoe		1			1932
Minneapolis		1			1932
Montreal		4th			1932, 1936, 1944, 1956
Yosemite Valley		1			1932
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	1	3			1936 , 1940 , 1960
Sapporo	1	4th		1	1940 , 1968, 1972 , 1984, 2026
Cortina d'Ampezzo	1	5			1944 , 1952, 1956 , 1988, 1992
Oslo	1	3		1	1944, 1952 , 1968, 2022
Colorado Springs		1			1956
innsbruck	2	3			1960, 1964 , 1976
Squaw Valley	1	1			1960
Calgary	1	3		1	1964, 1968, 1988 , 2026
Lahti		2			1964, 1972
Grenoble	1	1			1968
Banff		1			1972
Salt Lake City	1	3			1972, 1998, 2002
Granada		1			1976
Sion		3		1	1976, 2002, 2006, 2026
Tampere		2			1976, 1976
Vancouver	1	2		1	1976, 1980 , 2010
Gothenburg		1			1984
Sarajevo	1	1	1		1984 , 2010
Falun		2			1988, 1992
Albertville	1	1			1992
Anchorage		2			1992, 1994
Berchtesgaden		1			1992
Lillehammer	1	2			1992, 1994
Sofia		2	1		1992, 1994, 2014
Ostersund		3			1994, 1998, 2002
Aosta		1			1998
Jaca		1	3		1998, 2002 , 2010 , 2014
Nagano	1	1			1998
Quebec		1			2002
Graz			1	1	2002 , 2026
Poprad			2		2002 , 2006
Sochi	1	1	1		2002 , 2014
Tarvisio			1		2002
Turin	1	1			2006
Helsinki			1		2006
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee			1		2006
Zakopane			1		2006
Pyeongchang	1	3			2010, 2014, 2018
Salzburg		2			2010, 2014
Andorra la Vella			1		2010
Bern				1	2010
Harbin			1		2010
Almaty		1	1		2014 , 2022
Borjomi			1		2014
Annecy		1			2018
Munich		1			2018
Beijing	1	1			2022
Krakow				1	2022
Lviv				1	2022
Stockholm		1		1	2022 , 2026
Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo	1	1			2026
Erzurum			1		2026

Overview of the applicant countries

Bold = host or planned host of the Olympic Winter Games
Bold / Italic = the country was intended to host, but the Olympic Winter Games took place elsewhere or were canceled
Italic = the application was not accepted by the IOC or the application was withdrawn

country	Cities	Number of games	Number of evaluations	Number of not ac.	Number of withdrawn Assessment	Years
France	Chamonix-Mont-Blanc , Grenoble , Albertville , Annecy	3	5			1924 , 1968 , 1976, 1992 , 2018
Switzerland	Davos , Engelberg , St. Moritz , Sion , Bern	2	9		2	1928 , 1936, 1940 , 1948 , 1960, 1976, 2002, 2006, 2010 , 2026
United States	Bear Mountain , Denver , Duluth , Lake Placid , Minneapolis , Yosemite Valley I , Yosemite Valley II , Colorado Springs , Squaw Valley , Salt Lake City , Anchorage	4th	14th			1932 , 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 , 1968, 1972, 1976 , 1976, 1980 , 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002
Canada	Montreal , Calgary , Banff , Vancouver , Québec	2	11		2	1932, 1936, 1944, 1956, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980 . 1988 , 2002, 2010 , 2026
Germany	Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Berchtesgaden , Munich	1	5			1936 , 1940 , 1960, 1992, 2018
Japan	Sapporo , Nagano	2	5		1	1940 , 1968, 1972 , 1984, 1998 , 2026
Italy	Cortina d'Ampezzo , Aosta , Tarvisio , Turin , Milan - Cortina d'Ampezzo	3	7th	2		1944 , 1952, 1956 , 1988, 1992, 1998, 2002 , 2006 , 2026
Norway	Oslo , Lillehammer	2	5		1	1944, 1952 , 1968, 1992, 1994 , 2022
Austria	Innsbruck , Graz , Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Salzburg	2	5	2	1	1960, 1964 , 1976 , 2002 , 2006 , 2010, 2014, 2026
Finland	Lahti , Tampere , Helsinki		4th	1		1964, 1972, 1976, 1976, 2006
Spain	Granada , Jaca		2	3		1976, 1998, 2002 , 2010 , 2014
Sweden	Gothenburg , Falun , Östersund , Stockholm		7th	1		1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2022 , 2026
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	1	1	1		1984 , 2010
Bulgaria	Sofia		2	1		1992, 1994, 2014
Slovakia	Poprad			2		2002 , 2006
Russia	Sochi	1	1	1		2002 , 2014
Poland	Zakopane , Krakow			1	1	2006 , 2022
Korea	Pyeongchang	1	3			2010, 2014, 2018
Andorra	Andorra la Vella			1		2010
People's Republic of China	Harbin , Beijing	1	1	1		2010 , 2022
Kazakhstan	Almaty		1	1		2014 , 2022
Georgia	Borjomi			1		2014
Ukraine	Lviv				1	2022
Turkey	Erzurum				1	2026

Explanations

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sankt Moritz had to return the 1940 Games after a disagreement with the IOC.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Denver had to return the 1976 Games to the IOC after a negative referendum.
3. ↑ ^{a b} The Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1940 were canceled because of the Second World War .
4. ↑ ^{a b} The 1940 Sapporo Games had to be returned to the IOC by Japan after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
5. ↑ ^{a b} The games of Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1944 were canceled because of the Second World War.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Oslo withdrew the application for the 2022 Games, although the application had been accepted by the IOC.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Vancouver withdrew the application for the 1980 Games shortly before the decision.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Bern withdrew the application for the 2010 Games, although the application had been accepted by the IOC.

See also

• Applications for Summer Olympics