Olympic Winter Games 1944

V. Olympic Winter Games
canceled

← Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1940

St. Moritz 1948 →

The 1944 Winter Olympics , which would have been referred to as the Fifth Winter Olympics due to the cancellation of the 1940 Winter Olympics , were to take place in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy . Other candidate cities were Montreal in Canada and Oslo in Norway .

The games were canceled by the IOC in the summer of 1941 because of World War II . Cortina d'Ampezzo was later awarded the contract for the 1956 Winter Olympics by the IOC .

Choice of venue

	1st ballot	2nd ballot
Cortina d'Ampezzo	16	16
Montreal	11	12
Oslo	7th	2
Abstentions	1	5

literature

• George M. Constable: The XI, XII & XIII Olympiads. Berlin 1936, St. Moritz 1948 . World Sport Research & Publications Inc., Los Angeles 1996, ISBN 1-888383-11-9 .
• Volker Kluge : Olympic Winter Games. The Chronicle . 3rd, exp. Edition. Sportverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-328-00831-4 .
• Harald Oelrich: Sports status, world status: Sports in the area of ​​tension of German-Italian foreign policy from 1918 to 1945 . LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-5609-7