Participating Athletes by Gender

Participating Athletes by Gender

The historical growth in the number of Winter Olympic athletes by gender from from 1924 to 2014.

The first Winter Olympics in Chamonix in the French Alps. During the Second World War two Winter Olympiads were cancelled, while the last Winter Olympiad before the war were held in Garmisch-Patenkirchen under Nazi rule.

This chart shows the Olympic Winter Games Participating Athletes by Gender from 1924 to 2014.

Winter Olympics: Participating Athletes by Gender from 1924 to 2014 (Source: Statista)

Winter Olympics: Participating Athletes by Gender from 1924 to 2014

Year	Winter Olympiad	Men	Women
2014	Sochi	1,800	1,000
2010	Vancouver	1,522	1,044
2006	Turin	1,548	960
2002	Salt Lake City	1,513	886
1998	Nagano	1,514	788
1994	Lillehammer	1,217	522
1992	Albertville	1,313	488
1988	Calgary	1,108	315
1984	Sarajevo	998	274
1980	Lake Placid	839	233
1976	Innsbruck	892	231
1972	Sapporo	800	206
1968	Grenoble	947	211
1964	Innsbruck	891	200
1960	Squaw Valley	521	144
1956	Cortina d'Ampezzo	689	132
1952	Oslo	585	109
1948	St. Moritz	592	77
1936	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	566	80
1932	Lake Placid	220	32
1928	St. Moritz	437	27
1924	Chamonix	245	13

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Olympics: "Participating Athletes by Gender"