1944 Winter Olympics

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IV Olympic Winter Games
Host city	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Winter ← Garmisch 1936 ← Sapporo 1940 St. Moritz 1948 → Summer ← Berlin 1936 ← Helsinki 1940 London 1948 → London 1944 →

The 1944 Winter Olympics, which would have been officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (after the cancellation of 1940's V Olympic Winter Games) (Italian: V Giochi olimpici invernali), were to have been celebrated in February 1944 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Cortina d'Ampezzo had been awarded the games in June 1939, but with the onset of World War II, the 1944 Winter Olympics were cancelled in 1941.

The V Olympic Winter Games eventually took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 1948; Cortina d'Ampezzo eventually hosted the 1956 Winter Olympics and will co-host the 2026 Winter Olympics with Milan.

See also[]

Olympic Games abandoned due to war
List of IOC country codes

Winter Olympics
Preceded by Sapporo/Garmisch-Partenkirchen cancelled due to World War II	V Olympic Winter Games Cortina d'Ampezzo 1944 (abandoned)	Succeeded by St. Moritz

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