Venues of the 1948 Winter Olympics
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For the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, a total of eight sports venues were used. The five venues used for the 1928 Winter Olympics were reused for these games. Three new venues were added for alpine skiing which had been added to the Winter Olympics program twelve years earlier in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (Allied-occupied Germany during the 1948 Games). As of 2015, the bob run continues to be used for bobsleigh and the Cresta Run for skeleton while alpine skiing remains popular in St. Moritz.
Venues
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| | Around the hills of St. Moritz | Cross-country skiing, Nordic combined (cross-country skiing) | align="right"|Not listed. |
| | Cresta Run | Skeleton | align="right"|Not listed. |
| | Kulm | Ice hockey | align="right"|Not listed. |
| | Olympiaschanze St. Moritz | Ski jumping, Nordic combined (ski jumping) | align="right"|Not listed. |
| | Olympic Stadium | Opening / closing ceremonies, Figure skating, Ice hockey (final), Speed skating | align="right"|Not listed. |
| | Piz Nair | Alpine skiing | align="right"|Not listed. |
| | St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun | Bobsleigh | align="right"|Not listed. |
| | Suvretta | Ice hockey | align="right"|Not listed. |
Before the Olympics
St. Moritz hosted the Winter Olympics previously in 1928.[http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Olympic-Games/All-Past-Olympic-Games/Winter/St-Moritz-1928/ Olympic.org profile of the 1928 Winter Olympics.] Accessed 18 October 2010. All five venues from those games were reused for the 1948 Winter Olympics.[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1928/1928w1.pdf 1928 Winter Olympics official report.] Part 1. p. 46. {{in lang|fr}} Accessed 10 October 2010.[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1928/1928w2.pdf 1928 Winter Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217062055/http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1928/1928w2.pdf |date=2010-12-17 }} Part 2. pp. 1-11, 14-5, 46. {{in lang|fr}} Accessed 10 October 2010 St. Moritz hosted the FIBT World Championships in 1931 (four-man), 1937 (four-man), 1938 (two-man), 1939 (two-man), and 1947.[http://sports123.com/bob/mw-2.html Sports123.com list of 2-Man bobsleigh World Champions.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091333/http://sports123.com/bob/mw-2.html |date=2007-09-29 }} Accessed 18 October 2010.[http://sports123.com/bob.mw-4.html Sports123.com list of 4-Man bobsleigh World Champions.]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Accessed 18 October 2010. Switzerland itself hosted the Ice Hockey World Championships twice in between the 1928 and 1948 Games, doing so in 1935 and 1939 though neither took place in St. Moritz.[http://www.iihf.com/iihf-home/history/all-medallists/men.html IIHF men's World Championship medalists: 1920-2010.] Accessed 18 October 2010. As an alpine skiing venue, St. Moritz hosted the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in 1934.[http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/1228.html?event_id=7208&cal_suchsector=AL FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1934 St. Moritz 1 February results.] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130123082347/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/1228.html?event_id=7208&cal_suchsector=AL |date=2013-01-23 }} Accessed 18 October 2010.
During the Olympics
Midway through the second run of the bobsleigh four-man event, a water pipe burst which halted competition.Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Bobsleigh: Four-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 162. They still completed all four runs of the event.[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/ORW1948.pdf 1948 Winter Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410085049/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/ORW1948.pdf |date=2008-04-10 }} p. 65. Accessed 18 October 2010. {{in lang|fr}}
After the Olympics
The ski jump was renovated in 1963 to get it to a K-point of {{convert|90|m|ft|abbr=on}}.[https://archive.today/20130202082441/http://www.skisprungschanzen.com/index.htm?/sui/sui_stmoritz.htm History of the St. Moritz jump.] {{in lang|de}} Accessed 10 October 2010. It closed in 2006. The bob run has hosted the FIBT World Championships sixteen more times since the 1948 Games, most recently in 2007.[http://sports123.com/ske/mw.html Sports123.com men's skeleton world championships results since 1989.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111059/http://sports123.com/ske/mw.html |date=2007-09-29 }} Accessed 18 October 2010 St. Moritz hosted its first recorded alpine skiing World Cup event in 1971.[http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/1228.html?event_id=2728&cal_suchsector=AL FIS Alpine skiing World Cup St. Moritz 16-17 January 1971 results.] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120731113047/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/1228.html?event_id=2728&cal_suchsector=AL |date=2012-07-31 }} Accessed 18 October 2010. The city hosted the Alpine skiing World Championships in 1974 and 2003.[https://archive.today/20121209055806/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/1228.html?event_id=2787 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1974 St. Moritz 3-10 February results.] Accessed 18 October 2010.[https://archive.today/20120730095033/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/1228.html?event_id=9565 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 St. Moritz 2-16 February results.] Accessed 18 October 2010.