Winter and Summer Olympic Sports List
Winter and Summer Olympic Sports List : The Olympics is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world. The world’s best players in many games compete with each other to represent their country. Earning an Olympic medal is a matter of prestige for countries. It’s been years since the Olympics are held in different countries. Olympic games have three main categories – Winter Olympics, Summer Olympics, and Paralympics.
Summer Olympics are also known as games of Olympiads. It’s the major multi-sport tournament that is held after every 4 years. Every year different countries host the Olympics. The inaugural Summer Olympic games took place in 1896 in Athens, Greece. Most recently, in 2020 Japan was going to host the Olympics that were postponed.
It took place in 2021 Tokyo. The IOC- International Olympic Committee oversees the preparations by the host city, each game has 3 positions. These position holders receive gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively. When the Summer Olympics were successful, the Winter Olympic Games were launched.
Winter Olympics as the name suggests is the premier Olympic games tournament that is held on Ice or Snow. The cities that experience Winters for the majority of the year are the ones to host the Winter Olympics.
The Winter Olympics are held every four years like the Summer Olympics. Participants from across the globe represent their country in Winter sports. The first time winter Olympics were organized was in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
Initially, the 4 winter Sports were held as a part of the Summer Olympics, but later a separate event was announced for winter sports. The recent winter Olympics were announced in 2020, and Beijing was the host. The Winter Olympic tournament was postponed due to the Pandemic.
Out of all games played in the Winter and Summer Olympics, few games are extremely popular. These are gymnastics, table tennis, track and field, swing, Weightlifting, badminton, soccer, basketball, tennis, and golf.
Here’s a List of all winter and Summer Olympic Sports.
The List of Olympic Winter games
- Alpine Skiing
- Biathlon
- Bobsleigh
- Cross-country Skiing
- Luge
- Speed Skating
- Ski jumping
- Ski mountaineering
- Snowboard
- Skeleton
- Short Track Speed Skating
- Nordic Combined
- ICE Hockey
- Freestyle Skiing
- Figure Skating
- Curling
- Cross-Country Skiing
The list of Summer Olympics
- Wrestling
- Weightlifting
- Triathlon
- Tennis
- Taekwondo
- Table Tennis
- Swimming
- Surfing
- Sport Climbing
- Speed Skating
- Snowboard
- Ski Mountaineering
- Ski jumping
- Skeleton
- Skateboarding
- Short Track Speed Skating
- Shooting
- Sailing
- Rugby SEVENS
- Rowing
- Rhythmic gymnastics
- Nordic Combined
- Modern Pentathlon
- Luge
- Karate
- Judo
- Ice hockey
- Hockey
- Golf
- Futsal
- Freestyle Skiing
- Figure Skating
- Fencing
- Equestrian
- Diving
- Cycling road
- Cycling BMX Freestyle
- Curling
- Cross-country Skiing
- Breaking
- Boxing
- Bobsleigh
- Biathlon
- Beach volleyball
- Badminton
- Athletics
- Artistic gymnastics
- Archery
- Alpine Skiing
- 3×3 basketball