List of Olympic venues explained

The following are lists of all Olympic venues, starting with the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, organized alphabetically, by sport, and by year.

As a multi-sport event, competitions held during a given Olympics usually take place in different venues located across the host city and its metropolitan area. However, some Olympic competitions may be held outside the host metropolitan area, and instead in other regions of the host country (as it is usually the case with Football at the Summer Olympics and its requirements for large stadia).

One venue is designated as the "Olympic Stadium", the big centrepiece stadium of the games. Traditionally at the Summer Olympic Games, the opening and closing ceremonies and the Athletics competitions are held in the Olympic Stadium. The Winter Olympic Games do not usually have a central Olympic Stadium, but instead have edifices that are designated as the Olympic Stadium to host the opening and closing ceremonies.

Summer Olympics

Alphabetical

Number or letters	Number of venues
1–9	2
A	33
B	43
C	33
D	21
E	20
F	21
G	19
H	34
I	7
J	11
K	22
L	39
M	44
N	19
O	67
P	50
Q	4
R	31
S	79
T	24
U	7
V	17
W	25
X	0
Y	3
Z	4

Sport

Current for 2016

Discipline		Number of venues
	Archery	16
	Athletics	60
	Badminton	8
	Baseball	8
	Basketball	29
	Boxing	27
	Canoeing	26
	Cricket	1
	Cycling	76
	Diving	25
	Equestrian	53
	Fencing	31
	Field hockey	32
	Football	122
	Golf	3
	Gymnastics	34
	Handball	27
	Judo	15
	Modern pentathlon	88
	Rowing	27
	Sailing	32
	Shooting	38
	Softball	4
	Swimming	31
	Synchronized swimming	9
	Table tennis	8
	Taekwondo	7
	Tennis	15
	Triathlon	5
	Volleyball	32
	Water polo	34
	Weightlifting	25
	Wrestling	29

Discontinued sports

Discipline		Number of venues
	Basque pelota	2
	Cricket	1
	Croquet	1
	Jeu de Paume	1
	Lacrosse	2
	Polo	5
	Racquets	1
	Rugby union	5
	Tug of war	5
	Water motorsports	1

Demonstration sports

Discipline		Number of venues
	Bowling	1
	Korfball	2
	Roller hockey	4

Games by year

Games	Number of venues
1896 Athens	7
1900 Paris	14
1904 St. Louis	5
1908 London	12
1912 Stockholm	12
1920 Antwerp	17
1924 Paris	17
1928 Amsterdam	14
1932 Los Angeles	15
1936 Berlin	22
1948 London	25
1952 Helsinki	24
1956 Melbourne	17
1960 Rome	34
1964 Tokyo	33
1968 Mexico City	25
1972 Munich	32
1976 Montreal	27
1980 Moscow	28
1984 Los Angeles	31
1988 Seoul	31
1992 Barcelona	43
1996 Atlanta	29
2000 Sydney	30
2004 Athens	35
2008 Beijing	37
2012 London	31
2016 Rio de Janeiro	36
2020 Tokyo	41
2024 Paris	38
2028 Los Angeles
2032 Brisbane

Winter Olympics

Alphabetical

Number or letters	Number of venues
1–9	0
A	7
B	12
C	11
D	2
E	3
F	2
G	3
H	6
I	5
J	3
K	10
L	23
M	27
N	3
O	16
P	14
Q	0
R	8
S	24
T	8
U	3
V	2
W	4
X	0
Y	0
Z	2

Sport

Current for 2014

Discipline		Number of venues
	Alpine skiing	37
	Biathlon	16
	Bobsleigh	21
	Cross-country skiing	22
	Curling	8
	Figure skating	27
	Freestyle skiing	9
	Ice hockey	46
	Luge	14
	Nordic combined	37
	Short track speed skating	8
	Skeleton	6
	Ski jumping	26
	Snowboarding	6
	Speed skating	22

Demonstration sports

Discipline		Number of venues
	Bandy	2
To be done	Speed skiing	1

Games by year

Venues	Number of Games
1924 Chamonix	3
1928 St. Moritz	5
1932 Lake Placid	5
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	6
1948 St. Moritz	8
1952 Oslo	10
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	8
1960 Squaw Valley	5
1964 Innsbruck	8
1968 Grenoble	10
1972 Sapporo	12
1976 Innsbruck	8
1980 Lake Placid	7
1984 Sarajevo	9
1988 Calgary	9
1992 Albertville	13
1994 Lillehammer	10
1998 Nagano	15
2002 Salt Lake City	10
2006 Turin	15
2010 Vancouver	10
2014 Sochi	11
2018 PyeongChang	13
2022 Beijing	13
2026 Milan-Cortina

See also

• List of Commonwealth Games venues

References

• LA84Foundation.org site on the Official Olympic reports: 1896 Athens to 2006 Turin. Accessed 25 February 2011.
• Sports-reference.com profile of the Olympics. Accessed 25 February 2011. It lists all of the events with locations for each event.
• Beijing2008.cn profile. Accessed 25 February 2011.
• Olympic.org profile of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Accessed 25 February 2011.
• London2012.com venue profile. Accessed 25 February 2011.
• Sochi2014.com list of venues. Accessed 25 February 2011.
• Rio2016.org map of the venues. Accessed 25 February 2011.