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embleme THE IIIrd OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
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 During the 1929 I.O.C. session in Lausanne, seven town wanted to organize the 3rd Winter Game. Lake-Placid, a small village in the State of New York close to the Canadian frontier, with a modest height of 570 m was chosen among several competitors like Ysemite Valley(California), Denver (Colorado) or Montreal (Canada).
Dates : February 4 - 15
Participating N.O.C.: 17
Number of Sports: 5
Number of Events: 14
Number of Athletes: 278
Men: 257
Women: 21
Opening : The Governor of the State of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Serment: John Ames "Jack" Shea
Candidates cities: Montreal (CAN), Bear Mountain, Yosemite Valley, Lake Tahoe, Duluth, Minneapolis and Denver (USA)
The table of the medals alphabetically of the countries
count 1998 - 2013:Marc Boucher: development