RECORDS

A metaLAB (at) Harvard project by Kim Albrecht and Jeffrey Schnapp.

RECORDS is a data storytelling installation visualizing all 22,560 athletes who have ever participated in the Olympic Winter Games from its inception in 1924 to 2022. The project was developed and designed by Professors Kim Albrecht (metaLAB Berlin, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf) and Jeffrey Schnapp (metaLAB Harvard, Harvard University). The dataset on which it is based comes from Olympedia.

From February 6, 2024 to February 6, 2025, the installation will be exhibited at the Galleria in Trento. On this page you can explore the collected dataset of all athletes of the Winter Olympics.

History in data

In the one hundred years from the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 to the present day, 129 countries have participated in the Olympic Winter Games. They have been held in 24 venues on three continents: Europe, Asia and North America. More than 25,000 athletes have participated, competing in some 40 disciplines and a number of demonstration sports.

The records that document the many aspects of the Olympic Movement tell a richly detailed, multifaceted story that can be experienced at the micro level of individual athletes (the teams they competed on, the medals they won, their gender, height or weight) or at the macro scale of an entire century of Olympic history and tradition.