IOC Congresses & Sessions

Olympic Congresses

# Host Year
1st Paris, France 1894
2nd Le Havre, France 1897
3rd Brussels, Belgium 1905
4th Paris, France 1906
5th Lausanne, Switzerland 1913
6th Paris, France 1914
7th Lausanne, Switzerland 1921
8th Prague, Czechoslovakia 1925
9th Berlin, Germany 1930
10th Varna, Bulgaria 1973
11th Baden Baden, West Germany 1981
12th Paris, France 1994
13th Copenhagen, Denmark 2009

IOC Sessions

# Host Year Activities
1st Paris, France 1894 Athens selected as the host for the 1896 Summer Olympics. Paris selected as the host for the 1900 Summer Olympics.
2nd Athens, Greece 1896  
3rd Le Havre, France 1897  
4th Paris, France 1901 St.Louis selected as the host for the 1904 Summer Olympics.
5th Paris, France 1903  
6th London, United Kingdom 1904 Rome selected as the host for the 1908 Summer Olympics.
7th Brussels, Belgium 1905  
8th Athens, Greece 1906  
9th The Hague, Netherlands 1907  
10th Berlin, Germany 1909 Stockholm selected as the host for the 1912 Summer Olympics.
11th Luxembourg City, Luxembourg 1910  
12th Budapest, Austria-Hungary 1911  
13th Basel, Switzerland 1912  
14th Stockholm, Sweden 1912 Berlin selected to host the 1916 Summer Olympics.
15th Lausanne, Switzerland 1913  
16th Paris, France 1914  
17th Lausanne, Switzerland 1919 Antwerp selected to host the 1920 Summer Olympics.
18th Antwerp, Belgium 1920  
19th Lausanne, Switzerland 1921 Chamonix selected to host the 1924 Winter Olympics. Paris selected to host the 1924 Summer Olympics. Amsterdam selected to host the 1928 Summer Olympics.
20th Paris, France 1922  
21st Rome, Italy 1923 Los Angeles selected to host the 1932 Summer Olympics.
22nd Paris, France 1924  
23rd Prague, Czechoslovakia 1925  
24th Lisbon, Portugal 1926 St. Moritz selected to host the 1928 Winter Olympics.
25th Monaco 1927  
26th Amsterdam, Netherlands 1928  
27th Lausanne, Switzerland 1929 Lake Placid selected to host the 1932 Winter Olympics.
28th Berlin, Germany 1930  
29th Barcelona, Spain 1931 Berlin selected to host the 1936 Summer Olympics.
30th Los Angeles, United States 1932  
31st Vienna, Austria 1933 Garmisch-Partenkirchen selected to host the 1936 Winter Olympics.
32nd Athens, Greece 1934  
33rd Oslo, Norway 1935  
34th Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 1936  
35th Berlin, Germany 1936 Tokyo selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics.
36th Warsaw, Poland 1937 Sapporo selected to host the 1940 Winter Olympics.
37th Cairo, Egypt 1938  
38th London, United Kingdom 1939 Garmisch-Partenkirchen selected to host the 1940 Winter Olympics. Cortina d’Ampezzo selected to host the 1944 Winter Olympics. London selected to host the 1944 Summer Olympics.
39th Lausanne, Switzerland 1946 St. Moritz selected to host the 1948 Winter Olympics. London selected to host the 1948 Summer Olympics.
40th Stockholm, Sweden 1947 Oslo selected to host the 1952 Winter Olympics. Helsinki selected to host the 1952 Summer Olympics.
41st St. Moritz, Switzerland 1948  
42nd London, United Kingdom 1948  
43rd Rome, Italy 1949 Cortina d’Ampezzo selected to host the 1956 Winter Olympics. Melbourne selected to host the 1956 Summer Olympics.
44th Copenhagen, Denmark 1950  
45th Vienna, Austria 1951  
46th Oslo, Norway 1952  
47th Helsinki, Finland 1952 Avery Brundage elected President of the IOC.
48th Mexico City, Mexico 1953  
49th Athens, Greece 1954  
50th Paris, France 1955 Squaw Valley selected to host the 1960 Winter Olympics. Rome selected to host the 1960 Summer Olympics.
51st Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy 1956  
52nd Melbourne, Australia 1956  
53rd Sofia, Bulgaria 1957  
54th Tokyo, Japan 1958  
55th Munich, West Germany 1959 Innsbruck selected to host the 1964 Winter Olympics. Tokyo selected to host the 1964 Summer Olympics.
56th San Francisco, United States 1960  
57th Rome, Italy 1960  
58th Athens, Greece 1961  
59th Moscow, Soviet Union 1962  
60th Baden Baden, West Germany 1963 Mexico City selected to host the 1968 Summer Olympics.
61st Innsbruck, Austria 1964 Grenoble selected to host the 1968 Winter Olympics.
62nd Tokyo, Japan 1964  
63rd Madrid, Spain 1965  
64th Rome, Italy 1966 Sapporo selected to host the 1972 Winter Olympics. Munich selected to host the 1972 Summer Olympics.
65th Tehran, Iran 1967  
66th Grenoble, France 1968  
67th Mexico City, Mexico 1968  
68th Warsaw, Poland 1969  
69th Amsterdam, Netherlands 1970 Denver selected to host the 1976 Winter Olympics. Montreal selected to host the 1976 Summer Olympics.
70th Amsterdam, Netherlands 1970  
71st Luxembourg City, Luxembourg 1971  
72nd Sapporo, Japan 1972  
73rd Munich, West Germany 1972 Lord Killanin elected President of the IOC.
74th Varna, Bulgaria 1973  
75th Vienna, Austria 1974 Lake Placid selected to host the 1980 Winter Olympics. Moscow selected to host the 1980 Summer Olympics.
76th Lausanne, Switzerland 1975  
77th Innsbruck, Austria 1976  
78th Montreal, Canada 1976  
79th Prague, Czechoslovakia 1977  
80th Athens, Greece 1978 Sarajevo selected to host the 1984 Winter Olympics. Los Angeles selected to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.
81st Montevideo, Uruguay 1979  
82nd Lake Placid, United States 1980  
83rd Moscow, Soviet Union 1980 Juan Antonio Samaranch elected President of the IOC.
84th Baden Baden, West Germany 1981 Calgary selected to host the 1988 Winter Olympics. Seoul selected to host the 1988 Summer Olympics.
85th Rome, Italy 1982  
86th New Delhi, India 1983  
87th Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 1984  
88th Los Angeles, United States 1984  
89th Lausanne, Switzerland 1984  
90th West Berlin 1985  
91st Lausanne, Switzerland 1986 Barcelona selected to host 1992 Summer Olympics. Albertville selected to host 1992 Winter Olympics.
92nd Istanbul, Turkey 1987  
93rd Calgary, Canada 1988  
94th Seoul, South Korea 1988 Lillehammer selected to host 1994 Winter Olympics
95th San Juan, Puerto Rico 1989  
96th Tokyo, Japan 1990 Atlanta selected to host 1996 Summer Olympics.
97th Birmingham, United Kingdom 1991 Nagano selected to host 1998 Winter Olympics.
98th Albertville, France 1992  
99th Barcelona, Spain 1992  
100th Lausanne, Switzerland 1993  
101st Monte Carlo, Monaco 1993 Sydney selected to host 2000 Summer Olympics.
102nd Lillehammer, Norway 1994  
103rd Paris, France 1994  
104th Budapest, Hungary 1995 Salt Lake City selected to host 2002 Winter Olympics.
105th Atlanta, United States 1996  
106th Lausanne, Switzerland 1997 Athens selected to host 2004 Summer Olympics.
107th Nagano, Japan 1998  
108th Lausanne, Switzerland 1999  
109th Seoul, South Korea 1999 Turin selected to host 2006 Winter Olympics.
110th Lausanne, Switzerland 1999  
111th Sydney, Australia 2000  
112th Moscow, Russia 2001 Beijing selected to host 2008 Summer Olympics. Jacques Rogge elected President of the IOC.
113th Salt Lake City, United States 2002  
114th Mexico City, Mexico 2002  
115th Prague, Czech Republic 2003 Vancouver selected to host 2010 Winter Olympics.
116th Athens, Greece 2004  
117th Singapore 2005 London selected to host 2012 Summer Olympics.
118th Turin, Italy 2006  
119th Guatemala City, Guatemala 2007 Sochi selected to host 2014 Winter Olympics
120th Beijing, People’s Republic of China 2008  
121st Copenhagen, Denmark 2009 Rio de Janeiro selected to host 2016 Summer Olympics
122nd Vancouver, Canada 2010  
123rd Durban, South Africa 2011 2018 Winter Olympics host to be announced
124th London, United Kingdom 2012  
125th To be announced 2013 2020 Summer Olympics host to be announced
126th Sochi, Russia 2014  
127th To be announced 2015 2022 Winter Olympics host to be announced
128th Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2016