Omega-Official Timekeeper of the Olympics

At the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, OMEGA continues an Olympic legacy that can be traced back to the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1932 when the brand became the first company to be entrusted with the timekeeping of every event.

OMEGA Olympic Collection Vancouver 2010

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OMEGA and the Olympic Winter Games – a 74-year history

Vancouver 2010 marks the 24th time the Swiss specialists are serving as Official Timekeepers at the Olympic Games. On the 12th of March, they will play the same role at the Paralympic Games.

At OMEGA’s first timekeeping assignment for the Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in 1936, a lone OMEGA technician brought 27 stopwatches which were used to time each event at the Games.

Seventy-four years later in Vancouver and Whistler, OMEGA has deployed 220 timekeeping professionals and engineers supported by 290 local volunteers. They have brought some 250 tons of equipment for timekeeping, on-venue results and TV services – it is the largest timekeeping contingent in the history of winter sport.

“. . . each medallist in every event at the Games will have had his or her results measured and displayed by OMEGA. . .”

OMEGA began its Olympic timekeeping tradition at the Los Angeles 1932 Olympic Games. In addition to its prominent Olympic role, OMEGA has been behind many of the most important technological developments in all of sports timekeeping.

More than 5,500 Olympic Games athletes and officials from more than 80 countries make the Games in Vancouver the largest Olympic Winter Games ever. The Paralympic Games, for which OMEGA is also Official Timekeeper, start on the 12th of March and will continue for ten days. The Games’ organisers anticipate that the Paralympic Games will attract 1,350 athletes and officials from more than forty countries.

Omega Timing and the Olympic Winter Games

We are still anxiously awaiting which of the 80 or so nations participating in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games will top the medals table when the competitions are over but one thing is certain: each medallist in every event at the Games will have had his or her results measured and displayed by OMEGA, the world’s most successful sports timekeepers.