The Sports Almanac




1928 Summer Olympics
Amsterdam, Netherlands

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES -  56 Medals
GERMANY -  30 Medals
FINLAND -  25 Medals

Athletics Swimming Diving Water Polo
Boxing Cycling Equestrian Fencing
Soccer Gymnastics Field Hockey
 Modern Pentathalon
Rowing Sailing Weightlifting Wrestling

1928 Amsterdam Overall Medal Standings
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 United States
 22
 18
 16
 56
2
 Germany
 10
 7
 13
 30
3
 Finland
 8
 8
 9
 25
4
 Sweden
 7
 5
 12
 24
5
 France
 6
 10
 5
 21
6
 Italy
 7
 5
 7
 19
7
 Netherlands
 6
 9
 4
 19
8
 Great Britain
 2
 10
 7
 19
9
 Switzerland
 7
 4
 4
 15
10
 Canada
 4
 4
 7
 15
11
 Hungary
 4
 5
 0
 9
12
 Czechoslovakia
 2
 5
 2
 9
13
 Argentina
 3
 3
 1
 7
14
 Denmark
 3
 1
 2
 6
15
 Japan
 2
 2
 1
 5
16
 Estonia
 2
 1
 2
 5
17
 Poland
 1
 1
 3
 5
18
 Yugoslavia
 1
 1
 3
 5
19
 Egypt
 2
 1
 1
 4
20
 Australia
 1
 2
 1
 4
21
 Norway
 1
 2
 1
 4
22
 Austria
 2
 0
 1
 3
23
 South Africa
 1
 0
 2
 3
24
 Belgium
 0
 1
 2
 3
25
 India
 1
 0
 0
 1
26
 Ireland
 1
 0
 0
 1
27
 New Zealand
 1
 0
 0
 1
28
 Spain
 1
 0
 0
 1
29
 Uruguay
 1
 0
 0
 1
30
 Chile
 0
 1
 0
 1
31
 Haiti
 0
 1
 0
 1
32
 Philippines
 0
 0
 1
 1
33
 Portugal
 0
 0
 1
 1

1928 Amsterdam Athletics
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's 100 Meters
 Percy Williams - Canada
 Jack London - Great Britain
 Georg Lammers - Germany
Women's 100 Meters
 Betty Robinson - United States
 Bobbie Rosenfeld - Canada
 Ethel Smith - Canada
Men's 200 Meters
 Percy Williams - Canada Walter Rangeley - Great Britain
 Helmut Körnig - Germany
Men's 400 Meters
 Ray Barbuti - United States
 James Ball - Canada
 Joachim Büchner - Germany
Women's 800 Meters
 Lina Radke - Germany
 Kinue Hitomi - Japan
 Inga Gentzel - Sweden
Men's 1500 Meters
 Harri Larva - Finland
 Jules Ladoumegue - France
 Eino Purje - Finland
Men's 5000 Meters
 Ville Ritola - Finland
 Paavo Nurmi - Finland
 Edvin Wide - Sweden
Men's 10000 Meters
 Paavo Nurmi - Finland Ville Ritola - Finland Edvin Wide - Sweden
Men's 110 Meter Hurdles
 Sydney Atkinson - South Africa
 Steve Anderson - United States
 John Collier - United States
Men's 400 Meter Hurdles
 David Burghley - Great Britain
 Frank Cuhel - United States
 Morgan Taylor - United States
Men's 3000 Meter Steeplechase
 Toivo Loukola - Finland
 Paavo Nurmi - Finland Ove Andersen - Finland
Men's 4X100 Meter Relay
 United States
 Germany
 Great Britain
Women's 4X100 Meter Relay
 Canada
 United States
 Germany
Men's 4X400 Meter Relay
 United States
 Germany
 Canada
Men's Marathon
 Boughera El Ouafi - France
 Manuel Plaza - Chile
 Martti Martellin - Finland
Men's Long Jump
 Edward Hamm - United States
 Silvio Cator - Haiti
 Alfred Bates - United States
Men's Triple Jump
 Mikio Oda - Japan
 Levi Casey - United States
 Vilho Tuulos - Finland
Men's High Jump
 Bob King - United States
 Benjamin Hedges - United States
 Claude Ménard - France
Women's High Jump
 Ethel Catherwood - Canada
 Lien Gisolf - Netherlands
 Mildred Wiley - United States
Men's Pole Vault
 Sabin Carr - United States
 William Droegemuller - United States
 Charles McGinnis - United States
Men's Shot Put
 John Kuck - United States
 Herman Brix - United States
 Emil Hirschfeld - Germany
Men's Discus
 Bob Houser - United States
 Antero Kivi - Finland
 James Corson - United States
Women's Discus
 Halina Konopacka - Poland
 Lillian Copeland - United States
 Ruth Svedberg - Sweden
Men's Javelin
 Erik Lundqvist - Sweden
 Béla Szepes - Hungary
 Olav Sunde - Norway
Men's Hammer Throw
 Pat O'Callaghan - Ireland
 Ossian Skiöld - Sweden
 Edmund Black - United States
Decathlon
 Paavo Yrjölä - Finland
 Akilles Järvinen - Finland
 Ken Doherty - United States

1928 Amsterdam Swimming
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's 100 Meter Freestyle
 Johnny Weissmuller - United States
 István Bárány - Hungary Katsuo Takaishi - Japan
Women's 100 Meter Freestyle
 Albina Osipowich - United States
 Eleanor Garatti - United States
 Joyce Cooper - Great Britain
Men's 400 Meter Freestyle
 Alberto Zorrilla - Argentina
 Boy Charlton - Australia
 Arne Borg - Sweden
Women's 400 Meter Freestyle
 Martha Norelius - United States
 Marie Braun - Netherlands
 Josephine McKim - United States
Men's 1500 Meter Freestyle
 Arne Borg - Sweden Boy Charlton - Australia Buster Crabbe - United States
Men's 100 Meter Backstroke
 George Kojac - United States
 Walter Laufer - United States
 Paul Wyatt - United States
Women's 100 Meter Backstroke
 Marie Braun - Netherlands Ellen King - Great Britain
 Joyce Cooper - Great Britain
Men's 200 Meter Breaststroke
 Yoshiyuki Tsuruta - Japan
 Erich Rademacher - Germany
 Teófilo Yldefonso - Philippines
Women's 200 Meter Breaststroke
 Hilde Schrader - Germany
 Marie Baron - Netherlands
 Charlotte Mühe - Germany
Women's 4X100 Meter Freestyle Relay
 United States
 Great Britain
 South Africa
Men's 4X200 Meter Freestyle Relay
 United States
 Japan
 Canada

1928 Amsterdam Diving
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's 3 Meter Springboard
 Pete Desjardins - United States
 Michael Galitzen - United States
 Farid Simaika - Egypt
Women's 3 Meter Springboard
 Helen Meany - United States
 Dorothy Poynton - United States
 Georgia Coleman - United States
Men's 10 Meter Platform
 Pete Desjardins - United States Farid Simaika - Egypt Michael Galitzen - United States
Women's 10 Meter Platform
 Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston - United States
 Georgia Coleman - United States Laura Sjöqvist - Sweden

1928 Amsterdam Water Polo
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Germany
 Hungary
 France

1928 Amsterdam Boxing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Flyweight
 Antal Kocsis - Hungary
 Armand Apell - France
 Carlo Cavagnoli - Italy
Bantamweight
 Vittorio Tamagnini - Italy
 John Daley - United States
 Harry Isaacs - South Africa
Featherweight
 Bep van Klaveren - Netherlands
 Victor Peralta - Argentina
 Harold Devine - United States
Lightweight
 Carlo Orlandi - Italy
 Stephen Halaiko - United States
 Gunnar Berggren - Sweden
Welterweight
 Ted Morgan - New Zealand
 Raúl Landini - Argentina
 Raymond Smillie - Canada
Middleweight
 Piero Toscani - Italy
 Jan Heřmánek - Czechoslovakia
 Léonard Steyaert - Belgium
Light Heavyweight
 Victor Avendaño - Argentina
 Ernst Pistulla - Germany
 Karel Miljon - Netherlands
Heavyweight
 Arturo Rodríguez Jurado - Argentina
 Nils Ramm - Sweden
 Michael Michaelsen - Denmark

1928 Amsterdam Cycling
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
ROAD CYCLING
Individual
 Henry Hansen - Denmark
 Frank Southall - Great Britain
 Gösta Carlsson - Sweden
Team
 Denmark
 Great Britain
 Sweden
TRACK CYCLING
Team Pursuit
 Italy
 Netherlands
 Great Britain
Sprint
 Roger Beaufrand - France
 Antoine Mazairac - Netherlands
 Willy Hansen - Denmark
Tandem
 Bernhard Leene, Daan van Dijk - Netherlands
 Ernest Chambers, John Sibbit - Great Britain
 Hans Bernhardt, Karl Köther - Germany
Time Trial
 Willy Hansen - Denmark Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein - Netherlands
 Dunc Gray - Australia

1928 Amsterdam Equestrian
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual Dressage
 Carl Freiherr von Langen - Germany
 Charles Marion - France
 Ragnar Olson - Sweden
Team Dressage
 Germany
 Sweden
 Netherlands
Individual Eventing
 Charles Pahud de Mortanges - Netherlands
 Gerard de Kruijff - Netherlands
 Bruno Neumann - Germany
Team Eventing
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Poland
Individual Jumping
 František Ventura - Czechoslovakia
 Pierre Bertran de Balanda - France
 Charles-Gustave Kuhn - Switzerland
Team Jumping
 Spain
 Poland
 Sweden

1928 Amsterdam Fencing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Individual Épée
 Lucien Gaudin - France
 Georges Buchard - France
 George Calnan - United States
Men's Team Épée Italy
 France
 Portugal
Men's Individual Foil
 Lucien Gaudin - France Erwin Casmir - Germany
 Giulio Gaudini - Italy
Men's Team Foil
 Italy
 France
 Argentina
Individual Sabre
 Ödön Tersztyánszky - Hungary
 Attila Petschauer - Hungary
 Bino Bini - Italy
Men's Team Sabre
 Hungary
 Italy
 Poland
Women's Individual Foil
 Helene Mayer - Germany
 Muriel Freeman - Great Britain
 Olga Oelkers - Germany

1928 Amsterdam Soccer
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Uruguay
 Argentina
 Italy

1928 Amsterdam Gymnastics
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Individual All-Around
 Georges Miez - Switzerland
 Hermann Hänggi - Switzerland
 Leon Štukelj - Yugoslavia
Men's Team All-Around
 Swizterland
 Czechoslovakia
 Yugoslavia
Women's Team All-Around
 Netherlands
 Italy
 Great Britain
Men's Vault
 Eugen Mack - Switzerland Emanuel Löffler - Czechoslovakia Stane Derganc - Yugoslavia
Men's Pommel Horse
 Hermann Hänggi - Switzerland Georges Miez - Switzerland Heikki Savolainen - Finland
Men's Rings
 Leon Štukelj - Yugoslavia Ladislav Vácha - Czechoslovakia Emanuel Löffler - Czechoslovakia
Men's Horizontal Bar
 Georges Miez - Switzerland Romeo Neri - Italy
 Eugen Mack - Switzerland
Men's Parallel Bars
 Ladislav Vácha - Czechoslovakia
 Josip Primožič - Yugoslavia
 Hermann Hänggi - Switzerland

1928 Amsterdam Field Hockey
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 India
 Netherlands
 Germany

1928 Amsterdam Modern Pentathlon
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Sven Thofelt - Sweden
 Bo Lindman - Sweden
 Helmuth Kahl - Germany

1928 Amsterdam Rowing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Single Sculls
 Bobby Pearce - Australia
 Ken Myers - United States
 David Collet - Great Britain
Double Sculls Paul Costello, Charles McIlvaine - United States
 Joseph Wright, Jr., Jack Guest - Canada
 Leo Losert, Viktor Flessl - Austria
Coxless Pairs
 Kurt Moeschter, Bruno Müller - Germany
 Terence O'Brien, Robert Nisbet - Great Britain
 Paul McDowell, John Schmitt - United States
Coxed Pairs
 Switzerland
 France
 Belgium
Coxless Fours
 Great Britain
 United States
 Italy
Coxed Fours
 Italy
 Switzerland
 Poland
Eights
 United States
 Great Britain
 Canada

1928 Amsterdam Sailing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
12 Foot Dinghy
 Sven Thorell - Sweden
 Henrik Robert - Norway
 Bertil Broman - Finland
6 Meter Keelboat
 Norway
 Denmark
 Estonia
8 Meter Keelboat
 France
 Netherlands
 Sweden

1928 Amsterdam Weightlifting
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Featherweight
 Franz Andrysek - Austria
 Pierino Gabetti - Italy
 Hans Wölpert - Germany
Lightweight
 Hans Haas - Austria
Jurt Helbig - Germany
 None Awarded
 Fernand Arnout - France
Middleweight
 Roger François - France
 Carlo Galimberti - Italy
 Guus Scheffer - Netherlands
Light Heavyweight
 El Sayed Nosseir - Egypt
 Louis Hostin - France
 Jan Verheijen - Netherlands
Heavyweight
 Josef Strassberger - Germany
 Arnold Luhaäär - Estonia
 Jaroslav Skobla - Czechoslovakia

1928 Amsterdam Wrestling
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Freestyle Bantamweight
 Kaarlo Mäkinen - Finland
 Edmond Spapen - Belgium
 James Trifunov - Canada
Freestyle Featherweight
 Allie Morrison - United States
 Kustaa Pihlajamäki - Finland
 Hans Minder - Switzerland
Freestyle Lightweight
 Osvald Käpp - Estonia
 Charles Pacôme - France
 Eino Augusti Leino - Finland
Freestyle Welterweight
 Arvo Haavisto - Finland
 Lloyd Appleton - United States
 Maurice Letchford - Canada
Freestyle Middleweight
 Ernst Kyburz - Switzerland
 Donald Stockton - Canada
 Samuel Rabin - Great Britain
Freestyle Light Heavyweight
 Thure Sjöstedt - Sweden
 Arnold Bögli - Switzerland
 Henri Lefèbre - France
Freestyle Heavyweight
 Johan Richthoff - Sweden
 Aukusti Sihvola - Finland
 Edmond Dame - France
Greco-Roman Bantamweight
 Kurt Leucht - Germany
 Jindrich Maudr - Czechoslovakia
 Giovanni Gozzi - Italy
Greco-Roman Featherweight
 Voldemar Väli - Estonia Eric Malmberg - Sweden
 Gerolamo Quaglia - Italy
Greco-Roman Lightweight
 Lajos Keresztes - Hungary
 Eduard Sperling - Germany
 Edvard Westerlund - Finland
Greco-Roman Middleweight
 Väinö Kokkinen - Finland László Papp - Hungary
 Albert Kusnets - Estonia
Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight
 Ibrahim Moustafa - Egypt
 Adolf Rieger - Germany
 Onni Pellinen - Finland
Greco-Roman Heavyweight
 Rudolf Svensson - Sweden
 Hjalmar Nyström - Finland
 Georg Gehring - Germany