The Sports Almanac



1928 Winter Olympics
St. Moritz, Switzerland

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

NORWAY - 15 Medals
UNITED STATES - 6 Medals
SWEDEN - 6 Medals

Bobsled Skeleton
 Ice Hockey
Figure Skating Speed Skating Cross Country Skiing
Nordic Combined Ski Jumping


1928 St. Moritz Overall Medal Standings
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Norway 6
 4
 5
 15
2
 United States
 2
 2
 2
 6
3
 Sweden 2
 2
 1
 5
4
 Finland 2
 1
 1
 4
5
 Austria 0
 3
 1
 4
6
 Canada 1
 0
 0
 1
7
 France
 1
 0
 0
 1
8
 Germany
 0
 0
 1
 1
9
 Great Britain
 0
 0
 1
 1
10
 Switzerland
 0
 0
 1
 1
11
 Belgium
 0
 0
 1
 1
12
 Czechoslovakia
 0
 0
 1
 1

1928 St. Moritz Boblsed
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Four-Man
 United States
 United States
 Germany

1928 St. Moritz Skeleton
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Jennison Heaton - United States
 John Heaton - United States
 David Carnegie - Great Britain

1928 St. Moritz Ice Hockey
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Canada
 Sweden
 Switzerland

1928 St. Moritz Figure Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Singles Gillis Grafström - Sweden
 Willy Böckl - Austria
 Robert Van Zeebroeck - Belgium
Women's Singles Sonja Henie - Norway
 Fritzi Burger - Austria
 Beatrix Loughran - United States
Pairs Andrée Joly, Pierre Brunet - France
 Lilly Scholz, Otto Kaiser - Austria
 Melitta Brunner, Ludwig Wrede - Austria

1928 St. Moritz Speed Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
500 Meters Bernt Evenson - Norway
Clas Thunberg - Finland
 None Awarded
 John Farrell - United States
Jaakko Friman - Finland
Roald Larsen - Norway
1500 Meters Clas Thunberg - Finland Bernt Evenson - Norway Ivar Ballangrud - Norway
5000 Meters
 Ivar Ballangrud - Norway Julius Skutnabb - Finland
 Bernt Evenson - Norway
10000 Meters*
 Irving Jaffe - United States
 Bernt Evensen - Norway
 Otto Polacsek - Austria
*10000 Meters was cancelled 2000 meters into final heat due to thawing ice - Results unofficial after four of five heat completed

1928 St. Moritz Cross Country Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
18KM Johan Grøttumsbråten - Norway
 Ole Hegge - Norway
 Reidar Ødegaard - Norway
50KM Per-Erik Hedlund - Sweden
 Gustaf Jonsson - Sweden
 Volger Andersson - Sweden

1928 St. Moritz Nordic Combined
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual
 Johan Grøttumsbråten - Norway Hans Vinjarengen - Norway
 Jon Snersrud - Norway

1928 St. Moritz Ski Jumping
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Normal Hill
 Alf Andersen - Norway
 Sigmund Ruud - Norway
 Rudolf Burkert - Czechoslovakia