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St Moritz, Switzerland
IInd WINTER GAMES |
February 11 -
19, 1928 |
Mascot - none |
25 countries, 464 athletes (26 women) |
5 sports, 13 events |
Opening -
President Edmund Schulthess |
Torch lit by -
none |
The Swiss got
the Games due to Holland backing out |
Another famous tourist resort,
St. Moritz in Switzerland, played host to the second edition of the
Winter Games. With the first Olympic Winter
Games an enormous success, it was no surprise that the St. Moritz Games
attracted an 84 percent increase in the number of participants including
a 100% increase of female athletes. The
Games started poorly due to extremely mild temperatures caused by the
"fohn", the warm wind that sweeps the Swiss mountains from the south.
The 1928 Winter Games in St.
Moritz marked the first time Germany was allowed to participate in any
Olympic competition after World War I; the Soviet Union was still
notably absent. The Germans won a disappointing one bronze medal. Bobsledding was in the news at
the 1928 Games. A new event, the skeleton sled, was upgraded from a
demonstration sport and added to the
program. In addition, teams in the four-man bobsled event had an option
to include a fifth member. They all took up that option.
Clas Thunberg, now almost 35, won
an additional two gold medals. But the story of these Olympics was
Norwegian Sonja Henie, who as a 15-year-old, won the first of her three
Olympic gold medals. The U.S. bobsled team took both gold and silver in
the only five-man competition in Olympic history. Once again the
Canadians absolutely dominated in hockey, winning the gold medal while
not allowing a goal. The 10,000m speed skating race was canceled due to
high temperatures and thaw.
The Norwegians, as they did in
Chamonix, won the most medals: 15.
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BOBSLEIGH |
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1 |
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1 |
ICE HOCKEY |
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1 |
1 |
LUGE |
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1 |
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1 |
SKATING |
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Figure Skating |
1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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3 |
Speed Skating |
2 |
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2 |
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4* |
SKIING |
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Cross-Country Skiing |
1 |
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1 |
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2 |
Nordic Combined |
1 |
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1 |
Ski Jumping |
1 |
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1 |
TOTAL |
6 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
14 |
* 2 gold medals awarded in
500m Speed Skating
GOLD MEDAL
WINNERS
(Luge sport added; Biathlon & Curling removed, 2 events removed in Speed Skating)
(11 Men, 1 Women, 1
Combined events)
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BOBSLEIGH
Five-Man: United States
ICE HOCKEY
Men's Team: Canada
LUGE
(NEW!)
Skeleton Cresta Run: Jennison Heaton, USA
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SKATING
FIGURE SKATING
Singles: Gillis Grafström, Sweden
W\Singles: Sonja Henie, Norway
Pairs: Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet, France
SPEED SKATING
500m: Clas Thunberg, Finland & Bernt Evensen, Norway (tie)
1500m: Clas Thunberg, Finland
5000m: Ivar Ballangrud, Norway
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SKIING
CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING
18km Classical: Johan Grøttumsbråten, Norway
50km Classical: Per Erik Hedlund, Sweden
NORDIC COMBINED
Individual: Johan Grøttumsbråten, Norway
SKI JUMPING
K-90 Individual: Alf Andersen, Norway
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Country
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G
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S |
B |
TTL |
Norway |
6 |
4 |
5 |
15 |
USA |
2 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
Sweden |
2 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
Finland |
2 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
France |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Canada |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Austria |
0 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
Belgium |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Czechoslovakia |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Germany |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Great
Britain |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Switzerland |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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TOTAL
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14 |
12 |
15 |
41 |
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