Bobsleigh at the 1928 Winter Olympics

{{Infobox Olympic event

|event = Bobsleigh

|games = 1928 Winter

|image = Bobsleigh pictogram.svg

|image_size = 100px

|venue = St.Moritz, Switzerland

|dates = 18 February 1928

|competitors = 115

|nations = 14

|prev = 1924

|next = 1932

}}

At the 1928 Winter Olympics, only one bobsleigh event was contested, the five man event. The competition was held on Saturday, 18 February 1928.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1928/BOB/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417061840/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1928/BOB/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Bobsleigh at the 1928 Sankt Moritz Winter Games |access-date=5 April 2018 |work=Sports Reference}}

Medalists

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| {{flagIOCteam|USA|1928 Winter}}
USA II
Billy Fiske
Clifford Gray
Geoffrey Mason
Richard Parke
Nion Tocker

| {{flagIOCteam|USA|1928 Winter}}
USA I
Thomas Doe
David Granger
Jennison Heaton
Lyman Hine
Jay O'Brien

| {{flagIOCteam|GER|1928 Winter}}
Germany II
Hans Heß
Sebastian Huber
Hanns Kilian
Valentin Krempl
Hanns Nägle

Results

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! Place !! Team !! Bobsledders !! Run 1 !! Run 2 !! Total
bgcolor=gold\| 1	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|USA II\|USA\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Billy Fiske, Nion Tocker, Geoffrey Mason, Clifford Gray, and Richard Parke	1:38.9	1:41.6	3:20.5
bgcolor=silver\| 2	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|USA I\|USA\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Jennison Heaton, David Granger, Lyman Hine, Jay O'Brien, and Thomas Doe	1:42.3	1:38.7	3:21.0
bgcolor=cc9966\| 3	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Germany II\|GER\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Hanns Kilian, Hans Heß, Sebastian Huber, Valentin Krempl, and Hanns Nägle	1:41.7	1:40.2	3:21.9
4	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Argentina I\|ARG\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Arturo Gramajo, Ricardo González, Mariano de María, Rafael Iglesias, and John Victor Nash	1:40.1	1:42.5	3:22.6
5	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Argentina II\|ARG\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Eduardo Hope, Jorge del Carril, Héctor Milberg, Horacio Iglesias, and Horacio Gramajo	1:42.3	1:40.6	3:22.9
6	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Belgium I\|BEL\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Ernest Casimir-Lambert, Walter Jean Ganshof van der Meersch, Marcel Sedille-Courbon, Max Houben, and Léon Tom	1:39.8	1:44.7	3:24.5
7	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Romania II\|ROU\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Grigore Socolescu, Ion Gavăț, Traian Nițescu, Toma Ghițulescu, and Mircea Socolescu	1:43.8	1:40.8	3:24.6
8	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Suisse I\|SUI\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Charles Stoffel, René Fonjallaz, Henry Höhnes, Emil Coppetti, and Louis Koch	1:43.1	1:42.6	3:25.7
9	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Great Britain II\|GBR\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Henry Martineau, Walter Birch, John Dalrymple, John Gee, and Edward Hall	1:41.7	1:44.5	3:26.2
10	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Great Britain I\|GBR\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| George Pim, Guy Tracey, David Griffith, Frederick Browning, and Thomas Warner	1:40.6	1:45.7	3:26.3
11	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Mexico\|MEX\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Lorenzo Elizaga, Juan de Landa, Genaro Díaz Raigosa, Mario Casasos, and José de la Cruz Porfirio Genaro Díaz Raigosa	1:44.9	1:42.8	3:27.6
12	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|The Netherlands\|NED\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Curt van de Sandt, Jacques Delprat, Edwin Teixeira de Mattos, Henri Dekking, and Hubert Menten	1:43.5	1:45.5	3:29.0
13	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Suisse II\|SUI\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Jean Moillen, John Schneiter, René Ansermoz, André Moillen, and William Pichard	1:41.7	1:48.2	3:29.9
14	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|France I\|FRA\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Jean de Suarez d'Aulan, Michel Baur, Roger Petit-Didier, Jacques Petit-Didier, and William Beamish	1:43.7	1:46.3	3:30.0
15	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|France II\|FRA\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| André Dubonnet, Bertrand du Pontavice de Heussey, Joseph Dedeyn, Stéphane de la Rochefoucault, and Jacques Rheins	1:45.7	1:44.5	3:30.2
16	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Belgium II\|BEL\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Charles Mulder, Hubert Kryn, Ferdinand Hubert, Louis Rooy, and Robert Langlois	1:45.0	1:46.2	3:31.2
17	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Poland\|POL\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Józef Broel-Plater, Jerzy Bardziński, Jerzy Łucki, Jerzy Potulicki-Skórzewski, and Antoni Bura	1:44.8	1:46.8	3:31.6
18	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Germany I\|GER\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Hans-Edgar Endres, Paul Martin, Karl Reinhardt, Paul Volkhardt, and Rudolf Soenning	1:48.0	1:43.9	3:31.9
19	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Romania I\|ROU\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Alexandru Berlescu, Eugen Ştefănescu, Petre Petrovici, Tita Rădulescu, and Horia Roman	1:47.3	1:44.9	3:32.2
20	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Luxembourg\|LUX\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Marc Schoetter, Raoul Weckbecker, Willy Heldenstein, Pierre Kaempff, and Auguste Hilbert	1:45.8	1:46.9	3:32.7
21	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Italia\|ITA\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Giancarlo Morpugo, Carlo Sem, Luigi Cerutti, Giuseppe Crivelli, and Piero Marchetti	1:45.0	1:49.6	3:34.6
22	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Austria II\|AUT\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Franz Lorenz, Franz Wohlgemuth, Eduard Pechanda, Benno Karner, and Richard Lorenz	1:52.3	1:49.7	3:42.0
—	align=left\| {{flagIOCathlete\|Austria I\|AUT\|1928 Winter}}	align=left\| Gustav Mader, Hugo Weinstengel, Michael Waissnix, Walter Sehr, and Franz Pamperl	1:44.2	DSQ	DSQ

Participating nations

A total of 115 bobsledders from 14 nations competed at the St. Moritz Games:

{{flagIOC|AUT|1928 Winter|10}}
{{flagIOC|ARG|1928 Winter|10}}
{{flagIOC|BEL|1928 Winter|10}}
{{flagIOC|FRA|1928 Winter|10}}
{{flagIOC|GER|1928 Winter|10}}
{{flagIOC|GBR|1928 Winter|10}}
{{flagIOC|ITA|1928 Winter|5}}
{{flagIOC|LUX|1928 Winter|5}}
{{flagIOC|MEX|1928 Winter|5}}
{{flagIOC|NED|1928 Winter|5}}
{{flagIOC|POL|1928 Winter|5}}
{{flagIOC|ROU|1928 Winter|10}}
{{flagIOC|SUI|1928 Winter|10}}
{{flagIOC|USA|1928 Winter|10}}

Medal table

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template = flagIOC

| event = 1928 Winter

| team =

| gold_USA = 1 | silver_USA = 1 | bronze_USA = 0

| gold_GER = 0 | silver_GER = 0 | bronze_GER = 1

}}

References

External links

[http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee results database]
[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1928/1928w2.pdf Official Olympic Report]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100302121130/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1928/BOB/mens-four-five.html sports-reference]
[http://www.todor66.com/olim/1928w/Bobsleigh_Fives.html 1928 bobsleigh five-man results]

1928 Winter Olympics

Category:Events at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Olympics

Category:Bobsleigh in Switzerland