1924 Winter Olympics / Participant (United States)

United States

The United States participated in the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix with a delegation of 24 athletes in four sports. The American NOK had registered 25 athletes for the games, of which 24 took part in competitions. A total of 5 athletes took part in the Olympic Games for the second time:

• Theresa Blanchard (1920 figure skating)
• Herbert Drury (1920 ice hockey)
• Gerry Geran (1920 ice hockey)
• Nathaniel Niles (1920 figure skating)
• Frank Synott (1920 ice hockey)

Results: The Americans came to Chamonix as exotic and drove back home as the fourth best nation. With the exception of the ice hockey team, which had already booked the silver medal in advance, and the figure skaters Theresa Blanchard and Nathaniel Niles , none of the other registered Olympic participants were known in Europe. Therefore, nobody could assess how strong the American team really was. Charles Jewtraw ( speed skating ) and Beatrix Loughran ( figure skating ) came out of the ashes like Phoenix and were completely surprising on the podium. Jewtraw even becomes the first ever Olympic champion at winter games. 50 years after the Chamonix competitions, the 86-year-old Norwegian native Anders Haugen , who emigrated to the USA before the First World War , was subsequently awarded bronze in ski jumping when a miscalculation by the jury in 1924 was discovered. So in the end there were four medals for the USA. Like Haugen, the skiers Ragnar Omtvedt and Sigurd Overbye were of Norwegian origin.

Participants by sport

Ski Sports (6)

• Lemoine Batson

  Ski jumping (14th place)

• John Carleton

  18 km cross-country skiing (30th place), 50 km cross-country skiing (dns), Nordic combined (22nd place)

• Not so Haugen

  18 km cross-country skiing (33rd place), 50 km cross-country skiing (dns), Nordic combined (21st place), ski jumping (bronze)

• Harry Lien

  Ski jumping (16th place)

• Ragnar Omtvedt

  18 km cross-country skiing (35th place), 50 km cross-country skiing (dns), Nordic combined (dnf)

• Sigurd Overbye

  18 km cross-country skiing (19th place), 50 km cross-country skiing (dns), Nordic combined (11th place), ski jumping (dns)

Figure skating (3)

• Theresa Blanchard

  Women (4th place), pair skating (6th place)

• Beatrix Loughran

  Women (silver)

• Nathaniel Niles

  Men (6th place), pair skating (6th place)

Speed ​​Skating (6)

• Valentine Bialas

  5000 m (6th place), 10000 m (8th place), all-around (dns)

• Richard Donovan

  5000 m (8th place), 10000 m (9th place), all-around (dnf)

• Charles Jewtraw

  500 m (gold), 1500 m (8th place), 5000 m (13th place), all-around (dns)

• Harry Kaskey

  500 m (12th place), 1500 m (7th place), 10000 m (13th place), all-around (dns)

• Joe Moore

  500 m (8th place), 1500 m (8th place), 10000 m (12th place), all-around (dnf)

• William Steinmetz

  500 m (14th place), 1500 m (12th place), 5000 m (14th place), all-around (dnf)

Ice Hockey (10)

Ice Hockey Team (Silver)

• Taffy Abel
• Herbert Drury
• N. Geran
• Alphonse Lacroix
• John Langley
• John Lyons
• Justin MacCarthy
• Willard Rice
• Irving Small (captain)
• Frank Synott

Reserve: Gerry Geran

Medals

	gold	silver	bronze	total
United States	1	2	1	4th

Medalist

Gold medals

• Speed ​​skating, 500 m: Charles Jewtraw

Silver medals

• Figure skating, women: Beatrix Loughran
• Ice hockey: Taffy Abel , Herbert Drury , Alphonse LaCroix , John Langley , John Lyons , Justin McCarthy , Willard Rice , Irving Small and Frank Synott

Bronze medals

• Skiing, ski jumping: Anders Haugen

Web links

• Official Report of the Olympic Games 1924 (PDF; 87.6 MB)