1928 Summer Olympics / Participant (Canada)

CAN

4th	4th	7th

Canada participated in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , the Netherlands , with a delegation of 68 athletes (61 men and seven women).

Medalist

gold

Name (s)	sport	competition
Percy Williams	athletics	100 meters , 200 meters
Fanny Rosenfeld , Ethel Smith , Florence Bell , Myrtle Cook	athletics	Women, 4 × 100 meters
Ethel Catherwood	athletics	Women, high jump

silver

Name (s)	sport	competition
James Ball	athletics	400 meters
Fanny Rosenfeld	athletics	Women, 100 meters
Donald Stockton	Wrestling	Middleweight, freestyle
Joseph wright jr. , John Guest	rowing	Double scull

bronze

Name (s)	sport	competition
Raymond Smillie	Boxing	Welterweight
Alex Wilson , Phil Edwards , Stanley Glover , James Ball	athletics	4 × 400 meters
Ethel Smith	athletics	Women, 100 meters
James Trifunov	Wrestling	Bantamweight, freestyle
Maurice Letchford	Wrestling	Welterweight, freestyle
Frederick Hedges , Frank Fiddes , John Hand , Herbert Richardson , Jack Murdoch , Athol Meech , Edgar Norris , William Ross , John Donnelly	rowing	Eighth
Frederick Bourne , James Thompson , Garnet Ault , Walter Spence	swim	4 × 200 meter freestyle

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Frank Martin

  Flyweight: 9th place

• Vincent Glionna

  Bantamweight: 5th place

• Frederick Volkert

  Featherweight: 9th place

• Frank Battaglia

  Lightweight: 17th place

• Raymond Smillie

  Welterweight: bronze

• Honoré Chevrier

  Middleweight: 9th place

• Donald Carrick

  Light heavyweight: 5th place

athletics

• Percy Williams

  100 meters: gold

  200 meters: gold

  4 × 100 meters: DQ in the final

• John Fitzpatrick

  100 meters: semi-finals

  200 meters: 5th place

  4 × 100 meters: DQ in the final

• George Hester

  100 meters: quarter-finals

  200 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: DQ in the final

• Ralph Adams

  100 meters: quarter-finals

  200 meters: quarter-finals

  4 × 100 meters: DQ in the final

• James Ball

  400 meters: silver

  4 × 400 meters: bronze

• Alex Wilson

  400 meters: semi-finals

  800 meters: semi-finals

  4 × 400 meters: bronze

• Phil Edwards

  400 meters: semi-finals

  800 meters: 4th place

  4 × 400 meters: bronze

• Frederick Macbeth

  400 meters: quarter-finals

• Brant Little

  800 meters: semi-finals

• Jack Walter

  800 meters: heats

  1500 meters: heats

• David Griffin

  1500 meters: heats

• Alex Docherty

  1500 meters: heats

• Pete Walter

  1500 meters: heats

• Vincent Callard

  5000 meters: heats

• Billy Kibblewhite

  5000 meters: heats

• Kind Keay

  5000 meters: heats

  3000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Clifford Bricker

  Marathon: 10th place

• Johnny Miles

  Marathon: 17th place

• Silas McLellan

  Marathon: 26th place

• Frank Hughes

  Marathon: 43rd place

• Percy Wyer

  Marathon: 45th place

• Warren Montabone

  400 meter hurdles: prelims

• Stanley Glover

  4 × 400 meters: bronze

• Alex Munroe

  High jump: Disqualified

  Triple jump: 16th place in qualification

• Victor Pickard

  Pole vault: 4th place

• Doral pilling

  Javelin throw: 12th place in qualification

• Fanny Rosenfeld

  Women, 100 meters: silver

  Women, 800 meters: 5th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: gold

• Ethel Smith

  Women, 100 meters: bronze

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: gold

• Myrtle Cook

  Women, 100 meters: DQ in the final

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: gold

• Florence Bell

  Women, 100 meters: semi-finals

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: gold

• Jean Thompson

  Women, 800 meters: 4th place

• Ethel Catherwood

  Women, high jump: gold

Cycling

• Joe Laporte

  Road race, individual: 31st place

  Road race, team: 14th place

• Alfred Tourville

  Road race, individual: 56th place

  Road race, team: 14th place

• Torchy Peden

  Road race, individual: 63rd place

  Road race, team: 14th place

  4000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

• Lew Elder

  Road race, individual: DNF

  1000 meter time trial: 11th place

  4000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

• Jim Davies

  Sprint: 2nd round

  4000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

• Andrew Houting

  4000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

Wrestling

• James Trifunov

  Bantamweight, freestyle: bronze

• Daniel MacDonald

  Featherweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Maurice Letchford

  Welterweight, freestyle: bronze

• Donald Stockton

  Middleweight, freestyle: silver

• Earl McCready

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 6th place

rowing

• Joseph wright jr.

  One: quarter finals

  Double scull: silver

• John Guest

  Double scull: silver

• Frederick Hedges

  Eighth: bronze

• Frank Fiddes

  Eighth: bronze

• John hand

  Eighth: bronze

• Herbert Richardson

  Eighth: bronze

• Jack Murdoch

  Eighth: bronze

• Athol Meech

  Eighth: bronze

• Edgar Norris

  Eighth: bronze

• William Ross

  Eighth: bronze

• John Donnelly

  Eighth: bronze

swim

• Walter Spence

  100 meters freestyle: 6th place

  4 × 200 meters freestyle: bronze

  200 meters chest: 6th place

• Frederick Bourne

  100 meters freestyle: prelims

  4 × 200 meters freestyle: bronze

  100 meters back: semi-finals

• Garnet Ault

  400 meters freestyle: semi-finals

  1500 meters freestyle: 6th place

  4 × 200 meters freestyle: bronze

• James Thompson

  400 meters freestyle: prelims

  1500 meters freestyle: prelims

  4 × 200 meters freestyle: bronze

• Jack Aubin

  200 meters chest: heats

• Dorothy Prior

  Women, 200 meters chest: prelims

Diving

• Alfred Phillips

  Artistic jumping: 7th place

  Diving: 7th place

Web links

• Canadian Olympic Team from 1928 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )