Olympic Winter Games 1928 / speed skating
Speed skating at the II Olympic Winter Games |
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information | |
venue | St. Moritz |
Competition venue | Badrutts Park |
Nations | 14th |
Athletes | 34 (34 men) |
date | 13-14 February 1928 |
decisions | 3 |
← Chamonix 1924 |
Four speed skating competitions were planned for the II. Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928 . Due to the bad weather, however, the competition over 10,000 m had to be canceled. The venue was the Badrutts Park ice rink .
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | Norway | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6th |
2 | Finland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
3 | United States | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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500 m |
Bernt Evensen Clas Thunberg |
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John Farrell Jaakko Friman Roald Larsen |
1500 m | Clas Thunberg | Bernt Evensen | Ivar Ballangrud |
5000 m | Ivar Ballangrud | Julius Skutnabb | Bernt Evensen |
Results
500 m
space | country | athlete | Time (s) |
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1 | NOR | Bernt Evensen | 43.4 ( OR ) |
FIN | Clas Thunberg | ||
3 | NOR | Roald Larsen | 43.6 |
United States | John Farrell | ||
FIN | Jaakko Friman | ||
6th | NOR | Håkon Pedersen | 43.8 |
7th | CAN | Charles Gorman | 43.9 |
8th | FIN | Bertel Backman | 44.4 |
9 | NOR | Oskar Olsen | 44.7 |
10 | United States | Edward Murphy | 44.9 |
Date: February 13, 1928
33 participants from 14 countries, all in the ranking.
1500 m
space | country | athlete | Time (min) |
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1 | FIN | Clas Thunberg | 2: 21.1 |
2 | NOR | Bernt Evensen | 2: 21.9 |
3 | NOR | Ivar Ballangrud | 2: 22.6 |
4th | NOR | Roald Larsen | 2: 25.3 |
5 | United States | Edward Murphy | 2: 25.9 |
6th | United States | Valentine Bialas | 2: 26.3 |
7th | United States | Irving Jaffee | 2: 26.7 |
8th | United States | John Farrell | 2: 26.8 |
9 | SWE | Gustaf Andersson | 2: 27.5 |
10 | HUN | Zoltán Eötvös | 2: 25.3 |
Date: February 14, 1928
30 participants from 14 countries, 28 of them in the evaluation.
5000 m
space | country | athlete | Time (min) |
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1 | NOR | Ivar Ballangrud | 8: 50.5 |
2 | FIN | Julius Skutnabb | 8: 59.1 |
3 | NOR | Bernt Evensen | 9: 01.1 |
4th | United States | Irving Jaffee | 9: 01.3 |
5 | NOR | Armand Carlsen | 9: 01.5 |
6th | NOR | Valentine Bialas | 9: 06.3 |
7th | NOR | Michael Staksrud | 9: 07.3 |
8th | AUT | Otto Polacsek | 9: 08.9 |
9 | SWE | Gustaf Andersson | 9: 09.7 |
10 | FIN | Ossi Blomqvist | 9: 09.9 |
Date: February 13, 1928
33 participants from 14 countries, 32 of them in the ranking.
10,000 m
The run over 10,000 meters could not be ended properly due to bad weather conditions. The high temperatures caused by the onset of a foehn and heavy rainfall caused the ice to melt. The competition had to be canceled after the fifth pairing.
Web links
- Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official report of the 1928 Winter Olympics (PDF; 1.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A fairy tale and not a million dollar business. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 1, 2003, accessed on July 19, 2018 .