Olympic Winter Games 1928 / speed skating

Speed ​​skating at the II Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	St. Moritz
Competition venue	Badrutts Park
Nations	14th
Athletes	34 (34 men)
date	13-14 February 1928
decisions	3
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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
1	Norway	2	1	3	6th
2	Finland	2	1	1	4th
3	United States	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
500 m	Bernt Evensen Clas Thunberg	-	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

→ Main article : 1928 Winter Olympics / Speed ​​skating - 500 m (men)

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
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

→ Main article : 1928 Winter Olympics / speed skating - 1500 m (men)

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
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

→ Main article : 1928 Winter Olympics / Speed ​​skating - 5000 m (men)

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
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

Scene from the 5000 meter race

Date: February 13, 1928
33 participants from 14 countries, 32 of them in the ranking.

10,000 m

→ Main article : Olympic Winter Games 1928 / speed skating - 10,000 m (men)

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

1. ↑ A fairy tale and not a million dollar business. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 1, 2003, accessed on July 19, 2018 .