Bobsleigh at the II Olympic Winter Games
information
venue
Switzerland St. Moritz
Competition venue
Bobsleigh Run
Nations
14th
Athletes
116 (116 men)
date
February 18, 1928
decisions
1
← Chamonix 1924
A bobsleigh competition was held at the II. Winter Olympics in St. Moritz in 1928 . The venue was the man-made natural track Bobsleigh-Run with a length of 1,570 m, a height difference of 120 m and 16 curves. The International Bobsleigh Federation FIBT decided to introduce the "ventre à terre" style, in which the crew lay with their heads forward on the sled. As in 1924, the bobsleigh teams were free to choose whether they wanted to start with four or five athletes (in St. Moritz everyone made use of the maximum number of crew members). In the following year, the "ventre à terre" style was again banned by the FIBT because of its dangerousness, and crash helmets were made compulsory.
Medal table
Five-man bobsleigh
(all times in min)
space
country
athlete
1st run
2nd run
total
1
United States 48 United States
USA II: Billy Fiske Nion Tucker Geoffrey Mason , Clifford Gray Richard Parke
1: 38.9
1: 41.6
3: 20.5
2
United States 48 United States
USA I: Jennison Heaton Thomas Doe David Granger , Lyman Hine Jay O'Brien
1: 42.3
1: 38.7
3: 21.0
3
German Empire GER
Germany II: Hanns Kilian Valentin Krempl Hans Heß , Sebastian Huber Hans Nägle
1: 41.7
1: 40.2
3: 21.9
4th
Argentina ARG
Argentina I: Eduardo Hope Justo del Carril Hector Milberg , Horacio Iglesias Horacio Gramajo
1: 40.1
1: 42.5
3: 22.6
5
Argentina ARG
Argentina II: Arturo Gramajo Ricardo Gonzalez Rafael Iglesias , Mariano De Maria John Victor Nash
1: 42.3
1: 40.6
3: 22.9
6th
Belgium BEL
Belgium I: Ernest Lambert Marcel Sedille-Courbon Léon Tom , Max Houben Walter Ganshof
1: 39.8
1: 44.7
3: 24.5
7th
Romania kingdom ROME
Romania II: Grigore Socolescu Ion Gavăț Traian Nițescu , Toma Ghițulescu Mircea Socolescu
1: 43.8
1: 40.8
3: 24.6
8th
Switzerland SUI
Switzerland I: Charles Stoffel René Fonjallaz Henry Höhnes , Emil Coppetti Louis Koch
1: 43.1
1: 42.6
3: 25.7
9
United Kingdom GBR
Great Britain II: Henry Martineau Walter Birch John Dalrymple , John Gee Edward Ramsden Hall
1: 41.7
1: 44.5
3: 26.2
10
United Kingdom GBR
Great Britain I: George Pim Guy Tracey David Griffith , Frederick Browning Thomas Warner
1: 40.6
1: 45.7
3: 26.3
11
Mexico MEX
Mexico I: Lorenzo Elizaga Juan de Landa , J. Díaz, Mario Casasos , G. Díaz
1: 44.9
1: 42.8
3: 27.6
12
Netherlands NED
Netherlands I: Curt van de Sandt Jacques Delprat Henri Dekking , Edwin Teixeira de Mattos Hubert Menten
1: 43.5
1: 45.5
3: 29.0
13
Switzerland SUI
Switzerland II: Jean Mollien John Schneiter René Ansermoz , André Mollien William Pichard
1: 41.7
1: 48.2
3: 29.9
14th
France FRA
France I: Jean de Suarez d'Aulan Michel Baur William Beamisch , Roger Petit-Didier Jacques Petit-Didier
1: 43.7
1: 46.3
3: 30.0
15th
France FRA
France II: André Dubonnet Bernard du Pontavice de Heussey , Joseph Dedein Stéphane de la Rochefoucault , Jacques Rheins
1: 45.7
1: 44.5
3: 30.2
16
Belgium BEL
Belgium II: Charles Mulder Hubert Kryn Ferdinand Hubert , Louis Rooy Robert Langlois
1: 45.0
1: 46.2
3: 31.2
17th
Poland 1928 POLE
Poland I: Józef Broel-Plater, Jerzy Bardziński, Jerzy Łucki , Jerzy Potulicki-Skórzewski Antoni Bura
1: 44.8
1: 46.8
3: 31.6
18th
German Empire GER
Germany I: Hans-Edgar Endres, Paul Martin Karl Reinhardt , Paul Volkhardt Rudolf Soenning
1: 48.0
1: 43.9
3: 31.9
19th
Romania kingdom ROME
Romania I: Alexandru Berlescu Eugen Ştefănescu , Petre Petrovici Tita Rădulescu Horia Roman
1: 47.3
1: 44.9
3: 32.2
20th
Luxembourg LUX
Luxembourg I: Marc Schoetter Raoul Weckbecker , Guillaume Heldenstein Pierre Kaempff Auguste Hilbert
1: 45.8
1: 46.9
3: 32.7
21st
Italy 1861 ITA
Italy I: Giancarlo Morpugo Carlo Sem Luigi Cerutti , Giuseppe Crivelli Piero Marchetti
1: 45.0
1: 49.6
3: 34.6
22nd
Austria AUT
Austria II: Franz Lorenz Franz Wohlgemuth , Eduard Pechanda Benno Karner Richard Lorenz
1: 52.3
1: 49.7
3: 42.0
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Austria AUT
Austria I: Gustav Mader Hugo Weinstengel , Michael Waissnix Walter Sehr Franz Pamperl
1: 44.2
DSQ
DSQ
Date: February 18, 1924
23 bobsleighs at the start, 22 of them in the ranking.
Billy Fiske was only 16 years and 260 days old at the time of his Olympic victory, making him the youngest ever winter Olympic champion until 1992. The two teams from Czechoslovakia decided not to participate and gave forfait. Austria I lost a team member on the way and was disqualified. Out of 25 teams, only 22 could classify.
Web links
Men's four-man bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics
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