United States at the 1928 Winter Olympics

United States at the
1928 Winter Olympics
United States at the; 1928 Winter Olympics
	Flag of the United States
IOC code	USA
NOC	United States Olympic Committee
in St. Moritz
Competitors	24 (21 men, 3 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Godfrey Dewey
Medals; Ranked 2nd	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 2 Total 6
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
	1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018; 2022;

The United States competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Medalists edit

The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Jennison Heaton	Skeleton	Men's	February 17
Gold	Billy Fiske Clifford Grey Geoffrey Mason Richard Parke Nion Tocker	Bobsleigh	Five-man	February 18
Silver	John Heaton	Skeleton	Men's	February 17
Silver	Thomas Doe David Granger Jennison Heaton Lyman Hine Jay O'Brien	Bobsleigh	Five-man	February 18
Bronze	John Farrell	Speed skating	500 meters	February 13
Bronze	Beatrix Loughran	Figure skating	Ladies' singles	February 18

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Bobsleigh	1	1	0	2
Skeleton	1	1	0	2
Figure skating	0	0	1	1
Speed skating	0	0	1	1
Total	2	2	2	6

Bobsleigh edit

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Billy Fiske Nion Tocker Geoffrey Mason Clifford Grey Richard Parke	Five-man	1:38.9	1	1:41.6	5	3:20.5
Jennison Heaton David Granger Lyman Hine Jay O'Brien Thomas Doe	Five-man	1:42.3	8	1:38.7	1	3:21.0

Cross-country skiing edit

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Anders Haugen	18 km	2:30:30	43
Rolf Monsen		2:48:00	45
Charles Proctor		2:35:00	44

Figure skating edit

Individual

Athlete	Event	CF	FS	Total
Athlete	Event	Rank	Rank	Places	Points	Final rank
Sherwin Badger	Men's singles	13	9	73	1324.00	11
Nathaniel Niles		16	13	103	1154.25	15
Roger Turner		9	12	67	1363.50	10
Theresa Blanchard	Ladies' singles	9	13	77	1970.25	10
Beatrix Loughran		4	4	28	2254.52
Maribel Vinson		3	6	32	2224.50	4

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Points	Score	Rank
Theresa Blanchard Nathaniel Niles	Pairs	79.5	69.00	9
Beatrix Loughran Sherwin Badger	Pairs	43	87.50	4

Nordic combined edit

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the 18 km race of cross-country skiing. Those results can be found above in this article in the cross-country skiing section. Some athletes (but not all) entered in both the cross-country skiing and Nordic combined event, their time on the 18 km was used for both events. One would expect that athletes competing at the Nordic combined event, would participate in the cross-country skiing event as well, as they would have the opportunity to win more than one medal. This was not always the case due to the maximum number of athletes that could represent a country per event.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below.

Athlete	Event	Cross-country		Ski Jumping			Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Points	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Points	Rank
Anders Haugen	Individual	2:30:30	0.000	51.0	49.0	14.895	7.447	25
Rolf Monsen		DNF
Charles Proctor		2:35:00	0.000	47.0	51.5	14.417	7.208	26

Skeleton edit

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jack Heaton	Men's	1:01.4	2	1:00.4	2	1:01.4	2	3:02.8
Jennison Heaton	Men's	1:00.2	1	1:00.2	1	1:01.0	1	3:01.8

Ski jumping edit

Athlete	Event	Jump 1	Jump 2	Total
Distance	Event	Distance	Points	Rank
Anders Haugen	Normal hill	51.0	53.0	15.291	18
Rolf Monsen		53.0	59.5	16.687	6
Charles Proctor		49.0	56.0	15.583	14

Speed skating edit

In the 10,000-meter speed skating race, Irving Jaffee was leading the competition, having outskated Norwegian defending world champion Bernt Evensen in their heat, when rising temperatures thawed the ice.^[1] In a controversial ruling, the Norwegian referee canceled the entire competition. Although the International Olympic Committee reversed the referee's decision and awarded Jaffee the gold medal, the International Skating Union later overruled the IOC and restored the ruling.^[2] Evensen, for his part, publicly said that Jaffee should be awarded the gold medal, but that never happened.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Valentine Bialas	500 m	46.5	17
John Farrell		43.6
Irving Jaffee		45.2	11
Eddie Murphy		44.9	10
Valentine Bialas	1500 m	2:26.3	6
John Farrell		2:26.8	8
Irving Jaffee		2:26.7	7
Eddie Murphy		2:25.9	5
Valentine Bialas	5000 m	9:06.3	6
John Farrell		9:29.2	17
Irving Jaffee		9:01.3	4
Eddie Murphy		9:19.5	14