Norway at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Norway at the Olympic Games
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At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz
Competitors	25 (22 men, 3 women) in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Ole Reistad (Military patrol)
Medals Rank: 1	Gold 6	Silver 4	Bronze 5	Total 15
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Norway competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Norway ranked first in the total medal count, as they had in the inaugural 1924 Games.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Johan Grøttumsbraaten	Cross-country skiing	Men's 18 km
Gold	Sonja Henie	Figure skating	Women's singles
Gold	Johan Grøttumsbraaten	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Gold	Alf Andersen	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill
Gold	Bernt Evensen	Speed skating	Men's 500m
Gold	Ivar Ballangrud	Speed skating	Men's 5000m
Silver	Ole Hegge	Cross-country skiing	Men's 18 km
Silver	Hans Vinjarengen	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Silver	Sigmund Ruud	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill
Silver	Bernt Evensen	Speed skating	Men's 1500m
Bronze	Reidar Ødegaard	Cross-country skiing	Men's 18 km
Bronze	Jon Snersrud	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Bronze	Roald Larsen	Speed skating	Men's 500m
Bronze	Ivar Ballangrud	Speed skating	Men's 1500m
Bronze	Bernt Evensen	Speed skating	Men's 5000m

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
18 km	Hagbart Håkonsen	1'41:29	5
	Reidar Ødegård	1'40:11
	Ole Hegge	1'39:01
	Johan Grøttumsbraaten	1'37:01
50 km	John Røen	DNF	–
	Johan Støa	5'25:30	8
	Ole Hegge	5'17:58	5
	Olav Kjelbotn	5'14:22	4

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	CF	FS	Places	Points	Final rank
Karen Simensen	Women's singles	12	18	103	1811.75	16
Edel Randem		13	15	94	1880.75	13
Sonja Henie		1	1	8	2452.25

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Events:

• 18 km cross-country skiing
• normal hill ski jumping

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event 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
		Time	Points	Rank	Distance 1	Distance 2	Total points	Rank	Points	Rank
John Snersrud	Individual	1'50:51	13.125	9	60.5	52.0	16.917	3	15.021
Ole Kolterud		1'50:17	13.375	7	59.0	65.5 (fall)	12.917	18	13.146	8
Hans Vinjarengen		1'41:44	17.750	2	59.5 (fall)	61.0	12.854	19	15.302
Johan Grøttumsbraaten		1'37:01	20.000	1	49.5	56.0	15.667	8	17.833

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1 (Dist.)	Jump 2 (Dist.)	Total
				Points	Rank
Hans Kleppen	Normal hill	56.5 (fall)	64.5 (fall)	6.500	36
Jacob Tullin Thams		56.5	73.0 (fall)	12.562	28
Sigmund Ruud		57.5	62.5	18.542
Alf Andersen		60.0	64.0	19.208

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Oskar Olsen	44.7	9
	Haakon Pedersen	43.8	6
	Roald Larsen	43.6
	Bernt Evensen	43.4 OR
1500 m	Wollert Nygren	2:28.7	13
	Roald Larsen	2:25.3	4
	Ivar Ballangrud	2:22.6
	Bernt Evensen	2:21.9
5000 m	Michael Staksrud	9:07.3	7
	Armand Carlsen	9:01.5	5
	Bernt Evensen	9:01.1
	Ivar Ballangrud	8:50.5

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1928, full results by sports-reference.com