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1928 Olympics

St. Moritz

Sonja Henie of Norway was only 11 years old in 1924 when she participated in her first Olympics and finished last in women's figure skating. Three years later, she won the world championship at age 14 and the year after that was Olympic champion at 15.

Henie would go on to win two more gold medals, a record that her coach, men's champion Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden, set in 1928 with his third straight victory in the Winter Games.

Otherwise, St. Moritz was plagued with warm weather that slowed bobsled and cross-country runs and cancelled the 10,000–meter speed skating race. Speed skater Bernt Evensen of Norway led the Games with three medals, sharing the 500–meter title with Finland's Clas Thunberg. Norway also got two gold medals from Johan Gröttumsbråten in cross-country and the Nordic Combined and led the 25 nations competing with six gold and 15 overall medals. The U.S. edged Sweden for second place.

Top 5 Standings

National medal standings are not recognized by the IOC. The unofficial point totals are based on 3 points for a gold medal, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze. Total medals are in parentheses.

		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Points
1	Norway (15)	6	4	5	31
2	USA (6)	2	2	2	12
3	Sweden (5)	2	2	1	11
4	Finland (4)	2	1	1	9
5	Austria (4)	0	3	1	7

Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right.

No		Sport	G-S-B
3	Bernt Evensen, NOR	Sp. Skate	1-1-1
2	Johan Gröttumsbråten, NOR	X-country	2-0-0
2	Clas Thunberg, FIN	Sp. Skate	2-0-0
2	Jennison Heaton, USA	Bobsled & Cresta	1-1-0
2	Ivar Ballangrud, NOR	Sp. Skate	1-0-1

Note: Evensen also placed second in the 10,000–meter speed skating race that was later disallowed due to thawing ice conditions.

Bobsled

Event		Time
5-Man	USA (Billy Fiske, Nion Tucker, Geoff Mason, Clifford Gray, Richard Parke)	3:20.5

Cresta (Toboggan)

Event		Time
1-Man	Jennison Heaton, USA	3:01.8

Figure Skating

Event		Points
Men	Gillis Grafström, SWE	1630.75
Women	Sonja Henie, NOR	2452.25
Pairs	Andrée Joly & Pierre Brunet, FRA	100.50

Ice Hockey

Championship Round

(Overall record in parentheses)

		Gm	W-L-T	Pts	GF	GA
1	Canada (3-0-0)	3	3-0-0	6	38	0
2	Sweden (3-1-1)	3	2-1-0	4	7	12
3	Switzerland (2-2-1)	3	1-2-0	2	4	17
4	Britain (2-4-0)	3	0-3-0	0	1	21

Note: Canada received a bye to the 4–team championship round robin. The 10 other competing countries—not including the USA which did not send a team—were divided into three pools with the winners advancing to the final round. The Canadians routed Sweden, 11–0; Britain 14–0 and the Swiss, 13–0.