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1928 (Amsterdam) Olympic Games - some results
Track Events - MEN |
Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
100 metres | Percy Williams Canada | 10.8s |
Jack London GB | 10.9s | Georg Lammers Germany | 10.9s |
200 metres | Percy Williams Canada | 21.8s | Walter Rangeley GB | 21.9s | Helmuth Kornig Germany | 21.9s |
400 metres | Raymond Barbuti USA | 47.8s | James Ball Canada | 48.0s | Joachim Buchner Germany | 48.2s |
800 metres | Douglas Lowe GB | 1m 51.8s | Erik Bylehn Sweden | 1m 52.8s | Hermann Engelhardt Germany | 1m 53.2s |
1500 metres | Harry Larva Finland | 3m 53.2s | Jules Ladoumegue France | 3m 53.8s | Eino Purje-Borg Finland | 3m 56.4s |
5000 metres | Ville Ritola Finland | 14m 38.0s | Paavo Nurmi Finland | 14m 40.0s | Edvin Wide Sweden | 14m 41.2s |
10000 metres | Paavo Nurmi Finland | 30m 18.8s | Ville Ritola Finland | 30m 19.4s | Edvin Wide Sweden | 31m 0.8s |
Marathon (42,195 metres) | Mohamed El Quafi France | 2h 32m 57s | Miguel Plaza Reyes Chile | 2h 33m 23s | Martti Marttelin Finland | 2h 35m 2s |
Steeplechase (3000 metres) | Toivo Loukola Finland | 9m 21.8s | Paavo Nurmi Finland | 9m 31.2s | Ove Andersen Finland | 9m 35.6s |
Field Events - MEN |
| | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist |
High Jump | Robert King USA | 1.94 m | Benjamin Hodges USA | 1.91 m | Claude Menard France | 1.91 m |
Long Jump | Edward Hamm USA | 7.73 m | Sylvio Cator Haiti | 7.58 m | Alfred Bates USA | 7.40 m |
Pole Vault | Sabin Carr USA | 4.20 m | William Droegemuller USA | 4.10 m | Charles McGinnis USA | 3.95 m |
Shot | John Kuck USA | 15.87 m | Herman Brix USA | 15.75 m | Emil Hirschfeld Germany | 15.72 m |
Discus | Clarence Houser USA | 47.32 m | Antero Kivi Finland | 47.23 m | James Corson USA | 47.10 m |
Javelin | Erik Lundkvist Sweden | 66.60 m | Bela Szepes Hungary | 65.26 m | Olav Sunde Norway | 63.97 m |
Track Events - WOMEN |
Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
100 metres | Elizabeth Robinson USA | 12.2s |
Fanny Rosenfeld Canada | 12.3s | Ethel Smith Canada | 12.3s |
800 metres | Lina Radke-Batschauer Germany | 2m 16.8s |
Kinuye Hitomi Japan | 2m 17.6s | Inga Gentzel Sweden | 2m 17.8s |
Field Events - WOMEN |
| | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist |
High Jump | Ethel Catherwood Canada | 1.59 m | Carolina Gisolf Netherlands | 1.56 m | Mildred Wiley USA | 1.56 m |
Discus | Helena Konopacka Poland | 39.62 m | Lilian Copeland USA | 37.08 m | Ruth Svedberg Sweden | 35.92 m |
This was the FIRST Olympic Games in which women took part in any Track or Field events. |
There are a few disagreements about times (and lengths) given by different authorities for the Silver and Bronze, but not for the Gold. |
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