Figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the II Winter Olympics
Type:	Olympic Games
Champions
Men's singles: Gillis Grafström
Ladies' singles: Sonja Henie
Pair skating: Andrée Joly / Pierre Brunet
Previous: 1924 Winter Olympics
Next: 1932 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Singles	men	ladies
Pairs	mixed

At the 1928 Winter Olympics, three figure skating events were contested. The competitions were held from Tuesday, February 14 to Sunday, February 19, 1928.

Unseasonably warm weather in St. Moritz during the Games caused difficulty for the figure skating events, as the ice surface was outdoors. It was even proposed to move the competition to an indoor rink in Berlin or London, but colder weather returned before a decision could be made. However, the ice surface remained in poor condition during the Games. During the ladies' free skating, red flags were placed to mark the especially bad places, which became more numerous as the day wore on.^[1]

Gillis Grafström during the compulsory figures at the 1928 Olympics.

Medal summary

Medalists

Sonja Henie's gold medal from the 1928 Winter Olympics.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Gillis Grafström (SWE)	Willy Böckl (AUT)	Robert Van Zeebroeck (BEL)
Ladies' singles	Sonja Henie (NOR)	Fritzi Burger (AUT)	Beatrix Loughran (USA)
Pair skating	Andrée Joly / Pierre Brunet (FRA)	Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser (AUT)	Melitta Brunner / Ludwig Wrede (AUT)

Medal table

Again only Austria was able to win more than one medal but this time without winning a gold medal.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
4	Austria	0	3	1	4
5	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		3	3	3	9

Participating nations

Twelve figure skater (seven men and five ladies) competed in both the singles and the pairs event.

A total of 51 figure skaters (23 men and 28 ladies) from eleven nations (men from eleven nations and ladies from eleven nations) competed at the St. Moritz Games:

•  Austria (9) (men 4, women 5)
•  Belgium (2) (men 1, women 1)
•  Canada (5) (men 2, women 3)
•  Czechoslovakia (3) (men 2, women 1)
•  Finland (3) (men 2, women 1)
•  France (3) (men 1, women 2)
•  Germany (8) (men 3, women 5)
•  Great Britain (5) (men 3, women 2)
•  Norway (4) (men 0, women 4)
•  Sweden (1) (men 1, women 0)
•  Switzerland (2) (men 1, women 1)
•  United States (6) (men 3, women 3)

References

External links

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