Finland at the 1928 Winter Olympics

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Finland at the
1928 Winter Olympics
Flag of Finland.svg
IOC code FIN
NOC Finnish Olympic Committee
Website sport.fi/olympiakomitea  (in Finnish and Swedish)
in St. Moritz
Competitors18 (17 men, 1 woman) in 5 sports
Flag bearer Esko Järvinen [1]
Medals
Ranked 4th
Gold
2
Silver
1
Bronze
1
Total
4
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Finland competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Finland took home 4 medals, all in speed skating. These were won by Clas Thunberg, Julius Skutnabb, and Jaakko Friman. Finland also took second place in the Military Patrol, at that time classed as a demonstration event with no medals.

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Medalists

MedalNameSportEvent
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Clas Thunberg Speed skating Men's 500m
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Clas Thunberg Speed skating Men's 1500m
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Julius Skutnabb Speed skating Men's 5000m
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Jaakko Friman Speed skating Men's 500m

Cross-country skiing

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
18 km Einar Mässeli 1'47:5513
Ville Mattila 1'44:3710
Martti Lappalainen 1'41:597
Veli Saarinen 1'40:574
50 km Matti Raivio DNF
Adiel Paananen DNF
Martti Lappalainen 5'30:099
Tauno Lappalainen 5'18:336

Figure skating

Men
AthleteEventCFFSPlacesPointsFinal rank
Marcus Nikkanen Men's singles48461480.006
Pairs
AthletesPointsScoreFinal rank
Ludowika Jakobsson
Walter Jakobsson
5184.005

Nordic combined

Events:

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.

AthleteEventCross-countrySki JumpingTotal
TimePointsRankDistance 1Distance 2Total pointsRankPointsRank
Paavo Nuotio Individual1'48:4614.125452.552.515.729714.9274
Esko Järvinen 1'46:2315.375346.048.014.4261614.8105

Ski jumping

AthleteEventJump 1 (Dist.)Jump 2 (Dist.)Total
PointsRank
Esko Järvinen Normal hill45.047.513.97822
Paavo Nuotio 50.056.015.83312

Speed skating

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Toivo Ovaska 45.211
Bertel Backman 44.48
Jaakko Friman 43.6Bronze medal icon.svg
Clas Thunberg 43.4 ORGold medal icon.svg
1500 m Bertel Backman DNF
Toivo Ovaska 2:29.315
Clas Thunberg 2:21.1Gold medal icon.svg
5000 m Bertel Backman 9:14.013
Clas Thunberg 9:11.812
Ossi Blomqvist 9:09.910
Julius Skutnabb 8:59.1Silver medal icon.svg

References

  1. "Flagbearers for Finland". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen . Retrieved 27 December 2023.

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