Yugoslavia at the 1928 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | YUG |
NOC | Yugoslav Olympic Committee |
in St. Moritz | |
Competitors | 6 in 1 sport |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was represented at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland with a delegation of six competitors.
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
18 km | Boris Režek | 2'28:44 | 42 |
Janko Janša | 2'19:54 | 40 | |
Petar Klofutar | 2'14:08 | 39 | |
Joško Janša | 2'01:14 | 26 | |
50 km | Stane Bervar | 6'46:48 | 30 |
Janko Janša | 6'34:59 | 29 | |
Stane Kmet | 6'32:07 | 28 | |
Joško Janša | 5'58:09 | 23 |
Canada competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.
Several tropical nations have participated in the Winter Olympics despite not having the climate for winter sports. Partly because of that, their entries are a subject of human interest stories during the Games. No tropical nation has ever won a Winter Olympic medal.
Argentina competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The nation sent two bobsleigh teams, which finished in fourth and fifth place in the event. This participation is the best performance in the Winter Olympics of Argentina and any other Latin American nation.
Estonia competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Lithuania competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Lithuania was represented by a single athlete, Kęstutis Bulota.
Athletes from Luxembourg competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time in 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Mexico competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time in 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. It would be another 56 years before another Mexican team would attend the Winter Games.
Romania competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Austria competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Belgium competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Czechoslovakia competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Rudolf Burkert won first Czechoslovak medal from Winter Olympics. Libuše Veselá was first Czechoslovak woman to take part in Winter Olympics.
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.
France competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
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.
Athletes from Sweden competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Athletes for Latvia competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. These games marked the first time in Olympic History that Great Britain didn't take a gold medal.
Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.