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.
Medalists MedalNameSportEvent Speed skating Men's 500m Speed skating Men's 1500m Speed skating Men's 5000m Speed skating Men's 500m
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank18 kmEinar Mässeli1'47:5513Ville Mattila1'44:3710Martti Lappalainen1'41:597Veli Saarinen1'40:57450 kmMatti RaivioDNF–Adiel PaananenDNF–Martti Lappalainen5'30:099Tauno Lappalainen5'18:336
Figure skating
Men AthleteEventCFFSPlacesPointsFinal rank Marcus NikkanenMen's singles48461480.006
Pairs AthletesPointsScoreFinal rank Ludowika JakobssonWalter Jakobsson5184.005
Nordic combined
Events: 18 km cross-country skiing normal hill ski jumping
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 JumpingTotalTimePointsRankDistance 1Distance 2Total pointsRankPointsRankPaavo NuotioIndividual1'48:4614.125452.552.515.729714.9274Esko Järvinen1'46:2315.375346.048.014.4261614.8105
Ski jumping
AthleteEventJump 1 (Dist.)Jump 2 (Dist.)TotalPointsRankEsko JärvinenNormal hill45.047.513.97822Paavo Nuotio50.056.015.83312
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mToivo Ovaska45.211Bertel Backman44.48Jaakko Friman43.6Clas Thunberg43.4 OR1500 mBertel BackmanDNF–Toivo Ovaska2:29.315Clas Thunberg2:21.15000 mBertel Backman9:14.013Clas Thunberg9:11.812Ossi Blomqvist9:09.910Julius Skutnabb8:59.1
References
Sources
Olympic Winter Games 1928, full results by sports-reference.com