At the 1928 Winter Olympics, only one bobsleigh event was contested, the five man event. The competition was held on Saturday, 18 February 1928.
Medalists USA IIBilly FiskeClifford GrayGeoffrey MasonRichard ParkeNion Tucker USA IThomas DoeDavid GrangerJennison HeatonLyman HineJay O'Brien Germany IIHans HeßSebastian HuberHanns KilianValentin KremplHanns Nägle
Results Place Team Bobsledders Run 1 Run 2 Total 1 Billy Fiske, Nion Tucker, Geoffrey Mason, Clifford Gray, and Richard Parke 1:38.9 1:41.6 3:20.5 2 Jennison Heaton, David Granger, Lyman Hine, Jay O'Brien, and Thomas Doe 1:42.3 1:38.7 3:21.0 3 Hanns Kilian, Hans Heß, Sebastian Huber, Valentin Krempl, and Hanns Nägle 1:41.7 1:40.2 3:21.9 4 Arturo Gramajo, Ricardo González, Mariano de María, Rafael Iglesias, and John Victor Nash 1:40.1 1:42.5 3:22.6 5 Eduardo Hope, Jorge del Carril, Héctor Milberg, Horacio Iglesias, and Horacio Gramajo 1:42.3 1:40.6 3:22.9 6 Ernest Casimir-Lambert, Walter Jean Ganshof van der Meersch, Marcel Sedille-Courbon, Max Houben, and Léon Tom 1:39.8 1:44.7 3:24.5 7 Grigore Socolescu, Ion Gavăț, Traian Nițescu, Toma Ghițulescu, and Mircea Socolescu 1:43.8 1:40.8 3:24.6 8 Charles Stoffel, René Fonjallaz, Henry Höhnes, Emil Coppetti, and Louis Koch 1:43.1 1:42.6 3:25.7 9 Henry Martineau, Walter Birch, John Dalrymple, John Gee, and Edward Hall 1:41.7 1:44.5 3:26.2 10 George Pim, Guy Tracey, David Griffith, Frederick Browning, and Thomas Warner 1:40.6 1:45.7 3:26.3 11 Lorenzo Elizaga, Juan de Landa, Genaro Díaz Raigosa, Mario Casasos, and José de la Cruz Porfirio Genaro Díaz Raigosa 1:44.9 1:42.8 3:27.6 12 Curt van de Sandt, Jacques Delprat, Edwin Teixeira de Mattos, Henri Dekking, and Hubert Menten 1:43.5 1:45.5 3:29.0 13 Jean Moillen, John Schneiter, René Ansermoz, André Moillen, and William Pichard 1:41.7 1:48.2 3:29.9 14 Jean de Suarez d'Aulan, Michel Baur, Roger Petit-Didier, Jacques Petit-Didier, and William Beamish 1:43.7 1:46.3 3:30.0 15 André Dubonnet, Bertrand du Pontavice de Heussey, Joseph Dedeyn, Stéphane de la Rochefoucault, and Jacques Rheins 1:45.7 1:44.5 3:30.2 16 Charles Mulder, Hubert Kryn, Ferdinand Hubert, Louis Rooy, and Robert Langlois 1:45.0 1:46.2 3:31.2 17 Józef Broel-Plater, Jerzy Bardziński, Jerzy Łucki, Jerzy Potulicki-Skórzewski, and Antoni Bura 1:44.8 1:46.8 3:31.6 18 Hans-Edgar Endres, Paul Martin, Karl Reinhardt, Paul Volkhardt, and Rudolf Soenning 1:48.0 1:43.9 3:31.9 19 Alexandru Berlescu, Eugen Ştefănescu, Petre Petrovici, Tita Rădulescu, and Horia Roman 1:47.3 1:44.9 3:32.2 20 Marc Schoetter, Raoul Weckbecker, Willy Heldenstein, Pierre Kaempff, and Auguste Hilbert 1:45.8 1:46.9 3:32.7 21 Giancarlo Morpugo, Carlo Sem, Luigi Cerutti, Giuseppe Crivelli, and Piero Marchetti 1:45.0 1:49.6 3:34.6 22 Franz Lorenz, Franz Wohlgemuth, Eduard Pechanda, Benno Karner, and Richard Lorenz 1:52.3 1:49.7 3:42.0 — Gustav Mader, Hugo Weinstengel, Michael Waissnix, Walter Sehr, and Franz Pamperl 1:44.2 DSQ DSQ
Participating nations
A total of 115 bobsledders from 14 nations competed at the St. Moritz Games:
Medal table
References
External links International Olympic Committee results database Official Olympic Report sports-reference 1928 bobsleigh five-man results