Athletics - Olympic Games - 1928

Olympic Games - Results Men 1928

Netherlands - Amsterdam - 29 July 1928 - 5 August 1928

Men's 10000 m - 29 July 1928

1	Paavo Nurmi (FIN)	30:18.8
2	Ville Ritola (FIN)	30:19.4
3	Edvin Wide (SWE)	31:00.8
4	Jean-gunnar Lindgren (SWE)	31:26.0
5	Arthur Muggridge (GBR)	31:31.8
6	Ragnar Magnusson (SWE)	31:37.2
7	Toivo Loukola (FIN)	31:39.0
8	Kalle Matilainen (FIN)	31:45.0
9	Wally Beavers (GBR)	31:48.0
10	Suttie Smith (GBR)	31:50.0
11	Robert Marchal (FRA)	32:21.8
12	George Constable (GBR)
13	Arturo Peña (SPA)
14	Joie Ray (USA)
15	Staislavs Petkevics (LAT)
16	Seghir Beddari (FRA)
17	Karel Nedobitý (CZE)
18	Julien Serwy (BEL)
19	Juichi Nagatani (JPN)
20	Danie Jacobs (RSA)

Men's High jump - 29 July 1928

1	Bob King (USA)	1.94
2	Ben Hedges (USA)	1.91
3	Claude Ménard (FRA)	1.91
4	Simeon Toribio (PHI)	1.91
5	Harold Osborn (USA)	1.91
6	Kazuo Kimura (JPN)	1.88
7	Mikio Oda (JPN)	1.88
7	André Cherrier (FRA)	1.88
7	Pierre Lewden (FRA)	1.88
7	Charles Mcginnis (USA)	1.88
11	Fritz Köpke (GER)	1.84
11	Harry Simmons (GBR)	1.84
11	Einar Tommelstad (NOR)	1.84
11	Kornél Késmárki (HUN)	1.84
11	Herbert Adolfsson (SWE)	1.84
16	Wolf Boneder (GER)	1.80
17	Colin Gordon (GBR)	1.70
17	Fritz Huhn (GER)	1.70

Men's Shot put - 29 July 1928

1	John Kuck (USA)	15.87
2	Herman Brix (USA)	15.75
3	Emil Hirschfeld (GER)	15.72
4	Eric Krenz (USA)	14.99
5	Armas Wahlstedt (FIN)	14.69
6	Wilhelm Übler (GER)	14.69
7	Harlow Rothert (USA)	14.68
8	József Darányi (HUN)	14.35

Men's 100 m - 30 July 1928

1	Percy Williams (CAN)	10.8
2	John London (GBR)	10.9
3	Georg Lammers (GER)	10.9
4	Frank Wykoff (USA)	11.0
5	Wilfred Legg (RSA)	11.0
6	Robert Mcallister (USA)	11.0

Men's 400 m Hurdles - 30 July 1928

1	David Burghley (GBR)	53.4
2	Frank Cuhel (USA)	53.6
3	Morgan Taylor (USA)	53.6
4	Sten Pettersson (SWE)	53.8
5	Thomas Livingston-Learmonth (GBR)	54.2
6	Luigi Facelli (ITA)	55.8

Men's Hammer throw - 30 July 1928

1	Patrick O'callaghan (IRL)	51.39
2	Ossian Skiöld (SWE)	51.29
3	Edmund Black (USA)	49.03
4	Armando Poggioli (ITA)	48.37
5	Donald Gwinn (USA)	47.15
6	Frank Connor (USA)	46.75
7	Federico Kleger (ARG)	46.60
8	Ricardo Bayer (CHI)	46.34

Men's 800 m - 31 July 1928

1	Douglas Lowe (GBR)	1:51.8
2	Erik Byléhn (SWE)	1:52.8
3	Hermann Engelhard (GER)	1:53.2
4	Phil Edwards (CAN)	1:54.0
5	Lloyd Hahn (USA)	1:54.2
6	Seraphin Martin (FRA)	1:54.6
7	Earl Fuller (USA)	1:55.0
8	Jean Keller (FRA)	1:57.0

Men's Long jump - 31 July 1928

1	Ed Hamm (USA)	7.73
2	Sylvio Cator (HAI)	7.58
3	Alfred Bates (USA)	7.40
4	Willi Meier (GER)	7.39
5	Erich Köchermann (GER)	7.35
6	Hannes De Boer (NED)	7.32

Men's 200 m - 1 August 1928

1	Percy Williams (CAN)	21.8
2	Walter Rangeley (GBR)	21.9
3	Helmut Körnig (GER)	21.9
4	Jackson Scholz (USA)	21.9
5	John Fitzpatrick (CAN)	22.1
6	Jakob Schüller (GER)	22.2

Men's 110 m Hurdles - 1 August 1928

1	Sydney Atkinson (RSA)	14.8
2	Steve Anderson (USA)	14.8
3	John Collier (USA)	14.9
4	Leighton Dye (USA)	14.9
5	George Weightman-smith (RSA)	15.0
6	Frederick Gaby (GBR)	15.2

Men's Pole vault - 1 August 1928

1	Sabin Carr (USA)	4.20
2	William Droegemuller (USA)	4.10
3	Charles Mcginnis (USA)	3.95
4	Victor Pickard (CAN)	3.95
5	Lee Barnes (USA)	3.95
6	Yonetaro Nakazawa (JPN)	3.90
7	Henry Lindblad (SWE)	3.90
8	Janos Karlovits (HUN)	3.80
9	Julius Müller (GER)	3.65

Men's Discus throw - 1 August 1928

1	Clarence Houser (USA)	47.32
2	Antero Kivi (FIN)	47.23
3	James Corson (USA)	47.10
4	Herald Stenerud (NOR)	45.80
5	John Anderson (USA)	44.87
6	Eino Kentta (FIN)	44.17
7	Ernst Paulus (GER)	44.15
8	Johan Trendem (NOR)	43.97

Men's 1500 m - 2 August 1928

1	Harri Larva (FIN)	3:53.2
2	Jules Ladoumègue (FRA)	3:53.8
3	Eino Purje (FIN)	3:56.4
4	Hans-georg Wichmann (GER)	3:56.8
5	Cyril Ellis (GBR)	3:57.6
6	Paul Martin (SWI)	3:58.4
7	Helmut Krause (GER)	3:59.0
8	Adolf Kittel (CZE)	4:00.4
9	William Whyte (AUS)	4:00.4
10	Ray Conger (USA)
11	Jean Keller (FRA)

Men's Triple jump - 2 August 1928

1	Mikio Oda (JPN)	15.21
2	Levi Casey (USA)	15.17
3	Vilho Tuulos (FIN)	15.11
4	Chuhei Nambu (JPN)	15.01
5	Toimi Tulikoura (FIN)	14.70
6	Erkki Järvinen (FIN)	14.65
7	Wim Peters (NED)	14.55
8	Vainö Rainio (FIN)	14.41

Men's Javelin throw - 2 August 1928

1	Erik Lundkvist (SWE)	66.60
2	Béla Szepes (HUN)	65.26
3	Olav Sunde (NOR)	63.97
4	Paavo Liettu (FIN)	63.86
5	Bruno Schlokat (GER)	63.40
6	Eino Penttilä (FIN)	63.20
7	Stanley Lay (NZL)	62.89
8	Johan Meimer (EST)	61.46

Men's 400 m - 3 August 1928

1	Ray Barbuti (USA)	47.8
2	James Ball (CAN)	48.0
3	Joachim Büchner (GER)	48.2
4	John Rinkel (GBR)	48.4
5	Werner Storz (GER)	48.8
6	Herman Phillips (USA)	49.0

Men's 5000 m - 3 August 1928

1	Ville Ritola (FIN)	14:38.0
2	Paavo Nurmi (FIN)	14:40.0
3	Edvin Wide (SWE)	14:41.2
4	Leo Lermond (USA)	14:50.0
5	Ragnar Magnusson (SWE)	14:59.6
6	Armas Kinnunen (FIN)	15:02.0
7	Staislavs Petkevics (LAT)
8	Bert Johnston (GBR)
9	Brian Oddie (GBR)
10	Macauley Smith (USA)

Men's 3000 m Steeplechase - 4 August 1928

1	Toivo Loukola (FIN)	9:21.8
2	Paavo Nurmi (FIN)	9:31.2
3	Ove Andersen (FIN)	9:35.6
4	Nils Eklöf (SWE)	9:38.0
5	Henri Dartigues (FRA)	9:40.0
6	Lucien Duquesne (FRA)	9:40.6
7	Melvin Dalton (USA)
8	Bill Spencer (USA)

Men's Decathlon - 4 August 1928

1	Paavo Yrjölä (FIN)	8,053.290
2	Akilles Järvinen (FIN)	7,931.500
3	Ken Doherty (USA)	7,706.650
4	James Stewart (USA)	7,624.135
5	Thomas Churchill (USA)	7,417.115
6	Helge Jansson (SWE)	7,286.285
7	Ludwig Wessely (AUT)	7,274.850
8	Albert Andersson (SWE)	7,108.435
9	Henry Lindblad (SWE)	7,071.425
10	Wilhelm Ladewig (GER)	6,881.520
11	Hugo Barth (GER)	6,850.605
12	Tatsuo Toki (JPN)	6,757.605
13	Johan Meimer (EST)	6,733.150
14	Sven Emil Lundgren (SWE)	6,727.045
15	Erwin Huber (GER)	6,702.820
16	Martti Tolamo (FIN)	6,642.115
17	Barney Berlinger (USA)	6,619.375
18	Antoni Cejzik (POL)	6,356.280
19	Hermann Lemperle (GER)	6,293.755
20	Stelios Benardis (GRE)	6,149.910
21	Mátyás Farkas (HUN)	6,015.635
22	Yonetaro Nakazawa (JPN)	5,672.175
23	Gaston Étienne (BEL)	5,256.625
24	Branko Kallay (YUG)	5,210.650
25	René Joannes-Powell (BEL)	5,190.650
26	Gheorghe Csegezi (ROM)	5,081.605
27	Gérard Noël (BEL)	4,606.740

Men's 4x100 m relay - 5 August 1928

1	United States (Henry Russell, Charles Borah, James Quinn, Frank Wykoff)	41.0
2	Germany (Helmut Körnig, Hubert Houben, Richard Corts, Georg Lammers)	41.2
3	Great Britain (John London, Walter Rangeley, Edward Smouha, Cyril Gill)	41.8
4	France (André Mourlon, Pierre Dufau, Gilbert Auvergne, André Cerbonney)	42.0
5	Switzerland (Hans Niggl, Willy Tschopp, Willy Weibel, Emmanuel Goldsmith)	42.6

Men's 4x400 m relay - 5 August 1928

1	United States (George Baird, Emerson Spencer, Fred Alderman, Ray Barbuti)	3:14.2
2	Germany (Otto Neumann, Richard Krebs, Harry Storz, Hermann Engelhard)	3:14.8
3	Canada (Alexander Wilson, Phil Edwards, Stanley Glover, James Ball)	3:15.4
4	Sweden (Björn Kugelberg, Bertil Von Wachenfeldt, Erik Byléhn, Sten Pettersson)	3:15.8
5	Great Britain (Roger Leigh-Wood, William Craner, John Rinkel, Douglas Lowe)	3:16.4
6	France (Georges Krotoff, Joseph Jackson, Georges Dupont, René Feger)	3:19.4

Men's Marathon - 5 August 1928

1	Boughera El Ouafi (FRA)	2:32:57
2	Miguel Plaza (CHI)	2:33:23
3	Martti Marttelin (FIN)	2:35:02
4	Kanematsu Yamada (JPN)	2:35:29
5	Joie Ray (USA)	2:36:04
6	Seiichiro Tsuda (JPN)	2:36:20
7	Yrjö Korholin-Koski (FIN)	2:36:40
8	Samuel Ferris (GBR)	2:37:41
9	Whitey Michelsen (USA)	2:38:56
10	Cliff Bricker (CAN)	2:39:24
11	Harry Wood (GBR)	2:41:15
12	Verner Laaksonen (FIN)	2:41:35
13	Harry Payne (GBR)	2:42:29
14	Eino Rastas (FIN)	2:43:08
15	Väinö Sipilä (FIN)	2:43:08
16	Alois Krof (CZE)	2:43:18
17	Johnny Miles (CAN)	2:43:32
18	Léon Broers (BEL)	2:44:37
19	Hans Stelges (GER)	2:45:27
20	Duncan Wright (GBR)	2:45:30
21	Herb Bignall (GBR)	2:45:44
22	Ernest Harper (GBR)	2:45:44
23	Jean Gérault (FRA)	2:46:08
24	Ilmari Kuokka (FIN)	2:46:34
25	Gustav Kinn (SWE)	2:47:35
26	Silas Mclellan (CAN)	2:49:33
27	Clarence Demar (USA)	2:50:42
28	Marcel Denis (FRA)	2:51:15
29	Guillaume Tell (FRA)	2:51:18
30	Henri Landheer (NED)	2:51:59
31	Paul Hempel (GER)	2:52:01
32	Aurelio Terrazas (MEX)	2:52:22
33	Frantisek Zyka (CZE)	2:52:42
34	Giuseppe Ferrera (ITA)	2:53:10
35	José Torres (MEX)	2:54:00
36	Johan Støa (NOR)	2:54:15
37	Gerard Steurs (BEL)	2:54:48
38	Artrs Motmillers (LAT)	2:56:45
39	Jimmy Henigan (USA)	2:56:50
40	Matthew Steytler (RSA)	2:57:21
41	Harvey Frick (USA)	2:57:24
42	Jean Linssen (BEL)	2:58:08
43	Frank Hughes (CAN)	2:58:12
44	Bill Agee (USA)	2:58:50
45	Percy Wyer (CAN)	2:58:52
46	Georg Hörger (GER)	2:59:01
47	Kurt Schneider (GER)	2:59:36
48	Juichi Nagatani (JPN)	3:03:34
49	Jozsef Galambos (HUN)	3:05:58
50	Paul Gerhardt (GER)	3:09:30
51	Gottlieb Bach (DEN)	3:10:30
52	Emilio Ferrer (SPA)	3:11:05
53	Dimitrije Stefanovic (YUG)	3:11:35
54	Joop Vermeulen (NED)	3:13:47
55	Pleun Van Leenen (NED)	3:14:37
56	Joseph Marien (BEL)	3:16:13
57	Willem Van Der Steen (NED)	3:19:53

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