Summer Olympics : Track & Field in 1928

     MORE YEARS => 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | TRACK & FIELD BY YEAR

 MEDAL COUNTS:

    
COUNTRY
TOTAL
 GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE


United StatesUnited States
25
9
8
8



ChileChile
1
0
1
0



FinlandFinland
14
5
5
4



FranceFrance
3
1
1
1



Great BritainGreat Britain
5
2
2
1



GermanyGermany
9
1
2
6



HaitiHaiti
1
0
1
0



HungaryHungary
1
0
1
0



IrelandIreland
1
1
0
0



JapanJapan
2
1
1
0



NetherlandsNetherlands
1
0
1
0



NorwayNorway
1
0
0
1



PolandPoland
1
1
0
0



South AfricaSouth Africa
1
1
0
0



SwedenSweden
7
1
2
4



CanadaCanada
8
4
2
2






 MEDAL WINNERS:

                           GOLD                                   SILVER                               BRONZE                                 
Men's 100 m                Percy Williams          CAN     10.8 | Jack London           GBR     10.9 | Georg Lammers           GER     10.9
Men's 200 m                Percy Williams          CAN     21.8 | Walter Placeeley      GBR     21.9 | Helmut Kornig           GER     21.9
Men's 400 m                Raymond Barbuti         USA     47.8 | James Ball            CAN     48.0 | Joachim Buchner         GER     48.2
Men's 800 m                Douglas Lowe            GBR   1:51.8 | Erik Bylehn           SWE   1:52.8 | Hermann Engelhard       GER   1:53.2
Men's 1,500 m              Harry Larva             FIN   3:53.2 | Jules Ladoumegue      FRA   3:53.8 | Eino Purje              FIN   3:56.4
Men's 5,000 m              Ville Ritola            FIN  14:38.0 | Paavo Nurmi           FIN  14:40.0 | Edvin Wide              SWE  14:41.2
Men's 10,000 m             Paavo Nurmi             FIN  30:18.8 | Ville Ritola          FIN  30:19.4 | Edvin Wide              SWE  31:00.8
Men's Marathon             Ahmed Boughera El Ouafi FRA  2:32:57 | Miguel Plaza          CHI  2:33:23 | Martti Marttelin        FIN  2:35:02
Men's 110 m Hurdles        Sidney Atkinson         RSA     14.8 | Stephen Anderson      USA     14.8 | John Collier            USA     14.9
Men's 400 m Hurdles        David Burghley          GBR     53.4 | Frank Cuhel           USA     53.6 | Frederick Morgan Taylor USA     53.6
Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase Toivo Loukola           FIN   9:21.8 | Paavo Nurmi           FIN   9:31.2 | Ove Andersen            FIN   9:35.6
Men's 4 x 100 m Relay      United States           USA     41.0 | Germany               GER     41.2 | Great Britain           GBR     41.8
Men's 4 x 400 m Relay      United States           USA   3:14.2 | Germany               GER   3:14.8 | Canada                  CAN   3:15.4
Men's Long Jump            Edward Hamm             USA    7.73m | Silvio Cator          HAI    7.58m | Alfred Bates            USA    7.40m
Men's Triple Jump          Mikio Oda               JPN   15.21m | Levi Casey            USA   15.17m | Vilho Tuulos            FIN   15.11m
Men's High Jump            Robert King             USA    1.94m | Benjamin Hedges       USA    1.91m | Claude Menard           FRA    1.91m
Men's Pole Vault           Sabin William Carr      USA    4.20m | William Droegemueller USA    4.10m | Charles McGinnis        USA    4.10m
Men's Discus               Clarence Houser         USA   47.32m | Antero Kivi           FIN   47.23m | James Corson            USA   47.10m
Men's Hammer Throw         Patrick O'Callaghan     IRL   51.39m | Ossian Skiold         SWE   51.29m | Edmund Black            USA   49.03m
Men's Javelin              Erik Lundkvist          SWE   66.60m | Bela Szepes           HUN   65.26m | Olav Sunde              NOR   63.97m
Men's Shot Put             John Kuck               USA   15.87m | Herman Brix           USA   15.75m | Emil Hirschfeld         GER   15.72m
Men's Decathlon            Paavo Yrjola            FIN 8053.290 | Akilles Jarvinen      FIN 7931.500 | John Kenneth Doherty    USA 7706.650
Women's 100 m              Elizabeth Robinson      USA     12.2 | Fanny Rosenfeld       CAN     12.3 | Ethel Smith             CAN     12.3
Women's 800 m              Lina Radke-Batschauer   GER   2:16.8 | Kinue Hitomi          JPN   2:17.6 | Inga Gentzel            SWE   2:17.8
Women's 4 x 100 m Relay    Canada                  CAN     48.4 | United States         USA     48.8 | Germany                 GER     49.2
Women's High Jump          Ethel Catherwood        CAN    1.59m | Lien Gisolf           NED    1.56m | Mildred Wiley           USA    1.56m
Women's Discus             Halina Konopacka        POL   39.62m | Lillian Copeland      USA   37.08m | Ruth Svedberg           SWE   35.92m