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

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| <br />USA II<br />Billy Fiske<br />Clifford Gray<br />Geoffrey Mason<br />Richard Parke<br />Nion Tocker

| <br />USA I<br />Thomas Doe<br />David Granger<br />Jennison Heaton<br />Lyman Hine<br />Jay O'Brien

| <br />Germany II<br />Hans Heß<br />Sebastian Huber<br />Hanns Kilian<br />Valentin Krempl<br />Hanns Nägle

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Results

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! Place !! Team !! Bobsledders !! Run 1 !! Run 2 !! Total

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|bgcolor=gold| 1 ||align=left| ||align=left| Billy Fiske, Nion Tocker, Geoffrey Mason, Clifford Gray, and Richard Parke

|| 1:38.9 || 1:41.6 || 3:20.5

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|bgcolor=silver| 2 ||align=left| ||align=left| Jennison Heaton, David Granger, Lyman Hine, Jay O'Brien, and Thomas Doe

|| 1:42.3 || 1:38.7 || 3:21.0

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|bgcolor=cc9966| 3 ||align=left| ||align=left| Hanns Kilian, Hans Heß, Sebastian Huber, Valentin Krempl, and Hanns Nägle

|| 1:41.7 || 1:40.2 || 3:21.9

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| 4 ||align=left| ||align=left| Arturo Gramajo, Ricardo González, Mariano de María, Rafael Iglesias, and John Victor Nash

|| 1:40.1 || 1:42.5 || 3:22.6

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| 5 ||align=left| ||align=left| Eduardo Hope, Jorge del Carril, Héctor Milberg, Horacio Iglesias, and Horacio Gramajo

|| 1:42.3 || 1:40.6 || 3:22.9

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| 6 ||align=left| ||align=left| 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

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| 7 ||align=left| ||align=left| Grigore Socolescu, Ion Gavăț, Traian Nițescu, Toma Ghițulescu, and Mircea Socolescu

|| 1:43.8 || 1:40.8 || 3:24.6

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| 8 ||align=left| ||align=left| Charles Stoffel, René Fonjallaz, Henry Höhnes, Emil Coppetti, and Louis Koch

|| 1:43.1 || 1:42.6 || 3:25.7

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| 9 ||align=left| ||align=left| Henry Martineau, Walter Birch, John Dalrymple, John Gee, and Edward Hall

|| 1:41.7 || 1:44.5 || 3:26.2

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| 10 ||align=left| ||align=left| George Pim, Guy Tracey, David Griffith, Frederick Browning, and Thomas Warner

|| 1:40.6 || 1:45.7 || 3:26.3

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| 11 ||align=left| ||align=left| 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

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| 12 ||align=left| ||align=left| Curt van de Sandt, Jacques Delprat, Edwin Teixeira de Mattos, Henri Dekking, and Hubert Menten

|| 1:43.5 || 1:45.5 || 3:29.0

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| 13 ||align=left| ||align=left| Jean Moillen, John Schneiter, René Ansermoz, André Moillen, and William Pichard

|| 1:41.7 || 1:48.2 || 3:29.9

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| 14 ||align=left| ||align=left| 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

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| 15 ||align=left| ||align=left| 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

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| 16 ||align=left| ||align=left| Charles Mulder, Hubert Kryn, Ferdinand Hubert, Louis Rooy, and Robert Langlois

|| 1:45.0 || 1:46.2 || 3:31.2

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| 17 ||align=left| ||align=left| Józef Broel-Plater, Jerzy Bardziński, Jerzy Łucki, Jerzy Potulicki-Skórzewski, and Antoni Bura

|| 1:44.8 || 1:46.8 || 3:31.6

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| 18 ||align=left| ||align=left| Hans-Edgar Endres, Paul Martin, Karl Reinhardt, Paul Volkhardt, and Rudolf Soenning

|| 1:48.0 || 1:43.9 || 3:31.9

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| 19 ||align=left| ||align=left| Alexandru Berlescu, Eugen Ştefănescu, Petre Petrovici, Tita Rădulescu, and Horia Roman

|| 1:47.3 || 1:44.9 || 3:32.2

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| 20 ||align=left| ||align=left| Marc Schoetter, Raoul Weckbecker, Willy Heldenstein, Pierre Kaempff, and Auguste Hilbert

|| 1:45.8 || 1:46.9 || 3:32.7

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| 21 ||align=left| ||align=left| Giancarlo Morpugo, Carlo Sem, Luigi Cerutti, Giuseppe Crivelli, and Piero Marchetti

|| 1:45.0 || 1:49.6 || 3:34.6

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| 22 ||align=left| ||align=left| Franz Lorenz, Franz Wohlgemuth, Eduard Pechanda, Benno Karner, and Richard Lorenz

|| 1:52.3 || 1:49.7 || 3:42.0

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| — ||align=left| ||align=left| Gustav Mader, Hugo Weinstengel, Michael Waissnix, Walter Sehr, and Franz Pamperl

|| 1:44.2 || DSQ || DSQ

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Participating nations

A total of 115 bobsledders from 14 nations competed at the St. Moritz Games:

Medal table

References

  • International Olympic Committee results database
  • Official Olympic Report
  • sports-reference
  • 1928 bobsleigh five-man results