Figure skating at the

1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; german: II. Olympische Winterspiele; it, II Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. M ...

took place at the Olympic Ice Rink in

St. Moritz, Switzerland St. Moritz (also german: Sankt Moritz, rm, , it, San Maurizio, french: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in ...

, between 14 and 19 February 1928. Three

figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

events were contested: men's singles, ladies' singles, and

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. Unseasonably warm weather in St. Moritz during the Games caused difficulty for the figure skating events, as the ice surface was outdoors. There was a proposal to move the competition to an indoor rink in Berlin or London, but colder weather returned before a decision could be made. However, the ice surface remained in poor condition for the duration of the Games. During the ladies' free skating, red flags were placed on the ice to mark the especially bad areas, which became more numerous as the competition progressed."The Olympics: 1920, 1924, and 1928", ''Skating'' magazine, December 1959 Bundesarchiv Bild 102-05464, St

Medal summary

Medalists

Medal table

Again only Austria was able to win more than one medal but this time without winning a gold medal.

Participating nations

Twelve figure skater (seven men and five ladies) competed in both the singles and the pairs event. A total of 51 figure skaters (23 men and 28 ladies) from eleven nations (men from eleven nations and ladies from eleven nations) competed at the St. Moritz Games: * (men 4, women 5) * (men 1, women 1) * (men 2, women 3) * (men 2, women 1) * (men 2, women 1) * (men 1, women 2) * (men 3, women 5) * (men 3, women 2) * (men 0, women 4) * (men 1, women 0) * (men 1, women 1) * (men 3, women 3)

References

External links

International Olympic Committee results database
{{Figure skating at the Olympic Games 1928 Winter Olympics events

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