Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Athletics
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics on a stamp of the Netherlands
VenueOlympic Stadium
Dates29 July–5 August
Competitors706 (611 men, 95 women) from 40 nations
← 1924
1932 →
Athletics at the
1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmen
400 mmen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4 × 100 m relaymenwomen
4 × 400 m relaymen
Road events
Marathonmen
Field events
Long jumpmen
Triple jumpmen
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Shot putmen
Discus throwmenwomen
Javelin throwmen
Hammer throwmen
Combined events
Decathlonmen

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, 27 athletics events were contested. The competition was held on a 400-meter track and would become the standard for athletics tracks in the future. For the first time, women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program. There was a total of 706 participants from 40 countries competing.

Medal summary

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)98825
2 Finland (FIN)55414
3 Canada (CAN)4228
4 Great Britain (GBR)2215
5 Germany (GER)1269
6 Sweden (SWE)1247
7 France (FRA)1113
8 Japan (JPN)1102
9 Ireland (IRL)1001
 Poland (POL)1001
 South Africa (RSA)1001
12 Chile (CHI)0101
 Haiti (HAI)0101
 Hungary (HUN)0101
 Netherlands (NED)0101
16 Norway (NOR)0011
Totals (16 entries)27272781

Men

Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details 		Percy Williams
 Canada 		Jack London
 Great Britain 		Georg Lammers
 Germany
200 metres
details 		Percy Williams
 Canada 		Walter Rangeley
 Great Britain 		Helmut Körnig
 Germany
400 metres
details 		Ray Barbuti
 United States 		James Ball
 Canada 		Joachim Büchner
 Germany
800 metres
details 		Douglas Lowe
 Great Britain 		Erik Byléhn
 Sweden 		Hermann Engelhard
 Germany
1500 metres
details 		Harri Larva
 Finland 		Jules Ladoumegue
 France 		Eino Purje
 Finland
5000 metres
details 		Ville Ritola
 Finland 		Paavo Nurmi
 Finland 		Edvin Wide
 Sweden
10,000 metres
details 		Paavo Nurmi
 Finland 		Ville Ritola
 Finland 		Edvin Wide
 Sweden
110 metres hurdles
details 		Sydney Atkinson
 South Africa 		Steve Anderson
 United States 		John Collier
 United States
400 metres hurdles
details 		David Burghley
 Great Britain 		Frank Cuhel
 United States 		Morgan Taylor
 United States
3000 metres steeplechase
details 		Toivo Loukola
 Finland 		Paavo Nurmi
 Finland 		Ove Andersen
 Finland
4 × 100 metres relay
details 		 United States (USA)
Frank Wykoff
James Quinn
Charles Borah
Henry Russell 		 Germany (GER)
Georg Lammers
Richard Corts
Hubert Houben
Helmut Körnig 		 Great Britain (GBR)
Cyril Gill
Edward Smouha
Walter Rangeley
Jack London
4 × 400 metres relay
details 		 United States (USA)
George Baird
Fred Alderman
Emerson Spencer
Ray Barbuti 		 Germany (GER)
Otto Neumann
Harry Werner Storz
Richard Krebs
Hermann Engelhard 		 Canada (CAN)
James Ball
Stanley Glover
Phil Edwards
Alex Wilson
Marathon
details 		Boughera El Ouafi
 France 		Manuel Plaza
 Chile 		Martti Marttelin
 Finland
High jump
details 		Bob King
 United States 		Benjamin Hedges
 United States 		Claude Ménard
 France
Pole vault
details 		Sabin Carr
 United States 		William Droegemuller
 United States 		Charles McGinnis
 United States
Long jump
details 		Edward Hamm
 United States 		Silvio Cator
 Haiti 		Alfred Bates
 United States
Triple jump
details 		Mikio Oda
 Japan 		Levi Casey
 United States 		Vilho Tuulos
 Finland
Shot put
details 		John Kuck
 United States 		Herman Brix
 United States 		Emil Hirschfeld
 Germany
Discus throw
details 		Bud Houser
 United States 		Antero Kivi
 Finland 		James Corson
 United States
Hammer throw
details 		Pat O'Callaghan
 Ireland 		Ossian Skiöld
 Sweden 		Edmund Black
 United States
Javelin throw
details 		Erik Lundqvist
 Sweden 		Béla Szepes
 Hungary 		Olav Sunde
 Norway
Decathlon
details 		Paavo Yrjölä
 Finland 		Akilles Järvinen
 Finland 		Ken Doherty
 United States

Women

Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details 		Betty Robinson
 United States 		Bobbie Rosenfeld
 Canada 		Ethel Smith
 Canada
800 metres
details 		Lina Radke
 Germany 		Kinue Hitomi
 Japan 		Inga Gentzel
 Sweden
4 × 100 metres relay
details 		 Canada (CAN)
Myrtle Cook
Ethel Smith
Bobbie Rosenfeld
Jane Bell 		 United States (USA)
Jessie Cross
Loretta McNeil
Betty Robinson
Mary Washburn 		 Germany (GER)
Anni Holdmann
Leni Junker
Rosa Kellner
Leni Schmidt
High jump
details 		Ethel Catherwood
 Canada 		Lien Gisolf
 Netherlands 		Mildred Wiley
 United States
Discus throw
details 		Halina Konopacka
 Poland 		Lillian Copeland
 United States 		Ruth Svedberg
 Sweden

Records broken

During the 1928 Summer Olympic Games 9 new world records were set in the athletics events. New Olympic records were set in 16 of the 27 events.

Men's world records

Event Date Round Name Nationality Result
110 metres hurdles July 31 Semifinal George Weightman-Smith  South Africa 14.6
3000 metres steeplechase August 4 Final Toivo Loukola  Finland 9:21.8
4 × 400 metres relay August 5 Final George Baird
Fred Alderman
Emerson Spencer
Ray Barbuti		  United States 3:14.2
Shot put July 29 Final John Kuck  United States 15.87 m
Decathlon August 5 Final Paavo Yrjölä  Finland 8,053.290

Women's world records

Event Date Round Name Nationality Result
800 metres August 2 Final Lina Radke  Germany 2:16.8
4 × 100 metres relay August 5 Final Myrtle Cook
Ethel Smith
Bobbie Rosenfeld
Jane Bell		  Canada 48.4
High jump August 5 Final Ethel Catherwood  Canada 1.595 m
Discus throw July 31 Final Halina Konopacka  Poland 39.62 m

Participating nations

706 athletes from 40 nations competed. Lithuania and Romania competed in athletics for the first time. Bulgaria, Egypt, Malta, Panama, Rhodesia, and Uruguay were the only six nations not to compete in athletics.

References

52°20′36″N 4°51′15″E / 52.3434°N 4.8542°E / 52.3434; 4.8542

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