Great Britain at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Great Britain at the 1928 Winter Olympics
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IOC code	GBR
NOC	British Olympic Association
in St. Moritz
Competitors	32 (29 men, 3 women) in 5 sports
Medals Ranked 8th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. These games marked the first time in Olympic History that Great Britain didn't take a gold medal.

Medallists[]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Bronze	David Carnegie	Skeleton	Men's single event

Bobsleigh[]

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GBR-1	Henry Martineau Walter Birch John Gee	Five-man	1:40.6	4	1:45.7	15	3:26.3	10
GBR-2	George Pim Guy Tracey David Griffith Frederick Browning Thomas Warner	Five-man	1:41.7	5	1:44.5	10	3:26.2	9

Figure skating[]

Men

Athlete	Event	CF	FS	Places	Points	Final rank
Ian Bowhill	Men's singles	15	14	101	1202.25	14
Jack Page		8	11	62	1424.00	9

Women

Athlete	Event	CF	FS	Places	Points	Final rank
Kathleen Shaw	Women's singles	11	19	95	1900.00	14

Pairs

Athletes	Points	Score	Final rank
Kathleen Lovett Proctor Burman	110.5	57.75	13
Ethel Muckelt Jack Page	61.5	79.00	7

Ice hockey[]

Group A[]

The top team (highlighted) advanced to the medal round.

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA
Great Britain	3	2	1	10	6
France	3	2	1	6	5
Belgium	3	2	1	9	10
Hungary	3	0	3	2	6

February 11	Great Britain	7–3 (3–1,2–0,2–2)	Belgium
February 12	France	3–2 (0–1,3–1,0–0)	Great Britain
February 15	Great Britain	1–0 (1–0,0–0,0–0)	Hungary

Medal round[]

The top teams from each of the three groups, plus Canada, which had received a bye into the medal round, played a 3-game round-robin to determine the medal winners.

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA
Canada	3	3	0	38	0
Sweden	3	2	1	7	12
Switzerland	3	1	2	4	17
Great Britain (4th)	3	0	3	1	21

February 17	Switzerland	4:0 (0:0,2:0,2:0)	Great Britain
February 18	Canada	14:0 (6:0,4:0,4:0)	Great Britain
February 19	Sweden	3:1 (2:1,0:0,1:0)	Great Britain

4th	Great Britain (GBR)
	Wilbert Brown Colin Carruthers Eric Carruthers Ross Cuthbert Bernard Fawcett Harold Greenwood Frederick Melland John Rogers Blaine Sexton William Speechly Victor Tait Charles Wyld

Skeleton[]

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
John, Earl of Northesk	1:02.7	4	1:01.0	3	1:01.4	2	3:05.1

Speed skating[]

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Cyril Horn	54.9	32
	Leonard Stewart	54.8	31
	Fred Dix	53.4	30
1500 m	Fred Dix	2:49.6	28
	Leonard Stewart	2:48.9	27
	Cyril Horn	2:40.0	24
5000 m	Fred Dix	10:55.6	32
	Leonard Stewart	10:40.0	31
	Cyril Horn	9:45.0	23

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