Military patrol at the 1928 Winter Olympics
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The German team.
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Referees from France, Italy, Switzerland and Poland
At the 1928 Winter Olympics, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, a military patrol competition was held. Because of a snowstorm the night before the competition, the start of the event was delayed 45 minutes to the cleaning up of the track. The competition was contested over a 30 km distance with an elevation difference of 1100 metres. The starting point was on a height of 2,108 metres, the highest point at 2,877 metres, and the goal in the valley at 1,850 metres.[1] Nine countries with 36 military patrol runners participated in this event.
The event was held on Sunday, February 12, 1928.
Place | Team | Time |
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1 | ![]() (Ole Reistad, Leif Skagnæs, Ole Stenen, Reidar Ødegaard) |
3:50:47 |
2 | ![]() (Eino Hjalmar Kuvaja, Kalle Tuppurainen, Esko Järvinen, Veikko Hannes Ruotsalainen |
3:54:37 |
3 | ![]() (Franz Kunz,[2] Hugo Lehner, Otto Furrer, Anton Julen) |
3:55:04 |
4 | ![]() (Enrico Silvestri, Daniele Pellissier, Erminio Confortola, Piero Maquignaz) |
4:07:30 |
5 | ![]() (, , Josef Rehm, Ludwig Mayer) |
4:15:02 ½ |
6 | ![]() (Otakar Německý, , , ) |
4:15:07 ½ |
7 | ![]() (Zbigniew Wóycicki, Władysław Żytkowicz, Bronisław Czech, Tadeusz Zaydel) |
4:39:45 |
8 | ![]() (, , , ) |
5:00:16 |
9 | ![]() (Marcel Pourchier, R. Mandrillon, R. Gindre, M. Perrier) |
5:20:26 |
References[]
- (in French) Swiss Olympic Committee St. Moritz 1928, 1928. pp.12-13 (digitized version)
- (in French) Swiss Olympic Committee Résultats DES concours DES IImes jeux Olympiques d'Hiver, 1928. (digitized version)
- ^ Norsk militæridrett: Tøff tur for Reistad[permanent dead link] (Norwegian), p. 11.
- ^ also findable as "Oberleutnant Kunz"
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