Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics

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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.

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[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres Canada Percy Williams
Canada (CAN)
Great Britain Jack London
Great Britain (GBR)
Germany Georg Lammers
Germany (GER)
200 metres Canada Percy Williams
Canada (CAN)
Great Britain Walter Rangeley
Great Britain (GBR)
Germany Helmut Körnig
Germany (GER)
400 metres United States Ray Barbuti
United States (USA)
Canada James Ball
Canada (CAN)
Germany Joachim Büchner
Germany (GER)
800 metres Great Britain Douglas Lowe
Great Britain (GBR)
Sweden Erik Byléhn
Sweden (SWE)
Germany Hermann Engelhard
Germany (GER)
1500 metres Finland Harri Larva
Finland (FIN)
France Jules Ladoumegue
France (FRA)
Finland Eino Purje
Finland (FIN)
5000 metres Finland Ville Ritola
Finland (FIN)
Finland Paavo Nurmi
Finland (FIN)
Sweden Edvin Wide
Sweden (SWE)
10000 metres Finland Paavo Nurmi
Finland (FIN)
Finland Ville Ritola
Finland (FIN)
Sweden Edvin Wide
Sweden (SWE)
110 metre hurdles South Africa Sydney Atkinson
South Africa (RSA)
United States Steve Anderson
United States (USA)
United States John Collier
United States (USA)
400 metre hurdles Great Britain David Burghley
Great Britain (GBR)
United States Frank Cuhel
United States (USA)
United States Morgan Taylor
United States (USA)
3000 metre steeplechase Finland Toivo Loukola
Finland (FIN)
Finland Paavo Nurmi
Finland (FIN)
Finland Ove Andersen
Finland (FIN)
4×100 metre relay United States United States (USA)
Frank Wykoff
James Quinn
Charles Borah
Henry Russell
Germany Germany (GER)
Georg Lammers
Richard Corts
Hubert Houben
Helmut Körnig
Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
Cyril Gill
Teddy Smouha
Walter Rangeley
Jack London
4×400 metre relay United States United States (USA)
George Baird
Frederick Alderman
Emerson Spencer
Ray Barbuti
Germany Germany (GER)
Otto Neumann
Harry Storz
Richard Krebs
Hermann Engelhard
Canada Canada (CAN)
James Ball
Stanley Glover
Phil Edwards
Alexander Wilson
Decathlon Finland Paavo Yrjölä
Finland (FIN)
Finland Akilles Järvinen
Finland (FIN)
United States John Doherty
United States (USA)
Marathon France Boughera El Ouafi
France (FRA)
Chile Manuel Plaza
Chile (CHI)
Finland Martti Marttelin
Finland (FIN)
Long jump United States Edward Hamm
United States (USA)
Haiti Silvio Cator
Haiti (HAI)
United States Alfred Bates
United States (USA)
Triple jump Japan Mikio Oda
Japan (JPN)
United States Levi Casey
United States (USA)
Finland Vilho Tuulos
Finland (FIN)
High jump United States Robert Wade King
United States (USA)
United States Benjamin Hedges
United States (USA)
France Claude Ménard
France (FRA)
Pole vault United States Sabin Carr
United States (USA)
United States William Droegemuller
United States (USA)
United States Charles McGinnis
United States (USA)
Shot put United States John Kuck
United States (USA)
United States Herman Brix
United States (USA)
Germany Emil Hirschfeld
Germany (GER)
Discus throw United States Clarence Houser
United States (USA)
Finland Antero Kivi
Finland (FIN)
United States James Corson
United States (USA)
Javelin throw Sweden Erik Lundqvist
Sweden (SWE)
Hungary Bela Szepes
Hungary (HUN)
Norway Olav Sunde
Norway (NOR)
Hammer throw Ireland Pat O'Callaghan
Ireland (IRL)
Sweden Ossian Skiöld
Sweden (SWE)
United States Edmund Black
United States (USA)

[edit] Women's events

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

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States United States (USA) 9 8 8 25
2 Finland Finland (FIN) 5 5 4 14
3 Canada Canada (CAN) 4 2 2 8
4 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR) 2 2 1 5
5 Germany Germany (GER) 1 2 6 9
6 Sweden Sweden 1 2 4 7
7 France France (FRA) 1 1 1 3
8 Japan Japan (JPN) 1 1 0 2
9 Ireland Ireland (IRL) 1 0 0 1
Poland Poland (POL) 1 0 0 1
South Africa South Africa (RSA) 1 0 0 1
12 Chile Chile (CHI) 0 1 0 1
Haiti Haiti (HAI) 0 1 0 1
Hungary Hungary (HUN) 0 1 0 1
Netherlands Netherlands (NED) 0 1 0 1
16 Norway Norway (NOR) 0 0 1 1