Germany at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Germany at the Olympic Games
Flag of Germany – Flag bearers IOC code  GER NOC Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund Website www.dosb.de (German)
At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
Competitors	296 (261 men, 35 women) in 16 sports
Flag bearer	Ernst Paulus
Medals Rank: 2	Gold 10	Silver 7	Bronze 14	Total 31
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Germany competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Germany returned to the Olympic Games after not being invited to both the 1920 and 1924 Games. Despite a total absence of 16 years since 1912, German athletes were ranked 2nd. 296 competitors, 261 men and 35 women, took part in 95 events in 16 sports.^[1]

Contents 1 Medalists 1.1 Gold 1.2 Silver 1.3 Bronze 2 Athletics 3 Boxing 4 Cycling 5 Diving 6 Equestrian 7 Fencing 8 Football 9 Hockey 10 Modern pentathlon 11 Rowing 12 Sailing 13 Swimming 14 Water Polo 15 Weightlifting 16 Wrestling 17 Art competitions 18 References 19 External links

Medalists

Gold

• Lina Radke — Athletics, Women's 800m
• Carl Freiherr von Langen — Equestrian, Individual dressage
• Eugen Freiherr von Lotzbeck, Hermann Linkenbach and Carl Freiherr von Langen — Equestrian, Team dressage
• Helene Mayer — Fencing, Women's Individual Foil
• Kurt Moeschter and Bruno Muller — Rowing, Coxless pair
• Hilde Schrader — Swimming, Women's 200m breaststroke
• Men'Team — Water polo
• Josef Strassberger — Weightlifting, Heavyweight
• Kurt Helbig — Weightlifting, Lightweight
• Kurt Leucht — Wrestling, Greco-Roman Bantamweight

Silver

• Georg Lammers, Richard Corts, Hubert Houben and Helmut Körnig — Athletics, Men's 4x100m relay
• Otto Neumann, Harry Werner Storz, Richard Krebs and Hermann Engelhard — Athletics, Men's 4x400m relay
• Ernst Pistulla — Boxing, Light Heavyweight
• Erwin Casmir — Fencing, Men's Individual Foil
• Erich Rademacher — Swimming, Men's 200m breaststroke
• Eduard Sperling — Wrestling, Greco-Roman Lightweight
• Adolf Rieger — Wrestling, Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight

Bronze

• Georg Lammers — Athletics, Men's 100m
• Helmut Körnig — Athletics, Men's 200m
• Joachim Büchner — Athletics, Men's 400m
• Rosa Kellner, Leni Schmidt, Anni Holdmann and Leni Junker — Athletics, Women's 4x100m relay
• Hermann Engelhard — Athletics, Men's 800m
• Emil Hirschfeld — Athletics, Men's shot put
• Karl Köther and Hans Bernhardt — Cycling, Men's Tandem
• Bruno Neumann — Equestrian, Individual eventing
• Olga Oelkers — Fencing, Women's Individual Foil
• Men's Team — Hockey
• Helmut Kahl — Modern pentathlon
• Charlotte Mühe — Swimming, Women's 200m breaststroke
• Hans Wölpert — Weightlifting, Featherweight
• Georg Gehring — Wrestling, Greco-Roman Heavyweight

Athletics

Boxing

Men's Flyweight (– 50.8 kg)

• Hubert Ausbock

• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Defeated Lennart Bohman (SWE), points
• Quarterfinals — Lost to Antal Kocsis (HUN), points

Men's Heavyweight (+ 79.4 kg)

• Hans Schonrath

• First Round — Bye
• Quarterfinals — Lost to Nils Ramm (SWE), points

Cycling

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

13 fencers, 10 men and 3 women, represented Germany in 1928.

Men's foil

• Erwin Casmir
• Fritz Gazzera
• Julius Thomson

Men's team foil

• Erwin Casmir, Fritz Gazzera, Julius Thomson, Wilhelm Löffler, August Heim, Heinrich Moos

Men's épée

• Hans Halberstadt
• Fritz Jack
• Theodor Fischer

Men's team épée

• Theodor Fischer, Fritz Gazzera, Hans Halberstadt, Fritz Jack

Men's sabre

• Erwin Casmir
• Hans Thomson
• Heinrich Moos

Men's team sabre

• Erwin Casmir, Heinrich Moos, Hans Halberstadt, Hans Thomson

Women's foil

• Helene Mayer
• Olga Oelkers
• Erna Sondheim

Football

Hockey

Modern pentathlon

Rowing

Sailing

Swimming

Water Polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Art competitions

References

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

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