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Info about the Games

*Host City: Amsterdam, Netherlands*	Participants: 706 (611 men and 95 women) from 40 countries
*Date Started: July 29, 1928*	Youngest Participant: POL Gertruda Kilosówna (15 years, 174 days)
*Date Finished: August 5, 1928*	Oldest Participant: SWE Carl Johan Lind (45 years, 66 days)
*Events: 27*	Most Medals (Athlete): FIN Paavo Nurmi (3 medals)
	Most Medals (Country): USA United States (25 medals)

Venue

Olympic Stadium

Year	Dates	City	Venue	Countries	Athletes	Men	Women	Events	(Men/Women)
1928	Jul 29-Aug 5	Amsterdam,NED	Olympic Stadium	40	706	611	95	27	22/5

Athletics at the
1928 Olympic Games Amsterdam, Netherlands

Men's 100 m	Women's 100 m
Men's 200 m	Women's 800 m
Men's 400 m	Women's 4 x 100 m
Men's 800 m	Women's High Jump
Men's 1500 m	Women's Discus Throw
Men's 5000 m
Men's 10000 m
Men's 110 m Hurdles
Men's 400 m Hurdles
Men's 3000 m steeple
Men's 4 x 100 m
Men's 4 x 400 m
Men's Marathon
Men's High Jump
Men's Pole Vault
Men's Long Jump
Men's Triple Jump
Men's Shot Put
Men's Discus Throw
Men's Hammer Throw
Men's Javelin Throw
Men's Decathlon

Women's 100m final 1928 Olympics The First Women's Track Champion

Overview

The biggest story of the 1928 Olympic track & field was that women were allowed to compete for the first time. After they were denied the chance to compete in Olympic track & field, the Fédération Sportive Feminine International (FSFI) was formed in 1922 and sponsored women’s international athletics competitions in Paris in 1922 and in Göteborg in 1926. Spurred on by this competing organization, the IAAF relented and allowed women to compete in Amsterdam in five events – the 100 metres, 800 metres, 4x100 relay, high jump, and discus throw. In the 800 metres, the event was won by German [Lina Radke], but several of the women in the event collapsed in exhaustion after the race, not unlike the men. But the IOC and IAAF considered this dangerous to women, and women would not run more than 200 metres at the Olympics again until 1960. In the sprints, Canada’s [Percy Williams] became the first non-American to win the 100/200 double. Finland continued to star in the distance races, winning all the events longer than 800 metres, with [Paavo Nurmi] back winning gold in the 10K and silver in the steeplechase.

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

Men

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 metres	Percy Williams Canada	Jack London Great Britain	Georg Lammers Germany
200 metres	Percy Williams Canada	Walter Rangeley Great Britain	Helmut Körnig Germany
400 metres	Ray Barbuti United States	James Ball Canada	Joachim Büchner Germany
800 metres	Douglas Lowe Great Britain	Erik Byléhn Sweden	Hermann Engelhard Germany
1500 metres	Harri Larva Finland	Jules Ladoumegue France	Eino Purje Finland
5000 metres	Ville Ritola Finland	Paavo Nurmi Finland	Edvin Wide Sweden
10,000 metres	Paavo Nurmi Finland	Ville Ritola Finland	Edvin Wide Sweden
110 metres hurdles	Sydney Atkinson South Africa	Steve Anderson United States	John Collier United States
400 metres hurdles	David Burghley Great Britain	Frank Cuhel United States	Morgan Taylor United States
3000 metres steeplechase	Toivo Loukola Finland	Paavo Nurmi Finland	Ove Andersen Finland
4 × 100 metres relay	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	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	Boughera El Ouafi France	Manuel Plaza Chile	Martti Marttelin Finland
Long jump	Edward Hamm United States	Silvio Cator Haiti	Alfred Bates United States
Triple jump	Mikio Oda Japan	Levi Casey United States	Vilho Tuulos Finland
High jump	Bob King United States	Benjamin Hedges United States	Claude Ménard France
Pole vault	Sabin Carr United States	William Droegemuller United States	Charles McGinnis United States
Shot put	John Kuck United States	Herman Brix United States	Emil Hirschfeld Germany
Discus throw	Bud Houser United States	Antero Kivi Finland	James Corson United States
Javelin throw	Erik Lundqvist Sweden	Béla Szepes Hungary	Olav Sunde Norway
Hammer throw	Pat O'Callaghan Ireland	Ossian Skiöld Sweden	Edmund Black United States
Decathlon	Paavo Yrjölä Finland	Akilles Järvinen Finland	Ken Doherty United States
Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 metres	Betty Robinson United States	Bobbie Rosenfeld Canada	Ethel Smith Canada
800 metres	Lina Radke Germany	Kinue Hitomi Japan	Inga Gentzel Sweden
4 × 100 metres relay	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	Ethel Catherwood Canada	Lien Gisolf Netherlands	Mildred Wiley United States
Discus throw	Halina Konopacka Poland	Lillian Copeland United States	Ruth Svedberg Sweden

Medal table

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

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.

Argentina (7)
Australia (7)
Austria (4)
Belgium (32)
Canada (32)
Chile (8)
Cuba (1)
Czechoslovakia (11)
Denmark (10)
Estonia (4)
Finland (35)
France (50)
Germany (62)
Great Britain (55)

Greece (13)
Haiti (2)
Hungary (26)
India (7)
Ireland (10)
Italy (24)
Japan (16)
Latvia (6)
Lithuania (5)
Luxembourg (4)
Mexico (11)
Monaco (1)
Netherlands (50)
New Zealand (3)

Norway (13)
Philippines (2)
Poland (15)
Portugal (3)
Romania (13)
South Africa (9)
Spain (10)
Sweden (29)
Switzerland (9)
Turkey (6)
United States (98)
Yugoslavia (4)

PLACING TABLES
Amsterdam 1928
Overall	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Medals	Points
USA	9	8	8	7	7	4	5+1=	2	25	263.8
FIN	5	5	4	1	2	4	2	2	14	130
GER	1	2	6	4	4	3	4	-	9	111
CAN	4	2	2	3	2	-	-	-	8	81
SWE	1	2	4	4	1	2	1	2	7	80
GBR	2	2	1	1	4	1	-	2	5	62
FRA	1	1	1	2	1	3	2=	1	3	46.5
JPN	1	1	-	2	-	3	1=	-	2	34.8
RSA	1	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	1	20
NED	-	1	-	-	1	1	1	-	1	16
NOR	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	1	1	12
ITA	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	-	0	11
POL	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	10
HUN	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	9
IRL	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	8
CHI	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	8
HAI	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	7
SUI	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	0	7
PHI	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	0	5
AUT	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	0	5
ARG	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	0	2
LAT	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	0	2
NZL	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	0	2
EST	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0	1
TCH	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0	1
Totals	27	27	27	27	26	25	17+4=	17	81	935

Men	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Medals	Points
USA	8	6	7	6	7	3	4+1=	1	21	224.8
FIN	5	5	4	1	2	4	2	2	14	130
GER	-	2	5	2	3	2	2	-	7	76
SWE	1	2	2	4	1	2	1	2	5	68
GBR	2	2	1	1	4	1	-	2	5	62
CAN	2	1	1	2	1	-	-	-	4	43
FRA	1	1	1	1	1	3	2=	1	3	41.5
JPN	1	-	-	2	-	3	1=	-	1	27.8
RSA	1	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	1	16
NOR	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	1	1	12
HUN	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	9
IRL	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	8
CHI	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	8
ITA	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	0	8
HAI	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	7
SUI	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	0	7
PHI	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	0	5
NED	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	0	5
ARG	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	0	2
AUT	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	0	2
LAT	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	0	2
NZL	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	0	2
EST	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0	1
TCH	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0	1
Totals	22	22	22	22	22	21	14+4=	14	66	768
Women	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Medals	Points
USA	1	2	1	1	-	1	1	1	4	39
CAN	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	4	38
GER	1	-	1	2	1	1	2	-	2	35
SWE	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	2	12
NED	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	11
POL	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	10
JPN	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	7
FRA	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	0	5
RSA	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	0	4
AUT	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	0	3
ITA	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	0	3
Totals	5	5	5	5	4	4	3	3	15	167

July 29	14h00	Men's 400 m hurdles preliminaries
		Men's High jump preliminaries
		Men's Shot put Final
	14h30	Men's 100 m round 1
	15h30	Men's 800 m preliminaries
	16h00	Men's 100 m round 2
	16h00	Men's High jump Final
	16h30	Men's 400 m hurdles Semifinals
	17h00	Men's 10,000 m Final

July 30	14h00	Men's 100 m Semifinal
	14h00	Men's Hammer throw Final
	14h30	Women's 100 m preliminaries
	15h15	Men's 400 m hurdles Final
	15h45	Men's 100 m Semifinal
	16h15	Women's 100 m Semifinals
	16h45	Men's 100 m Final

July 31	14h00	Men's 110 m hurdles preliminaries
		Men's Long jump Final
		Women's Discus throw Final
	14h30	Men's 200 m round 1
	15h15	Men's 800 m Final
	15h30	Women's 100 m Final
	15h45	Men's 110 m hurdles Semifinals
	16h15	Men's 5,000 m preliminaries
	17h00	Men's 200 m round 2

August 1^st	14h00	Men's 200 m Semifinals
		Men's Discus throw Final
		Men's Pole Vault trials
	14h30	Women's 800 m trials
	15h15	Men's 110 m hurdles Final
	15h30	Men's 3,000 m steeplechase trials
	16h15	Men's 200 m Final
	16h30	Men's 1,500 m trials
	16h30	Men's Pole Vault Final

August 2	14h00	Men's 400 m 1^st trials
		Men's Javelin throw Final
		Men's Triple jump Final
	15h00	Men's 1,500 m Final
	15h30	Women's 800 m Final
	16h00	Men's 400 m 2nd trials

August 3	10h00	Men's Decathlon 100 m
	11h00	Men's Decathlon long jump
	14h00	Men's 400 m Semifinals
	14h00	Men's Decathlon shot put
	14h30	Men's 5,000 m Final
	15h00	Men's Decathlon high jump
	16h00	Men's 400 m Final
	17h00	Men's Decathlon 400 m

August 4	10h00	Men's Decathlon 110 m hurdles
	11h00	Men's Decathlon discus throw
	14h00	Men's 4 x 100 m relay trials
	14h00	Men's Decathlon pole vault
	14h45	Women's 4 x 100 m relay trials
	15h30	Men's 3,000 m steeplechase Final
	16h00	Men's 4 x 400 m relay trials
	16h00	Men's Decathlon javelin throw
	17h00	Men's Decathlon 1.500 m

August 5	14h00	Men's 4 x 100 m relay Semifinals
	14h00	Women's High jump trials
	14h30	Women's 4 x 100 m relay Final
	14h45	Men's 4 x 100 m relay Final
	15h00	Men's Marathon
	15h15	Women's High jump Final
	15h30	Men's 4 x 400 m relay Final