Athletics Olympic Games Amsterdam 1928 from 29th July to 5th August

Athletics Olympic Games Amsterdam 1928 from 29th July to 5th August

27 events - 22 for men and 5 for women. 706 competitors (611 men and 95 women) from 40 nations.

Men	Gold			Silver			Bronze
Men 100m	Percy Williams	Can	10.8s	Jack London	GBR	10.9s	Georg Lammers	GER	10.9s
Men 1500m	Harri Larva	FIN	3:53.2	Jules Ladoumègue	FRA	3:53.8	Eino Purje	FIN	3:56.4
Men 10000m	Paavo Nurmi	FIN	30:18.8	Ville Ritola	FIN	30:19.4	Edvin Wide	SWE	31:00.8
Men Marathon	Boughera El Ouafi	FRA	2:32:57	Manuel Plaza	CHI	2:33:23	Martti Marttelin	FIN	2:35:02

Discipline	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men 200m	Percy Williams	CAN	Walter Rangeley	GBR	Helmut Kornig	GER
Men 400m	Ray Barbuti	USA	James Ball	CAN	Joachim Buchner	GER
Men 800m	Douglas Lowe	GBR	Erik Bylehn	SWE	Hermann Engelhardt	GER
Men 5000m	Ville Ritola	FIN	Paavo Nurmi	FIN	Edvin Wide	SWE
Men 4x100m Relay	United States		Germany		Great Britain
Men 4x400m Relay	United States		Germany		Canada
Men 110m Hurdles	Sydney Atkinson	SAF	Steve Anderson	USA	John Collier	USA
Men 400m Hurdles	David Burghley	GBR	Frank Cuhel	USA	Morgan Taylor	USA
Men 3000m Steeplechase	Toiva Loukola	FIN	Paavo Nurmi	FIN	Ove Andersen	FIN
Men High Jump	Robert King	USA	Ben Hedges	USA	Claude Menard	FRA
Men Pole Vault	Sabin Carr	USA	William Droegemueller	USA	Charles McGinnis	USA
Men Long Jump	Edward Hamm	USA	Silvio Cator	HAI	Alfred Bates	USA
Men Triple Jump	Mikio Oda	JPN	Levi Casey	USA	Vilho Tuulos	FIN
Men Shot Put	John Kuck	USA	Herman Brix	USA	Emil Hirschfeld	GER
Men Discus Throw	Clarence Houser	USA	Antero Kivi	FIN	James Corson	USA
Men Hammer Throw	Patrick O'Callaghan	IRL	Ossian Skiold	SWE	Edmund Black	USA
Men Javelin Throw	Erik Lundqvist	SWE	Bela Szepes	HUN	Olav Sunde	NOR
Men Decathlon	Paavo Yrjola	FIN	Akilles Jarvinen	FIN	Kenneth Doherty	USA

Women	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women 100m	Elizabeth Robinson	USA	Fanny Rosenfeld	CAN	Ethel Smith	CAN
Women 800m	Karoline Radke	GER	Kinue Hitomi	JPN	Inga Gentzel	SWE
Women 4x100m Relay	Canada		United States		Germany
Women High Jump	Ethel Catherwood	CAN	Carolina Gisolf	NED	Mildred Wiley	USA
Women Discus Throw	Halina Konopacka	POL	Lillian Copeland	USA	Ruth Svedberg	SWE

Athletics World Index

Medals		Gd	Sv	Br	All
1.	United States	9	8	8	25
2.	Finland	5	5	4	14
3.	Canada	4	2	2	8
4.	Great Britain	2	2	1	5
5.	Germany	1	2	6	9
6.	Sweden	1	2	4	7
7.	France	1	1	1	3
8.	Japan	1	1		2
9.	Ireland	1			1
9.	Poland	1			1
9.	South Africa	1			1
12.	Haiti		1		1
12.	Hungary		1		1
12.	Netherlands		1		1
12.	Chile		1		1
16.	Norway			1	1

Points Ranking		Points
1.	United States	209
2.	Finland	107
3.	Canada	76.5
4.	Germany	70.5
5.	Sweden	54
6.	Great Britain	48
7.	France	31
8.	Japan	25
9.	South Africa	16
10.	Ireland	10
10.	Poland	10
12.	Netherlands	9
13.	Norway	7
14.	Haiti	6
14.	Hungary	6
14.	Chile	6
17.	Italy	5
18.	Philippines	3
18.	Switzerland	3
20.	Austria	1

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