Military patrol at the 1928 Winter Olympics

The German team.
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 (19 mi) distance with an elevation difference of 1,100 m (3,600 ft). The starting point was on a height of 2,108 m (6,916 ft), the highest point at 2,877 m (9,439 ft), and the goal in the valley at 1,850 m (6,070 ft).[1] Nine countries with 36 military patrol runners participated in this event.

The event was held on Sunday, February 12, 1928. It was originally to be a full Olympic event, but its status was downgraded to that of demonstration sport.[2]

Place Team Time
1  Norway
(Ole Reistad, Leif Skagnæs, Ole Stenen, Reidar Ødegaard)		  3:50:47
2  Finland
(Eino Hjalmar Kuvaja, Kalle Tuppurainen, Esko Järvinen, Veikko Hannes Ruotsalainen		  3:54:37
3  Switzerland
(Franz Kunz,[3] Hugo Lehner, Otto Furrer, Anton Julen)		  3:55:04
4  Italy
(Enrico Silvestri, Daniele Pellissier, Erminio Confortola, Piero Maquignaz)		  4:07:30
5  Germany
(Franz Raithel, Stefan Kistler, Josef Rehm, Ludwig Mayer)		  4:15:02 ½
6  Czechoslovakia
(Otakar Německý, Josef Klouček, Jan Bedřich, Robert Möhwald)		  4:15:07 ½
7  Poland
(Zbigniew Wóycicki, Władysław Żytkowicz, Władysław Czech, Tadeusz Zaydel)		  4:39:45
8  Romania
(Toma Calista, Constantin Pascu, Ioan Rucăreanu, Ion Zăgănescu)		  5:00:16
9  France
(Marcel Pourchier, R. Mandrillon, R. Gindre, M. Perrier)		  5:20:26

References

  1. ^ Norsk militæridrett: Tøff tur for Reistad[permanent dead link‍] (Norwegian), p. 11.
  2. ^ 1928 Winter Olympic Games Organising Committee. "Official Report" (PDF). p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ also findable as "Oberleutnant Kunz"


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