List of 1924 Winter Olympics medal winners
The inaugural Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, from 25 January to 4 February 1924. A total of 258 athletes from 16 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 16 events across 9 disciplines.[1] Women also took part in these Games, although the only events they were allowed to compete in were the figure skating ladies' singles and pairs.[2] When the Games were held, they were not recognized as the Winter Olympics but rather as a winter sports week festival. It was not until 1926 that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially recognized them as the first Winter Olympics.[1]
A total of 104 athletes won medals for their NOCs, but the athletes from Norway and Finland stood out and dominated the Games, winning 17 and 11 medals, respectively. The United States and Great Britain tied for third place in the count of total medals, with four each. Athletes from 10 of the 16 participating NOCs won at least one medal; eight won at least one gold medal.[3] Many of the athletes who won these medals had already returned to their home countries by the time the medals were awarded, on 5 February, and other participants from their countries had to take the medals to the winning athletes.[1]
Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg topped the medal count with five medals: three golds, one silver, and one bronze. One of his competitors, Roald Larsen of Norway, also won five medals, with two silver and three bronze medal-winning performances.[3] The first gold medalist at these Games—and therefore the first gold medalist in Winter Olympic history—was American speed skater Charles Jewtraw. Only one medal change took place after the Games: in the ski jump competition, a marking error deprived American athlete Anders Haugen of a bronze medal. Haugen pursued an appeal to the IOC many years after the fact; he was awarded the medal after a 1974 decision in his favor.[1]
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Bobsleigh
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's four-man |
 Switzerland (SUI)Alfred Neveu Eduard Scherrer Alfred Schläppi Heinrich Schläppi |
 Great Britain (GBR)Thomas Arnold Ralph Broome Alexander Richardson Rodney Soher |
.svg.png){kind=small} Belgium (BEL)Charles Mulder René Mortiaux Paul Van den Broeck Victor Verschueren Henri Willems[Note 1] |
Cross-country skiing
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 km |
Thorleif Haug Norway |
Johan Grøttumsbråten Norway |
Tapani Niku Finland |
| 50 km |
Thorleif Haug Norway |
Thoralf Strømstad Norway |
Johan Grøttumsbråten Norway |
Curling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's team |
Great Britain (GBR) John T. S. Robertson-Aikman William K. Jackson Robin Welsh Thomas Murray Alternates: Laurence Jackson John McLeod William Brown D. G. Astley[Note 2] R. Cousin |
 Sweden (SWE) II[Note 3]Johan Petter Åhlén Carl-Axel Pettersson Karl-Erik Wahlberg |
 France (FRA)F. Cournollet P. Canivet A. Bénédic Georges André Alternates: H. Aldebert R. Planque |
| Sweden (SWE) I Carl Wilhelm Petersén Ture Ödlund Victor Wetterström Erik O. Severin Alternates: C-A V. Kronlund C. W. Petersen |
Figure skating
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles |
Gillis Grafström Sweden |
Willy Böckl Austria |
Georges Gautschi Switzerland |
| Ladies' singles |
Herma Szabo Austria |
Beatrix Loughran United States |
Ethel Muckelt Great Britain |
| Pairs |
Austria (AUT) Helene Engelmann Alfred Berger |
Finland (FIN) Ludowika Jakobsson Walter Jakobsson |
France (FRA) Andrée Joly Pierre Brunet |
Ice hockey
Military patrol
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Military patrol |
Switzerland (SUI) Adolf Aufdenblatten Alphonse Julen Antoine Julen Denis Vaucher |
Finland (FIN) August Eskelinen Heikki Hirvonen Martti Lappalainen Väinö Bremer |
France (FRA) Adrien "André" Vandelle Camille Mandrillon Georges Berthet Maurice Mandrillon |
Nordic combined
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's individual |
Thorleif Haug Norway |
Thoralf Strømstad Norway |
Johan Grøttumsbråten Norway |
Ski jumping
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's individual |
Jacob Tullin Thams Norway |
Narve Bonna Norway |
Anders Haugen United States |
Speed skating
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 metres |
Charles Jewtraw United States |
Oskar Olsen Norway |
Roald Larsen Norway |
| Clas Thunberg Finland | |||
| 1500 metres |
Clas Thunberg Finland |
Roald Larsen Norway |
Sigurd Moen Norway |
| 5000 metres |
Clas Thunberg Finland |
Julius Skutnabb Finland |
Roald Larsen Norway |
| 10000 metres |
Julius Skutnabb Finland |
Clas Thunberg Finland |
Roald Larsen Norway |
| All-round |
Clas Thunberg Finland |
Roald Larsen Norway |
Julius Skutnabb Finland |
Medal leaders
Athletes who won multiple medals are listed below.
| Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunberg, ClasClas Thunberg | Finland (FIN) |
Speed skating | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Haug, ThorleifThorleif Haug | Norway (NOR) |
Cross-country skiing and Nordic combined | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Skutnabb, JuliusJulius Skutnabb | Finland (FIN) |
Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Larsen, RoaldRoald Larsen | Norway (NOR) |
Speed skating | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Strømstad, ThoralfThoralf Strømstad | Norway (NOR) |
Cross-country skiing and Nordic combined | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Grøttumsbråten, JohanJohan Grøttumsbråten | Norway (NOR) |
Cross-country skiing and Nordic combined | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
See also
Notes
- ↑ The IOC medal database recognizes five members of the Belgian team in the four-man event. The fifth man was an alternate.[3]
- ↑ D.G. Astley earned a gold medal in curling with the team from Great Britain, but played for Sweden II in their play-off against France for the second silver medal in that competition. The current IOC medal database only lists him as winning a gold medal, though some sources suggest he may have received both a gold and silver medal. If that is true, he would be the only Olympic athlete in history to have received a gold and silver medal in the same event.[4]
- ↑ Both the official report of the 1924 Winter Olympics and the IOC medal database list two Swedish teams as having won the silver medal in curling. However, neither source explains why two silver medals were awarded in the event.[3][4]
References
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- General
- "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
- Kubatko, Justin. "1924 Chamonix Winter Games". Olympics at Sport-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
- "Official Report of the 1924 Olympic Games" (PDF) (in French). International Olympic Committee. 1924. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
- Specific
- 1 2 3 4 "Chamonix 1924 Winter Olympics". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
- ↑ Official Report of the 1924 Olympic Games, p. 646.
- 1 2 3 4 "All the medallists since 1896". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
- 1 2 Official Report of the 1924 Olympic Games, p. 712.
- ↑ Kubatko, Justin. "Herma Planck-Szabo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
- ↑ Kubatko, Justin. "Jacob Tullin Thams Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 August 2011.