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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 |
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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 |
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