France at the 1928 Winter Olympics

France at the
1928 Winter Olympics
IOC codeFRA
NOCFrench National Olympic and Sports Committee
Websitewww.franceolympique.com (in French)
in St. Moritz
Competitors38 (36 men, 2 women) in 8 sports
Medals
Ranked 5th
Gold
1
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
1
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

France competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Andrée Joly
Pierre Brunet
Figure skating Pairs

Bobsleigh

Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
FRA-1 Jean de Suarez d'Aulan
Michel Baur
Roger Petit-Didier
Jacques Petit-Didier
William Beamish
Five-man 1:43.7 12 1:46.3 17 3:30.0 14
FRA-2 André Dubonnet
Bertrand du Pontavice de Heussey
Joseph Dedein
Stéphane de la Roucefoucault
Jacques Rheins
Five-man 1:45.7 19 1:44.5 10 3:30.2 15

Cross-country skiing

Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
18 km Martial Payot 2'09:42 36
Maurice Mandrillon 2'04:39 33
Paul Simond 2'03:54 30
François Vallier 2'03:27 28
50 km Jean Camille Tournier DNF
Évariste Prat DNF
Henri Millan DNF
Camille Médy DNF

Figure skating

Men
Athlete Event CF FS Places Points Final rank
Pierre Brunet Men's singles 7 7 50 1147.75 7
Women
Athlete Event CF FS Places Points Final rank
Anita de St. Quentin Women's singles 20 20 140 1114.25 20
Andrée Joly 17 3 86 1910.00 11
Pairs
Athletes Points Score Final rank
Andrée Joly
Pierre Brunet
14 100.50 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Ice hockey

Group A

The top team (highlighted) advanced to the medal round.

Team GP W L GF GA
 Great Britain 3 2 1 10 6
 France 3 2 1 6 5
 Belgium 3 2 1 9 10
 Hungary 3 0 3 2 6
February 11  France 2:0
(0:0,2:0,0:0)
 Hungary
February 12  France 3:2
(0:1,3:1,0:0)
 Great Britain
February 13  Belgium 3:1
(2:0,0:0,1:1)
 France
 France (FRA)
André Charlet
Raoul Couvert
Alfréd de Rauch
Albert Hassler
Jacques Lacarrière
Philippe Lefebvre
François Mautin
Calixte Payot
Philippe Payot
Léonhard Quaglia
Georges Robert
Gérard Simond

Nordic combined

Events:

  • 18 km cross-country skiing
  • normal hill ski jumping

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event of cross-country skiing. Those results can be found above in this article in the cross-country skiing section. Some athletes (but not all) entered in both the cross-country skiing and Nordic combined event, their time on the 18 km was used for both events. One would expect that athletes competing at the Nordic combined event, would participate in the cross-country skiing event as well, as they would have the opportunity to win more than one medal. This was not always the case due to the maximum number of athletes that could represent a country per event.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below.

Athlete Event Cross-country Ski Jumping Total
Time Points Rank Distance 1 Distance 2 Total points Rank Points Rank
Marcel Beraud Individual DNF DNF
Kléber Balmat 2'16:40 0.250 25 47.0 55.5 (fall) 8.333 27 4.291 28
Martial Payot 2'09:42 3.750 23 38.0 46.5 12.042 22 7.896 23

Skeleton

Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Pierre Dormeuil DNF DNF

Ski jumping

Athlete Event Jump 1 (Dist.) Jump 2 (Dist.) Total
Points Rank
Joseph Maffioli Normal hill 35.0 40.0 8.125 35
Martial Payot 40.5 47.0 12.678 26
Kléber Balmat 47.0 54.0 13.833 24

Speed skating

Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Charles Thaon 50.1 28
Léon Quaglia 49.5 26
1500 m Charles Thaon 2:44.2 26
5000 m Charles Thaon 10:18.8 30
Léon Quaglia 9:33.3 18

References