France at the 1928 Winter Olympics

France at the Olympic Games
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At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz
Competitors	38 (36 men, 2 women) in 8 sports
Medals Rank: 5	Gold 1	Silver 0	Bronze 0	Total 1
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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

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1928 Winter Olympics

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 Beamisch	Five-man	1:43.7	12	1:46.3	17	3:30.0	14
FRA-2	André Dubonnet Bernard 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

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1928 Winter Olympics

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 Milan	DNF	–
	Camille Médy	DNF	–

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

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		Women's singles	17	3	86	1910.00	11

Pairs

Athletes	Points	Score	Final rank
Andrée Joly Pierre Brunet	14	100.50

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1928 Winter Olympics

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

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1928 Winter Olympics

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

Main article: Skeleton at the 1928 Winter Olympics

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

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1928 Winter Olympics

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

Main article: Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

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

• Olympic Winter Games 1928, full results by sports-reference.com