List of 1924 Winter Olympics medal winners

Swedish figure skater Gillis Grafström earned a gold medal in men's figure skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics, which was one of four Olympic Games where he medaled. This image shows his performance at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.

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]

Contents
Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Curling	Figure skating Ice hockey Military patrol	Nordic combined Ski jumping Speed skating
Medal leaders   See also   Notes   References   External links

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	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

Herma Szabo of Austria highlighted an already successful figure skating career (seven World titles) with the first Olympic ladies' singles gold medal.^[5]

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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Canada (CAN) Jack Cameron Ernie Collett Bert McCaffrey Harold McMunn Dunc Munro Beattie Ramsay Cyril Slater Hooley Smith Harry Watson	United States (USA) Clarence Abel Herbert Drury Alphonse Lacroix John Langley John Lyons Justin McCarthy Willard Rice Irving Small Frank Synott	Great Britain (GBR) William Anderson Lorne Carr-Harris Colin Carruthers Eric Carruthers Guy Clarkson Ross Cuthbert Geoffrey Holmes Hamilton Jukes Edward Pitblado Blane Sexton

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

Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway was the first Olympic ski jumping champion and one of the few Olympians to medal in both Winter and Summer Olympics, as he also collected a silver in sailing at the 1936 Berlin Games.^[6]

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

Clas Thunberg of Finland won a medal in each of the five speed skating events, including three golds, making him the most successful athlete in Chamonix.

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

• 1924 Winter Olympics medal table

Notes

1. The IOC medal database recognizes five members of the Belgian team in the four-man event. The fifth man was an alternate.^[3]
2. 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]
3. 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

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. "Chamonix 1924 Winter Olympics". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
2. Official Report of the 1924 Olympic Games, p. 646.
3. "All the medallists since 1896". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
4. Official Report of the 1924 Olympic Games, p. 712.
5. Kubatko, Justin. "Herma Planck-Szabo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
6. Kubatko, Justin. "Jacob Tullin Thams Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 August 2011.