At the 1928 Winter Olympics, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 1928, 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 distance with an elevation difference of 1100 metres. The starting point was on a height of 2,108 meters, the highest point at 2,877 meters, and the goal in the valley at 1,850 meters.[1] Nine countries with 36 military patrol runners participated in this event.
The event was held on Sunday, February 12, 1928.
| Place | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | (Ole Reistad, Leif Skagnæs, Ole Stenen, Reidar Ødegaard) |
3:50:47 |
| 2 | (Eino Hjalmar Kuvaja, Kalle Tuppurainen, Esko Järvinen, Veikko Hannes Ruotsalainen |
3:54:37 |
| 3 | (Fritz Kuhn[2], Hugo Lehner, Otto Furrer, Anton Julen) |
3:55:04 |
| 4 | (Enrico Silvestri, Daniele Pellissier, Erminio Confortola, Pietro Maquignaz) |
4:07:30 |
| 5 | (Franz Raithel, Stefan Kistler, Josef Rehm, Ludwig Mayer) |
4:15:02 ½ |
| 6 | (Otakar Německý, Josef Klouček, Jan Bedřich, Robert Möhwald) |
4:15:07 ½ |
| 7 | (Zbigniew Wóycicki, Władysław Żytkowicz, Władysław Czech, Tadeusz Zaydel) |
4:39:45 |
| 8 | (Toma Calista, Constantin Pascu, Ioan Rucǎreanu, Ion Zǎgǎnescu) |
5:00:16 |
| 9 | (Marcel Pourchier, R. Mandrillon, R. Gindre, M. Perrier) |
5:20:26 |
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