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3 unusual facts about 1928 Winter Olympics


Giuseppe Crivelli

Four years later he was a member of the Italian bobsleigh team which finished 21st in the five man event.

Giuseppe Crivelli (October 5, 1900 – November 17, 1975) was an Italian rower and bobsledder who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Winter Olympics.

Henry Louis Hudson

During the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix and the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz he won the gold medal in olympic ice hockey as part of the Canadian national ice hockey team.


Agostino Lanfranchi

Competing in two Winter Olympics, he finished fourth in the men's skeleton event at St. Moritz in 1928, and Lake Placid, New York in 1932, he finished fifth in the four-man event and eighth in the two-man event (misspelled Agostini in the two-man event).

Christfried Burmeister

Christfried Burmeister (later Christfried Puurmeister, 26 May 1898 in Tallinn, Estonia – 12 July 1965 in Bradford, England) was an Estonian speed skater who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics.


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