Military patrol at the 1928 Winter Olympics

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The 3rd place Swiss team in action during the Military patrol competition.

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. Nine countries participated in this event.

Event held on February 12, 1928

Place	Team	Time
1	Norway (Ole Reistad, Leif Skagnæs, Ole Stenen, Reidar Ødegaard)	3:50:47
2	Finland	3:54:37
3	Switzerland (Fritz Kuhn, Hugo Lehner, Otto Fuhrer, Anton Julen)	3:55:04
4	Italy	4:07:30
5	Germany	4:15:02 ½
6	Czechoslovakia	4:15:07 ½
7	Poland	4:39:45
8	Romania (Toma Calista, Constantin Pascu, Ioan Rucǎreanu, Ion Zǎgǎnescu)	5:00:16
9	France	5:20:26

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