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Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics

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Field	Value
event	Athletics
games	1928 Summer
image	1928 Summer Olympics stamp of the Netherlands athletics2.jpg
image_size	230px
caption	Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics on a stamp of the Netherlands
venue	Olympic Stadium
dates	29 July–5 August
competitors	706 (611 men, 95 women)
nations	40
prev	1924
next	1932

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, 27 athletics events were contested. The competition was held on a 400-meter track and would become the standard for athletics tracks in the future. For the first time, women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program. There was a total of 706 participants from 40 countries competing.

Medal summary

Men

Decathlon
Paavo Yrjölä	Akilles Järvinen	Ken Doherty

Women

Discus throw
Halina Konopacka	Lillian Copeland	Ruth Svedberg

Records broken

During the 1928 Summer Olympic Games 9 new world records were set in the athletics events. New Olympic records were set in 16 of the 27 events.

Men's world records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Result
110 metres hurdles	July 31	Semifinal	George Weightman-Smith	RSA	14.6
3000 metres steeplechase	August 4	Final	Toivo Loukola	FIN	9:21.8
4 × 400 metres relay	August 5	Final	George Baird
Fred Alderman
Emerson Spencer
Ray Barbuti	USA	3:14.2
Shot put	July 29	Final	John Kuck	USA	15.87 m
Decathlon	August 5	Final	Paavo Yrjölä	FIN	8,053.290

Women's world records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Result
800 metres	August 2	Final	Lina Radke	GER	2:16.8
4 × 100 metres relay	August 5	Final	Myrtle Cook
Ethel Smith
Bobbie Rosenfeld
Jane Bell	CAN	48.4
High jump	August 5	Final	Ethel Catherwood	CAN	1.595 m
Discus throw	July 31	Final	Halina Konopacka	POL	39.62 m

Participating nations

706 athletes from 40 nations competed. Lithuania and Romania competed in athletics for the first time. Bulgaria, Egypt, Malta, Panama, Rhodesia, and Uruguay were the only six nations not to compete in athletics.

References

1928 Summer Olympics results: athletics, from https://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-03-01.
Official Olympic Report

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