American Jennison Heaton won the first Olympic skeleton gold medal at St Moritz in 1928, beating his brother John, who took the silver. Jennison then won a silver in the five man bobsleigh in the same ...

Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway airborne during a jump in the Ski Jumping event at the 1928 Winter Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. ((IOC Olympic Museum/Allsport/Getty Images)) The 1928 St.

Mexico made its debut in the Winter Olympics at St Moritz in 1928 when they competed in the five-man bobsleigh, finishing 11th. They did not take part in the Winter Games again until Sarajevo 1984 ...

Bobsledding and tobogganing -- also known as the skeleton -- were still relatively new and unknown endeavors in 1928, despite the fact that both were official sports at the Winter Olympic Games in St.

At 1,822 meters in altitude, St. Moritz, in the Swiss Engadine Valley, is among the highest peaks in the Alps and a sporting mecca, having hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1928 and 1948, one of only ...