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.