List of 1924 Winter Olympics medal winners - wikipedia List of 1924 Winter Olympics medal winners Swedish figure skater Gillis Grafström earned a gold medal in men 's figure skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics, which was one of four Olympic Games where he medaled. This image shows his performance at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. The inaugural Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, from 25 January to 4 February 1924. A total of 258 athletes from 16 National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) competed in 16 events across 9 disciplines. Women also took part in these Games, although the only events they were allowed to compete in were the figure skating ladies ' singles and pairs. When the Games were held, they were not recognized as the Winter Olympics but rather as a winter sports week festival. It was not until 1926 that the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) officially recognized them as the first Winter Olympics. A total of 104 athletes won medals for their NOCs, but the athletes from Norway and Finland stood out and dominated the Games, winning 17 and 11 medals, respectively. The United States and Great Britain tied for third place in the count of total medals, with four each. Athletes from 10 of the 16 participating NOCs won at least one medal ; eight won at least one gold medal. Many of the athletes who won these medals had already returned to their home countries by the time the medals were awarded, on 5 February, and other participants from their countries had to take the medals to the winning athletes. Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg topped the medal count with five medals : three golds, one silver, and one bronze. One of his competitors, Roald Larsen of Norway, also won five medals, with two silver and three bronze medal - winning performances. The first gold medalist at these Games -- and therefore the first gold medalist in Winter Olympic history -- was American speed skater Charles Jewtraw. Only one medal change took place after the Games : in the ski jump competition, a marking error deprived American athlete Anders Haugen of a bronze medal. Haugen pursued an appeal to the IOC many years after the fact ; he was awarded the medal after a 1974 decision in his favor. Contents Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Curling Figure skating Ice hockey Military patrol Nordic combined Ski jumping Speed skating Medal leaders See also Notes References External links Bobsleigh See also : Bobsleigh at the 1924 Winter Olympics Event Gold Silver Bronze Men 's four - man details Switzerland ( SUI ) Alfred Neveu Eduard Scherrer Alfred Schläppi Heinrich Schläppi Great Britain ( GBR ) Thomas Arnold Ralph Broome Alexander Richardson Rodney Soher Belgium ( BEL ) Charles Mulder René Mortiaux Paul Van den Broeck Victor Verschueren Henri Willems Cross-country skiing See also : Cross-country skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics Event Gold Silver Bronze 18 km details Thorleif Haug Norway Johan Grøttumsbråten Norway Tapani Niku Finland 50 km details Thorleif Haug Norway Thoralf Strømstad Norway Johan Grøttumsbråten Norway Curling See also : Curling at the 1924 Winter Olympics Event Gold Silver Bronze Men 's team details Great Britain ( GBR ) John T.S. Robertson - Aikman William K. Jackson Robin Welsh Thomas Murray Alternates : Laurence Jackson John McLeod William Brown D.G. Astley R. Cousin Sweden ( SWE ) II Johan Petter Åhlén Carl - Axel Pettersson Karl - Erik Wahlberg France ( FRA ) F. Cournollet P. Canivet A. Bénédic Georges André Alternates : H. Aldebert R. Planque Sweden ( SWE ) I Carl Wilhelm Petersén Ture Ödlund Victor Wetterström Erik O. Severin Alternates : C-A V. Kronlund C.W. Petersen Figure skating Herma Szabo of Austria highlighted an already successful figure skating career ( seven World titles ) with the first Olympic ladies ' singles gold medal. See also : Figure skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics Event Gold Silver Bronze Men 's singles details Gillis Grafström Sweden Willy Böckl Austria Georges Gautschi Switzerland Ladies ' singles details Herma Szabo Austria Beatrix Loughran United States Ethel Muckelt Great Britain Pairs details Austria ( AUT ) Helene Engelmann Alfred Berger Finland ( FIN ) Ludowika Jakobsson Walter Jakobsson France ( FRA ) Andrée Joly Pierre Brunet Ice hockey See also : Ice hockey at the 1924 Winter Olympics Event Gold Silver Bronze Men 's team details Canada ( CAN ) Jack Cameron Ernie Collett Bert McCaffrey Harold McMunn Dunc Munro Beattie Ramsay Cyril Slater Hooley Smith Harry Watson United States ( USA ) Clarence Abel Herbert Drury Alphonse Lacroix John Langley John Lyons Justin McCarthy Willard Rice Irving Small Frank Synott Great Britain ( GBR ) William Anderson Lorne Carr - Harris Colin Carruthers Eric Carruthers Guy Clarkson Ross Cuthbert Geoffrey Holmes Hamilton Jukes Edward Pitblado Blane Sexton Military patrol See also : Military patrol at the 1924 Winter Olympics Event Gold Silver Bronze Military patrol details Switzerland ( SUI ) Adolf Aufdenblatten Alphonse Julen Antoine Julen Denis Vaucher Finland ( FIN ) August Eskelinen Heikki Hirvonen Martti Lappalainen Väinö Bremer France ( FRA ) Adrien `` André '' Vandelle Camille Mandrillon Georges Berthet Maurice Mandrillon Nordic combined See also : Nordic combined at the 1924 Winter Olympics Event Gold Silver Bronze Men 's individual details Thorleif Haug Norway Thoralf Strømstad Norway Johan Grøttumsbråten Norway Ski jumping Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway was the first Olympic ski jumping champion and one of the few Olympians to medal in both Winter and Summer Olympics, as he also collected a silver in sailing at the 1936 Berlin Games. See also : Ski jumping at the 1924 Winter Olympics Event Gold Silver Bronze Men 's individual details Jacob Tullin Thams Norway Narve Bonna Norway Anders Haugen United States Speed skating See also : Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics Event Gold Silver Bronze 500 metres details Charles Jewtraw United States Oskar Olsen Norway Roald Larsen Norway Clas Thunberg Finland 1500 metres details Clas Thunberg Finland Roald Larsen Norway Sigurd Moen Norway 5000 metres details Clas Thunberg Finland Julius Skutnabb Finland Roald Larsen Norway 10000 metres details Julius Skutnabb Finland Clas Thunberg Finland Roald Larsen Norway All - round details Clas Thunberg Finland Roald Larsen Norway Julius Skutnabb Finland Medal leaders Clas Thunberg of Finland won a medal in each of the five speed skating events, including three golds, making him the most successful athlete in Chamonix. Athletes who won multiple medals are listed below. Athlete Nation Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Thunberg, Clas Clas Thunberg Finland ( FIN ) Speed skating 5 Haug, Thorleif Thorleif Haug Norway ( NOR ) Cross-country skiing and Nordic combined 0 0 Skutnabb, Julius Julius Skutnabb Finland ( FIN ) Speed skating Larsen, Roald Roald Larsen Norway ( NOR ) Speed skating 0 5 Strømstad, Thoralf Thoralf Strømstad Norway ( NOR ) Cross-country skiing and Nordic combined 0 0 Grøttumsbråten, Johan Johan Grøttumsbråten Norway ( NOR ) Cross-country skiing and Nordic combined 0 See also 1924 Winter Olympics medal table Notes Jump up ^ The IOC medal database recognizes five members of the Belgian team in the four - man event. The fifth man was an alternate. Jump up ^ D.G. Astley earned a gold medal in curling with the team from Great Britain, but played for Sweden II in their play - off against France for the second silver medal in that competition. The current IOC medal database only lists him as winning a gold medal, though some sources suggest he may have received both a gold and silver medal. If that is true, he would be the only Olympic athlete in history to have received a gold and silver medal in the same event. Jump up ^ Both the official report of the 1924 Winter Olympics and the IOC medal database list two Swedish teams as having won the silver medal in curling. However, neither source explains why two silver medals were awarded in the event. References Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1924 Winter Olympics. General `` Results and Medalists ''. Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Kubatko, Justin. `` 1924 Chamonix Winter Games ''. Olympics at Sport-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 August 2011. `` Official Report of the 1924 Olympic Games '' ( PDF ) ( in French ). International Olympic Committee. 1924. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 10 April 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2011. Specific ^ Jump up to : `` Chamonix 1924 Winter Olympics ''. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 August 2011. Jump up ^ Official Report of the 1924 Olympic Games, p. 646. ^ Jump up to : `` All the medallists since 1896 ''. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 August 2011. ^ Jump up to : Official Report of the 1924 Olympic Games, p. 712. Jump up ^ Kubatko, Justin. `` Herma Planck - Szabo ''. Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 August 2011. Jump up ^ Kubatko, Justin. `` Jacob Tullin Thams Biography and Olympic Results ''. Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 August 2011. 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Question: who won the first gold medal at the winter olympics
Answer: American speed skater Charles Jewtraw