# List of 1924 Winter Olympics medal winners

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 participated 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 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.
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 total number of 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 occurred 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.

## Bobsleigh

| 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

| 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

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's team details | Great Britain (GBR) T. S. Robertson-Aikman William Jackson Robin Welsh Thomas Murray Alternates: Laurence Jackson John McLeod William Brown Delaval Astley R. Cousin | Sweden (SWE) II Johan Petter Åhlén Carl Axel Pettersson Karl Wahlberg | France (FRA) Henri Cournollet Pierre Canivet Armand Bénédic Georges André Alternates: Henri Aldebert Robert Planque |
| Men's team details | Great Britain (GBR) T. S. Robertson-Aikman William Jackson Robin Welsh Thomas Murray Alternates: Laurence Jackson John McLeod William Brown Delaval Astley R. Cousin | Sweden (SWE) I Carl Wilhelm Petersén Ture Ödlund Victor Wetterström Erik Severin Alternates: Carl August Kronlund Carl Wilhelm Petersén | France (FRA) Henri Cournollet Pierre Canivet Armand Bénédic Georges André Alternates: Henri Aldebert Robert Planque |

## Figure skating

| 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

| 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

| 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

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's individual details | Thorleif Haug Norway | Thoralf Strømstad Norway | Johan Grøttumsbråten Norway |

## Ski jumping

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's individual details | Jacob Tullin Thams Norway | Narve Bonna Norway | Anders Haugen United States |

## Speed skating

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 500 metres details | Charles Jewtraw United States | Oskar Olsen Norway | Roald Larsen Norway |
| 500 metres details | Charles Jewtraw United States | Oskar Olsen 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

Athletes who won multiple medals are listed below.
| Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Clas Thunberg | Finland (FIN) | Speed skating | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Thorleif Haug | Norway (NOR) | Cross-country skiing and Nordic combined | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Julius Skutnabb | Finland (FIN) | Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Roald Larsen | Norway (NOR) | Speed skating | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Thoralf Strømstad | Norway (NOR) | Cross-country skiing and Nordic combined | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Johan Grøttumsbråten | Norway (NOR) | Cross-country skiing and Nordic combined | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |