page_title: Figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics – Men's singles
section_title: Results
hierarchical_section_title: Figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics – Men's singles / Results
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Die große Winter-Olympiade in St. Moritz! Neueste Aufnahmen von unserem nach St. Moritz entsandten Sonder-Bild-Berichterstatter. Nach kurzer Pause wurde als Erstes das Eiskunstlaufen für Herren fortgesetzt. Der deutsche Meister Rittberger ebenfalls beim Pflichtlaufen vor der Jury.
context_page_description: The men's individual skating event was held as part of the figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics. It was the fourth appearance of the event, which had previously been held at the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920 and was also part of the first Winter Games in 1924. The competition was held from Tuesday, 14 February to Friday, 17 February 1928. Seventeen figure skaters from ten nations competed.
context_section_description: Gillis Grafström successfully defended his 1920 and 1924 title again with Austrian Willy Böckl finishing in second place as four years earlier. Another Austrian Karl Schäfer finished fourth in this event. He went on to win gold medals in the next two consecutive Olympic Games.
  Referee:
   Ulrich Salchow
  Judges:
   Kurt Dannenberg
   Eduard Engelmann
   Paul Baudouin
   Herbert J. Clarke
   Sakari Ilmanen
   Joel B. Liberman
   Vojtěch Veselý
caption: Werner Rittberger during the compulsory figures
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