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At the 1928 Winter Olympics, three figure skating events were contested. The competitions were held from Tuesday, February 14, 1928 to Sunday, February 19, 1928.

Gillis Grafström during the compulsory figures at the 1928 Olymipcs.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Gillis Grafström Sweden (SWE)	Willy Böckl Austria (AUT)	Robert Van Zeebroeck Belgium (BEL)
Ladies' singles details	Sonja Henie Norway (NOR)	Fritzi Burger Austria (AUT)	Beatrix Loughran United States (USA)
Pairs details	France (FRA) Andrée Joly Pierre Brunet	Austria (AUT) Lilly Scholz Otto Kaiser	Austria (AUT) Melitta Brunner Ludwig Wrede

[edit] Participating nations

Twelve figure skater (seven men and five ladies) competed in both the singles and the pairs event.

A total of 51 figure skaters (23 men and 28 ladies) from eleven nations (men from eleven nations and ladies from eleven nations) competed at the St. Moritz Games:

Austria (9) (men:4 women:5)
Belgium (2) (men:1 women:1)
Canada (5) (men:2 women:3)
Czechoslovakia (3) (men:2 women:1)
Finland (3) (men:2 women:1)
France (3) (men:1 women:2)
Germany (8) (men:3 women:5)
Great Britain (5) (men:3 women:2)
Norway (4) (men:0 women:4)
Sweden (1) (men:1 women:0)
Switzerland (2) (men:1 women:1)
United States (6) (men:3 women:3)