Who won the men's skeleton gold medal at the 1928 St. Moritz Winter Olympics?
Answer
Jennison Heaton
Jennison Heaton won the men's skeleton gold medal at the 1928 St. Moritz Winter Olympics.
Heaton, an American athlete, won the event on the Cresta Run with a combined time of 3:18.0. His younger brother Jack Heaton won the silver medal, making the brothers the first siblings to finish first and second in an individual Olympic event. Britain's David Carnegie took bronze.
Skeleton appeared at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz in 1928 and returned there in 1948. It was then absent from the Olympic programme until 2002. The 1928 event is sometimes confused with the 1948 men's champion, Italy's Nino Bibbia, who won when the Games returned to St. Moritz.