At the 1928 Winter Olympics, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, a military patrol competition was held. Because of a snowstorm the night before the competition, the start of the event was delayed 45 minutes to the cleaning up of the track. The competition was contested over a distance with an elevation difference of . The starting point was on a height of , the highest point at , and the goal in the valley at .Norsk militæridrett: Tøff tur for Reistad (Norwegian), p. 11. Nine countries with 36 military patrol runners participated in this event.
The event was held on Sunday, February 12, 1928. It was originally to be a full Olympic event, but its status was downgraded to that of demonstration sport.
Place Team Time 1 (Ole Reistad, Leif Skagnæs, Ole Stenen, Reidar Ødegaard) 3:50:47 2 (Eino Hjalmar Kuvaja, Kalle Tuppurainen, Esko Järvinen, Veikko Hannes Ruotsalainen 3:54:37 3 (Franz Kunz,also findable as "Oberleutnant Kunz" Hugo Lehner, Otto Furrer, Anton Julen) 3:55:04 4 (Enrico Silvestri, Daniele Pellissier, Erminio Confortola, Piero Maquignaz) 4:07:30 5 (Franz Raithel, Stefan Kistler, Josef Rehm, Ludwig Mayer) 4:15:02 ½ 6 (Otakar Německý, Josef Klouček, Jan Bedřich, Robert Möhwald) 4:15:07 ½ 7 (Zbigniew Wóycicki, Władysław Żytkowicz, Władysław Czech, Tadeusz Zaydel) 4:39:45 8 (Toma Calista, Constantin Pascu, Ioan Rucăreanu, Ion Zăgănescu) 5:00:16 9 (Marcel Pourchier, R. Mandrillon, R. Gindre, M. Perrier) 5:20:26
References Swiss Olympic Committee St. Moritz 1928, 1928. pp.12-13 (digitized version) Swiss Olympic Committee Résultats DES concours DES IImes jeux Olympiques d'Hiver, 1928. (digitized version)
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