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 30 km distance with an elevation difference of 1100 metres. The starting point was on a height of 2,108 metres, the highest point at 2,877 metres, and the goal in the valley at 1,850 metres.[1] Nine countries with 36 military patrol runners participated in this event.
The event was held on Sunday, February 12, 1928.
| Place | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Norway(Ole Reistad, Leif Skagnæs, Ole Stenen, Reidar Ødegaard) |
3:50:47 |
| 2 |  Finland(Eino Hjalmar Kuvaja, Kalle Tuppurainen, Esko Järvinen, Veikko Hannes Ruotsalainen |
3:54:37 |
| 3 |  Switzerland(Franz Kunz,[2] Hugo Lehner, Otto Furrer, Anton Julen) |
3:55:04 |
| 4 |  Italy(Enrico Silvestri, Daniele Pellissier, Erminio Confortola, Piero Maquignaz) |
4:07:30 |
| 5 |  Germany(Franz Raithel, Stefan Kistler, Josef Rehm, Ludwig Mayer) |
4:15:02 ½ |
| 6 |  Czechoslovakia(Otakar Německý, Josef Klouček, Jan Bedřich, Robert Möhwald) |
4:15:07 ½ |
| 7 |  Poland(Zbigniew Wóycicki, Władysław Żytkowicz, Władysław Czech, Tadeusz Zaydel) |
4:39:45 |
| 8 |  Romania(Toma Calista, Constantin Pascu, Ioan Rucăreanu, Ion Zăgănescu) |
5:00:16 |
| 9 |  France(Marcel Pourchier, R. Mandrillon, R. Gindre, M. Perrier) |
5:20:26 |
