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 .[1] 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.[2]
| Place | Team | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (Ole Reistad, Leif Skagnæs, Ole Stenen, Reidar Ødegaard) | 3:50:47 | |
| 2 | 3:54:37 | ||
| 3 | (Franz Kunz,[3] 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 |