Sailing at the 1928 Summer Olympics Also the city of Amsterdam reclaimed land from the sea and moved towards the lake. When the sailors from the 1928 Summer Olympics could return to their venue they would hardly recognize it. Source: Source: Source: Sourcce: This Olympic sailing regatta can be considered as the first Olympic regatta with a high quality of racing since there were: During the sailing regattas at the 1928 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing in the various classes: Sailing at the 1928 Summer Olympics Sailing/Yachting is an Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad (1896 Olympics in
Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle The men's 100 metre freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme. It was the sixth appearance of the event, which had not been featured only at the 1900 Games. The competition was held on Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 August 1928. Thirty swimmers from 17 nations competed. These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics. Johnny Weissmuller improved his own Olympic record in the semi-finals with 58.6 seconds and equalized