1912 Summer Olympics

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Games of the V Olympiad
Host city	Stockholm, Sweden
Nations participating	28
Athletes participating	2,407 (2,359 men, 48 women)
Events	102 in 14 sports
Opening ceremony	May 5, 1912
Closing ceremony	July 27, 1912
Officially opened by	Gustav V of Sweden
Stadium	Olympiastadion

The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were held in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden. For the first time, competitors in the Games came from all five continents symbolized in the Olympic rings. It was also the last time that solid gold medals were awarded; modern medals are usually gold coated silver. The main arena was Stockholms Olympiastadion.

A winter sports week for the 1912 Games featuring figure skating were rejected by organizers because they wanted to promote the Nordic Games, a quadrennial sporting event, instead.

Contents 1 Highlights 2 Medals awarded 2.1 Demonstration sport 3 Participating nations 4 Medal count 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Highlights

• Francisco Lázaro, a Portuguese runner died from the heat while running the marathon.
• American Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and the newly created decathlon. He was disqualified because of violation of principles of amateurism, but was rehabilitated in 1982.
• Swedish marksman Oscar Swahn became the oldest Olympic gold medalist (up to that time), at the age of 64, in the deer-shooting event.
• Women's events in swimming and diving were introduced.
• Sweden, as the host country, refused to allow boxing events.
• Future World War II General George S. Patton took part in the first modern pentathlon competition.
• In athletics, electronic timing devices were first used.
• For the first time the Yugoslav athletes took part. They were the representatives of Kingdom of Serbia and were sent by the Serbian Olympic Club: sprinter Dušan Milošević, who ranked third in the 100m qualification group and marathon runner Dragutin Tomašević, who finished in 37th position.
• Ewart Douglas Horsfall wins his first two gold medals for Great Britain in rowing. He has widely been considered as Britain's greatest rower prior to Steve Redgrave.

[edit] Medals awarded

Athletics Cycling Equestrian Fencing Football Gymnastics Modern pentathlon Rowing

Sailing Shooting Swimming Tennis Tug of war Water polo Wrestling

[edit] Demonstration sport

• Baseball
• Glima

[edit] Participating nations

28 nations competed in Stockholm.

Australasia Austria Belgium Bohemia Canada Chile Denmark Egypt Finland France

Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Japan Luxembourg Netherlands

Norway Portugal Russia Serbia South Africa Sweden Switzerland Turkey United States

[edit] Medal count

Main article: 1912 Summer Olympics medal count

These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1912 Games.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	25	19	19	63
2	Sweden (host nation)	24	24	17	65
3	Great Britain	10	15	16	41
4	Finland	9	8	9	26
5	France	7	4	3	14
6	Germany	5	13	7	25
7	South Africa	4	2	0	6
8	Norway	4	1	4	9
9	Hungary	3	2	3	8
10	Canada	3	2	3	8

[edit] See also

• International Olympic Committee
• IOC country codes

[edit] External links

• IOC Stockholm 1912 Page
• Serbian Olympic Committee

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