Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics - Men's marathon

Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics
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The men's marathon event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The distance of this race was 42.75 kilometres. The competition was held on Sunday, August 22, 1920.

48 runners from 17 nations competed.

[edit] Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hannes Kolehmainen Finland (FIN)	Jüri Lossmann Estonia (EST)	Valerio Arri Italy (ITA)

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in hours) prior to the 1920 Summer Olympics.

World Record	2'36.07	Alexis Ahlgren	London (GBR)	May 31, 1913
Olympic Record	2'36:54.8(*)	Kenneth McArthur	Stockholm (SWE)	July 14, 1912

(*) Distance was 40.2 kilometres

Hannes Kolehmainen set a new world record with 2'32:35.8 hours.

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Hannes Kolehmainen (FIN)	2'32:35.8
2	Jüri Lossmann (EST)	2'32:48.6
3	Valerio Arri (ITA)	2'36:32.8
4	Auguste Broos (BEL)	2'39:25.8
5	Juho Tuomikoski (FIN)	2'40:18.8
6	Sofus Rose (DEN)	2'41:18.0
7	Joseph Organ (USA)	2'41:30.0
8	Rudolf Hansen (DEN)	2'41:39.4
9	Urho Tallgren (FIN)	2'42:40.0
10	Tatu Kolehmainen (FIN)	2'44:02.3
11	Carl Linder (USA)	2'44:21.2
12	Charles Mellor (USA)	2'45:30.0
13	James Dellow (CAN)	2'46:47.0
14	Arthur Mills (GBR)	2'48:05.0
15	Arthur Scholes (CAN)	2'48:30.0
16	Shizo Kanakuri (JPN)	2'48:45.4
17	Gustav Kinn (SWE)	2'49:10.4
18	Albert Moché (FRA)	2'50:00.2
19	Phadeppa Chaugle (IND)	2'50:45.4
20	Zensaku Motegi (JPN)	2'51:09.4
21	Kenzo Yashima (JPN)	2'57:02.0
22	Georges Norman (CAN)	2'58:01.0
23	Rudolf Wåhlin (SWE)	2'59:23.0
24	Yahei Miura (JPN)	2'59:37.0
25	Henri Teyssedou (FRA)	3'00:04.0
26	Hendricus Wessel (NED)	3'00:17.0
27	Charles Melis (BEL)	3'00:51.0
28	William Grüner (SWE)	3'01:48.0
29	George Piper (GBR)	3'02:10.0
30	Sinton Hewitt (AUS)	3'03:27.0
31	Leslie Housden (GBR)	3'14:25.0
32	Iraklis Sakellaropoulos (GRE)	3'14:25.0
33	Juan Bascunan (CHI)	3'17:47.0
34	Oscar Blansaer (BEL)	3'20:00.0
35	Eric Robertson (GBR)	3'55:00.0
—	Ettore Blasi (ITA)	DNF
	Louis Ichard (FRA)	DNF
	Antonio Persico (ITA)	DNF
	Albert Smoke (CAN)	DNF
	Axel Jensen (DEN)	DNF
	Panagiotis Trivoulidas (GRE)	DNF
	Christiaan Huijgens (NED)	DNF
	Désiré Van Remortel (BEL)	DNF
	Hans Schuster (SWE)	DNF
	Amédée Trichard (FRA)	DNF
	Sadashir Datar (IND)	DNF
	Christian Gitsham (RSA)	DNF
	Frank Roth (USA)	DNF

Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report. (French)
Wudarski, Pawel (1999). Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich. Retrieved on 12 August 2007. (Polish)