Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's team cross country
The men's team cross country was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of the event. The competition was held on Monday, July 15, 1912.
| Men's team cross country at the Games of the V Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Stockholm Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | July 15, 1912 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 41 from 6 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Forty-one runners from six nations competed. NOCs could enter up to 12 athletes.[1]
Results
editThe first three runners for each nation to finish in the individual cross country race counted towards the team results. Their placings were summed, and the team with the lowest sum won. Of the 10 nations that sent cross country runners, 6 had at least 3 runners (Austria, France, Germany, and South Africa were the four that did not; they have only one runner each). The United States had only 2 of its 5 runners finish, so did not make a valid team score.
| Place | Team | Score | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final | |||
| 1 |  Sweden (SWE) |
10 | |
| Hjalmar Andersson | 2 | ||
| John Eke | 3 | ||
| Josef Ternström | 5 | ||
| Brynolf Larsson | 9 | ||
| Johan Sundkvist | 10 | ||
| Klas Lundström | 13 | ||
| Bror Fock | 17 | ||
| Gustav Carlén | 21 | ||
| Edvin Hellgren | DNF | ||
| John Klintberg | DNF | ||
| Axel Lindahl | DNF | ||
| Henrik Nordström | DNF | ||
| 2 |  Finland (FIN) |
11 | |
| Hannes Kolehmainen | 1 | ||
| Jalmari Eskola | 4 | ||
| Albin Stenroos | 6 | ||
| Ville Kyrönen | 7 | ||
| Viljam Johansson | 11 | ||
| Väinö Heikkilä | 25 | ||
| Efraim Harju | DNF | ||
| Aarne Lindholm | DNF | ||
| 3 |  Great Britain (GBR) |
49 | |
| Frederick Hibbins | 15 | ||
| Ernest Glover | 16 | ||
| Thomas Humphreys | 18 | ||
| Joe Cottrill | DNF | ||
| William Scott | DNF | ||
| 4 |  Norway (NOR) |
61 | |
| Olaf Hovdenak | 19 | ||
| Parelius Finnerud | 20 | ||
| Johannes Andersen | 22 | ||
| Nils Dahl | DNF | ||
| 5 |  Denmark (DEN) |
63 | |
| Lauritz Christiansen | 14 | ||
| Viggo Petersen | 23 | ||
| Gerhard Topp | 26 | ||
| Steen Rasmussen | 28 | ||
| Holger Baden | DNF | ||
| Fritz Danild | DNF | ||
| Karl Julius Jensen | DNF | ||
| — |  United States (USA) |
— | |
| Harry Hellawell | 12 | ||
| Louis Scott | 24 | ||
| Tell Berna | DNF | ||
| George Bonhag | DNF | ||
| William Kramer | DNF | ||
References
edit- ^ Official report, p. 61.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Athletics at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Cross-Country, Team". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.). (ed.). The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand.
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