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| 1912 Summer Olympics
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| Olympiad
| V
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| Host City
| Stockholm, Sweden
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| # Nations
| 29
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| Events
| 102
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| Sports
| 13
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| Males
| 2,490
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| Females
| 57
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| Total Athletes
| 2,547
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| Stadium
| Stockholms Olympiastadion
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The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden. For the first time, competitors in the Games came from all five continents symbolized in the Olympic rings. Also for the first time since 1896, all athletic events were held within a reasonably short time span of about one month, from late June to late July (though the opening ceremony was still held much earlier). It was the last time that solid gold medals were awarded; modern medals are usually gold plated silver.
A winter sports week for the 1912 Games featuring figure skating was rejected by organizers because they wanted to promote the Nordic Games, a quadrennial sporting event, instead.
Highlights
- Francisco Lázaro, a Portuguese runner died from the heat while running the marathon, the first athlete in the history of the modern Olympics to die during competition.
- American Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and the newly created decathlon. He was disqualified because of violation of the principles of amateurism, but was reinstated in 1982.
- In athletics, electric timing devices were first used.
- This was the last Olympics where "private entries" were allowed (ie not part of a country's officially selected team). Arnold Jackson was one such, winning the 1500m by 0.1 second, ahead of an American trio, who were strong favourites, in what was acclaimed at the time as "the greatest race ever run". Aged 21, he remains the youngest ever winner of this event.
- For the first time, Serbian 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 100 m qualification group and marathon runner Dragutin Tomašević, who finished in 37th position.
Track and Field
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Medal withdrawn by IOC in 1913, re-instated in 1982.
