Recent Articles



































Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics



         


At the 1920 Summer Olympics, 30 athletics events were contested. Only men were competing.


[Top]

Athletics Medal Winners at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics

Event: Gold: Silver: Bonze:
100 m Charles Paddock, USA 10.8 Morris Kirksey, USA 10.8 Harry Edward, GBR 11.0
200 m Allen Woodring, USA 22.0 Charles Paddock, USA 22.1 Harry Edward, GBR 22.2
400 m Bevil Rudd, RSA 49.6 Guy Butler, GBR 49.9 Nils Engdahl, SWE 50.0
800 m Albert Hill, GBR 1:53.4 Earl Eby, USA 1:53.6 Bevil Rudd, RSA 1:54.0
1,500 m Albert Hill, GBR 4:01.8 Philip Noel-Baker, GBR 4:02.4 Lawrence Shields, USA 4:03.1
3,000 m Team United States 10 Great Britain 20 Sweden 24
5,000 m Joseph Guillemot, FRA 14:55.6 Paavo Nurmi, FIN 15:00.0 Erik Backman, SWE 15:13.0
10,000 m Paavoo Nurmi, FIN 31:45.8 Joseph Guillemot, FRA 31:47.2 James Wilson, GBR 31:50.8
Marathon (26.6 mi) Hannes Kolehmainen, FIN 2:32:35.8 Juri Lossman, EST 2:32:48.6 Valerio Arri, ITA 2:36:32.8
110 m Hurdles Earl Thomson, CAN 14.8 Harold Barron, USA 15.1 Frederick Murray, USA 15.2
400 m Hurdles Frank Loomis, USA 54.0 John Norton, USA 54.3 August Desch, USA 54.5
3,000 m Steeplechase Percy Hodge, GBR 10:00.4 Patrick Flynn, USA Ernesto Ambrosini, ITA
Individual Cross Country Paavo Nurmi, FIN 27:15.0 Erik Backman, SWE 27:15.6 Heikki Liimatainen, FIN 27:37.4
Team Cross Country Finland 10 Great Britain 21 Sweden 23
4 x 100 m Relay United States 42.2 France 42.6 Sweden 42.9
4 x 400 m Relay Great Britain 3:22.2 South Africa 3:24.2 France 3:24.8
3 km Walk Ugo Frigerio, ITA 13:14.2 George Parker, AUS Richard F. Remer, USA
10 km Walk Ugo Frigerio, ITA 48:06.2 Joseph Pearman, USA Charles Gunn, GBR
High Jump Richmond Landon, USA 6'4¼ Harold Muller, USA 6'2¾" Bo Ecklund, SWE 6'2¾
Pole Vault Frank Foss, USA 13'5" Henry Peterson, DEN 12'1½" Edwin Myers, USA 11'9½"
Long Jump William Pettersson, SWE 23'5¼" Carl Johnson, USA 23'3¼" Erik Abrahamsson, SWE 23'2½"
Triple Jump Vilho Tuulos, FIN 47'7" Folke Jansson, SWE 47'6" Erik Almlof, SWE 49'9¾"
Shot Put Ville Porhola, FIN 48'7" Elmer Niklander, FIN 46'5¼" Harry Liversedge, USA 46'5"
Discus Elmer Niklander, FIN 146'7" Armas Taipale, FIN 144'11½" Augustus Pope, USA 138'2½"
Hammer Throw Patrick Ryan, USA 173'5½" Carl John Lind, SWE 158'10½" Basil Bennet, USA 158'3½"
Javelin Jonni Myyra, FIN 215'9½" Urho Peltonen, FIN 208'4" Paavo Jaale-Johansson, FIN 207'0"
56 lb Weight Throw Patrick McDonald, USA 36'11½" Patrick Ryan, USA 36'0" Carl Johan Lind, SWE 33'7¾"
Pentathlon Eero Lehtonen, FIN 14 Everett Bradley, USA 24 Hugo Lahtinen, FIN 26
Decathlon Helge Lovland, NOR 6804.355 Brutus Hamilton, USA 6771.085 Bertil Ohlson, SWE 6580.030
Tug-of-War Great Britain Netherlands Belgium



Athletics at the Summer Olympics
1896 | 1900 | 1904 | 1906 | 1908 | 1912 | 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004






  View Live Article   This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License