| 1912 Summer Olympics medals | |
|---|---|
| Location | Stockholm,  Sweden |
| Highlights | |
| Most gold medals |  United States (26) |
| Most total medals | Sweden (65) |
| Medalling NOCs | 18 |
The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 27 July 1912. Twenty-eight nations and 2,408 competitors, including 48 women, competed in 102 events in 14 sports.
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. [1] [2] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code. [3]
Host country (Sweden)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 26 | 19 | 19 | 64 |
| 2 | Sweden* | 23 | 25 | 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 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 9 |  Canada | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
 Hungary | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| 11 |  Italy | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 12 |  Australasia | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 13 |  Belgium | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 14 |  Denmark | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 |
| 15 |  Greece | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Russian Empire | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 17 |  Austria | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 18 |  Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Totals (18 entries) | 102 | 106 | 104 | 312 | |
Jim Thorpe, the winner of the pentathlon and decathlon events, was subsequently disqualified after having taken expense money for playing semi-professional baseball. The athletes ranking second through fourth were upgraded to first through third. In 1982, thirty years after Thorpe's death, he was reinstated as a co-winner in both events as the disqualification was deemed improper, and Thorpe became co-champion with Ferdinand Bie and Hugo Wieslander, although both of these athletes had always said they considered Thorpe to be the only champion. In 2022, Thorpe was reinstated as the sole winner of the events with the consent of the involved National Olympic Committees and descendants of the athletes. [4] [5]
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