Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the Games of the VII Olympiad
Host stadium (shown in 2018)
Dates	15-23 August
No. of events	29
Competitors	509 from 25 nations
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At the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, 29 athletics events were contested, all for men only. The competitions were held from August 15, 1920, to August 23, 1920.

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Charles Paddock   United States	10.8	Morris Kirksey   United States	10.9	Harry Edward   Great Britain	10.9
200 metres details	Allen Woodring   United States	22.0	Charles Paddock   United States	22.0	Harry Edward   Great Britain	22.2
400 metres details	Bevil Rudd   South Africa	49.6	Guy Butler   Great Britain	50.1	Nils Engdahl   Sweden	50.2
800 metres details	Albert Hill   Great Britain	1:53.4	Earl Eby   United States	1:53.6	Bevil Rudd   South Africa	1:53.6
1500 metres details	Albert Hill   Great Britain	4:01.8	Philip Noel-Baker   Great Britain	4:02.4	Lawrence Shields   United States	4:04.3
5000 metres details	Joseph Guillemot   France	14:55.6	Paavo Nurmi   Finland	15:00.0	Eric Backman   Sweden	15:13.0
10,000 metres details	Paavo Nurmi   Finland	31:45.8	Joseph Guillemot   France	31:47.2	James Wilson   Great Britain	31:50.8
110 metres hurdles details	Earl Thomson   Canada	14.8 WR	Harold Barron   United States	15.1	Feg Murray   United States	15.1
400 metres hurdles details	Frank Loomis   United States	54.0 WR	John Norton   United States	54.6	August Desch   United States	54.7
3000 metres steeplechase details	Percy Hodge   Great Britain	10:00.4 OR	Patrick Flynn   United States	10:21.1	Ernesto Ambrosini   Italy	10:32.0
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Charles Paddock Jackson Scholz Loren Murchison Morris Kirksey	42.2 WR	France  (FRA) René Lorain René Tirard René Mourlon Émile Ali-Khan	42.5	Sweden  (SWE) Agne Holmström William Petersson Sven Malm Nils Sandström	42.8
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain  (GBR) Cecil Griffiths Robert Lindsay John Ainsworth-Davis Guy Butler	3:22.2	South Africa  (RSA) Henry Dafel Clarence Oldfield Jack Oosterlaak Bevil Rudd	3:23.0	France  (FRA) Géo André Gaston Féry Maurice Delvart André Devaux	3:23.5
3000 metres team race details	United States  (USA) Horace Brown Arlie Schardt Ivan Dresser	10 pts	Great Britain  (GBR) Joe Blewitt Albert Hill William Seagrove	20 pts	Sweden  (SWE) Eric Backman Sven Lundgren Edvin Wide	24 pts
Marathon details	Hannes Kolehmainen   Finland	2:32:35.8 WR	Jüri Lossmann   Estonia	2:32:48.6	Valerio Arri   Italy	2:36:32.8
3 kilometres walk details	Ugo Frigerio   Italy	13:14.2 OR	George Parker   Australia	(13:19.6)	Richard Remer   United States	(13:22.2)
10 kilometres walk details	Ugo Frigerio   Italy	48:06.2	Joseph Pearman   United States	(49:40.2)	Charles Gunn   Great Britain	(49:43.9)
Individual cross country details	Paavo Nurmi   Finland	27:15.0	Eric Backman   Sweden	27:17.6	Heikki Liimatainen   Finland	27:37.0
Team cross country details	Finland  (FIN) Paavo Nurmi Heikki Liimatainen Teodor Koskenniemi	10 pts	Great Britain  (GBR) James Wilson Anton Hegarty Alfred Nichols	21 pts	Sweden  (SWE) Eric Backman Gustaf Mattsson Hilding Ekman	23 pts
High jump details	Richmond Landon   United States	1.936 m OR	Harold Muller   United States	1.90 m	Bo Ekelund   Sweden	1.90 m
Pole vault details	Frank Foss   United States	4.09 m WR	Henry Petersen   Denmark	3.70 m	Edwin Myers   United States	3.60 m
Long jump details	William Petersson   Sweden	7.15 m	Carl Johnson   United States	7.095 m	Erik Abrahamsson   Sweden	7.08 m
Triple jump details	Vilho Tuulos   Finland	14.505 m	Folke Jansson   Sweden	14.48 m	Erik Almlöf   Sweden	14.27 m
Shot put details	Ville Pörhölä   Finland	14.81 m	Elmer Niklander   Finland	14.155 m	Harry Liversedge   United States	14.15 m
Discus throw details	Elmer Niklander   Finland	44.685 m	Armas Taipale   Finland	44.19 m	Gus Pope   United States	42.13 m
Hammer throw details	Patrick Ryan   United States	52.875 m	Carl Johan Lind   Sweden	48.43 m	Basil Bennett   United States	48.25 m
Javelin throw details	Jonni Myyrä   Finland	65.78 m OR	Urho Peltonen   Finland	63.605 m	Pekka Johansson   Finland	63.095 m
56 lb (25 kg) weight throw details	Pat McDonald   United States	11.265 m OR	Patrick Ryan   United States	10.965 m	Carl Johan Lind   Sweden	10.255 m
Pentathlon details	Eero Lehtonen   Finland	14 pts	Everett Bradley   United States	24 pts	Hugo Lahtinen   Finland	26 pts
Decathlon details	Helge Løvland   Norway	6803.355 pts	Brutus Hamilton   United States	6771.085 pts	Bertil Ohlson   Sweden	6580.030 pts

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	9	12	8	29
2	Finland  (FIN)	9	4	3	16
3	Great Britain  (GBR)	4	4	4	12
4	Italy  (ITA)	2	0	2	4
5	Sweden  (SWE)	1	3	10	14
6	France  (FRA)	1	2	1	4
7	South Africa  (RSA)	1	1	1	3
8	Canada  (CAN)	1	0	0	1
	Norway  (NOR)	1	0	0	1
10	Australia  (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark  (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia  (EST)	0	1	0	1
Totals (12 entries)		29	29	29	87

Participating nations

509 athletes from 25 nations competed. Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Estonia, Monaco, New Zealand, and Spain competed for the first time.

Australia  (4)   Belgium  (42)   Canada  (14)   Chile  (2)   Czechoslovakia  (16)   Denmark  (18)   Egypt  (2)   Estonia  (7)   Finland  (26)

France  (59)   Great Britain  (41)   Greece  (9)   India  (3)   Italy  (24)   Japan  (11)   Luxembourg  (7)   Monaco  (2)   Netherlands  (11)

New Zealand  (2)   Norway  (16)   South Africa  (13)   Spain  (14)   Sweden  (63)   Switzerland  (13)   United States  (90)

References

• Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French).
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 26 August 2007.