Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres team race

Men's 3000 metres team race at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Venue	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir
Dates	July 11, 1924 (semifinals) July 13, 1924 (final)
Competitors	44 from 9 nations
Medalists
Katz, Nurmi, Ritola Liewendahl, Seppälä, Tala   Finland Johnston, Macdonald, Webber Clark, Porter, Seagrove   Great Britain Cox, Kirby, Tibbetts Connolly, Larrivee, Ray   United States
←  1920

The men's 3000 metres team event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. It was the third and last appearance of a 3000-metre team race event after the debut in 1912, but the sixth time that a team contest was arranged at the Olympics. The competition was held on Friday, July 11, 1924, and on Sunday, July 13, 1924. Forty-four runners from nine nations competed. ^[1]

Results

Semifinals

Both semi-finals were held on Friday, July 11, 1924, and the first heat started at 3:15 p.m. The top two teams in each heat qualified for the final.

Semifinal 1

Team result

Place	Team	Scores				Qual.
		1	2	3	Total
1	Finland  (FIN)	1	2	3	6	Q
2	Great Britain  (GBR)	4	5	6	15	Q
3	Norway  (NOR)	8	9	10	27
4	Italy  (ITA)	7	11	13	31
5	Poland  (POL)	12	14	15	41

Individual race result

Place	Athlete	Score
1	Paavo Nurmi  (FIN)	1
2	Ville Ritola  (FIN)	2
3	Sameli Tala  (FIN)	3
4	Walter Porter  (GBR)	4
5	Herbert Johnston  (GBR)	5
6	Bertram Macdonald  (GBR)	6
7	Angelo Davoli  (ITA)	7
8	Hans Gundhus  (NOR)	8
9	William Seagrove  (GBR)	—
10	Nils Andersen  (NOR)	9
11	Haakon Jansen  (NOR)	10
12	Frej Liewendahl  (FIN)	—
13	Elias Katz  (FIN)	—
14	Ferruccio Bruni  (ITA)	11
15	Johan Badendyck  (NOR)	—
16	Stanisław Ziffer  (POL)	12
17	Giovanni Garaventa  (ITA)	13
18	Julian Łukaszewicz  (POL)	14
19	Stefan Szelestowski  (POL)	15
—	Eino Seppälä  (FIN)	DNF
	Arthur Clark  (GBR)	DNF
	George Webber  (GBR)	DNF
	Ernesto Ambrosini  (ITA)	DNF

Semifinal 2

Team result:

Place	Team	Scores				Qual.
		1	2	3	Total
1	United States  (USA)	2	3	4	9	Q
2	France  (FRA)	5	6	7	18	Q
3	Sweden  (SWE)	1	8	12	21
4	Spain  (ESP)	9	10	11	30

Individual race result:

Place	Athlete	Score
1	Edvin Wide  (SWE)	1
2	Bill Cox  (USA)	2
3	Edward Kirby  (USA)	3
4	Willard Tibbetts  (USA)	4
5	Paul Bontemps  (FRA)	5
6	Lucien Duquesne  (FRA)	6
7	Camille Barbaud  (FRA)	7
8	James Connolly  (USA)	—
9	Axel Eriksson  (SWE)	8
10	Armand Burtin  (FRA)	—
11	Joie Ray  (USA)	—
12	Jesús Diéguez  (ESP)	9
13	José Andía  (ESP)	10
14	Léonard Mascaux  (FRA)	—
15	Fabián Velasco  (ESP)	11
16	Jean Keller  (FRA)	—
17	Miguel Palau  (ESP)	—
18	Joaquín Miquel  (ESP)	—
19	Sven Emil Lundgren  (SWE)	12
20	Leo Larrivee  (USA)	—
21	Stig Reuterswärd  (SWE)	—

Final

The final was held on Sunday, July 13, 1924, and started at 4:45 p.m.

Team result:

Place	Team	Scores
		1	2	3	Total
1	Finland  (FIN)	1	2	5	8
2	Great Britain  (GBR)	3	4	7	14
3	United States  (USA)	6	8	11	25
4	France  (FRA)	9	10	12	31

Individual race result:

Place	Athlete	Score
1	Paavo Nurmi  (FIN)	1
2	Ville Ritola  (FIN)	2
3	Bertram Macdonald  (GBR)	3
4	Herbert Johnston  (GBR)	4
5	Elias Katz  (FIN)	5
6	Edward Kirby  (USA)	6
7	George Webber  (GBR)	7
8	Bill Cox  (USA)	8
9	Paul Bontemps  (FRA)	9
10	Walter Porter  (GBR)	—
11	Armand Burtin  (FRA)	10
12	Willard Tibbetts  (USA)	11
13	Sameli Tala  (FIN)	—
14	Arthur Clark  (GBR)	—
15	Léonard Mascaux  (FRA)	12
16	William Seagrove  (GBR)	—
17	Leo Larrivee  (USA)	—
18	Joie Ray  (USA)	—
19	Camille Barbaud  (FRA)	—
—	Frej Liewendahl  (FIN)	DNF
	James Connolly  (USA)	DNF
	Jean Keller  (FRA)	DNF
	Lucien Duquesne  (FRA)	DNF

References

1. "Athletics at the 1924 Paris Games: Men's 3,000 metres, Team". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2018.

External links

• Olympic Report
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2009.