List of Olympic champions in the tug of war

Olympic Champion 1908: City of London Police tug-of-war team with supervisors

The list of Olympic champions in the tug of war lists all medal winners between 1900 and 1920. Tug of war was an Olympic discipline six times during this period .

Medalist

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
1900	Mixed team 0 Edgar Aabye August Nilsson Eugen Schmidt Gustaf Söderström Karl Gustaf Staaf Charles Winckler	Mixed team ( Racing Club de France ) Raymond Basset Jean Collas Charles Gondouin Francisco Henríquez de Zubiría Joseph Roffo Emile Sarrade	-
1904	United States ( Milwaukee Athletic Club ) Patrick Flanagan Sidney Johnson Conrad Magnusson Oscar Olson Henry Seiling	United States ( Southwest Gymnastics Club of St. Louis I ) Max Braun August Rodenberg Charles Rose William Seiling Orrin Upshaw	Mixed team ( Southwest Gymnastics Club of St. Louis II ) Oscar Friede Charles Haberkorn Harry Jacobs Frank Kugler Charles Thias
( 1906 )	German Empire 0 Wilhelm Born Willy Dörr Karl Kaltenbach Joseph Krämer Wilhelm Ritzenhoff Heinrich Rondi Heinrich Schneidereit Julius Wagner	Greece ( Grandmas Helliniki PS ) Konstantinos Lazaros Spyros Lazaros Georgios Papachristou Georgios Psakhos Vasilios Psakhos Panayotis Trivoulidis Antonios Tsitas Spyros Vellas	Sweden 0 Erik Granfelt Gustaf Grönberger Anton Gustafsson Oswald Holmberg Eric Lemming Axel Norling Carl Svensson Ture Wersäll
1908	United Kingdom ( City of London Police ) Edward Barrett Frederick Goodfellow William Hirons Frederick Humphreys Albert Ireton Frederick Merriman Edwin Mills James Shepherd	United Kingdom ( Liverpool Police ) Thomas Butler Jim Clark William Greggan Alexander Kidd Daniel McDonald Lowey Patrick Philbin George Smith Thomas Swindlehurst	United Kingdom ( Metropolitan Police ) Walter Chaffe Joseph Dowler Ernest Ebbage Thomas Homewood Alexander Munro William Slade Walter Tammas James Woodget
1912	Sweden 0 Arvid Andersson Adolf Bergman Johan Edman Erik Fredriksson August Gustafsson Carl Jonsson Erik Larsson Herbert Lindström	United Kingdom ( City of London Police ) Walter Chaffe Joseph Dowler Frederick Humphreys Matt Hynes Edwin Mills Alexander Munro John Sewell James Shepherd	-
1920	United Kingdom ( City of London Police ) George Canning Fred Holmes Frederick Humphreys Edwin Mills John Sewell James Shepherd Harry Stiff Ernest Thorne	Netherlands 0 Wilhelmus Johannes Bekkers Johannes Hengeveld Sijtse Jansma Henk Janssen Antonius van Loon Willem van Loon Marinus van Rekum Willem van Rekum	Belgium 0 Edouard Bourguignon Alphonse Ducatillon Rémy Maertens Christian Piek Henri Pintens Charles Van Den Broeck François Van Hoorenbeek Gustave Wuyts

Most successful athletes

space	Surname	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Frederick Humphreys	United Kingdom	2	1	0	3
1.	Edwin Mills	United Kingdom	2	1	0	3
1.	James Shepherd	United Kingdom	2	1	0	3
4th	37 athletes	Denmark (3) German Empire (8) Sweden (11) United Kingdom (8) United States (5)	1	0	0	1
41.	40 athletes	France (5) Greece (8) Colombia (1) Netherlands (8) United Kingdom (13) United States (5)	0	1	0	1
91.	29 athletes	Belgium (8) German Empire (1) Sweden (8) United Kingdom (8) United States (4)	0	0	1	1

Nations ranking

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	United Kingdom	2	2	1	5
2.	Mixed team	1	1	1	3
3.	United States	1	1	0	2
4th	Sweden	1	0	1	2
5.	German Empire	1	0	0	1
6th	Greece	0	1	0	1
6th	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
8th.	Belgium	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Tug of war at Sports-Reference.com

References and comments

1. ↑ Due to the participation of the German citizen Frank Kugler, the team is officially classified as a mixed team USA / Germany , see below. a. sports-reference.com , sports-reference.com ( Memento of October 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).