1908 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Team Run (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Team run
gender	Men
place	White City Stadium
Attendees	28 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	14./15. July 1908
Medalist
gold	Great Britain
silver	United States
bronze	France

The winning British team, left to right: Norman Hallows, Harold Wilson, Joe Deakin, Archie Robertson, Wilfred Coales

The team running the men at the 1908 Olympic Games in London was on July 15, 1908 in White City Stadium decided. The day before, the finalists were determined in two preliminary runs. The length of the route was 3 miles, which corresponds to 4828 meters, in 1904 it was 4 miles. Each team consisted of up to five runners. The best three of the team came into the evaluation, whereby their place numbers were added. The other runners nevertheless contributed to the result because they were able to place themselves in front of the rated runners of other teams and thus increased their number.

The team from Great Britain with Joe Deakin , Archie Robertson and William Coales as well as outside the evaluation Harold Wilson and Norman Hallows became Olympic champions . Silver went to the USA in the line-up of John Eisele , George Bonhag and Herbert Trube, as well as, outside the ranking, Gayle Dull and Harvey Cohn . France won bronze ( Louis Bonniot de Fleurac , Joseph Dreher and Paul Lizandier as well as Jean Bouin and Alexandre Fayollat outside the ranking )

Records

Among other things, due to the rating system based on place numbers, there were no records or top performances for this competition.

Results

Prelim (July 24th)

1. Forward

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Great Britain	Harold Wilson (1st) Archie Robertson (2nd) William Coales (3rd) outside the rating: Joe Deakin (4th) Norman Hallows DNF	6th
	Italy	Pericle Pagliani (5th) Massimo Cartasegna (6th) Emilio Giovanoli DNF Dorando Pietri DNF Emilio Lunghi DNF	DNF
	Netherlands	Arie Vosbergen (7th) Willem Wakker (8th) Wilhelmus Braams DNF	DNF

For Harold Wilson and Archie Robertson a time of 15: 05.6 min is given. Since only the British were included in the ranking, a place in the finals remained vacant.

2. Forward

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	John Eisele (2nd) Herbert Trube (3rd) George Bonhag (5th) outside the rating: Gayle Dull (11th)	10
2	France	Jean Bouin (1st) Louis Bonniot de Fleurac (4th) Joseph Dreher (10th) outside the ranking: Alexandre Fayollat (13th) Paul Lizandier (14th)	15th
3	Sweden	John Svanberg (6th) Georg Peterson (7th) Edward Dahl (8th) outside the rating: Axel Wiegandt (9th) Seth Landqvist (12th)	21st

Jean Bouin won the race in 14: 53.0 minutes ahead of John Eisele (14: 55.0 minutes) and Herbert Trube (14: 56.0 minutes). The first six stayed under 15 minutes.

Final (July 25th)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Great Britain	Joe Deakin 14: 35.6 (1st) Archie Robertson 14: 41.0 (2nd) William Coales 14: 41.6 (3rd) outside of the rating: Harold Wilson 14: 57.0 (5th) Norman Hallows 15: 08.0 (7.)	6th
2	United States	John Eisele 14: 41.8 (4th) George Bonhag 15: 05.0 (6th) Herbert Trube 15: 11.0 (9th) outside the rating: Gayle Dull 15: 27.0 (10th) Harvey Cohn 15: 40.2 (12.)	19th
3	France	Louis Bonniot de Fleurac 15: 08.4 (8th) Joseph Dreher 15: 40.0 (11th) Paul Lizandier 16: 03.0 (13th) outside the rating: Jean Bouin DNF Alexandre Fayollat DNF	32

The British took the first three places and won with the ideal number of points, as in the preliminary run. Eyewitnesses reported that Joe Deakin's lead was around 35 yards, significantly larger than the officially stated 1.4 seconds. His winning time, initially listed as 14: 39.6 minutes, was actually 14: 35.6 minutes.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - The Chronicle I. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede : The History of Olympic Athletics. Volume 1: 1896-1936. 2nd Edition. Bartels & Wernitz KG publishing house, Berlin 1970

Web links

• Sports-Reference, Athletics at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's 3 mile, Team , English, accessed August 28, 2018
• Olympic Games London 1908, Athletics , IOC page on athletics at the 1908 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed 28 August 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 79