Olympic Summer Games 1908 / Participant (Russian Empire)
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Russia participated in the 1908 Olympic Games in London , Great Britain , with a delegation of six athletes (six men) in seven competitions in three different sports. A total of three medals (one gold and two silver) could be won. It was the country's second summer Olympics participation after the 1900 Olympics .
Medalist
gold
Surname | sport | competition |
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Nikolai Panin | figure skating | Special figure |
silver
Surname | sport | competition |
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Nikolai Orlov | Greco-Roman wrestling | lightweight |
Alexander Petrov | Greco-Roman wrestling | Heavyweight |
Participants by sport
figure skating
athletics
-
Georg Lind
- Marathon: Final, 3: 26.38 hours (19th place)
Wrestling
Greco-Roman
lightweight
-
Nikolai Orlov
- Round one: BYE
- Round two: against Carl Erik Lund in Sweden enforced
- Quarter-finals: against Ödön Radvány from Hungary enforced
- Semi-finals: against Arvo Lindén from Finland enforced
- Final: eliminated by Enrico Porro from Italy
- 2nd place
medium weight
-
Grigori Djomin
- Round one: BYE
- Round two: eliminated by Axel Frank from Sweden
Heavyweight
-
Alexander Petrov
- Round one: against Frederick Humphreys from the UK enforced
- Semi-finals: prevailed against Hugó Payr from Hungary
- Final: eliminated by Richárd Weisz from Hungary
- 2nd place
-
Yevgeny Samotin
- Round one: BYE
- Round two: eliminated by Hugó Payr from Hungary
Web links
- Russian Olympic team from 1908 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )