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
Nikolai Panin	figure skating	Special figure

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Nikolai Orlov	Greco-Roman wrestling	lightweight
Alexander Petrov	Greco-Roman wrestling	Heavyweight

Participants by sport

figure skating

• Nikolai Panin
  • Special figure: 1st place

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 )