1920 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Cross Country (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Cross running single | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 47 athletes from 12 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Antwerp Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 23rd August 1920 | ||||||||
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| discipline | Cross-country team competition | ||||||||
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The men's cross-country race at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp was held on August 23, 1920. 47 athletes took part. There was an individual and a team classification in this race.
The Olympic champion was Paavo Nurmi from Finland, ahead of Eric Backman from Sweden and Heikki Liimatainen from Finland . In the team competition, Finland won ahead of Great Britain and Sweden.
Runners from Switzerland did not take part. Germany and Austria were excluded from the 1920 Games.
Conducting the competition
The race was completed over approx. 8000 meters. In addition to the individual evaluation, there was also a team evaluation. For this purpose, the three best runners in each country were rated with points according to their positions (1st place = 1 point, 2nd place = 2 points, etc.). These point values were added, the order resulted from the lowest sums. So it was purely a place number evaluation, achieved times played no role.
Not all transit times have been transmitted.
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Individual evaluation
Date: August 23, 1920
For Paavo Nurmi, an unknown runner before these games, this race was a triumph. Since there was a team competition and he had strong Finnish colleagues, he was able to win two gold medals in one run. Nurmi and the Swede Eric Backman separated early. Joseph Guillemot, Nurmi's fiercest competitor over 5000 and 10,000 meters , had to give up the race about three kilometers from the finish due to a sprain. The Finn defeated his Swedish opponent in the final sprint.
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Team ranking
| space | nation | Arhletes | Points | annotation |
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| 1 |
 Finland
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Paavo Nurmi (1) Heikki Liimatainen (3) Teodor Koskenniemi (6) |
10 | |
| 2 |
 Great Britain
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James Wilson (4) Frank Hegarty (5) Alfred Nichols (12) |
21st | |
| 3 |
 Sweden
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Eric Backman (2) Gustaf Mattsson (10) Hilding Ekman (11) |
23 | |
| 4th |
 United States
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Patrick Flynn (9) Fred Faller (13) Max Böhland (14) |
36 | |
| 5 |
 France
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Gaston Heuet (8) Gustave Lauvaux (15) Joseph Servella (17) |
40 | |
| 6th |
 Belgium
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Julien Van Campenhout (7) Henri Smets (20) Aimé Proot (21) |
48 | |
| 7th |
 Denmark
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Albert Andersen (16) Henrik Sørensen (18) Jón Jónsen (19) |
53 |
Date: August 23, 1920
A total of seven teams (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Sweden and the USA) were included in the ranking. They had the required minimum number of three runners at the finish. Greece with two runners at the finish as well as Canada, Norway, Spain and South Africa with one starter each could not be considered.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede : The History of Olympic Athletics. Volume 1: 1896-1936. 2nd Edition. Verlag Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin 1970, DNB 368759857 , p. 138f.
Web links
- SportsReference Cross Race Individual , accessed on September 2, 2017
- SportsReference Cross Country Team , accessed September 2, 2017
- Official report , French (PDF), accessed on September 2, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official report ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) p. 109 (French)
- ↑ Summary of the race on SportsReference , engl. (PDF)
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