4. The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of
the V Olympiad.
Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 27 July 1912.
Twenty-eight nations and 2,407 competitors, including 48
women, competed in 102 events in 16 sports.
The games were the first to have art competitions, and the
first to feature the decathlon and pentathlon.
The United States won the most gold medals,
while at 65, Sweden won the most medals
overall.
5. Portuguese Francisco Lázaro died from a heart attack while running
the marathon, the first athlete in the history of the modern Olympics
to die during competition.
Sweden, as the host country, refused to allow boxing events.
A Greco-Roman Wrestling bout between Martin Klein and Alfred
Asikainen lasted 11 hours and forty minutes—the world's longest
wrestling match.
Future World War II General George S. Patton took
part in the first modern pentathlon competition.
Modern pentathlon was the idea of Pierre de Coubertin.
Ewart Douglas Horsfallwon his first two gold medals for
Great Britain in rowing. He has widely been considered
Britain's greatest rower prior to Steve Redgrave.
6. Women's events in swimming and diving were introduced.
This was the last Olympics where "private entries" were allowed (i.e.
not part of a country's officially selected team). Arnold Jackson was
one such, winning the 1500m by 0.1 second, ahead of an American
trio, who were strong favourites, in what was acclaimed at the time as
"the greatest race ever run". He was aged 21 at the time. No one
younger has ever won this event.
In athletics, electric timing devices were first used.
7. Australasia (5) Italy (14)
Austria (12) Japan (2)
Belgium (2) Luxembourg (2)
Bohemia (11) Netherlands (1)
Canada (18) Norway (23)
Chile (6) Portugal (4)
Denmark (14) Russia (35)
Finland (23) Serbia (3)
France (32) South Africa (7)
Germany (24) Sweden (108)
Great Britain (65) Switzerland (1)
Greece (5) Turkey (2)
Hungary (27) United States (109)
Iceland (1)
8. Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States 16 14 12 42
2 Finland 6 4 3 13
3 Sweden 4 5 6 15
4 Great Britain 2 1 5 8
5 Canada 1 2 2 5
6 South Africa 1 1 0 2
7 Greece 1 0 1 2
8 Norway 1 0 0 1
France 0 2 0 2
9
Germany 0 2 0 2
Hungary 0 0 1 1
11
Italy 0 0 1 1
Total 32 31 31 94
9. Athletics Tennis
Cycling Tug of war
Diving Water polo
Equestrian Wrestling
Fencing
Football
Gymnastics
Modern pentathlon
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
