The 1912 Olympic Games were held in Stockholm, Sweden from May 5th to July 22nd. Approximately 2,547 athletes from 28 countries participated. It was the first Olympics with events for women (swimming, archery, clay pigeon shooting) and the first to use electric timing and photo finishes. The United States won the most medals overall.

1. By:
Paqui Castaño Gª-Cervigón

2.  The Olympic games of 1912 were celebrated in
Stockholm, Switzerland, between the 5th of May and the 22nd
of July. 2547 athletes from 28 countries participated.

3.  In the Olympic games of London in 1908 there was people
who think that the games must be left because they didn’t
keep the initial purpose and created more disputes than
friendship between the participating nations, but the Olympic
games of Stockholm demonstrated that these people was
wrong. They were better organized games to date.

4.  The Stockholm Olympic stadium was built with the
appearance of medieval castle. Its builder was the
architect Torben Grut.

5.  Boxing was eliminated because in Stockholm wasn’t
practiced.
 The International Olympic Committee wanted eliminates the
marathon because it was very hard. The Portuguese Francisco
Lázaro died in full career due to intense heat.

6.  For first time electric timing and photo finish were used with
great success ending with the decisions polemics and the
women could participated at the swimming events, archery
and clay pigeon shooting.
 For first time the competitors come from the 5 continents.

7.  Often is considerate the biggest of all the athletes of the history.
In these games he won the pentathlon and the decathlon with
big margins and he established world records in both events. But
the next year the International Olympic Committee took their
prizes and medals to discover that he worked on a baseball team.
 70 years later all his titles returned to the Thorpe’s family

9.  It was the first of the great Finnish runners. In the Olympic
games of Stockholm he won the 5000m with a new record,
the 10000m and in each one cross-county where he also won
a silver medal in the team event. In the 5000m he was the
first person in run the distance in less of 15 minutes.

11. Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
United States 25 19 19 65
Switzerland 24 24 17 63
United Kingdom 10 15 16 41
Finland 9 8 9 26
France 7 4 3 14
Germany 5 13 7 25
South Africa 4 2 0 6
Norway 4 1 4 9
Canada 3 2 3 8
Hungary 3 2 3 8
Italy 3 1 2 6
Australia 2 2 3 7
Belgium 2 1 3 6
Denmark 1 6 5 12
Grace 1 0 1 2
Russia 0 2 3 5
Austria 0 2 2 4
Low Countries 0 0 3 3