Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men
4×400 m relay	men
3000 m team race	men
3 km walk	men
10 km walk	men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men
56 lb weight throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon	men
Decathlon	men
Cross-country events
Individual	men
Team	men
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At the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, 29 athletics events were contested, all for men only. The competitions were held from August 15, 1920, to August 23, 1920.

Medal summary[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 metres details	Charles Paddock  United States	Morris Kirksey  United States	Harry Edward  Great Britain
200 metres details	Allen Woodring  United States	Charles Paddock  United States	Harry Edward  Great Britain
400 metres details	Bevil Rudd  South Africa	Guy Butler  Great Britain	Nils Engdahl  Sweden
800 metres details	Albert Hill  Great Britain	Earl Eby  United States	Bevil Rudd  South Africa
1500 metres details	Albert Hill  Great Britain	Philip Noel-Baker  Great Britain	Lawrence Shields  United States
5000 metres details	Joseph Guillemot  France	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	Eric Backman  Sweden
10,000 metres details	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	Joseph Guillemot  France	James Wilson  Great Britain
110 metres hurdles details	Earl Thomson  Canada	Harold Barron  United States	Feg Murray  United States
400 metres hurdles details	Frank Loomis  United States	John Norton  United States	August Desch  United States
3,000 metres steeplechase details	Percy Hodge  Great Britain	Patrick Flynn  United States	Ernesto Ambrosini  Italy
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Charles Paddock Jackson Scholz Loren Murchison Morris Kirksey	France (FRA) René Lorain René Tirard René Mourlon Émile Ali-Khan	Sweden (SWE) Agne Holmström William Petersson Sven Malm Nils Sandström
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain (GBR) Cecil Griffiths Robert Lindsay John Ainsworth-Davis Guy Butler	South Africa (RSA) Henry Dafel Clarence Oldfield Jack Oosterlaak Bevil Rudd	France (FRA) Géo André Gaston Féry Maurice Delvart André Devaux
3000 metres team race details	United States (USA) Horace Brown Arlie Schardt Ivan Dresser	Great Britain (GBR) Joe Blewitt Albert Hill William Seagrove	Sweden (SWE) Eric Backman Sven Lundgren Edvin Wide
Marathon details	Hannes Kolehmainen  Finland	Jüri Lossmann  Estonia	Valerio Arri  Italy
3 kilometres walk details	Ugo Frigerio  Italy	George Parker  Australia	Richard Remer  United States
10 kilometres walk details	Ugo Frigerio  Italy	Joseph Pearman  United States	Charles Gunn  Great Britain
High jump details	Richmond Landon  United States	Harold Muller  United States	Bo Ekelund  Sweden
Pole vault details	Frank Foss  United States	Henry Petersen  Denmark	Edwin Myers  United States
Long jump details	William Petersson  Sweden	Carl Johnson  United States	Erik Abrahamsson  Sweden
Triple jump details	Vilho Tuulos  Finland	Folke Jansson  Sweden	Erik Almlöf  Sweden
Shot put details	Ville Pörhölä  Finland	Elmer Niklander  Finland	Harry Liversedge  United States
Discus throw details	Elmer Niklander  Finland	Armas Taipale  Finland	Gus Pope  United States
Hammer throw details	Patrick Ryan  United States	Carl Johan Lind  Sweden	Basil Bennett  United States
Javelin throw details	Jonni Myyrä  Finland	Urho Peltonen  Finland	Pekka Johansson  Finland
56 lb (25 kg) weight throw details	Pat McDonald  United States	Patrick Ryan  United States	Carl Johan Lind  Sweden
Pentathlon details	Eero Lehtonen  Finland	Everett Bradley  United States	Hugo Lahtinen  Finland
Decathlon details	Helge Løvland  Norway	Brutus Hamilton  United States	Bertil Ohlson  Sweden
Individual cross country details	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	Eric Backman  Sweden	Heikki Liimatainen  Finland
Team cross country details	Finland (FIN) Paavo Nurmi Heikki Liimatainen Teodor Koskenniemi	Great Britain (GBR) James Wilson Anton Hegarty Alfred Nichols	Sweden (SWE) Eric Backman Gustaf Mattsson Hilding Ekman

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	9	12	8	29
2	Finland (FIN)	9	4	3	16
3	Great Britain (GBR)	4	4	4	12
4	Italy (ITA)	2	0	2	4
5	Sweden (SWE)	1	3	10	14
6	France (FRA)	1	2	1	4
7	South Africa (RSA)	1	1	1	3
8	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
10	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
Totals (12 nations)		29	29	29	87

Participating nations[]

509 athletes from 25 nations competed. Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Estonia, Monaco, New Zealand, and Spain competed for the first time.

References[]

• Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French).
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 26 August 2007.