Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the Games of the VII Olympiad
Host stadium (shown in 2018)
Dates	15-23 August
No. of events	29
Competitors	509 from 25 nations

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	Charles Paddock  United States	10.8	Morris Kirksey  United States	10.9	Harry Edward  Great Britain	10.9
200 metres	Allen Woodring  United States	22.0	Charles Paddock  United States	22.0	Harry Edward  Great Britain	22.2
400 metres	Bevil Rudd  South Africa	49.6	Guy Butler  Great Britain	50.1	Nils Engdahl  Sweden	50.2
800 metres	Albert Hill  Great Britain	1:53.4	Earl Eby  United States	1:53.6	Bevil Rudd  South Africa	1:53.6
1500 metres	Albert Hill  Great Britain	4:01.8	Philip Noel-Baker  Great Britain	4:02.4	Lawrence Shields  United States	4:04.3
5000 metres	Joseph Guillemot  France	14:55.6	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	15:00.0	Eric Backman  Sweden	15:13.0
10,000 metres	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	31:45.8	Joseph Guillemot  France	31:47.2	James Wilson  Great Britain	31:50.8
110 metres hurdles	Earl Thomson  Canada	14.8 WR	Harold Barron  United States	15.1	Feg Murray  United States	15.1
400 metres hurdles	Frank Loomis  United States	54.0 WR	John Norton  United States	54.6	August Desch  United States	54.7
3,000 metres steeplechase	Percy Hodge  Great Britain	10:00.4 OR	Patrick Flynn  United States	10:21.1	Ernesto Ambrosini  Italy	10:32.0
4 × 100 metres relay	United States (USA) Charles Paddock Jackson Scholz Loren Murchison Morris Kirksey	42.2 WR	France (FRA) René Lorain René Tirard René Mourlon Émile Ali-Khan	42.5	Sweden (SWE) Agne Holmström William Petersson Sven Malm Nils Sandström	42.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Great Britain (GBR) Cecil Griffiths Robert Lindsay John Ainsworth-Davis Guy Butler	3:22.2	South Africa (RSA) Henry Dafel Clarence Oldfield Jack Oosterlaak Bevil Rudd	3:23.0	France (FRA) Géo André Gaston Féry Maurice Delvart André Devaux	3:23.5
3000 metres team race	United States (USA) Horace Brown Arlie Schardt Ivan Dresser	10 pts	Great Britain (GBR) Joe Blewitt Albert Hill William Seagrove	20 pts	Sweden (SWE) Eric Backman Sven Lundgren Edvin Wide	24 pts
Marathon	Hannes Kolehmainen  Finland	2:32:35.8 WR	Jüri Lossmann  Estonia	2:32:48.6	Valerio Arri  Italy	2:36:32.8
3 kilometres walk	Ugo Frigerio  Italy	13:14.2 OR	George Parker  Australia	(13:19.6)	Richard Remer  United States	(13:22.2)
10 kilometres walk	Ugo Frigerio  Italy	48:06.2	Joseph Pearman  United States	(49:40.2)	Charles Gunn  Great Britain	(49:43.9)
Individual cross country	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	27:15.0	Eric Backman  Sweden	27:17.6	Heikki Liimatainen  Finland	27:37.0
Team cross country	Finland (FIN) Paavo Nurmi Heikki Liimatainen Teodor Koskenniemi	10 pts	Great Britain (GBR) James Wilson Anton Hegarty Alfred Nichols	21 pts	Sweden (SWE) Eric Backman Gustaf Mattsson Hilding Ekman	23 pts
High jump	Richmond Landon  United States	1.936 m OR	Harold Muller  United States	1.90 m	Bo Ekelund  Sweden	1.90 m
Pole vault	Frank Foss  United States	4.09 m WR	Henry Petersen  Denmark	3.70 m	Edwin Myers  United States	3.60 m
Long jump	William Petersson  Sweden	7.15 m	Carl Johnson  United States	7.095 m	Erik Abrahamsson  Sweden	7.08 m
Triple jump	Vilho Tuulos  Finland	14.505 m	Folke Jansson  Sweden	14.48 m	Erik Almlöf  Sweden	14.27 m
Shot put	Ville Pörhölä  Finland	14.81 m	Elmer Niklander  Finland	14.155 m	Harry Liversedge  United States	14.15 m
Discus throw	Elmer Niklander  Finland	44.685 m	Armas Taipale  Finland	44.19 m	Gus Pope  United States	42.13 m
Hammer throw	Patrick Ryan  United States	52.875 m	Carl Johan Lind  Sweden	48.43 m	Basil Bennett  United States	48.25 m
Javelin throw	Jonni Myyrä  Finland	65.78 m OR	Urho Peltonen  Finland	63.605 m	Pekka Johansson  Finland	63.095 m
56 lb (25 kg) weight throw	Pat McDonald  United States	11.265 m OR	Patrick Ryan  United States	10.965 m	Carl Johan Lind  Sweden	10.255 m
Pentathlon	Eero Lehtonen  Finland	14 pts	Everett Bradley  United States	24 pts	Hugo Lahtinen  Finland	26 pts
Decathlon	Helge Løvland  Norway	6803.355 pts	Brutus Hamilton  United States	6771.085 pts	Bertil Ohlson  Sweden	6580.030 pts

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 entries)		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.

Australia (4)  Belgium (42)  Canada (14)  Chile (2)  Czechoslovakia (16)  Denmark (18)  Egypt (2)  Estonia (7)  Finland (26)

France (59)  Great Britain (41)  Greece (9)  India (3)  Italy (24)  Japan (11)  Luxembourg (7)  Monaco (2)  Netherlands (11)

New Zealand (2)  Norway (16)  South Africa (13)  Spain (14)  Sweden (63)  Switzerland (13)  United States (90)

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.