Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

Men's marathon at the Games of the V Olympiad
Ken McArthur winning the race.
Venue	Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm
Dates	July 14
Competitors	68 from 19 nations
Winning time	2:36:54.8
Medalists
Ken McArthur   South Africa   Christian Gitsham   South Africa   Gaston Strobino   United States

Official Video

Athletics at the 1912 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
4×100 m relay		men
4×400 m relay		men
3000 m team race		men
10 km walk		men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men
Pole vault	men
Standing long jump	men
Standing high jump	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men
2-hand shot put	men
2-hand discus	men
2-hand javelin	men
Combined events
Pentathlon	men
Decathlon	men
Cross-country events
Individual	men
Team	men

The turningpoint of the marathon.

The start

The runners leaving the stadium.

Ken McArthur at the entrance of the stadium.

Christian Gitsham finishing in second place.

Gaston Strobino finishing in third place.

Sigfrid Jacobsson finishing in sixth place.

The men's marathon was a track and field athletics event held as part of the athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The distance used was 40.2 kilometres, nearly 2 full kilometres shorter than that used in 1908 and since 1924. The competition was held on Sunday, July 14, 1912.

Sixty-eight runners from 19 nations competed.

With conditions described as "very hot", only half of the competitors finished.^[1]

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in hours) prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics.

World Record	2:40:35	Thure Johansson	Stockholm (SWE)	August 31, 1909
Olympic Record	2:55:18.4	Johnny Hayes	London (GBR)	July 24, 1908

The distance was nearly two kilometres shorter;^[2] nevertheless, Ken McArthur's winning time is registered as an Olympic record.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Ken McArthur (RSA)	2:36:54.8	OR
2	Christian Gitsham (RSA)	2:37:52.0
3	Gaston Strobino (USA)	2:38:42.4
4	Andrew Sockalexis (USA)	2:42:07.9
5	James Duffy (CAN)	2:42:18.8
6	Sigfrid Jacobsson (SWE)	2:43:24.9
7	John Gallagher (USA)	2:44:19.4
8	Joseph Erxleben (USA)	2:45:47.2
9	Richard Piggott (USA)	2:46:40.7
10	Joseph Forshaw (USA)	2:49:49.4
11	Édouard Fabre (CAN)	2:50:36.2
12	Clarence DeMar (USA)	2:50:46.6
13	Renon Boissière (FRA)	2:51:06.6
14	Henry Green (GBR)	2:52:11.4
15	William Forsyth (CAN)	2:52:23.0
16	Lewis Tewanima (USA)	2:52:41.4
17	Harry Smith (USA)	2:52:53.8
18	Thomas Lilley (USA)	2:59:35.4
19	Arthur Townsend (GBR)	3:00:05.0
20	Felix Kwieton (AUT)	3:00:48.0
21	Frederick Lord (GBR)	3:01:39.2
22	Jacob Westberg (SWE)	3:02:05.2
23	Axel Simonsen (NOR)	3:04:59.4
24	Carl Andersson (SWE)	3:06:13.0
25	Edgar Lloyd (GBR)	3:09:25.0
26	Iraklis Sakellaropoulos (GRE)	3:11:37.0
27	Hjalmar Dahlberg (SWE)	3:13:32.2
28	Ivar Lundberg (SWE)	3:16:35.2
29	Johannes Christensen (DEN)	3:21:57.4
30	Olaf Lodal (DEN)	3:21:57.6
31	Ödön Kárpáti (HUN)	3:25:21.6
32	Calle Nilsson (SWE)	3:26:56.4
33	Emmerich Rath (AUT)	3:27:03.8
34	Otto Osen (NOR)	3:36:35.2
35	Elmar Reimann (RUS)	Unknown
—	Alexis Ahlgren (SWE)	DNF
	Henry Barrett (GBR)	DNF
	James Beale (GBR)	DNF
	Thure Bergvall (SWE)	DNF
	James Corkery (CAN)	DNF
	Oscar Fonbæk (NOR)	DNF
	Septimus Francom (GBR)	DNF
	William Grüner (SWE)	DNF
	David Guttman (SWE)	DNF
	Karl Hack (AUT)	DNF
	Bohumil Honzátko (BOH)	DNF
	Aarne Kallberg (FIN)	DNF
	Shizo Kanaguri (JPN)	DNF
	Andrejs Kapmals (RUS)	DNF
	Tim Kellaway (GBR)	DNF
	Tatu Kolehmainen (FIN)	DNF
	Andrejs Krūkliņš (RUS)	DNF
	Francisco Lázaro (POR)	DNF	Died of Electrolyte imbalance
	Ivan Lönnberg (SWE)	DNF
	Louis Pauteux (FRA)	DNF
	Vladimír Penc (BOH)	DNF
	Stuart Poulter (ANZ)	DNF
	Nikolajs Rasso (RUS)	DNF
	John Reynolds (USA)	DNF
	Henrik Ripszám (HUN)	DNF
	Francesco Ruggero (ITA)	DNF
	Michael J. Ryan (USA)	DNF
	František Slavík (BOH)	DNF
	Carlo Speroni (ITA)	DNF
	Arthur St. Norman (RSA)	DNF
	Dragutin Tomašević (SRB)	DNF
	Gustaf Törnros (SWE)	DNF
	Aleksandrs Upmals (RUS)	DNF
—	Ben Allel (FRA)	DNS
	Jean Capelle (FRA)	DNS
	Mathias de Carvalho (POR)	DNS
	Nino Cazzaniga (ITA)	DNS
	Orlando Cesaroni (ITA)	DNS
	Nikolay Khorkov (RUS)	DNS
	Paul Coulond (FRA)	DNS
	Charles Davenport (GBR)	DNS
	George Day (GBR)	DNS
	Alex Decoteau (CAN)	DNS
	Ahmed Djebelia (FRA)	DNS
	George Goulding (CAN)	DNS
	Gaston Heuet (FRA)	DNS
	Joseph Keeper (CAN)	DNS
	Alexandre Kracheninin (RUS)	DNS
	Jean Lespielle (FRA)	DNS
	Henry Lewis (GBR)	DNS
	Henry Lorgnat (FRA)	DNS
	Edmond Neyrinck (FRA)	DNS
	Mikhail Nikolsky (RUS)	DNS
	Alfred Nilsen (NOR)	DNS
	Ole Olsen (NOR)	DNS
	Jacob Pedersen (NOR)	DNS
	Samuel Raynes (GBR)	DNS
	Leonard Richardson (RSA)	DNS
	Joseph Zaitsev (RUS)	DNS
	Alphonso Sanchez (CHI)	DNS
	John Tait (CAN)	DNS
	Živko Vastić (SRB)	DNS
	René Wilde (RUS)	DNS

References

Specific

1. USA Track & Field (2004). "2004 USA Olympic Team Trials: Men’s Marathon Media Guide Supplement" (pdf). Santa Barbara, California: USA Track & Field. p. 11. Retrieved February 21, 2011.
2. "Athletics at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Marathon". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2012-10-05.

General

• Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.)., ed. The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand.
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved January 3, 2007.