Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres team race

Men's 3000 metres team race at the Games of the VII Olympiad
Venue	Olympisch Stadion
Dates	August 21–22
Competitors	31 from 6 nations
Medalists
Horace Brown, Arlie Schardt, Ivan Dresser United States   Joe Blewitt, Albert Hill, William Seagrove Great Britain   Eric Backman, Sven Lundgren, Edvin Wide Sweden

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

The men's 3000 metres team event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics. It was the second appearance of a 3000-metre team race event after the debut in 1912, but the fifth time that a team contest was arranged at the Olympics. The competition was held on Saturday, August 21, 1920, and on Sunday, August 22, 1920.

31 runners from six nations competed.

According to the International Olympic Committee medal database only the best three runners of each team were awarded with medals.

Results

Semifinals

Both semi-finals were held on Saturday, August 21, 1920.

Semifinal 1

Team result

Place	Team	Scores				Qual.
		1	2	3	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	2	4	5	11	Q
2	Sweden (SWE)	1	3	8	12	Q
3	Italy (ITA)	6	9	10	25	Q
4	Belgium (BEL)	7	11	12	30

Individual race result

Place	Athlete	Score
1	Sven Lundgren (SWE)	1
2	Duncan McPhee (GBR)	2
3	John Zander (SWE)	3
4	Joe Blewitt (GBR)	4
5	William Seagrove (GBR)	5
6	Ernesto Ambrosini (ITA)	6
7	Julien Van Campenhout (BEL)	7
8	Eric Backman (SWE)	8
9	Augusto Maccario (ITA)	9
10	Carlo Speroni (ITA)	10
11	Edvin Wide (SWE)	—
12	Percy Hodge (GBR)	—
13	James Hatton (GBR)	—
14	Claude Otterbeen (BEL)	11
15	Carlo Martinenghi (ITA)	—
16	Lucien Bangels (BEL)	12
17	Josef Holsner (SWE)	—
18	François Vyncke (BEL)	—
19	Pierre Trullemans (BEL)	—
20	Henri Smets (BEL)	—

Semifinal 2

Team result:

Place	Team	Scores				Qual.
		1	2	3	Total
1	France (FRA)	1	2	4	7	Q
2	United States (USA)	3	5	6	14	Q

Individual race result:

Place	Athlete	Score
1	Edmond Brossard (FRA)	1
2	Armand Burtin (FRA)	2
3	Horace Brown (USA)	3
4	Gaston Heuet (FRA)	4
5	Michael Devaney (USA)	5
6	Ivan Dresser (USA)	6
7	Lawrence Shields (USA)	—
8	Arlie Schardt (USA)	—
9	Lucien Duquesne (FRA)	—
10	René Vignaud (FRA)	—

Final

The final was held on Sunday, August 22, 1920.

Team result:

Place	Team	Scores
		1	2	3	Total
1	United States (USA)	1	3	6	10
2	Great Britain (GBR)	5	7	8	20
3	Sweden (SWE)	2	10	12	24
4	France (FRA)	4	11	15	30
5	Italy (ITA)	9	13	14	36

Individual race result:

Place	Athlete	Score
1	Horace Brown (USA)	1
2	Eric Backman (SWE)	2
3	Arlie Schardt (USA)	3
4	Armand Burtin (FRA)	4
5	Joe Blewitt (GBR)	5
6	Ivan Dresser (USA)	6
7	Albert Hill (GBR)	7
8	Lawrence Shields (USA)	—
9	William Seagrove (GBR)	8
10	James Hatton (GBR)	—
11	Ernesto Ambrosini (ITA)	9
12	Michael Devaney (USA)	—
13	Sven Lundgren (SWE)	10
14	Gaston Heuet (FRA)	11
15	Edvin Wide (SWE)	12
16	Augusto Maccario (ITA)	13
17	Carlo Speroni (ITA)	14
18	Edmond Brossard (FRA)	15
19	Carlo Martinenghi (ITA)	—
20	Josef Holsner (SWE)	—
21	Lucien Duquesne (FRA)	—
—	Duncan McPhee (GBR)	DNF
	René Vignaud (FRA)	DNF

References

• Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French).
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 16 August 2007.