Modern pentathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon was first contested at the Olympic Games at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.[1] The sport was invented by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games.

Men's modern pentathlon
at the Games of the V Olympiad
DatesJuly 7–12, 1912
Competitors32 from 10 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)Gösta Lilliehöök Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Gösta Åsbrink Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Georg de Laval Sweden
1920 →

A lost points system was used, in which the athlete lost the same number of points corresponding to his position in each modality. Thus, the first position resulted in 1 Lost Point, the second position 2 Lost Points, and so on. At the end, the classification was obtained by adding up the lost points, and the placements were assigned in ascending order of the number of points lost by each competitor.

Participating nations edit

A total of 32 athletes from 11 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:

Results edit

Shooting edit

Event 1
PlaceAthleteScoreShoot-offPoints
1  Gösta Åsbrink (SWE)1931
2  Georg de Laval (SWE)1921882
3  Gösta Lilliehöök (SWE)1921833
4  Hugh Durant (GBR)1914
5  Patrik de Laval (SWE)1885
6  Boris Nepokupnoy (RUS)1851916
7  Erik de Laval (SWE)1851897
8  Eric Carlberg (SWE)1851858
9  Erik Wersäll (SWE)1829
10  Nils Häggström (SWE)18010
11  Oskar Wilkman (RUS)17616511
12  James Stranne (SWE)17615012
13  Ralph Clilverd (GBR)17213
14  Bror Mannström (SWE)17114
15  Douglas Godfree (GBR)16615
16  Jean de Mas Latrie (FRA)16116
17  Weli Hohenthal (RUS)15917
18  Åke Grönhagen (SWE)15818
19  Carl Aejemelaeus (RUS)15119
20  George S. Patton (USA)15020
21  Jetze Doorman (NED)14921
22  Gustaf Lewenhaupt (SWE)14822
23  Carl Paaske (NOR)14723
24  Arno Almqvist (RUS)14324
25  Vilhelm Laybourn (DEN)14025
26  Edmond Bernhardt (AUT)13526
27  Henrik Norby (NOR)11027
28  Carl Pauen (GER)10228
29  Georges Brulé (FRA)10029
30  Theodor Zeilau (DEN)9330
31  Johannes Ussing (DEN)5731
32  Kai Jølver (DEN)5232

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Equestrian edit

Athletics edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Modern pentathlon: 1912 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-19. Retrieved 2012-06-24.

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