The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 27 July 1912. A total of 2,407 athletes representing 28 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated, which included seven teams making their Olympic debut at the Summer Games; Chile, Egypt, Iceland, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Serbia. The games featured 102 events in 14 sports. The games included the Olympic debut of equestrian dressage and eventing, as well as the modern pentathlon.
Athletes representing 19 NOCs received at least one medal, with 16 winning at least one gold medal. Sweden won the most overall medals, with 65, while the United States won the most gold medals, with 44.
Among individual participants, Swedish shooter Vilhelm Carlberg, Finnish runner Hannes Kolehmainen, and American shooter Alfred Lane tied for the most gold medals, with three each. Carlberg had the most total medals, with five (three gold, two silver).
Medal table
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[1][2] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.[3]
* Host nation (Sweden)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States | 26 | 19 | 19 | 64 |
| 2 |  Sweden* | 23 | 25 | 17 | 65 |
| 3 |  Great Britain | 10 | 15 | 16 | 41 |
| 4 |  Finland | 9 | 8 | 9 | 26 |
| 5 |  France | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| 6 |  Germany | 6 | 13 | 7 | 26 |
| 7 |  Italy | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 8 |  South Africa | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 |  Norway | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 10 |  Canada | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
 Hungary | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| 12 |  Australasia | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 13 |  Belgium | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 14 |  Denmark | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 |
| 15 |  Greece | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 |  Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Russian Empire | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 18 |  Austria | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 19 |  Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Totals (19 entries) | 106 | 107 | 104 | 317 | |
Changes in medal standings
Jim Thorpe, the winner of the pentathlon and decathlon events, was subsequently disqualified after having taken expense money for playing semi-professional baseball. The athletes ranking second through fourth were upgraded to first through third. In 1982, thirty years after Thorpe's death, he was reinstated as a co-winner in both events as the disqualification was deemed improper, and Thorpe became co-champion with Ferdinand Bie and Hugo Wieslander, although both of these athletes had always said they considered Thorpe to be the only champion. In 2022, Thorpe was reinstated as the sole winner of the events with the consent of the involved National Olympic Committees and descendants of the athletes.[4][5]
See also
References
- ^ Ostlere, Lawrence (11 August 2024). "Olympic medal table: USA beat China to top spot at Paris 2024". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ Araton, Harvey (18 August 2008). "A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ Cons, Roddy (10 August 2024). "What happens if two countries are tied in the Olympic medal table? Tiebreaker rules explained". Diario AS. Archived from the original on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ Schaap, Jeremy (15 July 2022). "IOC reinstates Jim Thorpe as sole winner of 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon". ESPN.com. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- ^ Mather, Victor; Panja, Tariq (15 July 2022). "Jim Thorpe Is Restored as Sole Winner of 1912 Olympic Gold Medals". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
