Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Template:Short description Template:Infobox Olympic event Template:AthleticsAt1920SummerOlympics 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

100 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.8	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.9	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.9
200 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.0	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.0	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.2
400 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	49.6	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	50.1	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	50.2
800 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:53.4	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:53.6	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:53.6
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:01.8	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:02.4	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:04.3
5000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	14:55.6	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	15:00.0	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	15:13.0
10,000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	31:45.8	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	31:47.2	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	31:50.8
110 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	14.8 Template:AthAbbr	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	15.1	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	15.1
400 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	54.0 Template:AthAbbr	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	54.6	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	54.7
3000 metres steeplechase Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10:00.4 Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10:21.1	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10:32.0
4 × 100 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Charles Paddock Jackson Scholz Loren Murchison Morris Kirksey	42.2 Template:AthAbbr	Template:FlagIOCteam René Lorain René Tirard René Mourlon Émile Ali-Khan	42.5	Template:FlagIOCteam Agne Holmström William Petersson Sven Malm Nils Sandström	42.8
4 × 400 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Cecil Griffiths Robert Lindsay John Ainsworth-Davis Guy Butler	3:22.2	Template:FlagIOCteam Henry Dafel Clarence Oldfield Jack Oosterlaak Bevil Rudd	3:23.0	Template:FlagIOCteam Géo André Gaston Féry Maurice Delvart André Devaux	3:23.5
3000 metres team race Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Horace Brown Arlie Schardt Ivan Dresser	10 pts	Template:FlagIOCteam Joe Blewitt Albert Hill William Seagrove	20 pts	Template:FlagIOCteam Eric Backman Sven Lundgren Edvin Wide	24 pts
Marathon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:32:35.8 Template:AthAbbr	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:32:48.6	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:36:32.8
3 kilometres walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13:14.2 Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	(13:19.6)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	(13:22.2)
10 kilometres walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48:06.2	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	(49:40.2)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	(49:43.9)
Individual cross country Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:15.0	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:17.6	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:37.0
Team cross country Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Paavo Nurmi Heikki Liimatainen Teodor Koskenniemi	10 pts	Template:FlagIOCteam James Wilson Anton Hegarty Alfred Nichols	21 pts	Template:FlagIOCteam Eric Backman Gustaf Mattsson Hilding Ekman	23 pts
High jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1.936 m Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1.90 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1.90 m
Pole vault Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4.09 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3.70 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3.60 m
Long jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7.15 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7.095 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7.08 m
Triple jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	14.505 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	14.48 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	14.27 m
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	14.81 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	14.155 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	14.15 m
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.685 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.19 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	42.13 m
Hammer throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	52.875 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.43 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.25 m
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	65.78 m Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	63.605 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	63.095 m
Template:Convert weight throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	11.265 m Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.965 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.255 m
Pentathlon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	14 pts	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	24 pts	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	26 pts
Decathlon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	6803.355 pts	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	6771.085 pts	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	6580.030 pts

Participating nations

509 athletes from 25 nations competed. Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Estonia, Monaco, New Zealand, and Spain competed for the first time.

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References

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