The Olympic Games of summer of 1912 , Plays of Ve Olympiade of the modern era, were celebrated with Stockholm, in Sweden.

Organization

• “They were, five weeks during, the jubilation continues nature, the sun étincelant through the breeze of sea, the radiant nights, the joy of the multicoloured dressing ships, the flowered garlands and the illuminations moderated by the glare of a light which never died. (...) The Olympic stadium with its warheads and its turns, its perfection, the good order, the method of its payments seemed a model of the genre. ” Pierre de Coubertin, Olympic Memories , International Olympic committee, Lausanne 1931.
• the Olympic stadium of 35.000 places was created by the architect Torben Grut.
• the track of athletics is the work of Charles Perry, the first large world specialist in the tracks of athletics.
• floating Swimming pool of 100 meters in bay of Djurgardsbrunnviken.
• Appearance of semi-electric timing and the photo finish on arrival.

Striking facts

• Swedish Oscar Swahn gains, at 64 years, the gold medal by teams of the Tir over stag running and becomes the oldest Olympic champion of the history of the Plays.

• Pierre de Coubertin gains a gold medal in literature thanks to a poem entitled " ode with the sport".
• German Gottfried Fuchs mark 10 goals at the time of the football game Team of Germany of football - Team of Russia of football (16-0).
• Portuguese Francisco Lazaro crumbles with the 30e kilometer of the race of the marathon, victim of an insolation. It deceased the following day, at the Seraphim hospital.

Hero of the plays

• French the brothers Thubé gains the gold medal Nautisme, with the 6 meters over the boat Mac-Round loaf.

• Hannes Kolehmainen gains three gold medals: 10.000 meters, 5.000 meters and individual cross-country race country.
• Jean Bouin was heroic on 5.000 meters.
• Australian the Fanny Durack on 100 meters freestyle.
• American Jim Thorpe gains the pentathlon and the decathlon with very broad margins and beats the world records of the two disciplines.
• the Italian gymnaste Alberto Braglia makes the admiration of the judges.

Sports and disciplines

• Suppression of the Boxing of the Olympic tests because this one is then prohibited by the Swedish legislation.

• New disciplines: the 5.000 m, the 10.000 m, 4 X 100 m, 4 X.400 m, the Decathlon and the modern Pentathlon.

Results

• Athletics, to see detailed results

• Football, to see detailed results
• Swimming, to see detailed results
• modern Pentathlon, to see detailed results
• shooting, to see detailed results
• Tennis, to see detailed results

Table of the medals