Mallon's book on the 1912 Olympic Games

The data on these pages are completely according to the excellent book by Bill Mallon and Ture Widlund:

"The 1912 Olympic Games - Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary", Jefferson NC, 2001

Included Sports and Events

There are no problems with the determination of which events in Stockholm are Olympic and which are not.

Known errors in Mallon

• I am very grateful to Bill Mallon for receiving an advance copy of this book, and I spotted six (very small) errors in Mallon's counting. These were corrected into the final edition of the book.
• Hermann : Mallon lists and counts Eduard Hermann of Estonia as competing in the 10 km walk. He arrives at 537 athletes instead of 536.
• Townsend : just after the publication, it came to light that the painter Ernest Townsend was from Derby (Great Britain), and not from Ireland, as written by Richard Stanton

Very Probable error in Mallon

• Jack : Fritz Jack of Germany was scheduled to play in many events, but he did not make it to the playing field once. Apparently he came closest in the team sabre, when he should have been the fourth fencer to face a Briton in a first round match. Just prior to this fourth bout however, the Swedish team forfeited and since Britain and Germany were now both qualified for the next round, their match was stopped and the fourth German never fenced. I do agree with Bill Mallon that this makes this fourth fencer a competitor in the Olympics, but I have grave doubts if the fourth German was actually Fritz Jack. Every team was allowed eight members, four of which had to fence in one match. The German team actually used eight different fencers in the subsequent rounds and so it seems unlikely to me that the scheduled fencer in round one was Fritz Jack.  I decide not to count him and have one German less than Bill Mallon as a consequence.

Unknown Competitors

• there are no unknown competitors from the Stockholm Games.

Total Number of Competitors

Mallon counts 2380 competitors, but that includes Fritz Jack and Eduard Hermann. I believe there were only 2378 Sport competitors in Stockholm.

However, I also count the artists as competitors, so I have an additional 34 (35 artists, with Walter Winans competing both in Shooting and Sculpture) competitors, bringing the final tally to 2412.

This page is part of the site "Full Olympians" by Herman De Wael. See here for a full Introduction.