Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's individual cross country

Men's individual cross country at the Games of the VII Olympiad
Venue	Olympisch Stadion
Date	August 23
Competitors	47 from 12 nations
Medalists
Paavo Nurmi  Finland Eric Backman  Sweden Heikki Liimatainen  Finland
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Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics
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The men's individual cross country event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics. It was the second appearance of this event. The competition was held on Monday, August 23, 1920. Forty-seven runners from 12 nations competed.^[1]

Records

The course was about 8 kilometers long, shorter than the previous Olympic cross-country race and a distance still widely competed in at the collegiate level.^[1] The records for 8-kilometer cross country race individual times were as follows:

Results

The first three runners for each nation to finish in this event were also counted towards the cross country team result.

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Paavo Nurmi (FIN)	27:15.0
2	Eric Backman (SWE)	27:17.6
3	Heikki Liimatainen (FIN)	27:37.0
4	James Wilson (GBR)	27:45.2
5	Anton Hegarty (GBR)	27:57.0
6	Teodor Koskenniemi (FIN)	27:57.2
7	Julien Van Campenhout (BEL)	28:00.0
8	Gaston Heuet (FRA)	28:10.0
9	Patrick Flynn (USA)	28:12.0
10	Gustaf Mattsson (SWE)	28:16.0
11	Hilding Ekman (SWE)	28:17.0
12	Alfred Nichols (GBR)	28:20.0
13	Werner Magnusson (SWE)
14	Ilmari Vesamaa (FIN)
15	Fred Faller (USA)
16	Max Bohland (USA)
17	Gustave Lauvaux (FRA)
18	Eino Rastas (FIN)
19	Christopher Vose (GBR)
20	Albert Andersen (DEN)
21	Joseph Servella (FRA)
22	Walter Freeman (GBR)
23	Hannes Miettinen (FIN)
24	Lars Hedwall (SWE)
25	Julio Domínguez (ESP)
26	Larry Cummins (GBR)
27	Henrik Sørensen (DEN)
28	Jón Jónsen (DEN)
29	Tommy Town (CAN)
30	Knut Alm (SWE)
31	Edmond Brossard (FRA)
32	Edmond Bimont (FRA)
33	Henri Smets (BEL)
34	Lewis Watson (USA)
35	Julius Ebert (DEN)
36	Aimé Proot (BEL)
37	François Vyncke (BEL)
38	Alexandros Kranis (GRE)
39	Panagiotis Trivoulidas (GRE)
40	Bob Crawford (USA)
41	Pierre Trullemans (BEL)
42	Antoine Rivez (BEL)
—	Even Vengshoel (NOR)	DNF
	Joseph Guillemot (FRA)	DNF
	Artur Nielsen (DEN)	DNF
	Len Richardson (RSA)	DNF
	Amisoli Patasoni (USA)	DNF

References

External links

• Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French).
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 16 August 2007.

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