The , officially known as the '''Games of the V Olympiad''', were held in
1912 in
Stockholm ,
Sweden . For the first time, competitors in the Games came from all five
Continents symbolized in the Olympic rings.
It was also the last time that solid gold medals were awarded; modern medals are usually gold coated silver. The main arena was
Stockholms Olympiastadion .
A winter sports week for the 1912 Games featuring figure skating were rejected by organizers because they wanted to promote the
Nordic Games , a quadrennial sporting event, instead.
in action at the 1912 Olympics.]]
- Francisco Lázaro , a Portuguese runner died from the heat while running the Marathon , the first athlete in the history of the modern Olympics to die during competition.
- American Jim Thorpe won the Pentathlon and the newly created Decathlon . He was disqualified because of violation of principles of amateurism, but was rehabilitated in 1982 .
- Swedish marksman Oscar Swahn became the oldest Olympic gold medalist (up to that time), at the age of 64, in the deer-shooting event.
- Women's events in Swimming and Diving were introduced.
- Sweden, as the host country, refused to allow boxing events.
- Future World War II General George S. Patton took part in the first Modern Pentathlon competition.
- In athletics, electronic timing devices were first used.
- For the first time the Serbian athletes took part. They were the representatives of , who ranked third in the 100m qualification group and marathon runner Dragutin Tomašević , who finished in 37th position.
- Ewart Douglas Horsfall won his first two gold medals for Great Britain in rowing. He has widely been considered Britain's greatest rower prior to Steve Redgrave.
28 nations competed in Stockholm.
See Also: 1912 Summer Olympics medal count
These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1912 Games.
