1912 Summer Olympics

Swedish king awarding gold medal in swimming to Duke Kahanamoku at 1912 games

The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were held in Stockholm, Sweden.^[1]

The games were thought to be a success.^[2] For the first time, athletes in the Games came from all five continents symbolised in the Olympic rings.

Participating nations[change | change source]

A total of 22 nations sent athletes to compete at the Stockholm games. They were:

Countries at the 1912 Olympics

↑ Sports Reference.com (SR/Olympics), "1912 Stockholm Summer Games"; retrieved 2012-7-23.
↑ Zarnowski, C. Frank. "A Look at Olympic Costs," Citius, Altius, Fortius (US). Summer 1992, Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 20 [5 of 17 PDF]; retrieved 2012-7-24.

Olympic Games

Summer Games: 1896 Athens, 1900 Paris, 1904 St. Louis, 1906 Athens, 1908 London, 1912 Stockholm, (1916 Berlin), 1920 Antwerp, 1924 Paris, 1928 Amsterdam, 1932 Los Angeles, 1936 Berlin, (1940 Tokyo), (1944 London), 1948 London, 1952 Helsinki, 1956 Melbourne, 1960 Rome, 1964 Tokyo, 1968 Mexico City, 1972 Munich, 1976 Montreal, 1980 Moscow, 1984 Los Angeles, 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, 2012 London, 2016 Rio de Janeiro, 2020 Tokyo, 2024 Paris, 2028 Los Angeles
Winter Games: 1924 Chamonix, 1928 St. Moritz, 1932 Lake Placid, 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, (1940 Sapporo), (1944 Cortina d'Ampezzo), 1948 St. Moritz, 1952 Oslo, 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1960 Squaw Valley, 1964 Innsbruck, 1968 Grenoble, 1972 Sapporo, 1976 Innsbruck, 1980 Lake Placid, 1984 Sarajevo, 1988 Calgary, 1992 Albertville, 1994 Lillehammer, 1998 Nagano, 2002 Salt Lake City, 2006 Turin, 2010 Vancouver, 2014 Sochi, 2018 Pyeongchang, 2022 Beijing, 2026
Rio 2016 — Pyeongchang 2018 — Tokyo 2020 — Beijing 2022 — Paris 2024 — Los Angeles 2028 Games in italics will be held in the future, and those in (brackets) were cancelled because of war. See also: Ancient Olympic Games