| | Event type

Road Race, Individual, Men

Date	7 July 1912 — 2:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm
Participants	123 from 16 countries
Format	315.385 km. (196.0 miles) individual time trial.

The race was a mammoth time trial of over 315 km (196 miles) on the Mälaren Rundt course around Stockholm. The individual and team road race events were held concurrently, with the team event based on the times of the best four finishing individual riders for each team.

The riders were sent off at two minute intervals, with the last scheduled rider starting at 7 AM (0700). Of the 151 entrants only 123 riders eventually started. The individual event was won by Rudolph “Okey” Lewis of South Africa. He started quickly and led by 11½ minutes at 120 km. Increasing the lead to 17 minutes at 200 km., he slowed slightly coming in, but still won by almost nine minutes over Freddie Grubb of Great Britain. As the second starter, going off at 2:02 AM, he was the first overall finisher as well. Little is known about Lewis’ cycling career, even by South African experts. It was noted that the weather at the start time of 2 AM was cool, with no wind, which favored the very early starters. By 7 AM a strong westerly wind was blowing directly into the faces of the later starting riders. As the second starter, Lewis definitely benefited from his start position.

The previous record for the Mälaren Rundt was 11-22:07.0, set in 1909 by Henrik Morén of Sweden, a 10-time winner of the race, including nine consecutive wins from 1902-1910. In 1912 Morén also won the Swedish seletcing competition held on this track in 11-56:23. Lewis lowered the record by almost 41 minutes. No less than 16 riders, including Morén himself, in 15th place, bettered the previous record.

In addition to the Olympic medals, a Diploma of Merit was given to cyclists who finished within 25% of the winner’s time. As Lewis finished in 10-42:39, all riders under 13-23:18.8 qualified, and thus 81 of the 94 riders who finished received this special diploma.

Pos	Bib	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	–	Rudolph Lewis	RSA	10-42:39.0	Gold
2	–	Freddie Grubb	GBR	10-51:24.2	Silver
3	–	Carl Schutte	USA	10-52:38.8	Bronze
4	–	Leon Meredith	GBR	11-00:02.6
5	–	Frank Brown	CAN	11-01:00.0
6	–	Antti Raita	FIN	11-02:20.3
7	–	Erik Friborg	SWE	11-04:17.0
8	–	Ragnar Malm	SWE	11-08:14.5
9	–	Axel Wilhelm Persson	SWE	11-10:59.6
10	–	Algot Lönn	SWE	11-12:02.5
11	–	Al Loftes	USA	11-13:51.3
12	–	Alex Ekström	SWE	11-14:50.7
13	–	Albert Krushel	USA	11-17:30.2
14	–	Birger Andreassen	NOR	11-20:14.6
15	–	Henrik Morén	SWE	11-21:31.9
16	–	John Wilson	GBR	11-21:43.0
17	–	Walden Martin	USA	11-23:55.2
18	–	Charlie Moss	GBR	11-23:55.8
19	–	Werner Karlsson	SWE	11-24:18.0
20	–	Joe Kopsky	USA	11-27:06.0
21	–	Vilho Oskari Tilkanen	FIN	11-28:38.5
22	–	Bill Hammond	GBR	11-29:16.8
23	–	Robert Rammer	AUT	11-30:40.8
24	–	Robert Thompson	GBR	11-31:16.0
25	–	Olaf Meyland-Smith	DEN	11-32:24.2
26	–	Franz Lemmnitz	GER	11-34:32.2
27	–	Rudolf Baier	GER	11-35:01.5
28	–	John Becht	USA	11-35:04.8
29	–	Stanley Jones	GBR	11-37:40.6
30	–	Bert Gayler	GBR	11-39:01.8
31	–	Adolf Kofler	AUT	11-39:32.6
32	–	Charles Hansen	DEN	11-40:04.0
33	–	Oswald Rathmann	GER	11-40:18.4
34	–	Johan Kankkonen	FIN	11-41:35.5
35	–	Jock Miller	GBR	11-44:01.6
36	–	Georg Warsow	GER	11-45:24.0
37	–	Francis Higgins	GBR	11-45:44.5
38	–	Arthur Gibbon	GBR	11-46:00.2
39	–	Charlie Davey	GBR	11-47:26.3
40	–	Joseph Racine	FRA	11-50:32.7
41	–	David Stevenson	GBR	11-52:55.0
42	–	Alberto Downey	CHI	11-53:02.5
43	–	Rudolf Kramer	AUT	11-53:12.8
44	–	Otto Männel	GER	11-53:27.4
45	–	Sepp Hellensteiner	AUT	11-54:00.2
46	–	Josef Zilker	AUT	11-54:38.7
47	–	Paul Henrichsen	NOR	11-55:23.2
48	–	Johannes Reinwaldt	DEN	11-57:20.0
49	–	Charlie Hill	GBR	11-57:56.5
50	–	André Capelle	FRA	11-59:48.4
51	–	Gunnar Björk	SWE	12-00:49.4
52	–	Alois Wacha	AUT	12-01:12.4
53	–	Godtfred Olsen	DEN	12-06:18.8
54	–	Jesse Pike	USA	12-06:21.6
55	–	Wilhelm Rabe	GER	12-06:55.8
56	–	Jerome Steinert	USA	12-08:32.3
57	–	Josef Rieder	GER	12-12:32.4
58	–	Cárlos Koller	CHI	12-13:49.2
59	–	Ernie Merlin	GBR	12-16:08.6
60	–	Andrejs Apsītis	RUS	12-18:20.6
61	–	Martin Koch	GER	12-18:22.5
62	–	Robert Birker	GER	12-19:27.6
63	–	Bohumil Rameš	BOH	12-20:12.2
64	–	René Gagnet	FRA	12-20:32.6
65	–	Anton Hansen	NOR	12-21:23.7
66	–	Hjalmar Väre	FIN	12-21:29.2
67	–	Michael Walker	GBR	12-27:49.9
68	–	James Stevenson	GBR	12-27:50.8
69	–	Arturo Friedemann	CHI	12-28:20.8
70	–	Frank Meissner	USA	12-29:09.0
71	–	Frank Guy	GBR	12-32:19.4
72	–	Valdemar Nielsen	DEN	12-33:09.2
73	–	István Müller	HUN	12-39:28.0
74	–	José Torres	CHI	12-39:39.5
75	–	János Henzsel	HUN	12-42:16.3
76	–	Hermann Smiel	GER	12-49:01.6
77	–	Gyula Mazur	HUN	12-50:55.8
78	–	George Watson	CAN	12-52:22.2
79	–	Carl Lüthje	GER	13-00:31.8
80	–	Ralph Mecredy	GBR	13-03:39.0
81	–	John Walker	GBR	13-15:50.2
82	–	Matthew Walsh	GBR	13-31:17.0
83	–	Georges Valentin	FRA	13-33:59.5
84	–	Ignác Teiszenberger	HUN	13-38:35.8
85	–	Bernard Doyle	GBR	13-42:11.8
86	–	George Corsar	GBR	13-51:22.8
87	–	Václav Tintěra	BOH	14-10:34.6
88	–	Bohumil Kubrycht	BOH	14-11:21.0
89	–	Étienne Chéret	FRA	14-15:18.1
90	–	Arthur Griffiths	GBR	14-15:24.0
91	–	Gaston Alancourt	FRA	14-23:59.3
92	–	Pierre Peinaud	FRA	14-49:59.4
93	–	André Lepère	FRA	15-03:18.1
94	–	Alexis Michiels	FRA	15-15:59.2
DNF	–	Fyodor Borisov	RUS	–		1
DNF	–	Károly Teppert	HUN	–		2
DNF	–	Hans Olsen	DEN	–		3
DNF	–	Carl Olsen	NOR	–		4
DNF	–	Augusts Kepke	RUS	–		5
DNF	–	Jānis Prātnieks	RUS	–		6
DNF	–	Valdemar C. Nielsen	DEN	–		7
DNF	–	Jan Vokoun	BOH	–		8
DNF	–	Edgars Rihters	RUS	–		9
DNF	–	Carl Lundquist	SWE	–		10
DNF	–	Arvid Pettersson	SWE	–		11
DNF	–	Fridrihs Bošs	RUS	–		12
DNF	–	John Kirk	GBR	–		13
DNF	–	Karl Gulbrandsen	NOR	–		14
DNF	–	Jēkabs Bukse	RUS	–		15
DNF	–	Martin Sæterhaug	NOR	–		16
DNF	–	Hjalmar Levin	SWE	–		17
DNF	–	Otto Jensen	DEN	–		18
DNF	–	Jules Patou	BEL	–		19
DNF	–	Sergey Pesterev	RUS	–		20
DNF	–	Jacques Marcault	FRA	–		21
DNF	–	Jānis Līvens	RUS	–		22
DNF	–	Louis Bès	FRA	–		23
DNF	–	René Rillon	FRA	–		24
DNF	–	Arthur Stokes	GBR	–		25
DNF	–	Kārlis Kepke	RUS	–		26
DNF	–	František Kundert	BOH	–		27
DNF	–	Juho Jaakonaho	FIN	–		28
DNF	–	Josef Landsberg	SWE	–		29