Date | 7 July 1912 — 02:00 | |
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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 | Competitor(s) | NOC | Time | |||
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1 | Rudolph Lewis | ![]() | 10-42:39.0 | Gold | ||
2 | Freddie Grubb | ![]() | 10-51:24.2 | Silver | ||
3 | Carl Schutte | ![]() | 10-52:38.8 | Bronze | ||
4 | Leon Meredith | ![]() | 11-00:02.6 | |||
5 | Frank Brown | ![]() | 11-01:00.0 | |||
6 | Antti Raita | ![]() | 11-02:20.3 | |||
7 | Erik Friborg | ![]() | 11-04:17.0 | |||
8 | Ragnar Malm | ![]() | 11-08:14.5 | |||
9 | Axel Wilhelm Persson | ![]() | 11-10:59.6 | |||
10 | Algot Lönn | ![]() | 11-12:02.5 | |||
11 | Al Loftes | ![]() | 11-13:51.3 | |||
12 | Alex Ekström | ![]() | 11-14:50.7 | |||
13 | Albert Krushel | ![]() | 11-17:30.2 | |||
14 | Birger Andreassen | ![]() | 11-20:14.6 | |||
15 | Henrik Morén | ![]() | 11-21:31.9 | |||
16 | John Wilson | ![]() | 11-21:43.0 | |||
17 | Walden Martin | ![]() | 11-23:55.2 | |||
18 | Charlie Moss | ![]() | 11-23:55.8 | |||
19 | Werner Karlsson | ![]() | 11-24:18.0 | |||
20 | Joe Kopsky | ![]() | 11-27:06.0 | |||
21 | Vilho Oskari Tilkanen | ![]() | 11-28:38.5 | |||
22 | Bill Hammond | ![]() | 11-29:16.8 | |||
23 | Robert Rammer | ![]() | 11-30:40.8 | |||
24 | Robert Thompson | ![]() | 11-31:16.0 | |||
25 | Olaf Meyland-Smith | ![]() | 11-32:24.2 | |||
26 | Franz Lemnitz | ![]() | 11-34:32.2 | |||
27 | Rudolf Baier | ![]() | 11-35:01.5 | |||
28 | John Becht | ![]() | 11-35:04.8 | |||
29 | Stanley Jones | ![]() | 11-37:40.6 | |||
30 | Bert Gayler | ![]() | 11-39:01.8 | |||
31 | Adolf Kofler | ![]() | 11-39:32.6 | |||
32 | Charles Hansen | ![]() | 11-40:04.0 | |||
33 | Oswald Rathmann | ![]() | 11-40:18.4 | |||
34 | Johan Kankkonen | ![]() | 11-41:35.5 | |||
35 | Jock Miller | ![]() | 11-44:01.6 | |||
36 | Georg Warsow | ![]() | 11-45:24.0 | |||
37 | Francis Higgins | ![]() | 11-45:44.5 | |||
38 | Arthur Gibbon | ![]() | 11-46:00.2 | |||
39 | Charlie Davey | ![]() | 11-47:26.3 | |||
40 | Joseph Racine | ![]() | 11-50:32.7 | |||
41 | David Stevenson | ![]() | 11-52:55.0 | |||
42 | Alberto Downey | ![]() | 11-53:02.5 | |||
43 | Rudolf Kramer | ![]() | 11-53:12.8 | |||
44 | Otto Männel | ![]() | 11-53:27.4 | |||
45 | Sepp Hellensteiner | ![]() | 11-54:00.2 | |||
46 | Josef Zilker | ![]() | 11-54:38.7 | |||
47 | Paul Henrichsen | ![]() | 11-55:23.2 | |||
48 | Johannes Reinwaldt | ![]() | 11-57:20.0 | |||
49 | Charlie Hill | ![]() | 11-57:56.5 | |||
50 | André Capelle | ![]() | 11-59:48.4 | |||
51 | Gunnar Björk | ![]() | 12-00:49.4 | |||
52 | Alois Wacha | ![]() | 12-01:12.4 | |||
53 | Godtfred Olsen | ![]() | 12-06:18.8 | |||
54 | Jesse Pike | ![]() | 12-06:21.6 | |||
55 | Wilhelm Rabe | ![]() | 12-06:55.8 | |||
56 | Jerome Steinert | ![]() | 12-08:32.3 | |||
57 | Josef Rieder | ![]() | 12-12:32.4 | |||
58 | Cárlos Koller | ![]() | 12-13:49.2 | |||
59 | Ernie Merlin | ![]() | 12-16:08.6 | |||
60 | Andrejs Apsītis | ![]() | 12-18:20.6 | |||
61 | Martin Koch | ![]() | 12-18:22.5 | |||
62 | Robert Birker | ![]() | 12-19:27.6 | |||
63 | Bohumil Rameš | ![]() | 12-20:12.2 | |||
64 | René Gagnet | ![]() | 12-20:32.6 | |||
65 | Anton Hansen | ![]() | 12-21:23.7 | |||
66 | Hjalmar Väre | ![]() | 12-21:29.2 | |||
67 | Michael Walker | ![]() | 12-27:49.9 | |||
68 | James Stevenson | ![]() | 12-27:50.8 | |||
69 | Arturo Friedemann | ![]() | 12-28:20.8 | |||
70 | Frank Meissner | ![]() | 12-29:09.0 | |||
71 | Frank Guy | ![]() | 12-32:19.4 | |||
72 | Valdemar Nielsen | ![]() | 12-33:09.2 | |||
73 | István Müller | ![]() | 12-39:28.0 | |||
74 | José Torres | ![]() | 12-39:39.5 | |||
75 | János Henzsel | ![]() | 12-42:16.3 | |||
76 | Hermann Smiel | ![]() | 12-49:01.6 | |||
77 | Gyula Mazur | ![]() | 12-50:55.8 | |||
78 | George Watson | ![]() | 12-52:22.2 | |||
79 | Carl Lüthje | ![]() | 13-00:31.8 | |||
80 | Ralph Mecredy | ![]() | 13-03:39.0 | |||
81 | John Walker | ![]() | 13-15:50.2 | |||
82 | Matthew Walsh | ![]() | 13-31:17.0 | |||
83 | Georges Valentin | ![]() | 13-33:59.5 | |||
84 | Ignác Teiszenberger | ![]() | 13-38:35.8 | |||
85 | Bernard Doyle | ![]() | 13-42:11.8 | |||
86 | George Corsar | ![]() | 13-51:22.8 | |||
87 | Václav Tintěra | ![]() | 14-10:34.6 | |||
88 | Bohumil Kubrycht | ![]() | 14-11:21.0 | |||
89 | Étienne Chéret | ![]() | 14-15:18.1 | |||
90 | Arthur Griffiths | ![]() | 14-15:24.0 | |||
91 | Gaston Alancourt | ![]() | 14-23:59.3 | |||
92 | Pierre Peinaud | ![]() | 14-49:59.4 | |||
93 | André Lepère | ![]() | 15-03:18.1 | |||
94 | Alexis Michiels | ![]() | 15-15:59.2 | |||
AC | Fyodor Borisov | ![]() | – | DNF (between Bålsta-Järva) | ||
AC | Károly Teppert | ![]() | – | DNF (between Bålsta-Järva) | ||
AC | Hans Olsen | ![]() | – | DNF (between Enköping-Bålsta) | ||
AC | Carl Olsen | ![]() | – | DNF (in Enköping) | ||
AC | Augusts Kepke | ![]() | – | DNF (in Kungsör) | ||
AC | Jānis Prātnieks | ![]() | – | DNF (between Eskilstuna-Kungsör) | ||
AC | Valdemar Christoffer Nielsen | ![]() | – | DNF (between Eskilstuna-Kungsör) | ||
AC | Jan Vokoun | ![]() | – | DNF (between Eskilstuna-Kungsör) | ||
AC | Edgars Rihters | ![]() | – | DNF (in Eskilstuna) | ||
AC | Carl Lundquist | ![]() | – | DNF (between Strängnäs-Eskilstuna) | ||
AC | Arvid Pettersson | ![]() | – | DNF (between Strängnäs-Eskilstuna) | ||
AC | Fridrihs Bošs | ![]() | – | DNF (between Strängnäs-Eskilstuna) | ||
AC | John Kirk | ![]() | – | DNF (in Strängnäs) | ||
AC | Karl Gulbrandsen | ![]() | – | DNF (in Strängnäs) | ||
AC | Jēkabs Bukse | ![]() | – | DNF (between Strängnäs-Läggesta) | ||
AC | Martin Sæterhaug | ![]() | – | DNF (in Läggestatrakterna) | ||
AC | Hjalmar Levin | ![]() | – | DNF (between Södertälje-Läggesta) | ||
AC | Otto Jensen | ![]() | – | DNF (between Södertälje-Läggesta) | ||
AC | Jean Patou | ![]() | – | DNF (between Södertälje-Läggesta) | ||
AC | Sergey Pesterev | ![]() | – | DNF (between Södertälje-Läggesta) | ||
AC | Jacques Marcault | ![]() | – | DNF (outside Södertälje) | ||
AC | Jānis Līvens | ![]() | – | DNF (outside Södertälje) | ||
AC | Louis Bès | ![]() | – | DNF (outside Södertälje) | ||
AC | René Rillon | ![]() | – | DNF (2 km. beyond Södertälje) | ||
AC | Arthur Stokes | ![]() | – | DNF (in Södertälje) | ||
AC | Kārlis Kepke | ![]() | – | DNF (in Södertälje) | ||
AC | František Kundert | ![]() | – | DNF (before Södertälje) | ||
AC | Juho Jaakonaho | ![]() | – | DNF (before Södertälje) | ||
AC | Josef Landsberg | ![]() | – | DNF (by Midsommarkransen) |