Russian Empire at the 1908 Summer Olympics

The Russian Empire (Russia) competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England. It was the second appearance of the European nation, after having missed the 1904 Games.

Russian Empire at the
1908 Summer Olympics
IOC codeRU1
NOCRussian Olympic Committee
in London
Competitors6 in 3 sports
Medals
Ranked 12th
Gold
1
Silver
2
Bronze
0
Total
3
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Soviet Union (1952–1988)
 Unified Team (1992)
 Russia (1994–2016)
 ROC (2020)
 Individual Neutral Athletes (2024)

Late arrival of the shooting team

edit

Some sources claim that the Russian shooting team was 13 days late to the Olympics due to the Russian Empire still using the Julian calendar as opposed to the rest of Europe, which used the Gregorian system.[1] The official report does not mention Russia, and it does mention Italy and Australia as "absent".[2] Other authors doubt of this claim, and underlie that Russia had been living next to Gregorian-calendar Europe for two centuries and was used to the difference [3]

Medalists

edit
Medal Name Sport Event Date
  Gold Nikolai Panin Figure skating Men's special figures October 29
  Silver Nikolay Orlov Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman lightweight July 25
  Silver Aleksandr Petrov Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman super heavyweight July 24

Results by event

edit

Athletics

edit

Russia had one track & field athlete compete in 1908. Lind took 19th place of 27 finishers in the marathon.

Event Place Athlete Heats Semifinals Final
Men's marathon 19th Georg Lind[4] None held 3:26:38.8

Figure skating

edit
Event Place Skater Score
Men's individual Nikolai Panin Did not finish
Men's special figures 1st Nikolai Panin 43.8

Wrestling

edit
Event Place Wrestler Round
of 32
Round
of 16
Quarter-
finals
Semi-
finals
Final
Greco-Roman lightweight 2nd Nikolay Orlov Bye Defeated
Lund
Defeated
Radvány
Defeated
Lindén
Lost to
Porro
Greco-Roman middleweight 9th Georgy Demin Bye Lost to
Frank
Did not advance
Greco-Roman light heavyweight 9th Yevgeny Zamotin Bye Lost to
Payr
Did not advance
Greco-Roman heavyweight 2nd Aleksandr Petrov None held Defeated
Humphreys
Defeated
Payr
Lost to
Weisz
Opponent nation Wins Losses Percent
Finland 1 0 1.000
Great Britain 1 0 1.000
Hungary 2 2 .500
Italy 0 1 .000
Sweden 1 1 .500
Total 5 4 .556

Notes

edit
  1. ^ Keown, Eric (1949). Lemon, Mark (ed.). "[unknown]". Punch. 217: 35. Retrieved 28 June 2024. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  2. ^ "Official Report 1908 page 295". digital.la84.org. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  3. ^ "Was Russia really late for the Olympics in 1908? (It won medals anyway!)". www.rbth.com. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  4. ^ Georg Lind was actually a Latvian living in London.

Sources

edit
  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
  • De Wael, Herman (2001). "Top London 1908 Olympians". Herman's Full Olympians. Archived from the original on 12 July 2006. Retrieved 10 June 2006.