Australasia was the name of a combined team at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, consisting of 26 athletes from Australia and New Zealand. The combined team had also competed at the 1908 Games, but Australia and New Zealand would send separate teams to the next Games in 1920.
There were three New Zealanders in the 1912 team; Malcolm Champion, Anthony Wilding and George Hill. Wilding won a bronze medal in the men's indoor tennis singles, and Champion won a gold medal as part of the swimming relay team.
Medallists
MedalNameSportEventDate (AUS) Swimming Women's 100 m freestyle (AUS)Malcolm Champion (NZL)Cecil Healy (AUS)Harold Hardwick (AUS) SwimmingMen's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay (AUS) Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle (AUS) Swimming Women's 100 m freestyle (AUS) Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle (AUS) Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle (NZL) Tennis Men's indoor singles
Results by sport
Athletics
Five athletes competed for Australasia at the 1912 Games.
AthleteEventsHeatSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRank George Hill5000 m 15:56.8 ? Did not advance10000 m Did not finish Did not advance William Murray10 km walk Disqualified Did not advance Stuart PoulterMarathon Did not finish Claude Ross400 m — Did not advance William Stewart100 m 11.0 ? ? ? Did not advance200 m 26.0 ? Did not finish Did not advance
Rowing
Ten athletes competed for Australasia at the 1912 Games. It was a match racing format.
RowerCoxEventsHeatQuarterfinalSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRank Cecil McVilly Single sculls Disqualified Did not advance John RyrieSimon FraserHugh WardThomas ParkerHenry HauensteinSydney MiddletonHarry Ross-SodenRoger Fitzhardinge Robert WaleyEight 6:57.0 Won Lost Did not advance
Swimming
Nine athletes competed for Australasia at the 1912 Games. The team finished with six medals, two of each color, as well as one world record and an additional Olympic record at the end of the Games.
Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, the two women who swam for Australasia, finished first and second in the only women's individual event, the 100 metres freestyle. Durack set a new Olympic record in the quarterfinals, which held throughout the rest of the competition.
The men's freestyle relay team earned the gold medal, breaking the world record of 10:26.4 (itself being newly set after the Americans broke the 10:53.4 set by the British team at the 1908 Summer Olympics) swam by the United States team in the first semifinal by swimming 12.4 seconds faster in the second final. The Australasia team dropped the world record in that event a further 2.8 seconds in the final.
Harold Hardwick and Cecil Healy each briefly took the Olympic record in the men's 400 meters freestyle heats, with the pair finishing third and fourth, respectively, in the final. Hardwick took another bronze medal in the 1500 free, while Healy took silver in the 100 free.
SwimmerEventsHeatQuarterfinalSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRank Leslie Boardman100 m freestyle 1:06:0 6 1:05.4 7 Did not advance Malcolm Champion400 m freestyle 5:37.0 5 5:38.0 6 Did not advance1500 m freestyle 23:34.0 7 23:24.2 6 Did not finish Fanny Durack100 m freestyle 1:19.8 OR 1 1:20.2 1 1:22.2 Harold Hardwick100 m freestyle 1:05.8 5 1:06.0 8 Did not advance400 m freestyle 5:36.0 OR 3 5:31.0 3 5:31.2 1500 m freestyle 23:23.2 6 23:14.0 4 23:15.4 Cecil Healy100 m freestyle 1:05:2 3 1:04.8 5 1:05.6 3 1:04.6 400 m freestyle 5:34.0 OR 1 5:37.8 5 5:37.8 4 William Longworth100 m freestyle 1:05.2 3 1:05.2 6 1:06.2 5 Did not start1500 m freestyle 23:03.6 3 Did not start Did not advance Frank Schryver200 m breaststroke 3:24.0 17 Did not advance400 m breaststroke 7:07.8 10 Did not advance Theodore Tartakover100 m freestyle 1:12.2 ? Did not advance400 m freestyle Did not finish Did not advance Mina Wylie100 m freestyle 1:26.8 6 1:27.0 3 1:25.4 Leslie BoardmanMalcolm ChampionHarold HardwickCecil Healy4 × 200 m freestyle relay 10:14.0 WR 1 10:11.2 WR
Tennis
One athlete competed for Australasia at the 1912 Games. Anthony Wilding competed only in the indoor men's singles, finishing with the bronze medal.
AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalsRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScore Anthony WildingMen's indoor singles W – 6–0, 6–1, 6–1 W – 6–3, 6–3, 6–3 W – 6–1, 6–2, 6–2 L – 6–0, 4–6, 6–4, 6–4 W – 4–6, 6–2, 7–5, 6–0
References
The Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912 – Official Report (digitized copy online) International Olympic Committee website for Stockholm 1912 Australian Olympic Committee sports-reference