The men's team cross country was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of the event. The competition was held on Monday, July 15, 1912.
Forty-one runners from six nations competed. NOCs could enter up to 12 athletes.Official report, p. 61.
Results
The first three runners for each nation to finish in the individual cross country race counted towards the team results. Their placings were summed, and the team with the lowest sum won. Of the 10 nations that sent cross country runners, 6 had at least 3 runners (Austria, France, Germany, and South Africa were the four that did not; they have only one runner each). The United States had only 2 of its 5 runners finish, so did not make a valid team score.
Place Team Score Total Final 1 10 Hjalmar Andersson 2 John Eke 3 Josef Ternström 5 Brynolf Larsson 9 Johan Sundkvist 10 Klas Lundström 13 Bror Fock 17 Gustav Carlén 21 Edvin Hellgren DNF John Klintberg DNF Axel Lindahl DNF Henrik Nordström DNF 2 11 Hannes Kolehmainen 1 Jalmari Eskola 4 Albin Stenroos 6 Ville Kyrönen 7 Viljam Johansson 11 Väinö Heikkilä 25 Efraim Harju DNF Aarne Lindholm DNF 3 49 Frederick Hibbins 15 Ernest Glover 16 Thomas Humphreys 18 Joe Cottrill DNF William Scott DNF 4 61 Olaf Hovdenak 19 Parelius Finnerud 20 Johannes Andersen 22 Nils Dahl DNF 5 63 Lauritz Christiansen 14 Viggo Petersen 23 Gerhard Topp 26 Steen Rasmussen 28 Holger Baden DNF Fritz Danild DNF Karl Julius Jensen DNF — — Harry Hellawell 12 Louis Scott 24 Tell Berna DNF George Bonhag DNF William Kramer DNF
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