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1908 Summer Olympics medal table

Field	Value
name	1908 Summer Olympics medals
location	London, GBR
award2_type	Most total medals
award2_winner	GBR
award1_type	Most gold medals
award1_winner	GBR
award3_type	Medalling NOCs
award3_winner	19
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Two grey circular medals are shown side by side. The one on the left depicts a man riding a horse over a dragon, next to an angel; the one on the right shows two partially clothed women holding a laurel wreath over a naked man. — Olympic prize medal for the first three of each competition (front and obverse)

The 1908 Summer Olympics (also known as the Games of the IV Olympiad) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 April to 31 October 1908, in London, United Kingdom, coinciding with the Franco-British Exhibition.

A total of 2,008 athletes representing 22 nations participated in 110 events in 18 sports. Diving, field hockey, and figure skating were contested for the first time at these Games. Argentina, Switzerland and Turkey were the only nations that did not earn any medals.

The host nation, the United Kingdom, with by far the most competitors, dominated the medal table, collecting the most gold (56), silver (51), and bronze (39) medals. The 146 medals won at these Games—a major increase from the two medals won at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis—are still the highest number won by a British delegation at any modern Olympics. Particular success was achieved by the British team in the boxing events, where out of a possible fifteen medals across the five weight classes, they won all but the middleweight silver medal, which was taken by Reginald Baker competing for Australasia. The United States finished second in the medal standings, and Sweden third.

Australasia was the name given to the combined team of athletes from Australia (making its fourth Olympic appearance) and New Zealand (competing for the first time). The host team included a number of athletes from Ireland, at the time part of the United Kingdom. In contrast, Finland, which was integrated in the Russian Empire, competed in London as a separate country.

Medal table

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1908 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This information is provided by the IOC; however the IOC does not recognize or endorse any ranking system.

Notes

The IOC medal database incorrectly shows the bronze medal for Dorothy Greenhough-Smith in women's figure skating for Germany (GER) instead of Great Britain (GBR), and therefore, counts 38 bronze medals for GBR and 6 bronze medals for GER.Figure skating Results - Olympic 1908 The corrected totals are shown on this table.

Anastasios Metaxas (GRE) is generally credited with a bronze medal in men's individual trap shooting; no tie-breaker was held. The 1908 official report lists Metaxas as having tied with Alexander Maunder (GBR) and assigns bronze medals to each. However, Metaxas does not appear in the IOC medal database, which lists only Maunder as sole bronze medalist. The corrected totals are shown on this table.

References

"London 1908–Games of the IV Olympiad". International Olympic Committee.
"London 1908 – Medal Table". International Olympic Committee.
(2000-09-23). "Olympics 2000: Ask Audrey". BBC News.
Cook, Theodore Andrea. (May 1909). "The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 Official Report". [[British Olympic Association]].
"Dorando Pietri – The Man Who Became Famous for Not Winning". International Olympic Committee.
"Wyndham Halswelle". Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.
[http://www.olympic.org/content/results-and-medalists/gamesandsportsummary/?sport=31611&games=1908%2F1 Shooting Results - Olympic 1908]

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