Australasia at the 1912 Summer Olympics

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.

Australasia at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Australasian Olympic Flag
IOC code	ANZ
in Stockholm
Competitors	26 in 4 sports
Flag bearer	Malcolm Champion
Medals Ranked 12th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 3 Total 7
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1908 1912
Other related appearances
Australia (1896–1904, 1920–)  New Zealand (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

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Fanny Durack (AUS)	Swimming	Women's 100 m freestyle	July 12
Gold	Leslie Boardman (AUS), Malcolm Champion (NZL) Cecil Healy (AUS), Harold Hardwick (AUS)	Swimming	Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	July 15
Silver	Cecil Healy (AUS)	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle	July 10
Silver	Mina Wylie (AUS)	Swimming	Women's 100 m freestyle	July 12
Bronze	Harold Hardwick (AUS)	Swimming	Men's 400 m freestyle	July 14
Bronze	Harold Hardwick (AUS)	Swimming	Men's 1500 m freestyle	July 10
Bronze	Anthony Wilding (NZL)	Tennis	Men's indoor singles	May 12

Results by sport

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Five athletes competed for Australasia at the 1912 Games.

Athlete	Events	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
George Hill	5000 m			15:56.8	?	Did not advance
	10000 m			Did not finish		Did not advance
William Murray	10 km walk			Disqualified		Did not advance
Stuart Poulter	Marathon					Did not finish
Claude Ross	400 m	DNF	—	Did not advance
William Stewart	100 m	11.0	?	?	?	Did not advance
	200 m	26.0	?	Did not finish		Did not advance

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Ten athletes competed for Australasia at the 1912 Games. It was a match racing format.

Rower	Cox	Events	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Cecil McVilly		Single sculls	Disqualified		Did not advance
John Ryrie Simon Fraser Hugh Ward Thomas Parker Henry Hauenstein Sydney Middleton Harry Ross-Soden Roger Fitzhardinge	Robert Waley	Eight	6:57.0	Won	Lost		Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1912 Summer Olympics

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.

Swimmer	Events	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Leslie Boardman	100 m freestyle	1:06:0	6	1:05.4	7	Did not advance
Malcolm Champion	400 m freestyle			5:37.0	5	5:38.0	6	Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle			23:34.0	7	23:24.2	6	Did not finish
Fanny Durack	100 m freestyle			1:19.8 OR	1	1:20.2	1	1:22.2
Harold Hardwick	100 m freestyle	1:05.8	5	1:06.0	8	Did not advance
	400 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 Healy	100 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 Longworth	100 m freestyle	1:05.2	3	1:05.2	6	1:06.2	5	Did not start
	1500 m freestyle			23:03.6	3	Did not start		Did not advance
Frank Schryver	200 m breaststroke			3:24.0	17	Did not advance
	400 m breaststroke			7:07.8	10	Did not advance
Theodore Tartakover	100 m freestyle	1:12.2	?	Did not advance
	400 m freestyle			Did not finish		Did not advance
Mina Wylie	100 m freestyle			1:26.8	6	1:27.0	3	1:25.4
Leslie Boardman Malcolm Champion Harold Hardwick Cecil Healy	4 × 200 m freestyle relay					10:14.0 WR	1	10:11.2 WR

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 1912 Summer Olympics

One athlete competed for Australasia at the 1912 Games. Anthony Wilding competed only in the indoor men's singles, finishing with the bronze medal.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Anthony Wilding	Men's indoor singles		Silfverstolpe (SWE) W – 6–0, 6–1, 6–1	Grönfors (SWE) W – 6–3, 6–3, 6–3	Caridia (GBR) W – 6–1, 6–2, 6–2	Dixon (GBR) L – 6–0, 4–6, 6–4, 6–4	Lowe (GBR) 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
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