Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres team race
Place Athlete Time Score
1 Erwin von Sigel ( GER ) 9:06.8 1
2 Bror Fock ( SWE ) 9:14.7 2
2 Nils Frykberg ( SWE ) 9:14.7 3
2 Ernst Wide ( SWE ) 9:14.7 4
2 Thorild Olsson ( SWE ) 9:14.7 -
2 John Zander ( SWE ) 9:14.7 -
7 Georg Amberger ( GER ) 9:32.5 5
8 Gregor Vietz ( GER ) 9:34.2 6
- Georg Mickler ( GER ) DNF -
Results -- Semifinals
All three semi-finals were held on Friday , July 12 , 1912 . Semifinal 1 Team result : Place Team Scores Qual . 1 2 3 Total 1 United States ( USA ) 2 3 4 9 Q 2 Finland ( FIN ) 1 5 6 12 Individual race result : Place Athlete Time Score 1 Hannes Kolehmainen ( FIN ) 8:36.9 1 2 Abel Kiviat ( USA ) 8:46.3 2 3 Tell Berna ( USA ) 8:50.2 3 4 Norman Taber ( USA ) 8:51.1 4 5 George Bonhag ( USA ) 8:52.2 — 6 Louis Scott ( USA ) 8:53.4 — 7 Albin Stenroos ( FIN ) 8:54.1 5 8 Viljam Johansson ( FIN ) 8:57.2 6 9 Aarne Lindholm ( FIN ) 9:46.4 — 10 Efraim Harju ( FIN ) 10:10.6 — Semifinal 2 Team result : Place Team Scores Qual . 1 2 3 Total 1 Sweden ( SWE ) 2 3 4 9 Q 2 Germany ( GER ) 1 5 6 12 Individual race result : All five Swedish runners finished side by side .
The men's 3000 metres team race was a track and field athletics event held as part of the athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth appearance of a team race style event, though the first to be held at the distance of 3000 metres, which became the standard until the event was eliminated following the 1924 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Friday, July 12, 1912 and on Saturday, July 13, 1912. Twenty-four runners from five nations competed. According to the International Olympic Committee medal database all five runners were awarded medals.