Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Class A

The Class A (open class) was one of three motorboating classes contested on the Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Nations could enter up to 3 boats.[1]

Class A (open) motorboating
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueSouthampton Water
DatesAugust 28–29
Competitors7 from 2 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Camille  France

The open class was scheduled to take place on the first day of competition, 28 August. The race was a 40 nautical miles long. Two boats, Wolseley-Siddely and Dylan, began the race. Dylan abandoned the race partway through the first lap, with Wolseley-Siddely finishing the first before the weather became too severe to continue the race.

A second attempt to run the event took place the next day, after the other two races had been completed. Wolseley-Siddely again started, this time against Camille (the only French boat to take part in competition). Wolseley-Siddely ran aground on a mud spit, leaving Camille to finish alone for the gold medal.

Results

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Place Boat Boaters Nation Time
  Camille Emile Thubron   France 2:26:53 (h:mm:ss)
Dylan Alfred Fentiman
Thomas Scott-Ellis
  Great Britain Did not finish
Wolseley-Siddely Winchester Clowes
Hugh Grosvenor
Joseph Frederick Laycock (first race)
G. H. Atkinson (second race)
  Great Britain Did not finish

References

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  1. ^ Official Report, p. 36.

See also

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  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
  • De Wael, Herman (2001). "Motorboating 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 28 May 2006.
  • OlyMADMen. "Motorboating at the 1908 London Summer Games: Mixed B-Class". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2009.