Tug of war at the 1904 Summer Olympics
At the 1904 Summer Olympics, a tug of war tournament was contested. Six teams from three nations competing, with a total of 30 athletes involved. Results. August 30 was the first day of the tug of war competition. The two quarterfinal matches and the first semifinal match (between the two teams who had had byes in the quarterfinals) were held. The rest of the competition was conducted on 1 September. Quarterfinals. Losers were eliminated. Semifinals. The losers were sent to the repechage, to play each other for the chance to play the  loser of the final for second place. Final. The winner received the gold medal, while the loser had to play the winner of the repechage in the silver medal match. Silver medal semifinal. The winner of this match played the loser of the final for the silver medal. Silver medal match. The New York team did not appear for the silver medal match, resulting in the silver medal being awarded to the Saint Louis No. 1 team. Bronze medal match. The New York team also did not appear for the bronze medal match, resulting in the bronze medal being awarded  to Saint Louis No. 2. Participating nations. 6 teams of 5, for a total of 30 athletes, competed. The host team had four teams, and two other nations each sent one. Patrick Flanagan Sidney Johnson Oscar Olson Conrad Magnusson Henry Seiling Max Braun August Rodenberg Charles Rose William Seiling Orrin Upshaw Oscar Friede Charles Haberkorn Harry Jacobs Frank Kugler (GER) Charles Thias Charles Chadwick Charles Dieges Lawrence Feuerbach Sam Jones Jim Mitchel Pieter Hillense Pieter Lombard Johannes Schutte Paulus Visser Christopher Walker Dimitrios Dimitrakopoulos Nikolaos Georgantas Anastasios Georgopoulos Periklis Kakousis Vasilios Metalos Tug of war at the 1904 Summer Olympics