For the first time, an electronic stopwatch is used at the Olympics. Konstantinos Tsiklitiras wins the gold medal in the standing long jump and enters the pantheon of Olympic victors.

Konstantinos Tsiklitiras: Gold In The Standing Long Jump, And Bronze In The Standing High Jump

Konstantinos Tsiklitiras reached the peak of his fame at the Stockholm Olympic Games, in 1912, where he set a world record for the long jump, with 3.41 metres, and the high jump, with 1.72 metres.

On 8 July 1912, before a packed Olympic Stadium at Stockholm, he needed no more than 3.37 metres to beat the popular Adams brothers from the USA,
the 27-year-old Platt and 22-year-old Benjamin, to win the gold medal in the standing long jump. The two American brothers got their revenge five days later, beating Tsiklitiras in the standing high jump event, where Platt Adams cleared
1.63 metres and his brother Benjamin cleared 1.60 metres, while Tsiklitiras could not do better than rise 1.55 metres.
It seems life is unfair to legends: Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, a national hero, died of meningitis six months later, during
the First Balkan War, plunging the Greek nation into mourning.