[5] Eric Lemming was a comfortable winner by a margin of over eight metres and he would go on to win the first two Olympic titles proper in 1908 and 1912.

[6] A 100 metres finalist, Knut Lindberg, was the silver medallist,[7] while the third placer, Bruno Söderström, also won a pole vault medal that year.

[9] At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics a two-handed variant of the standard javelin throw competition took place.

[10] Finnish athletes completed a podium sweep as Julius Saaristo, the runner-up in the 1912 standard javelin event, took the gold medal.

Eric Lemming, champion in the one-handed event, performed poorly with his left hand and finished in fourth place.