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1908  London Summer Olympics

1908 Summer Olympics - The Results (Jeu de paume)

Jeu de paume at the 1908 London Summer Games

 

 

Host City: London, Great Britain
Date Started: May 18, 1908
Date Finished: May 23, 1908
Events: 1

Participants: 11 (11 men and 0 women) from 2 countries
Youngest Participant: USA Jay Gould (19 years, 259 days)
Oldest Participant: GBR Charles Tatham (43 years, 286 days)
Most Medals (Athlete): 3 athletes with 1 medal
Most Medals (Country): GBR Great Britain (2 medals)

11 players from 2 nations competed.

  •  Great Britain (9)
  •  United States (2)
  

Overview

The 1908 Olympics is the only time that jeu de paume has been on the Olympic program. The sport is also known as court tennis, royal tennis, or real tennis, and is actually the original form of tennis. It is played indoors on a dédan, with a complicated scoring system. All of the 1908 entries were from the United States or Great Britain, although the sport was also popular in France in that era, but no Frenchman competed. The competition was held at the [Queen's Club] in West Kensington, London. It was a sporting club formed in 1886 which originally offered court tennis (jeu de paume), Eton Fives, rackets, lawn tennis, football, rugby, and athletics. The Queen’s Club hosted the jeu de paume, covered-court tennis (indoors), and rackets competition during the 1908 Olympics.

Jeu de paume was an event contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics. This was the only Summer Olympic Games to contain this sport as a medal event. An outdoor version called longue paume was a demonstration sport at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Real tennis, as jeu de paume is called in the United Kingdom, was an exhibition event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. In the Official Report of the 1908 Olympic Games, the sport is referred to as "Tennis (jeu de paume)" while tennis is named "lawn tennis."

The competition venue was the Queen's Club in West Kensington, London.

  

Medal table

 
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 1 0 0 1
2  Great Britain (GBR) 0 1 1 2
Totals (2 nations) 1 1 1 3
  

Standings

Place Name Nation
1 Jay Gould II  United States
2 Eustace Miles  Great Britain
3 The Hon. Neville Bulwer-Lytton  Great Britain
4 Arthur Page  Great Britain
5 Edwin Biedermann  Great Britain
Evan Noel  Great Britain
Arthur Palmer  Great Britain
Vane Pennell  Great Britain
9 William Cazalet  Great Britain
Charles Sands  United States
Charles Tatham  Great Britain
  

Bracket

  First round     Quarterfinals     Semifinals     Final  
                                                                       
           
           Gould (USA) 6 6 6      
     Pennell (GBR) 6 6 6            Pennell (GBR) 3 3 2      
     Cazalet (GBR) 1                  Gould (USA) 6 6 6      
             Page (GBR) 1 0 0      
           Page (GBR) 5 6 6 6      
           Palmer (GBR) 6 4 5 1    
             Gould (USA) 6 6 6      
     Miles (GBR) 6 6 6                Miles (GBR) 5 4 4      
     Sands (USA) 3 3 3            Miles (GBR) 6 6 6        
     Noel (GBR) 6 6 6            Noel (GBR) 5 1 5      
     Tatham (GBR) 2 3 3              Miles (GBR) 6 6 6      
             Lytton (GBR) 4 1 3      
           Lytton (GBR) 6 6 6        
           Biedermann (GBR) 5 1 2      

 

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