List of Olympians killed in World War I

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A total of 143 Olympians are known to have been killed during World War I.[1][2]A

NameCountryBSport(s)GamesMedalsRef
Andrey Akimov Russian EmpireFootball1912 Summer Olympics[3]
Gordon Alexander Great BritainFencing1912 Summer Olympics[4]
Laurie Anderson Great BritainAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[5]
William Anderson Great Britain (GBR)Athletics1906 Intercalated Games[6]
Henry Ashington Great BritainAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[7]
Louis Bach FranceFootball1900 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[8]
Fritz Bartholomae GermanyRowing1912 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[9]
Béla Békessy HungaryFencing1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[10]
Isaac Bentham Great BritainWater polo1912 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[11]
Renon Boissière FranceAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[12]
Henri Bonnefoy FranceShooting1908 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[13]
Hermann Bosch GermanyFootball1912 Summer Olympics[14]
Jean Bouin FranceAthletics1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[15]
Hanns Braun Germany (GER)Athletics1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[16]
Karl Braunsteiner AustriaFootball1912 Summer Olympics[17]
Kurt Bretting GermanySwimming1912 Summer Olympics[18]
Wilhelm Brülle GermanyGymnastics1912 Summer Olympics[19]
Heinrich Burkowitz GermanyAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[20]
Edmund Bury Great BritainRacquets1908 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[21]
George Butterfield Great BritainAthletics1908 Summer Olympics[22]
Oswald Carver Great BritainRowing1908 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[23]
Joseph Caullé FranceAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[24]
Ralph Chalmers Great BritainFencing1908 Summer Olympics[25]
Noel Chavasse Great BritainAthletics1908 Summer Olympics[26]
Geoffrey Coles Great BritainShooting1908 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[27]
André Corvington Haiti (HAI)Fencing1900 Summer Olympics[28]
Percy Courtman Great BritainSwimming1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[29]
Harry Crank Great BritainDiving1908 Summer Olympics[30]
Robert Davies Great BritainShooting1912 Summer Olympics[31]
Louis de Champsavin FranceEquestrianism1900 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[32]
Georges de la Nézière FranceAthletics1896 Summer Olympics[33]
Bertrand Marie de Lesseps FranceFencing1908 Summer Olympics[34]
Ismaël de Lesseps FranceFencing1908 Summer Olympics[35]
Jean de Mas Latrie FranceFencing, modern pentathlon1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics[36]
Félix Debax FranceFencing1900 Summer Olympics[37]
Alex Decoteau CanadaAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[38]
Oszkár Demján HungarySwimming1912 Summer Olympics[39]
Charles Devendeville FranceSwimming, water polo1900 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[40]
Joseph Dines Great BritainFootball1912 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[41]
Herman Donners BelgiumWater polo1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[42]
Jimmy Duffy CanadaAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[43]
Hugh Durant Great BritainModern pentathlon, shooting1912 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[44]
George Fairbairn Great BritainRowing1908 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[45]
René Fenouillière FranceFootball1908 Summer Olympics[46]
Léon Flameng FranceCycling1896 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[47]
Alfred Flaxman Great BritainAthletics1908 Summer Olympics[48]
Herbert Gayler Great BritainCycling1912 Summer Olympics[49]
Thomas Gillespie Great BritainRowing1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[50]
Henry Goldsmith Great BritainRowing1912 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[51]
Lajos Gönczy Hungary (HUN)Athletics1900 Summer Olympics, 1904 Summer Olympics, 1906 Intercalated Games2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[52]
Carl Goßler GermanyRowing1900 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[53]
Jaroslav Hainz BohemiaTennis1912 Summer Olympics[54]
Juho Halme FinlandAthletics1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics[55]
Wyndham Halswelle Great BritainAthletics1906 Intercalated Games, 1908 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[56]
George Hawkins Great BritainAthletics1908 Summer Olympics[57]
Harold Hawkins Great BritainShooting1908 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[58]
Cecil Healy Australia (AUS),  AustralasiaSwimming1906 Intercalated Games, 1912 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[59]
Max Herrmann GermanyAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[60]
George Hutson Great BritainAthletics1912 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[61]
Albert Jenicot FranceFootball1908 Summer Olympics[62]
Walther Jesinghaus GermanyGymnastics1912 Summer Olympics[63]
Ernest Keeley South Africa (RSA)Shooting1912 Summer Olympics[64]
Frederick Kelly Great BritainRowing1908 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[65]
Paul Kenna Great BritainEquestrianism1912 Summer Olympics[66]
Alister Kirby Great BritainRowing1912 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[67]
Frederick Kitching Great BritainAthletics1908 Summer Olympics[68]
Adolf Kofler AustriaCycling1912 Summer Olympics[69]
Georg Krogmann GermanyFootball1912 Summer Olympics[70]
Nikolai Kynin Russian EmpireFootball1912 Summer Olympics[71]
Ivan Laing Great BritainHockey1908 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[72]
Octave Lapize FranceCycling1908 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[73]
Henry Leeke Great BritainAthletics1908 Summer Olympics[74]
Erich Lehmann GermanyAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[75]
Feliks Leparsky Russian EmpireFencing1912 Summer Olympics[76]
Georges Lutz FranceCycling1908 Summer Olympics[77]
Wilhelm Lützow GermanySwimming1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[78]
William Lyshon United StatesWrestling1912 Summer Olympics[79]
Henry Macintosh Great BritainAthletics1912 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[80]
Duncan Mackinnon Great BritainRowing1908 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[81]
Gilchrist Maclagan Great BritainRowing1908 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[82]
Leopold Mayer Austria (AUT)Swimming1906 Intercalated Games[83]
Alphonse Meignant FranceRowing1912 Summer Olympics[84]
Robert Merz AustriaFootball1912 Summer Olympics[85]
Georg Mickler GermanyAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[86]
Percival Molson CanadaAthletics1904 Summer Olympics[87]
Alfred Motté FranceAthletics1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics[88]
István Mudin Hungary (HUN)Athletics1906 Intercalated Games, 1908 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[89]
Edward Nash Great BritainEquestrianism1912 Summer Olympics[90]
Grigori Nikitin Russian EmpireFootball1912 Summer Olympics[91]
Charles Oldaker Great BritainGymnastics1908 Summer Olympics[92]
Harcourt Ommundsen Great BritainShooting1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)		[93]
Alan Patterson Great BritainAthletics1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics[94]
Árpád Pédery HungaryGymnastics1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[95]
Jacques Person GermanyAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[96]
William Philo Great BritainBoxing1908 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[97]
Hermann Plaskuda GermanyFencing1912 Summer Olympics[98]
Léon Ponscarme FranceCycling1900 Summer Olympics[99]
Bobby Powell CanadaTennis1908 Summer Olympics[100]
Kenneth Powell Great BritainAthletics, tennis1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics[101]
Reggie Pridmore Great BritainHockey1908 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[102]
Joseph Racine FranceCycling1912 Summer Olympics[103]
Thomas Raddall Great BritainShooting1908 Summer Olympics[104]
Maurice Raoul-Duval FrancePolo1900 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[105]
Josef Rieder GermanyCycling1912 Summer Olympics[106]
John Robinson Great BritainHockey1908 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[107]
Patrick Roche Great BritainAthletics1908 Summer Olympics[108]
Claude Ross AustralasiaAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[109]
Albert Rowland AustralasiaAthletics1908 Summer Olympics[110]
Maurice Salomez FranceAthletics1900 Summer Olympics[111]
Ronald Sanderson Great BritainRowing1908 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[112]
Ludwig Sauerhöfer GermanyWrestling1912 Summer Olympics[113]
Heinrich Schneidereit Germany (GER)Tug of war, weightlifting1906 Intercalated Games1st place, gold medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[114]
André Six FranceSwimming1900 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[115]
Pierre Six FranceFootball1908 Summer Olympics[116]
Michel Soalhat France (FRA)Athletics1906 Intercalated Games[117]
John Somers-Smith Great BritainRowing1908 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[118]
Eberhard Sorge GermanyGymnastics1912 Summer Olympics[119]
Alfred Staats GermanyGymnastics1912 Summer Olympics[120]
Jenő Szántay HungaryFencing1908 Summer Olympics[121]
Geoffrey Taylor Canada (CAN)Rowing1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[122]
Waldemar Tietgens GermanyRowing1900 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[123]
Dragutin Tomašević SerbiaAthletics1912 Summer Olympics[124]
Justin Vialaret FranceFootball1908 Summer Olympics[125]
Charles Vigurs Great BritainGymnastics1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[126]
Hermann von Bönninghausen Germany (GER)Athletics1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics[127]
Bernhard von Gaza GermanyRowing1908 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[128]
Amon Ritter von Gregurich HungaryFencing1900 Summer Olympics[129]
Béla von Las-Torres Hungary (HUN)Swimming1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[130]
Eduard von Lütcken GermanyEquestrianism1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[131]
Friedrich Karl, Prince von Preußen GermanyEquestrianism1912 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[132]
Edmond Wallace FranceFencing1900 Summer Olympics[133]
Rudolf Watzl Austria (AUT)Wrestling1906 Intercalated Games1st place, gold medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)		[134]
Arthur Wear United StatesTennis1904 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[135]
Arthur Wilde Great BritainShooting1908 Summer Olympics[136]
Tony Wilding AustralasiaTennis1912 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[137]
Edward Williams Great BritainRowing1908 Summer Olympics3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[138]
Arthur Wilson Great BritainRugby1908 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[139]
Herbert Wilson Great BritainPolo1908 Summer Olympics1st place, gold medalist(s)[140]
Richard Yorke Great BritainAthletics1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics[141]
Heinrich Ziegler GermanyFencing1912 Summer Olympics[142]
Béla Zulawszky Hungary (HUN)Fencing1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics2nd place, silver medalist(s)[143]

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