| | Event type
Cross-Country, Team, Men
| Date | 23 August 1920 — 15:15 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Olympisch Stadion, Antwerpen | |
| Participants | 41 from 7 countries | |
| Format | circa 8,000 metres. Point-for-place scoring from the individual event with the top three finishers for team counting in the team scoring. | |
The event was supposed to be over 10 km, but the organizers set up a course of only about 8 km. Points were scored based on placements in the individual race. The teams could have six runners in the individual cross-country but only the top three finishers for each team counted towards the final team score. There were also six runners in the individual race who did not have a full team competing in the team race. The event was expected to be a battle between Paavo Nurmi (FIN) and Joseph Guillemot (FRA), who had met in the 5 and 10K, with Nurmi winning the 10K and Guillemot the 5K. But early in the race, Guillemot sprained an ankle and had to withdraw, allowing Nurmi to win the rubber match.
| Pos | Number | Competitors | NOC | Points | Time | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | Finland |  FIN | 10 | – | Gold | |||||
| Paavo Nurmi • Heikki Liimatainen • Teodor Koskenniemi • Ilmari Vesamaa • Eino Rastas • Hannes Miettinen | |||||||||||
| 2 | – | Great Britain |  GBR | 21 | – | Silver | |||||
| James Wilson • Anton Hegarty • Alfred Nichols • Christopher Vose • Walter Freeman • Larry Cummins | |||||||||||
| 3 | – | Sweden |  SWE | 23 | – | Bronze | |||||
| Eric Backman • Gustaf Mattsson • Hilding Ekman • Verner Magnusson • Lars Hedwall • Knut Alm | |||||||||||
| 4 | – | United States |  USA | 36 | – | ||||||
| Pat Flynn • Fred Faller • Max Böhland • Lewis Watson • Bob Crawford • Amisoli Patasoni | |||||||||||
| 5 | – | France |  FRA | 40 | – | ||||||
| Gaston Heuet • Gustave Lauvaux • Joseph Servella • Edmond Brossard • Edmond Bimon • Joseph Guillemot | |||||||||||
| 6 | – | Belgium |  BEL | 48 | – | ||||||
| Julien Van Campenhout • Henri Smets • Aimé Proot • François Vyncke • Pierre Trullemans • Émile Rivez | |||||||||||
| 7 | – | Denmark |  DEN | 53 | – | ||||||
| Albert Andersen • Henrik Sørensen • Jón Jónsson • Julius Ebert • Artur Nielsen | |||||||||||