Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Class A

Class A (open) motorboating
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue Southampton Water
Dates August 28–29
Competitors 7 from 2 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Camille  France
Water motorsports at the
1908 Summer Olympics
Class A (open)   mixed
Class B (<60 ft)   mixed
Class C (6.5–8 m)   mixed

The Class A (open class) was one of three motorboating classes contested on the Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.

The open class was scheduled to take place on the first day of competition, 28 August. The race was a 40 nautical miles long. Two boats, Wolseley-Siddely and Dylan, began the race. Dylan abandoned the race partway through the first lap, with Wolseley-Siddely finishing the first before the weather became too severe to continue the race.

A second attempt to run the event took place the next day, after the other two races had been completed. Wolseley-Siddely again started, this time against Camille (the only French boat to take part in competition). Wolseley-Siddely ran aground on a mud spit, leaving Camille to finish alone for the gold medal.

Results

Place Boat Boaters Nation Time
1st, gold medalist(s) Camille Emile Thubron  France 2:26:53 (h:mm:ss)
Dylan A. G. Fentiman
Thomas Scott-Ellis
 Great Britain Did not finish
Wolseley-Siddely George Clowes
Hugh Grosvenor
Joseph Frederick Laycock (first race)
G. H. Atkinson (second race)
 Great Britain Did not finish

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