| JIMTHORPE | First-ever decathlon winner. He took the gold medal in the 1912 Olympic Games. (3,6) |
| THORPE | Jim, U.S. athlete who won the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympic Games (6) |
| WON | Took the gold medal |
| NAPHTHENE | 'Likely winner', he admits afterwards in compound (9) |
| PATTON | U.S. general who was a pentathlete in the 1912 Olympics |
| ICEHOCKEY | In the 2002 Winter Olympics Canada took the gold for this team rink sport, fifty years to the day from the nation's previous victory (the women's team won gold too!) (3,6) |
| MOORHOUSE | British swimmer who won a gold medal in the 100m breaststroke event at the 1988 Olympics (6,9) |
| ELIASHOWE | His machine won a gold medal in the Paris Exhibition of 1867 |
| LOSTWORLD | The --- ---', 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel that introduced the character Professor Challenger (4,5) |
| LEWIS | Denise _, British winner of the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Olympic Games (5) |
| LIPREADER | "He took the words right out of my mouth" (3-6) |
| ELIHUROOT | Secretary of War who went on to win the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize |
| LISTENERS | "The ...", 1912 volume of verse by Walter De La Mare (9) |
| BOTHHANDS | Contested at the 1912 Olympics, a variant of some throwing events, possibly favouring ambidextrous athletes |
| EZRAPOUND | US poet who wrote the 1912 collection of poems Ripostes (4,5) |
| STOCKHOLM | European capital that hosted the 1912 Summer Olympics; its city council nixed a proposed 2022 bid, citing costs |
| FOSBURY | Who won the gold medal in the high jump at the 1968 Olympics, revolutionising the sport in the process? (7) |
| SKELTON | Equestrian who won the gold medal in the individual showjumping event at Rio 2016, his seventh Olympic Games (7) |
| ASHTONEATON | American athlete who won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics (6,5) |
| EMILZATOPEK | Who created an Olympic first by winning the gold medal in 5,000 and 10,000 metres and also the marathon at the 1952 Helsinki Games? (4,7) |
