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
Camille  France

Water Motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Class A (open)
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. Nations could enter up to 3 boats.^[1]

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.

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

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