Ferdinand Bie

Ferdinand Bie
Ferdinand Bie (1912)
Full name	Ferdinand Reinhardt Bie
nation	Norway
birthday	February 16, 1888
place of birth	Drammen ,  Norway
size	174 cm
Weight	72 kg
date of death	November 9, 1961
Place of death	Kristiansand , Norway
Career
discipline	Hurdles , long jump , pentathlon , decathlon
Best performance	110 m hurdles: 15.8 s; Long jump: 6.89 m; Pentathlon: 3047 points; Decathlon: 5132 points
society	Oslo IL
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Stockholm 1912 Pentathlon

Ferdinand Reinhardt Bie (born February 16, 1888 in Drammen , † November 9, 1961 in Kristiansund ) was a Norwegian athlete .

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 , Bie was tenth in the long jump with 6.75 m. In the decathlon he gave up.

In the pentathlon , the points were awarded according to placement in the individual disciplines. The American Jim Thorpe won with 7 points for four first places and a third place in the javelin throw . Ferdinand Bie came second with 21 points. A year later Thorpe was disqualified for playing baseball for money . Like Hugo Wieslander in the decathlon , Bie was subsequently declared Olympic champion in 1913.

It was not until 1982 that Jim Thorpe was rehabilitated by the IOC and posthumously declared Olympic champion in both disciplines . At the same time it was determined that the other official result should not be changed. This means that Thorpe and Bie are both listed as Olympic champions in the 1912 pentathlon.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Documentation e. V.

Web links

• Ferdinand Bie in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )