1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	11 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	14./15. July 1900
Medalist
gold	Richard Sheldon ( USA )
silver	Josiah McCracken ( USA )
bronze	Robert Garrett ( USA )

The shot put men at the Olympics in Paris in 1900 was on 14 and 15 July 1900 in Croix Catelan discharged. First there was a preliminary battle, the next day the final took place. It was pushed out of a marked out square with a side length of 2.13 meters. The distances from qualification and final were assessed together.

There was a triple win for the athletes from the United States. Olympic champion was Richard Sheldon . Josiah McCracken won the silver medal ahead of Robert Garrett .

Records

The world records that existed at the time were still unofficial.

World record	14.75 m	Canada	George Gray	1898
Olympic record	11.22 m	United States	Robert Garrett	Athens ( Greece ), April 7, 1896

The following records were broken or set in this discipline at the 1900 Olympic Games:

OR	13.80 m	United States	Richard Sheldon	Qualifying, July 14th
	14.10 m			Final, July 15th

Results

The five best athletes (highlighted in color) qualified for the final, which took place the next day.

qualification

Sat July 14, 1900

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
01	Richard Sheldon	United States	13.80 ( OR )
02	Josiah McCracken	United States	12.85
03	Robert Garrett	United States	12.35
04th	Rezső Crettier	Hungary	11.58
05	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos	Greece	11.29
06th	Gustaf Söderström	Sweden	11.18
07th	Arthur Coray	Hungary	11.13
08th	Truxtun Hare	United States	10.92
09	August Nilsson	Sweden	10.86
10	Charles Winckler	Denmark	10.76
	Sotirios Versis	Greece	k. A.

It is unclear whether the Greek Versis took part in the competition and whether he achieved a valid distance.

Result after qualification and final battle

Finale: Sun. July 15, 1900

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
01	Richard Sheldon	United States	14.10 ( OR )
02	Josiah McCracken	United States	12.85
03	Robert Garrett	United States	12.35
04th	Rezső Crettier	Hungary	12.07
05	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos	Greece	11.52
06th	Gustaf Söderström	Sweden	11.18
07th	Arthur Coray	Hungary	11.13
08th	Truxtun Hare	United States	10.92
09	August Nilsson	Sweden	10.86
10	Charles Winckler	Denmark	10.76
	Sotirios Versis	Greece	k. A.

Josiah McCracken and Robert Garrett did not participate in the Sunday final for religious reasons. While Richard Sheldon exceeded his width from the previous day by 30 cm, his two compatriots stayed in second and third place without further attempts. The Hungarian Rezső Crettier and the Greek Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos improved their widths compared to the previous day, but could not make up any places. Garrett had already won in Athens in 1896 and, by not taking part in the final, missed the chance to become the first athlete in history to become Olympic champion at two Olympic Games.

Like four years before, the Irishman Denis Horgan was missing here in Paris . He had already beaten the new Olympic champion Richard Sheldon in the Olympic year and had a personal best of 14.68 m from 1897.

Once again, the information from the sources used differs from one another. However, this seems to be due to the fact that at the Megede the performances from the preliminary fight were only taken into account for places two and three and the results from the final day alone were used for the other placements.

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  Olympic champion Richard Sheldon, USA - also third in the  discus throw

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  The Olympic runner-up Josiah McCracken, also USA

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  The American Olympic third-placed Robert Garrett - 1896 double Olympic champion in the shot put and discus throw

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  The Hungarian Olympic team with the Olympic champion Rezső Crettier ( top row, far left ) and the seventh Artúr Coray ( top row, third from right )

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  The Greek Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos takes fifth place

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  Three Swedish Olympians with the shot put sixth Gustaf Söderström ( right ) and the ninth August Nilsson ( center )

literature

• Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970

Web links

• SportsReference, Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's Shot Put , accessed July 26, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, shot put men , IOC page on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on July 26, 2018