1900 Summer Olympics / Participant (Australia)

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Australia participated in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris , France . Most Olympic historians separate Australia's records from those of the United Kingdom .

Australia was represented by two athletes. Both finished in the top three in every event they participated in. Frederick Lane won two swimming competitions. Stan Rowley won one competition on the UK mixed team that did not and also came in three third places in athletics.

Medalist

Olympic champion

Surname	sport	competition
Frederick Lane	swim	200 meters freestyle and 200 meters obstacle

third

Surname	sport	competition
Stan Rowley	athletics	60 m , 100 m and 200 m

Participants by sport

athletics

• Stan Rowley

  60 meters: 3rd place

  100 meters: 3rd place

  200 meters: 3rd place

swim

• Frederick Lane

  200 meters freestyle: Olympic champion

  200 meter obstacle: Olympic champion

Non-Olympic competitions

Donald Mackintosh was a professional marksman from Melbourne . He traveled around Europe and participated in a number of traditional competitions. He won the '' Prix Centenaire de Paris '', a competition in which real city ​​pigeons were shot, with 22 pigeons in 22 shots in front of the Spanish Marquis de Villancosa . He reached third place at the '' Grand Prix de l'Exposition '' with 18 kills. The International Olympic Committee does not recognize this competition as Olympic.

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• Andrews, Malcolm (2000). Australia at the Olympic Games.
• De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "1900 Olympians from Australia". Accessed March 11, 2006.
• Mallon, Bill (1998). The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-7864-0378-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stagecoach and pigeon slaughter - Former Olympic sports. Online Focus, accessed July 29, 2016 . 

Web links

• Australian Olympic team from 1900 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )