1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	20 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	July 14, 1900
Medalist
gold	Frank Jarvis ( USA )
silver	Walter Tewksbury ( USA )
bronze	Stan Rowley ( Australia )

The men's 100-meter run at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 14, 1900 in the Croix Catelan . A total of 20 athletes took part. The preliminary round was divided into six runs with three to four athletes each. As in the 60-meter run and as in 1896 , the running tracks were separated from one another by ropes at calf height.

There was a US double victory by Frank Jarvis as gold and Walter Tewksbury as silver medalist. Like the next day, bronze went to Australian Stan Rowley over 60 meters .

Records

The following list is the records as they were before the Olympics. All world records are unofficial.

World record	10.8 s	United States	Luther Cary	Paris ( FRA )	4th July 1891
	10.8 s	Great Britain	Cecil Lee	Brussels ( BEL )	September 25, 1892
	10.8 s	Belgium	Étienne De Re	Brussels ( BEL )	4th August 1893
	10.8 s	Great Britain	L. Atcherley	Frankfurt am Main ( GER )	April 13, 1895
	10.8 s	Great Britain	Harry Beaton	Rotterdam ( NED )	August 28, 1895
	10.8 s	Sweden	Harald Anderson-Arbin	Helsingborg ( SWE )	August 9, 1896
	10.8 s	Sweden	Isaac Westergren	Gävle ( SWE )	September 11, 1898
	10.8 s	Sweden	Isaac Westergren	Gävle ( SWE )	September 10, 1899
Olympic record	11.8 s	United States	Thomas Burke	Athens ( GRE )	April 6, 1896

The following records were broken or set at these Olympic Games over 100 meters :

OR	11.4 s	United States	Arthur Duffey	Preliminary July 14th
ORe		United States	Walter Tewksbury	Preliminary 2, July 14th
WR	10.8 s	United States	Frank Jarvis	Advance 3, July 14th
WRe		United States	Walter Tewksbury	2nd semifinals, July 14th

Results

July 14, 1900

The best two from each run - highlighted in light blue - reached the three semifinals with four participants each.

Preliminary round

Forward 1 space Surname country time   1 Arthur Duffey  United States 11.4 s ORe 2 Frederick Moloney  United States 11.5 s estimated 3 Václav Nový  BOH unknown Duffey finished about three feet from Moloney.	Forward 2 space Surname country time   1 Walter Tewksbury  United States 11.4 s ORe 2 Thaddeus McClain  United States 11.4 s estimated 3 Pál Koppán  HUN unknown Tewksbury won by six inches.
Forward 3 space Surname country time   1 Frank Jarvis  United States 10.8 s WR 2 Stan Rowley  OUT 10.9 s estimated 3 Umberto Colombo  ITA unknown 4th Julius Keyl  GER The fastest forerun was led by two runners who had previously been traded as medal candidates. Jarvis won by one meter and set the world record.	Forward 4 space Surname country time   1 Clark Leiblee  United States 11.4 s 2 Kurt Doerry  GER 11.5 s estimated 3 Johannes Gandil  THE unknown Leiblee won by just under a meter.
Forward 5 space Surname country time   1 Norman Pritchard  IND 11.4 s 2 Edmund Minahan  United States 11.5 s estimated 3 Ernő Schubert  HUN unknown 4th Isaac Westergren  SWE The fifth heat was the only one in which no American won, but the Indian Pritchard with a half-meter lead.	Forward 6 space Surname country time   1 Charles Burroughs  United States 11.0 s 2 Dixon Boardman  United States 11.2 s estimated 3 Henry Slack  United States unknown Only Americans started in this preliminary run. Burroughs defeated Boardman by a meter. Slack was the only US runner to be eliminated in the preliminary round.

Semifinals

Silver medalist John Tewksbury from the United States

July 14, 1900

From the semifinals, the best in each case - highlighted in light blue - immediately reached the final, while the second and third placed - highlighted in red - got another chance to reach the finals in a round of hope.

Semi-final 1 space Surname country time   1 Arthur Duffey  United States 11.0 s 2 Stan Rowley  OUT 11.2 s estimated 3 Charles Burroughs  United States unknown 4th Dixon Boardman  United States unknown Duffey beat his personal best in the heats by 0.4 seconds. He won by a meter and a half over Rowley.

Semi-final 2 space Surname country time   1 Walter Tewksbury  United States 10.8 s WRe 2 Clark Leiblee  United States 10.9 s estimated 3 Frederick Moloney  United States unknown - Kurt Doerry  GER DNF Tewksbury set the world record and won by 15 centimeters. It is controversial whether the German Kurt Doerry started the race or not, the only thing that is certain is that he did not reach the goal.

Semi-final 3 space Surname country time   1 Frank Jarvis  United States 11.2 s 2 Thaddeus McClain  United States 11.3 s estimated 3 Norman Pritchard  IND unknown 4th Edmund Minahan  United States unknown Jarvis won the third semifinals by just under a meter.

Round of hope

The Australian Stan Rowley reached the final via the repechage and took third place there

July 14, 1900

Only the winner of this reunion - highlighted in light blue - reached the final.

space	Surname	country	time
1	Stan Rowley	OUT	11.0 s
2	Norman Pritchard	IND	11.0 s	estimated
3	Clark Leiblee	United States	unknown
4-6	Charles Burroughs	United States
	Thaddeus McClain	United States
	Frederick Moloney	United States

The entire field of participants was close together, so that Rowley could only win by two inches.

final

Olympic champion Frank Jarvis, USA

July 14, 1900

The representations in the various sources are largely the same for this competition. Only on the IOC page , Frederick Moloney and Norman Pritchard, two other finalists are named, but without any indication of placement or time.

space	Surname	country	time
1	Frank Jarvis	United States	11.0 s
2	Walter Tewksbury	United States	11.1 s	estimated
3	Stan Rowley	OUT	11.2 s	estimated
-	Arthur Duffey	United States	DNF

At the beginning Duffey was leading, but at about 50 meters he suffered a tendon overstretch so that he had to stop the race. Jarvis won by half a meter over Tewksbury and Rowley, who was another meter behind.

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 100 meters , English, accessed July 18, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, 100m men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on July 18, 2018