1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	9 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	July 15, 1900
Medalist
gold	Charles Bennett ( Great Britain )
silver	Henry Deloge ( FRA )
bronze	John Bray ( USA )

The 1,500-meter race of the men at the Olympics in Paris in 1900 was on 15. July 1900 in Croix Catelan discharged. The British Charles Bennett became Olympic champion . The French Henry Deloge won the silver medal. Bronze went to the American John Bray .

Records

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

World record	4: 09.0 min	United States	John Bray	1900
Olympic record	4: 33.2 min	Australia	Edwin Flack	Final of Athens ( Greece ), April 7, 1896

The following records were broken or set in the 1500 meter run at these Olympic Games :

WR

4: 06.2 min

Great Britain

Charles Bennett

Results

Crossing the finish line: Brit Charles Bennet prevails and becomes Olympic champion

The French Henry Deloge takes second place

July 15, 1900

space	Surname	country	Residue	Time (min)
1	Charles Bennett	Great Britain		4: 06.2	WR
2	Henry Deloge	France	5 yds	4: 06.6	estimated
3	John Bray	United States	25 yds	4: 07.2	estimated
4th	David Hall	United States	27 yds	unknown
5	Christian Christensen	Denmark
6th	Hermann Surprising	Austria
More final- participants	Louis Segondi	France
	John Rimmer	Great Britain
	Ondřej Pukl	Bohemia

Race course and times

The decision over 1500 meters was made in a single race. The originally also reported John Cregan from the USA and the Canadian Alex Grant waived for religious reasons, since the race was on a Sunday. The Canadian George Orton preferred the 2500 meter obstacle course that took place on the same day, which he then won. The circular track in the "Bois de Boulogne" stadium was 500 meters long, so exactly three laps had to be run. Bennett and Deloge led the field after 1: 21.2 minutes on the first lap. The pace was slowed down on the second lap; this lap took almost 1:35 minutes. Bennett and Deloge were still ahead. In the last few meters Bennett pulled away from the Frenchman and won by 5  yards . Bray and Hall followed another 20 and 22 yards respectively. Bennett's last lap (500 m) was surprisingly fast with 1: 10.2 minutes, even for later times. So he reached a new world record despite the slow middle lap . However, compared to the previous record of a mile (a good 100 m longer), his time was seen as significantly weaker. The Irishman Thomas Conneff held the world record of miles for the amateurs in 4: 15.6 min, that of the professionals was even at 4: 12.8 min.

The specified end times are named at zur Megede and on the IOC page , with the author classifying the services for the second and third as estimated. The distances listed above can be found at SportsReference . Both the SportsReference and the IOC pages name the occupancy of ranks seven and eight, which cannot be found at the Megede . However, he also assumes that these places were occupied, and he names the German Albert Werkmüller as ninth . At zur Megede , fourth and fifth places are also listed the other way around.

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 1500 meters , English, accessed July 19, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, 1500m men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on 19 July 2018