1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	8 athletes from 7 countries
Competition phase	July 22, 1900
Medalist
gold	Walter Tewksbury ( USA )
silver	Norman Pritchard ( India )
bronze	Stan Rowley ( Australia )

The men's 200-meter run at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 22, 1900 in the Croix Catelan . A total of 8 athletes took part. This competition was part of the Olympic program for the first time.

There was also a US victory on this sprint route. The Olympic runner-up in the 60 and 100 meters Walter Tewksbury won the gold medal. Silver went to Norman Pritchard from India . The Australian Stan Rowley won bronze as he did in the 60 and 100 meters.

The American Walter Tewksbury won gold in the 400 meter hurdles , silver in the 60 and 100 meters and bronze in the 200 meter hurdles, gold in the 200-meter run

Silver medalist Norman Pritchard from India

The Australian Stan Rowley wins his third bronze medal

American Olympic gold medalist William Holland ( right )

Records

The unofficial world record was set in races over 220  yards , which corresponds to 201.168 meters.

World record	21.4 s	United States	James Maybury	Chicago ( USA ), June 5, 1897
		United States	Bernard Wefers	Toronto ( USA ), September 25, 1897

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

Olympic record	24.0 s	United States	William Holland	1st preliminary, July 22nd
	22.2 s	United States	Walter Tewksbury	Final run, July 22nd

Results

Prelims

July 22, 1900

The preliminary round was divided into two runs with three athletes each. The best two from each run - highlighted in light blue - reached the finals.

There are different or incomplete information on the preliminary stages in the various sources. In Kluge , whose representation otherwise with at Sports-Reference coincides be mentioned in each case only the first three runners. To Megede speaks of 3 preliminary runs and only states that the two Germans Kurt Doerry and Julius Keyl were eliminated. The two tables below list the version of Sports-Reference with the fourth place named there in addition to Kluge .

Forward 1

space	Surname	country	time
1	William Holland	United States	24.0 s	OR
2	Norman Pritchard	India	unknown
3	Adolphe Klingelhoefer	France	unknown
4th	Ernő Schubert	Hungary

Holland was clearly superior to their opponents and celebrated an easy win.

Forward 2

space	Surname	country	time
1	Stan Rowley	Australia	25.0 s
2	Walter Tewksbury	United States	unknown
3	Yngvar Bryn	Norway	unknown
4th	Albert Werkmüller	Germany

Tewksbury was one foot behind Rowley . The other participants were clearly behind.

final

July 22, 1900

The various sources used here agree on the ranking of the medal winners. At the Megede , in contrast to the other three, the fourth-placed Holland is not listed. Only on the website of the IOC are times for the runner in second and third place named. This latter version is shown in the table below.

space	Surname	country	time
1	Walter Tewksbury	United States	22.2 s	OR
2	Norman Pritchard	India	22.8 s
3	Stan Rowley	Australia	22.9 s
4th	William Holland	United States	unknown

In the final, Pritchard initially took the lead. Tewksbury passed him about halfway and eventually won easily. The Olympic champion had a lead of two and a half yards for the second . Rowley was another half yard behind while Holland reached the goal just behind Rowley.

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 200 meters , English, accessed July 18, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, 200m men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on July 18, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 30