1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	15 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	14./15. July 1900
Medalist
gold	Maxwell Long ( USA )
silver	William Holland ( USA )
bronze	Ernst Schultz ( Denmark )

The 400-meter race of the men at the Olympics in Paris in 1900 was on 15 July 1900 at the Croix Catelan decided. The American Maxwell Long was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriot William Holland . The bronze medal went to the Dane Ernst Schultz .

Records

The unofficial world record was set in a race over 440  yards , which corresponds to 402.336 meters.

World record	47.4 s	United States	William Downs	1890
Olympic record	54.2 s	United States	Thomas Burke	Final of Athens ( Greece ), April 7, 1896

The following records were broken or set at these Olympic Games over 400 meters :

OR	50.4 s	United States	Maxwell Long	1st preliminary, July 14th
	49.4 s			Final run, July 15th

Results

Prelims

July 14, 1900

There were three preliminary runs, from each of which two runners reached the final - highlighted in light green.

Depending on the source, different versions can be found here. There is agreement regarding the runners qualified for the finals, but there are also deviations regarding the order of the first two. From the third ranks onwards, the representations in the sources are very different. This can be seen in the tables below.

The American Olympic champion Maxwell Long

Forward 1

Result according to SportsReference space Surname country time   1 Maxwell Long  United States 50.4 s OR 2 Harry Lee  United States unknown 3 Harvey Lord  United States unknown 4th Georges Clément  France 5 Walter Drumheller  United States Long was clearly superior to his opponents and celebrated an easy win.

Result to the Megede space Surname country time   1 Maxwell Long  United States 50.2 s OR 2 Harry Lee  United States 51.1 s estimated

Forward 2

Result according to SportsReference space Surname country time   1 William Moloney  United States 51.0 s 2 Ernst Schultz  Denmark unknown 3 Charles-Robert Faidide  France unknown 4th Pál Koppán  Hungary 5 Yngvar Bryn  Norway Moloney also won his preliminary run easily.

Result to the Megede space Surname country time   1 Ernst Schultz  Denmark 51.0 s 2 William Moloney  United States unknown 3 Charles-Robert Faidide  France unknown 4th Albert Werkmüller  Germany

Silver medalist William Holland ( right ), also USA

Forward 3

Result according to SportsReference space Surname country time   1 Dixon Boardman  United States 51.2 s 2 William Holland  United States unknown 3 Henry Slack  United States unknown ? Zoltán Speidl  Hungary Umberto Colombo  Italy It is not known from Speidl and Colombo whether they reached the finish and in what order they finished the race.

Result to the Megede space Surname country time   1 William Holland  United States 51.0 s 2 Dixon Boardman  United States 51.6 estimated 3 Henry Slack  United States unknown 4th Georges Clément  France

Crossing the finish line over 400 meters: Maxwell Long ahead of William Holland

final

July 15, 1900

Boardman, Lee and Moloney did not compete for religious reasons at the finals, which took place on a Sunday. So only three runners remained.

space	Surname	country	Residue	time
1	Maxwell Long	United States		49.4 s	OR
2	William Holland	United States	5 yds	49.6	estimated
3	Ernst Schultz	Denmark	25 yds	unknown

Regarding the course of the race there are two different representations in two sources.

In the description of "Sports-Reference", Long, whose first name was usually abbreviated as "Maxie" or "Maxey", led from the beginning.

In "zur Megede", however, it is said that first Holland set the pace, and Long then overtook his tired compatriot.

The sources agree on the result. Long then won by a large margin. As was customary at the time, the backlog of the two remaining finalists is given as length. According to this, Holland was 5 yards behind in the goal , Schultz was 25 yards 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 400 meters , English, accessed July 19, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, 400m men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on 19 July 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SportsReference, Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's 400 meters , English, accessed on July 19, 2018
2. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 31