1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 60 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	60 meter run
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	10 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	July 15, 1900
Medalist
gold	Alvin Kraenzlein ( USA )
silver	Walter Tewksbury ( USA )
bronze	Stan Rowley ( Australia )

The men's 60-meter race at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 15, 1900 in the Croix Catelan . A total of 10 athletes took part. This short distance was twice part of the program at the Olympic Games . It was held for the first time in 1900 and quickly disappeared from the program again after 1904 .

The following records were broken or set in the 60-meter run at the Olympic Games:

WR	7.0 s	United States	Alvin Kraenzlein	Preliminary July 15th
WRe				Final, July 15th

Results

Prelims

July 15, 1900

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	country	time
1	Alvin Kraenzlein	United States	7.0 s	WR
2	Edmund Minahan	United States	unknown
3	Norman Pritchard	India	unknown
4th	Adolphe Klingelhoefer	France
5	Isaac Westergren	Sweden

Kraenzlein already ran a new world record in the run-up. The distance between Minahan and Pritchard is given as a half and a full yard, respectively.

Forward 2

space	Surname	country	time
1	Walter Tewksbury	United States	7.2 s
2	Stan Rowley	Australia	unknown
3	William Holland	United States	unknown
4th	Pál Koppán	Hungary
5	Ernő Schubert	Hungary

Tewksbury won by a foot .

Alvin Kraenzlein ( right ) wins over 60 meters just ahead of Walter Tewksbury, both USA

final

July 15, 1900

As can also be seen in the photo, the sprinters ran on tracks that were marked out with ropes. Kraenzlein equalized his world record from the run-up. Tewksbury and Rowley's residues are given by SportsReference as " inches " and "short foot".

Result according to SportsReference space Surname country time   1 Alvin Kraenzlein  United States 7.0 s WRe 2 Walter Tewksbury  United States 7.1 s 3 Stan Rowley  Australia 7.2 s 4th Edmund Minahan  United States 7.2 s 5 Norman Pritchard  India 7.2 s 6th William Holland  United States 7.2 s

Result to the Megede space Surname country time   1 Alvin Kraenzlein  United States 7.0 s WRe 2 Walter Tewksbury  United States 7.1 s 3 Stan Rowley  Australia 7.2 s 4th Norman Pritchard  India 7.2 s 5 William Holland  United States unknown 6th Edmund Minahan  United States

Result according to SportsReference space Surname country distance time   1 Alvin Kraenzlein  United States 7.0 s WRe 2 Walter Tewksbury  United States inches unknown 3 Stan Rowley  Australia short foot unknown 4th Edmund Minahan  United States unknown

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 60 meters , English, accessed July 17, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, 60m men , IOC page on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on July 17, 2018