1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	16 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	14./15. July 1900
Medalist
gold	Rudolf Bauer ( HUN )
silver	František Janda-Suk ( BOH )
bronze	Richard Sheldon ( USA )

The men's discus throw at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 14th and 15th, 1900 in the Croix Catelan . First there was a preliminary fight, the following day the final took place. It was thrown from a staked out square with a side length of 2.13 meters. The distances from qualification and final were assessed together.

Olympic champion was the Hungarian Rudolf Bauer . František Janda-Suk from Bohemia came in second, ahead of Richard Sheldon from the United States.

Records

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

World record	37.28 m	United States	Richard Sheldon	September 13, 1899
Olympic record	29.15 m	United States	Robert Garrett	Athens ( Greece ), April 6, 1896

The following records were broken or set in discus throwing at these Olympic Games:

OR

36.04 m

Hungary

Rudolf Bauer

Results

In the preliminary competition, the five best athletes acquired the right to participate in the final.

Result after qualification and final battle

Qualification: Saturday, July 14th / Final: Sunday, July 15th, 1900

In the final, only the Olympic runner-up František Janda-Suk (by nine centimeters) and third Richard Sheldon (by fifty centimeters) were able to improve insignificantly; the order of the five finalists remained unchanged, taking into account the previous day's performances.

The presentation of the results in this discipline differ considerably from rank six onwards. Since the distances from the qualification were taken over into the result and there were only the two changes mentioned above in the final, the results from the preliminary and final are summarized in the following overviews in final results, each according to sources.

Result according to SportsReference space Surname country Width (m)   1 Rudolf Bauer  HUN 36.04 OR 2 František Janda-Suk  BOH 35.25 3 Richard Sheldon  United States 34.60 4th Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos  GRE 34.04 5 Rezső Crettier  HUN 33.65 6th Gustaf Söderström  SWE 33.30 7th John Flanagan  United States 33.07 8th Eric Lemming  SWE 32.50 Charles Winckler  THE 10 Josiah McCracken  United States 32.00 11 Arthur Coray  HUN 31.00 Launceston Elliot  GBR 13 Émile Gontier  FRA 30.00 14th Gyula Strausz  HUN 29.80 Other participants Robert Garrett  United States k. A. Truxtun Hare  United States

Result on the IOC side space Surname country Width (m)   1 Rudolf Bauer  HUN 36.04 OR 2 František Janda-Suk  BOH 35.25 3 Richard Sheldon  United States 34.60 4th Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos  GRE 34.04 5 Rezső Crettier  HUN 33.65 6th Gustaf Söderström  SWE 33.30 7th k. A. 8th Charles Winckler  THE 32.50 9 k. A. 10 11 Arthur Coray  HUN 31.00 Launceston Elliot  GBR 13 Émile Gontier  FRA 30.00 14th Gyula Strausz  HUN 29.80 WEI tere partial remov- mer Robert Garrett  United States k. A. Truxtun Hare  United States Eric Lemming  SWE John Flanagan  United States Josiah McCracken  United States

Result according to Kluge space Surname country Width (m)   1 Rudolf Bauer  HUN 36.04 OR 2 František Janda-Suk  BOH 35.25 3 Richard Sheldon  United States 34.60 4th Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos  GRE 34.04 5 Rezső Crettier  HUN 33.65 6th Gustaf Söderström  SWE 33.30 7th Robert Garrett  United States 33.07 8th Eric Lemming  SWE 32.50 Charles Winckler  THE 10 Émile Gontier  United States 32.00 11 Arthur Coray  HUN k. A. 12 Gyula Strausz  HUN 29.80 Other participants John Flanagan  United States k. A. Truxtun Hare  United States Karl Gustaf Staaf  SWE Cornelius von Lubowiecki  AUT

Result to the Megede space Surname country Width (m)   1 Rudolf Bauer  HUN 36.04 OR 2 František Janda-Suk  BOH 35.25 3 Richard Sheldon  United States 34.50 4th Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos  GRE 34.04 5 Rezső Crettier  HUN 33.65 6th Charles Winckler  THE 33.30 7th Gustaf Söderström  SWE 33.07 7th John Flanagan  United States 33.07 8th Robert Garrett  United States k. A. 9 Eric Lemming  SWE 10 Émile Gontier  FRA 30.00 11 Karl Gustaf Staaf  SWE k. A.

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  The Hungarian Olympic champion Rudolf Bauer at one of his litters in  Paris

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  The American Olympic third-placed Richard Sheldon, also winner of the  shot put

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  Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos - the Greek Olympic champion in the discus throw and fifth in the shot put

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  The Hungarian Olympic team with Olympic fifth Rezső Crettier ( top row, left ), Artúr Coray ( top row, third from right ) and Gyula Strausz ( bottom row, left )

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 Discus Throw , accessed July 26, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, discus throw men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on 26 July 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. 40