1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	5 athletes from 2 countries
Competition phase	July 16 or 17, 1900
Medalist
gold	John Flanagan ( USA )
silver	Truxtun Hare ( USA )
bronze	Josiah McCracken ( USA )

The hammer throw of the men at the Olympics in Paris in 1900 was on 16 or 17 July 1900 in Croix Catelan decided.

Depending on the source, different dates are named - Sportsreference and Kluge give the 16th and the Megede on July 17th.

The hammer was thrown from a circular area nine feet in diameter  .

The competition was in the Olympic program for the first time and there was a triple success for the USA. Olympic champion was John Flanagan ahead of Truxtun Hare and Josiah McCracken .

Records

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

World record	51.11 m	United States	John Flanagan	New York ( USA ), July 17, 1899

Since the discipline was Olympic for the first time, there was still no Olympic record .

The following records were broken or set in hammer throw at the Olympic Games in 1900:

OR

51.01 m or 49.13 m

United States

John Flanagan

The information on the victory distance and thus the Olympic record differ depending on the source - see below .

Results

space	athlete	country	Width according to SportsReference	Width to the IOC side	Wide to Kluge	Far to the Megede
1	John Flanagan	United States	51.01 m ( OR )	51.01 m ( OR )	49.73 m ( OR )	49.73 m ( OR )
2	Truxtun Hare	United States	46.26 m	46.26 m	49.13 m	49.13 m
3	Josiah McCracken	United States	43.58 m	43.58 m	42.46 m	42.46 m
4th	Eric Lemming	Sweden	k. A.			Athlete not a participant
5	Karl Gustaf Staaf	Sweden

The hammer throw was part of the Olympic program for the first time and was not yet one of the established disciplines. This competition had a tradition especially in Ireland. John Flanagan was an Irish immigrant who came to the United States in 1896 and, along with others, introduced the hammer throw there with other Irish immigrants. In the Olympic competition, Truxtun Hare surprisingly led first, but Flanagan immediately countered his width and became Olympic champion.

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  Olympic champion John Flanagan from the United States

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  The Olympic runner-up Truxton Hare, also USA

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  The American Josiah McCracken took third place

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 41