1904 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting in the III. Olympic Games
information
venue	St. Louis
Competition venue	Francis Field
Nations	3
Athletes	6 (6 men)
date	1st - 3rd September 1904
decisions	2
← Athens 1896 Antwerp 1920 →

With the III. Olympics 1904 in St. Louis found two competitions in weightlifting instead. The venue was the Francis Field Stadium , parallel to the athletics competitions (the division into heavy and athletics that is common today did not exist at the time).

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	1	2	2	5
2	Greece	1	-	-	1

Results

One-armed all-around

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Oscar Osthoff	48
2	United States	Frederick Winters	45
3	GER	Frank Kugler	10

Date: September 1st and 3rd, 1904

In this competition ten different exercises had to be done with one arm. The first nine exercises were rated for weight lifted (5 for the first, 3 for the second, and 1 for the third). The tenth exercise was a " freestyle " in which the judges gave a maximum of 25 points to all athletes.

Two-armed

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	GRE	Perikles Kakousis	111.70
2	United States	Oscar Osthoff	084.37
3	GER	Frank Kugler	079.61
4th	United States	Oscar Olson	067.81
5	GRE	Dimitrios Tofalos	00k. A.

Date: September 1, 1904

The winner Perikles Kakousis proved to be superior and won by more than 27 kg over Oscar Osthoff. Dimitrios Tofalos, who later won the interludes in 1906, was also registered as a participant, but fell ill on the outward journey and did not compete.

Web links

• Fencing at the 1904 Olympic Games in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1904 Summer Olympics (PDF, 3.1 MB)