1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	6 to 8 athletes from 2 countries
Competition location	Francis Field
Competition phase	September 3, 1904
Winning time	16.0 s
Medalist Fred School ( USA )   Thaddeus Shideler ( USA )   Lesley Ashburner ( USA )

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis was held on September 3, 1904 at Francis Field . The winners and runners-up from both heats made it to the final. The statements in the sources used here differ about the number of participants. Nothing is said on the IOC side , SportsReference lists six starters by name, at Kluge there are seven. Megede speaks of eight athletes without naming them.

Only Americans made it into the final. Olympic champion was Fred Schule , Thaddeus Shideler won silver, bronze went to Lesley Ashburner .

Records

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

World record	15.2 s	United States	Alvin Kraenzlein	Chicago ( USA ), June 18, 1898
Olympic record	15.4 s	United States	Alvin Kraenzlein	Paris finals ( FRA ), July 14, 1900

Results

Prelims

Crossing the finish line of the first heat: Fred Schule ( left ) ahead of Lesley Ashburner ( right ), Ward McLanahan ( second from right ) and Corrie Gardner ( second from left )

September 3, 1904

The preliminary results are only listed at SportsReference and Kluge , they hardly differ at all. Zur Megede explains that the winning time in both heats is 16.2 s, which is consistent with the information provided by SportsReference and Kluge .

1. Forward

space	athlete	country	time indication
			Smart	SportsReference
1	Fred School	United States	16.2 s	16.2 s
2	Lesley Ashburner	United States	k. A.	k. A.
3	Ward McLanahan	United States	k. A.	k. A.
4th	Corrie Gardner	Australia	k. A.	16.4 s ( estimated )

2. Forward

space	athlete	country	time indication
			Smart	SportsReference
1	Frank Castleman	United States	16.2 s	16.2 s
2	Thaddeus Shideler	United States	k. A.	k. A.
3	Leslie McPherson	Australia	k. A.	Starter not listed

final

September 3, 1904

The order is the same in all sources used here. There are only insignificant differences in the times - as shown in the table below.

space	athlete	country	time indication
			Kluge - IOC Page - SportsReference	to the Megede
1	Fred School	United States	16.0 s	16.0 s
2	Thaddeus Shideler	United States	16.3 s	16.3 s ( estimated )
3	Lesley Ashburner	United States	16.4 s	k. A.
4th	Frank Castleman	United States	k. A.	k. A.

Fred Schule and Frank Castleman, who had won their heats in 16.2 s each, went into this final as favorites. School started badly, but fought its way forward. Castleman hit a hurdle and stumbled. As a result, he lost his rhythm and finished fourth. Fred Schule became Olympic champion by a clear margin over Thaddeus Shideler and third-placed Lesley Ashburner.

At Alvin Kraenzleins Olympic record of 15.4 sec from the year 1900 Fred school did not manage to by far.

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  Olympic Champion Frederick Schule, USA

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  The Olympic runner-up Thaddeus Shideler - here as the winner of one of the non-Olympic handicap races in  St. Louis

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  Bronze medalist Lesley Ashburner, USA

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  The Olympian Frank Castleman, also from the United States

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

• Sports-Reference, Athletics at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games: Men's 110 Meters Hurdles , accessed July 31, 2018
• Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, 110m hurdles men , IOC page on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games from olympic.org, English, accessed July 31, 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. 53