1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 200 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 5 or 7 athletes from 2 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Francis Field | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 31, 1904 | ||||||||
Winning time | 21.6 s ( OR ) | ||||||||
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The men's 200-meter run at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis was held on August 31, 1904 at Francis Field . It was the only time that this competition was held on a straight track at the Olympic Games. There were five or seven participants, depending on the source.
Only Americans were in the final. Olympic champion was Archie Hahn ahead of Nate Cartmell and William Hogenson .
Records
All of the world records mentioned below - albeit unofficially held - were set in races over 220 yards , which corresponds to 201.168 meters.
World record | 21.2 s | United States | Bernard Wefers | New York ( USA ), May 30, 1896 - straight track |
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United States | John Maybury | Chicago ( USA ), June 5, 1897 | ||
United States | Bernard Wefers | Toronto ( Canada ), September 25, 1897 | ||
Olympic record | 22.2 s | United States | Walter Tewksbury | Paris finals ( FRA ), July 22, 1900 |
The following records were broken or set at these Olympic Games over 200 meters :
ORe | 22.2 s | United States | Archie Hahn | First run, August 31 |
OR | 21.6 s | Final, August 31 |
Results
Prelims
August 31, 1904
The winners and runners-up from both preliminary runs (highlighted in color) made it to the final. The fact that there were prelims at all speaks in favor of seven participants, because if there had been only five, the decision could have been made in a race without prelims, in which case only a single runner would have been eliminated. However, that would mean that two athletes are missing from the two tables below.
1. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (s) |
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1 | Archie Hahn | United States | 22.2 ( ORe ) |
2 | Nate Cartmell | United States | k. A. |
2. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (s) |
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1 | William Hogenson | United States | 22.8 |
2 | Fay Moulton | United States | k. A. |
3 | Robert Kerr | Canada | k. A. |
final
August 31, 1904
space | athlete | country | Time (s) |
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1 | Archie Hahn | United States | 21.6 ( OR ) |
2 | Nate Cartmell | United States | 21.9 |
3 | William Hogenson | United States | k. A. |
4th | Fay Moulton | United States | k. A. |
The start of this final with four sprinters was strange. Archie Hahn was very close to causing a false start, but bobbed back just before the starter gave the signal. As a result, Hahn's three competitors were so irritated that they all made a false start. For this they were moved back one yard at the start according to the then valid rules . Hahn took the lead right from the start, while Nate Cartmell in particular got off badly and immediately fell behind.
At the 20-yard mark, Cartmell was seven yards behind, but recovered and was able to overtake two competitors. A time of 22.1 seconds is given in some sources for the third-placed William Hogenson.
These games were consistently successful for three medalists. Archie Hahn also won the 60 and 100 meters , Nathan Cartmell was second in the 100 meters three days later, William Hogenson also won silver over 60 and bronze over 100 meters.
The runners at their first start over 200 meters
Two-time Olympic runner-up Nate Cartmell - here in a photo from 1908 - over 100 and 200 meters
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 200 meters , English, accessed July 28, 2018
- Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, 200m men , IOC page on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed July 28, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sports-Reference, Athletics at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games: Men's 200 meters , English, accessed July 28, 2018
- ↑ a b Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 46