1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 400 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 13 athletes from 3 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Francis Field | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 29, 1904 | ||||||||
Winning time | 49.2 s ( OR ) | ||||||||
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The 400-meter race of the men at the Olympic Games 1904 in St. Louis was on August 29, 1904 Francis Field discharged. There were no preliminary runs, all participants contested the run together.
There are two details about their number, depending on the source. At SportsReference and on the IOC page , twelve runners are named, while the talk speaks of 13 athletes. His version is supported by the start photo ( see below ), on which 13 participants can be seen on closer inspection, one of them starting behind the runners arranged next to each other in front of the athlete on the inner lane, as described for the Megede .
In this competition, too, the Americans made the decision about the medals among themselves. Harry Hillman won ahead of Frank Waller , Herman Groman won the bronze medal.
Records
The existing unofficially held world record was set in a race over 440 yards , which corresponds to 402.336 meters.
World record | 47.8 s | United States | Maxwell Long | Travers Island ( USA ), September 29, 1900 |
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Olympic record | 49.4 s | United States | Maxwell Long | Paris finals ( FRA ), July 15, 1900 |
The following records were broken or set over 400 meters at the 1904 Olympic Games:
OR | 49.2 s | United States | Harry Hillman |
Results
The following table shows the results given in four different sources. The thirteenth participant on the starting photo is missing from this list, his name can no longer be traced.
space | athlete | country | time indication | ||
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SportsReference and IOC page |
to the Megede | |||
1 | Harry Hillman | United States | 49.2 s ( OR ) | 49.2 s ( OR ) | 49.2 s ( OR ) |
2 | Frank Waller | United States | 49.9 s | 49.9 s | 49.7 s ( estimated ) |
3 | Herman Groman | United States | 50.0 s | 50.0 s | 49.9 s ( estimated ) |
4th | Joseph Fleming | United States | 50.5 s | k. A. | |
5 | Meyer Prinstein | United States | 50.6 s | ||
6th | George Poage | United States | 51.0 s | ||
7th | Percival Molson | CAN |
Placements from rank 7 in these sources are no longer assigned by name |
k. A. | |
8-12 | Clyde Blair | United States |
Participants after rank 7 not further named |
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Paul Pilgrim | United States | ||||
Johannes Runge | GER | ||||
George Underwood | United States | ||||
Howard Valentine | United States |
Herman Groman took the lead after about 70 meters and got some advantage. The field was divided into two groups. After about 200 meters, Harry Hillman took the lead from third place and Joseph Fleming caught up with the front runners from the second group. An attack by George Poage was repulsed by Fleming and Frank Waller, so that finally five runners sprinted for victory. In the end, Hillman pulled about three yards away from Waller, who was closely followed by Groman. Fleming and Prinstein were almost tied another two yards back.
Harry Hillman won the first of his three gold medals. Two days later he was also successful over the 400 meter hurdles and another day over the 200 meter hurdles. The Olympic runner-up Frank Waller also won silver in the 400 meter hurdles behind Harry Hillman. The fifth Meyer Prinstein - also referred to as Myer Prinstein in many publications - had his strengths above all in the vertical jumps. He was Olympic champion in the long jump and triple jump , but also finished fifth in the 60 and 400 meters.
Start of the 400-meter run with twelve runners side by side and a thirteenth behind them
Olympic champion Harry Hillman, also victorious over the 200 and 400 meter hurdles
The Olympic fifth Meyer Prinstein - especially successful as the winner in the long and triple jump
The German Johannes Runge, more successful than fifth over 800 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 400 meters , English, accessed July 28, 2018
- Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, 400m 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 400 meters , English, accessed July 28, 2018
- ↑ Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, 400m men , IOC page on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games at olympic.org, 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