1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 4 athletes from 1 country | ||||||||
Competition location | Francis Field | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 31, 1904 | ||||||||
Winning time | 53.0 s | ||||||||
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The 400-meter hurdles of the men at the Olympic Games 1904 in St. Louis was on August 31, 1904 Francis Field discharged. Only four runners participated, all of them were American.
Olympic champion was Harry Hillman , Frank Waller won the silver medal ahead of George Poage .
Records
The world records that existed at the time were still unofficial.
World record | 57.2 s | France | Georges Flilliâtre | 1903 |
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Great Britain | Godfrey Shaw | August 12, 1891 | ||
Olympic record | 57.6 s | United States | Walter Tewksbury | Paris Finale , July 15, 1900 |
Results
The following table shows the results given in four different sources.
space | athlete | country | time indication | |||
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Smart | IOC page | SportsReference | to the Megede | |||
1 | Harry Hillman | United States | 53.0 | 53.0 | 53.0 | 53.0 |
2 | Frank Waller | United States | 53.2 | 53.2 | 53.2 | 53.6 ( estimated ) |
3 | George Poage | United States | 58.4 | k. A. | 30 y behind Pl. 2 | k. A. |
4th | George Varnell | United States | k. A. |
In Europe this competition was one of the established disciplines of athletics, but in the USA there was little experience with this route. As a result, the hurdles were set at the wrong height. Instead of the regular 3 feet (91.4 cm), they were only 2½ feet (76 cm) high here.
Harry Hillman led to the eighth hurdle, but he broke it. So he stumbled and almost fell. Frank Waller was able to catch up, but Hillman prevailed in the final meters with a lead of two yards . The times of the two fastest runners were well below the existing world record . However, there was no recognition for two reasons:
(1) The barriers in St. Louis were too low.
(2) Breaking a hurdle prevented recognition in official leaderboards at that time. A race result, on the other hand, remained valid as long as no more than two hurdles were broken.
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 Hurdles , accessed July 31, 2018
- Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, 400m hurdles men , IOC page on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games from olympic.org, English, accessed July 31, 2018