1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	6 athletes from 1 country
Competition location	Francis Field
Competition phase	August 29, 1904
Medalist John Flanagan ( USA )   John DeWitt ( USA )   Ralph Rose ( USA )

The hammer throw of the men at the Olympic Games 1904 in St. Louis was on August 29, 1904 Francis Field decided.

Olympic champion was in a purely US field of participants John Flanagan . Silver went to John DeWitt , bronze went to Ralph Rose .

Records

World record	52.71 m	United States	John Flanagan	New York ( USA ), July 31, 1904
Olympic record	49.73 m			Paris finals ( FRA ), July 16, 1900

The following records were broken or set in hammer throw at these Olympic Games:

OR

51.23 m

United States

John Flanagan

Olympic champion John Flanagan

Results

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	John Flanagan	United States	51.230 ( OR )
2	John DeWitt	United States	50.265
3	Ralph Rose	United States	45.730
4th	Charles Chadwick	United States	42.785
5	James Mitchel	United States	k. A.
6th	Albert Johnson	United States

Six athletes took part in this competition, all Americans. The throws were to be made from a 7 foot ring  . As in the other throwing disciplines and the shot put, this corresponds to the current rules for a ring size of 2.13 m. Regarding the technology, it is said that Flanagan made two turns, Rose only one. The competition was already decided after one round because the top three did not improve any more. John Flanagan confirmed his role as a favorite and won the gold medal. Along with Meyer Prinstein and Ray Ewry, he was the only athlete who was able to repeat his Olympic victory from the 1900 Games in Paris .

For places two to four, the sources used here sometimes show different widths in the centimeter or half-centimeter range. These are probably results obtained by converting from the English system of measurement or also by rounding. At that time, measurements were actually made in the half-centimeter range in many disciplines when throwing and jumping, sometimes even in more detail, as in these Olympic Games in high jump . The sixth place is not listed on zur Megede .

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  The American John Flanagan, Olympic champion in hammer throw and fourth in  discus throw

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  Silver medalist John DeWitt, USA

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  The Olympic third Ralph Rose, Olympic champion in the shot put and second in the  discus throw

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  The American Charles Chadwick ranks fourth

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  James Mitchel, fifth in hammer throw, sixth in discus throw and third in weight throw

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 Hammer Throw , accessed August 3, 2018
• Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, hammer throw men , IOC website on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed August 3, 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. 58