1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	8 athletes from 2 countries
Competition location	Francis Field
Competition phase	August 31, 1904
Medalist Ralph Rose ( USA )   Wesley Coe ( USA )   Lawrence Feuerbach ( USA )

The shot put men at the Olympic Games 1904 in St. Louis was on August 31, 1904 Francis Field decided. The participants were initially given three attempts, the best shot putters then another three.

The US athletes ensured a triple success for their country in this competition too. Olympic champion was Ralph Rose , who set a new world record. Wesley Coe won silver , and Lawrence Feuerbach bronze .

Records

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

World record	14.75 m	Canada	George Gray	1898
Olympic record	14.10 m	United States	Richard Sheldon	Paris finals ( FRA ), July 15, 1900

Annotation:

Various other information about the world record can be found. This is probably justified - similar to the triple jump - in the question of the interpretation of the rules, which in the early years of athletics was not as clear as it is today for the shot put, first introduced at the games here in St. Louis. Previously, different types of rings or squares were used for kicking, and in the technical field, not so much attention was paid to whether the team actually kicked or thrown.

The following records were broken or set in the shot put at these Olympic Games:

OR	14.325 m	United States	Ralph Rose
	14.35 m
	14.40 m	United States	Wesley Coe
WR	14.81 m	United States	Ralph Rose

Results

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ralph Rose	United States	14.81 ( WR )
2	Wesley Coe	United States	14.40
3	Lawrence Feuerbach	United States	13.37
4th	Martin Sheridan	United States	12.39
5	Charles Chadwick	United States	k. A.
6th	Albert Johnson	United States
7th	John Guiney	United States
DSQ	Nikolaos Georgandas	GRE	-

For the first time at the Olympic Games, this competition was carried out according to the current rules. It was kicked from a circle with a diameter of 2.13 m, and attention was always paid to the fact that the athletes actually do a kick and not a throw. This consequently also led to the disqualification of the Greek Georgandas after three rounds. His first two attempts were thrown instead of pushed; the third was invalid for violating. In the discus throw it ran better then for him, he won the bronze medal.

In the course of the competition, the Olympic record was improved several times, and an exciting and high-class duel between two heavyweight athletes developed. In the first attempt, Ralph Rose reached 14.325 m and improved in the fourth round to 14.35 m. In the same lap Wesley Coe took the lead with 14.40 m before Rose set a new world record in the penultimate attempt and won the competition. The next shot put was more than a meter behind. Lawrence Feuerbach won the bronze medal ahead of Martin Sheridan, the winner of the discus throw three days later. For Sheridan, three sources consistently record a width of 12.39 m. The IOC side states a deviation from this 12.80 m. At zur Megede only the first six are listed, whereby the author first names the disqualification of Georganda's missing in his result overview.

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  Olympic champion Ralph Rose, also very successful at the following games

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  The Olympic runner-up Wesley Coe, USA

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  The American bronze medalist Lawrence Feuerbach

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  Martin Sheridan, fourth in the shot put, Olympic champion in  discus throw

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  Charles Chadwick is fifth, previously fourth in the  hammer throw

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  The Greek Nikolaos Georgandas, disqualified in the shot put because of his illegal technique, then bronze medalist in the discus 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 Shot Put , accessed August 3, 2018
• Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, shot put men , IOC page on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed August 3, 2018