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 | ||||||||
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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 |
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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) |
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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.
Martin Sheridan, fourth in the shot put, Olympic champion in discus throw
Charles Chadwick is fifth, previously fourth in the hammer 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