1908 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | 800 meter run |
gender | Men |
place | White City Stadium |
Attendees | 38 or 39 athletes from 11 countries |
Competition phase | 20./21. July 1908 |
Medalist | |
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gold | Melvin Sheppard ( USA ) |
silver | Emilio Lunghi ( ITA ) |
bronze | Hanns Braun ( GER ) |
The 800-meter race of the men at the 1908 Olympic Games in London was on July 21, 1908 in White City Stadium decided. The day before, the finalists were determined in eight preliminary runs.
The American Melvin Sheppard was Olympic champion ahead of the Italian Emilio Lunghi . The bronze medal was won by the German Hanns Braun .
Records
The existing world record was still unofficial at the time and was set in a race over 880 yards , which corresponds to 804.672 meters.
World record | 1: 53.4 min | United States | Charles Kilpatrick | New York ( USA ), September 21, 1895 |
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Olympic record | 1: 56.0 min | United States | James Lightbody | St. Louis Finale ( USA ), September 1, 1904 |
The following records were broken or set at these Olympic Games over 800 meters :
WR | 1: 52.8 min | United States | Melvin Sheppard | Final on July 21, 1908 |
Results
Prelim (July 20th)
The respective race winners from the eight preliminary runs qualified for the final. The US delegation successfully protested that two of their strongest runners - Mel Sheppard and John Halstead - had already met in the run-up.
The times given in brackets come from the literature by zur Megede mentioned below and are probably estimated.
In the list of participants is still Joseph Lynch reported from Australasia. In Sports-Reference , however, it is not mentioned in any lead. In the literature by Kluge mentioned below , this runner is listed in fifth place in the fourth preliminary run, although the author's list of results is apparently a bit flawed. B. leads the Canadian Parkes in two races. However, Joseph Lynch is also mentioned in zur Megede with identical values as in Kluge .
1. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Ödön Bodor | Hungary | 1: 58.6 |
2 | George Butterfield | Great Britain | (1: 58.9) |
3 | Evert Bjorn | Sweden | k. A. |
4th | James Lightbody | United States | |
Murray Ashford | Great Britain | DNF | |
Henk van der Wal | Netherlands |
The run ended with a narrow two- yard lead for Bodor.
2. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Melvin Sheppard | United States | 1: 58.0 |
2 | James Lintott | Great Britain | (1: 58.8) |
3 | Irving Parkes | Canada | k. A. |
Sheppard won his run by four yards.
3. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | John Halstead | United States | 2: 01.4 |
2 | John Lee | Great Britain | (2: 01.7) |
3 | George Morphy | Great Britain | k. A. |
4th | József Nagy | Hungary |
Halstead won by two yards.
4. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Emilio Lunghi | Italy | 1: 57.2 |
2 | Harry Coe | United States | (1: 58.0) |
3 | Lloyd Jones | United States | k. A. |
Stylianos Dimitriou | Greece | DNF | |
Larry Manogue | Great Britain |
Lunghi was two yards ahead of Coe at the finish.
For this race, zur Megede has two other names for the two runners who did not finish the race: Joseph Lynch from Australasia and English from Great Britain .
5. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Clarke Beard | United States | 1: 59.8 |
2 | Arthur Astley | Great Britain | (1; 59.8) |
3 | Donald Buddo | Canada | k. A. |
4th | Oskar Quarg | Germany | |
Charles M. French | United States | DNF | |
Edward Dahl | Sweden |
Beard won by a yard. This does not seem to be correct at first due to the simultaneity stated at the Megede for the first and second placed. But at that time the times were rounded to just tenths of a second, so this result could still be correct.
6. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Theodore Just | Great Britain | 1: 57.8 |
2 | Andreas Breynk | Germany | (2: 06.0) |
Aria Vosbergen | Netherlands | DNF | |
Gosta Danielson | Sweden |
Just won by a large margin of 50 yards.
7. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Hanns Braun | Germany | 1: 58.0 |
2 | Joseph Bromilov | United States | (1: 58.3) |
3 | Harold Holding | Great Britain | k. A. |
Horace Ramey | United States | DNF | |
Fredrik Svanström | Finland | ||
Bram Evers | Netherlands |
Braun won by a yard.
8. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Ivo Fairbairn-Crawford | Great Britain | 1: 57.8 |
2 | Kristian Hellström | Sweden | 2: 00.0 |
3 | Frank Sheehan | United States | k. A. |
Harvey Sutton | Australasia | DNF |
The winner clearly won by a margin of 15 yards.
In contrast to the list at zur Megede and Kluge , Sports-Reference does not list Sutton from Australasia as a retired runner. There it ranks third ahead of Sheehan.
Final (July 21)
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Melvin Sheppard | United States | 1: 52.8 WR |
2 | Emilio Lunghi | Italy | 1: 54.2 |
3 | Hanns Braun | Germany | 1: 55.2 |
4th | Ödön Bodor | Hungary | 1: 55.4 |
5 | Theodore Just | Great Britain | 1: 56.4 |
6th | John Halstead | United States | k. A. |
Ivo Fairbairn-Crawford | Great Britain | DNF | |
Clarke Beard | United States |
The British Ivo Fairbairn-Crawford led the final. The passage time at 400 m was exceptionally fast with 53.0 s and so he had exhausted himself so much that he had to give up the race. Sheppard took the lead, shook off his pursuers and steadily increased his lead. He won the gold medal with a new world record . In the fight for third place, Hanns Braun intercepted Theodore Just, who was losing a lot, but had to fend off the final attack by Ödön Bodor.
The times in places 2 to 5 are estimated based on the gap between the runners and the winner.
Melvin Sheppard won the second gold medal here after his Olympic victory over 1500 meters a week earlier. A third should follow in the first ever Olympic relay.
The Olympic third Hanns Braun - here as second in the 400 meter final in 1912 - from Germany
The US triple Olympic gold medalist from 1904 , James Lightbody, had no chance in his preliminary run and was eliminated
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 1908 London Summer Games: Men's 800 meters , English, accessed August 26, 2018
- Olympic Games London 1908, Athletics, 800m men , IOC page on athletics at the 1908 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed 26 August 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 76