1908 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | Hammer throw |
gender | Men |
place | White City Stadium |
Attendees | 19 athletes from 8 countries |
Competition phase | July 14, 1908 |
Medalist | |
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gold | John Flanagan ( USA ) |
silver | Matt McGrath ( USA ) |
bronze | Con Walsh ( CAN ) |
The hammer throw of the men at the 1908 Olympic Games in London on July 14, 1908 in White City Stadium decided. On the morning of the same day, a qualification took place from which three throwers qualified for the competition.
With Olympic champion John Flanagan and silver medalist Matt McGrath there was a US double success. The Canadian Con Walsh won the bronze medal.
Records
The world records that existed at the time were still unofficial.
World record | 53.38 m | United States | John Flanagan | June 1908 |
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Olympic record | 51.23 m | St. Louis Finale ( USA ), August 29, 1904 |
The following records were broken or set at the Olympic Games:
OR | 51.92 m | United States | John Flanagan | final |
Results
qualification
The qualification was held in three staggered groups. The results of these groups were combined. Only the best three throwers in the qualification - highlighted in light green - could contest the final competition. However, the performance achieved in the qualification was taken into account in the evaluation of the final result. In both the qualification and the final, the participants had three attempts each.
Group A
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Con Walsh | Canada | 48.51 |
Lee Talbott | United States | 47.87 |
Eric Lemming | Sweden | 43.06 |
Robert Lindsay-Watson | Great Britain | k. A. |
Benjamin Sherman | United States | |
John Murray | Great Britain |
Group B
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Tom Nicolson | Great Britain | 48.09 |
Bill Horr | United States | 46.95 |
Alan Fyffe | Great Britain | 37.35 |
Robert Olsson | Sweden | k. A. |
Harald Agger | Denmark | |
Istvan Mudin | Hungary | |
Ernest May | Great Britain | |
Julius Wagner | Switzerland | |
Ludwig Uettwiller | Germany |
Group C
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Matt McGrath | United States | 51.18 |
John Flanagan | United States | 50.36 |
Simon Gillis | United States | 45.59 |
Henry Leeke | Great Britain | k. A. |
Final and final result of the best nine
space | athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | John Flanagan | United States | 51.92 OR |
2 | Matt McGrath | United States | 51.18 |
3 | Con Walsh | Canada | 48.51 |
4th | Tom Nicolson | Great Britain | 48.09 |
5 | Lee Talbott | United States | 47.87 |
6th | Bill Horr | United States | 46.95 |
7th | Simon Gillis | United States | 45.59 |
8th | Eric Lemming | Sweden | 43.06 |
9 | Alan Fyffe | Great Britain | 37.35 |
In the final only Flanagan could improve and reached a new Olympic record . However, it was only with his last attempt that he surpassed the leading Matthew McGrath. John Flanagan has won all of the Olympic hammer throwing competitions since this discipline was included in the Olympic program in 1900 . The 31-year-old McGrath, who took part in the Olympic Games for the first time, came second and won this competition in Stockholm in 1912 . The Canadian Con Walsh was third ahead of the British Tom Nicolson. Lee Talbot of the United States, also fifth in the discus throw and sixth in the shot put , came in fifth. His compatriot Marquis Bill Horr, who won silver and bronze in the two discus throwing competitions, was sixth ahead of Simon Gillis, also from the USA. The double Olympic champion of the two javelin throwing competitions here in London , Eric Lemming from Sweden, finished eighth.
The American Lee Talbot, also fifth in the discus throw and sixth in the shot put , was fifth in the Olympics
The Swedish double Olympic champion of the javelin throw Eric Lemming was Olympic eighth
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 Hammer Throw , accessed September 1, 2018
- Olympic Games London 1908, Athletics , IOC page on athletics at the 1908 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed September 1, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 90