1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 14 countries
Competition location	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 10, 1912
Medalist Pat McDonald ( USA )   Ralph Rose ( USA )   Lawrence Whitney ( USA )

The shot put men at the Olympic Games 1912 in Stockholm was on July 10, 1912 in Stockholm Stadium discharged. 22 athletes took part.

The American Pat McDonald was the Olympic champion ahead of his compatriots Ralph Rose and Lawrence Whitney .

The Austrian Josef Schäffer took 13th place and was one place better than the German participant Karl von Halt . The second German participant, Paul Willführ , turned 18.

Existing records

World record	Ralph Rose ( USA )	15.54 m	San Francisco	August 21, 1911
Olympic record		14.81 m	St. Louis	August 31, 1904

Rose's world record was retrospectively recognized after the establishment of the IAAF World Athletics Federation in 1912.

Conducting the competition

All 22 athletes had three attempts. The best three pushers then completed another three attempts, whereby the results of the first three rounds were included in the evaluation.

Note: The best widths are shown in bold.

Result

Date: July 10, 1912

In the first attempt, defending champion Ralph Rose took the lead with a new Olympic record of 14.98 m, which he improved again to 15.25 m in the third attempt. Pat McDonald, already qualified with his 14.54 m in the first attempt, was able to increase to 14.78 m. Lawrence Whitney only managed to qualify for the final on the third attempt.

While Whitney could deliver only one valid attempt, which brought him the bronze medal, McDonald improved the Olympic record of his rival Rose from the preliminary round by another nine cm to 15.34 m and thus secured victory. Overall it was a two-class society. Rose and McDonald were well over 15 meters with their best shots, while all the other participants didn't surpass the 14-meter mark.

McDonald's gold medal was the fifth US win in the fifth Olympic final. It was also the third triple success of the USA after 1900 and 1904 .

space	Surname	nation	result	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	annotation
1	Pat McDonald	United States	15.34 m	14.54	14.27	14.78	15.34	-	-	OR
2	Ralph Rose	United States	15.25 m	14.98	14.68	15.25	14.96	-	-	OR in the 1st and 3rd attempt
3	Lawrence Whitney	United States	13.93 m	-	-	13.93	-	-	-
4th	Elmer Niklander	Grand Duchy of Finland	13.93 m	13.65	-	13.65
5	George Philbrook	United States	13.13 m	12.84	13.13	-
6th	Imre Mudin	Hungary	12.81 m			12.81
7th	Einar Nilsson	Sweden	12.62 m	12.18	-	12.62
8th	Patrick Quinn	Great Britain	12.53 m			12.53
9	André Tison	France	12.41 m	-	11.74	12.41
10	Paavo Aho	Grand Duchy of Finland	12.40 m			12.40
11	Michalis Dorizas	Greece	12.05 m			12.05
12	Aurelio Lenzi	Italy	11.57 m	10.52	11.25	11.57
13	Josef Schäffer	Austria	11.44 m	11.44	-	-
14th	Karl von Halt	German Empire	11.16 m			11.16
15th	František Janda-Suk	Bohemia	11.15 m			11.15
16	Raoul Paoli	France	11.11 m	9.81	10.61	11.11
17th	Marcel Pelletier	Luxembourg	11.04 m	10.68	11.04	-
18th	Paul Willführ	German Empire	10.90 m	-	-	10.90
19th	Mığır Mığıryan	Ottoman Empire	10.33 m	10.33	-	10.63
20th	Ēriks Vanags	Russia	10.44 m	-	-	10.44
21st	Arvīds Ozols-Berne	Russia	10.33 m	-	10.33	-
22nd	Charles Lagarde	France	9.41 m	9.41	-	-

Picture gallery

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  Olympic Champion Pat McDonald (USA)

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  Ralph Rose (USA), defending champion and world record holder, wins silver

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  Elmer Niklander (FIN) finished fourth

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  Imre Mudin (HUN), 6th place

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  Raoul Paoli (FRA), 16th place, in a photo from 1920

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  Mığır Mığıryan (TUR) turns 19.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 119f

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed August 28, 2017
• Official report , engl. (PDF), accessed on August 28, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 557 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ description in the official report, page 408 (Engl.) ( Memento of the original on February 7, 2014 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.