1920 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pentathlon (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Pentathlon | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 19 athletes from 8 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Antwerp Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 16, 1920 | ||||||||
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The men's pentathlon at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp took place on August 16, 1920. 19 athletes took part. The pentathlon was held for the second time in Antwerp after 1912 .
The Olympic champion was Eero Lehtonen from Finland, ahead of Everett Bradley from the United States and Hugo Lahtinen from Finland .
Conducting the competition
The placement resulted from the addition of the places reached, so it was a place number evaluation. The ranking was then based on the lowest sums. The 19 athletes initially started in three competitions: long jump , javelin throw and 200-meter run . Those on the first 15 places qualified for the fourth discipline, the discus throw . The now best seven athletes were approved for the final 1,500-meter run .
Attendees
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19 athletes from eight countries took part in the Olympic competition.
Disciplines
Long jump
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Javelin throw
The Finn Jonni Myyrä no longer competed for the javelin throw.
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200 metres
After the 200-meter run there was a first selection. Only the best 15 athletes could then continue and start throwing the javelin.
The Japanese Hiroshi Masuda did not run.
Note: The starters qualified for the fourth competition are highlighted in blue in the ranking.
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Discus throw
In this fourth discipline it was decided which seven athletes could still take part in the final 1,500 meter run and be involved in the battle for the medals.
Note: The starters qualified for the fifth competition are highlighted in blue in the ranking.
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1500 meters
- Classification
| space | Surname | time | Points |
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| 1 | Lahtinen | 4: 36.0 min | 1 |
| 2 | Lehtonen | 4: 40.2 min | 2 |
| 3 | Ohlson | 4: 42.8 min | 3 |
| 4th | Løvland | 4: 45.8 min | 4th |
| 5 | LeGendre | 4: 46.0 min | 5 |
| 6th | Bradley | 5: 10.0 min | 6th |
| 7th | Hamilton | 5: 12.8 min | 7th |
Final score
| space | Surname | nation | Points | annotation |
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| 1 | Eero Lehtonen |
 Finland
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14th | |
| 2 | Everett Bradley |
 United States
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24 | |
| 3 | Hugo Lahtinen |
Finland
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26th | 3,576,305 points |
| 4th | Robert LeGendre |
United States
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26th | 3,534,365 points |
| 5 | Helge Løvland |
 Norway
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27 | 3,695.375 points |
| 6th | Brutus Hamilton |
United States
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27 | 3,510,060 points |
| 7th | Bertil Ohlson |
 Sweden
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29 |
Date: August 16, 1920
The Olympic victory went to the Finn Eero Lehtonen, who clearly had the lowest place figure ahead of the American Everett Bradley and his compatriot Hugo Lahtinen.
There was a tie between Hugo Lahtinen and Robert LeGendre as well as between Helge Løvland and Brutus Hamilton. In order to determine the placements - and thus the bronze medal winner in the case of Lahtinen / LeGendre - the results achieved by the athletes were calculated using points from the decathlon point system. Curiously, based on this calculation, the Norwegian Helge Løvland would not only have been the best among the four, but would have won the gold medal. However, this rating was only used between Lahtinen and LeGendre in third place and between Løvland and Hamilton in fifth place. The rule to use the placements achieved in the individual disciplines as the main criterion for the ranking was a bit questionable. The application of the valid point table for the all-around competition would have resulted in a completely different order. But that was the case with previous games and here too. The pentathlon was - in 1924 - only once on the Olympic program.
Picture gallery
The Estonian Aleksander Klumberg, winner of the javelin throw, fails just 8th after the fourth round
Helge Løvland, Norwegian flag bearer and five days later Olympic champion in the decathlon, finished fifth
Jonni Myyrä (FIN), who was Olympic champion in the javelin throw the day before, did not compete after the first discipline.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 149
Web links
- SportsReference Pentathlon , accessed September 3, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Official report ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) P. 164/165, fr. (PDF)
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
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