1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	15 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Stade de Colombes
Competition phase	July 10, 1924
Medalist Fred Tootell ( USA )   Matt McGrath ( USA )   Malcolm Nokes ( GBR )

The men's hammer throw at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 10, 1924. 15 athletes took part.

The American Fred Tootell became Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Matt McGrath , the winner of 1912. Bronze went to the British Malcolm Nokes .

Existing records

• World record : 57.77 m - Pat Ryan ( USA ), New York , August 17, 1913
• Olympic record : 54.74 m - Matt McGrath ( USA ), Stockholm Olympic Final , July 14, 1912

Conducting the competition

All 15 athletes competed in a qualifying round on July 10th. The six best throwers qualified for the final, which took place on the same day. The distances achieved in the preliminary fight were included in the final result,

Note: The qualified throwers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 15, 1924

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Fred Tootell	United States	50.60 m
2	Malcolm Nokes	Great Britain	48.875 m
3	Erik Eriksson	Finland	47.98 m
4th	Matt McGrath	United States	47.08 m
5	Ossian Skiold	Sweden	45.08 m
6th	James McEachern	United States	44.94 m
7th	Carl Johan Lind	Sweden	44.785 m
8th	John Murdoch	Canada	42.48 m
9	Jack Merchant	United States	41.46 m
10	Robert Saint-Pé	France	36.27 m
11	Karl Jensen	Denmark	36.27 m
12	Pierre Zaïdin	France	36.16 m
13	Camillo Zemi	Italy	35.00 m
14th	Octavio Zani	Brazil	33.90 m
ogV	Henk Kamerbeek	Netherlands

final

space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	Final width	result	annotation
1	Fred Tootell	United States	50.60 m	53.295 m	53.295 m
2	Matt McGrath	United States	47.08 m	50.840 m	50.840 m
3	Malcolm Nokes	Great Britain	48.875 m	no improvement in the final	48.875 m
4th	Erik Eriksson	Finland	47.98 m	48.740 m	48.740 m
5	Ossian Skiold	Sweden	45.08 m	45.285 m	45.285 m
6th	James McEachern	United States	44.94 m	45.225 m	45.225 m
7th	Carl Johan Lind	Sweden	44.785 m	not in the final	44.785 m
8th	John Murdoch	Canada	42.48 m	not in the final	42.48 m

Date: July 15, 1924

Olympic champion Fred Tootell remained just under 1.50 m away from the Olympic record with his 53.295 m . This record was set by his compatriot Matthew McGrath at the Olympic Games in 1912 . McGrath took part in his fourth Olympic Games here in Paris at the age of 48 and won the silver medal behind Tootell with 50.84 m. Bronze went to the Briton Malcolm Nokes, who remained below the 50-meter mark with 48.875 m.

In the sixth Olympic hammer throw final there was the sixth US victory. At the same time it was the fourth US double success.

Malcolm Nokes won the first British hammer throw medal.

Picture gallery

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  Fred Tootell (USA) became Olympic champion

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  Matt McGrath (USA) - here at the weight throw - won silver

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  Erik Eriksson (FIN) took 4th place (photo from 1928)

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 171

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed September 10, 2017

Video

• USA's Fred Tootell Wins Hammer Throw Gold - Paris 1924 Olympics , published June 13, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 10, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 171
2. ↑ Official report, p. 143 (fr.) ( Memento of the original of April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.