1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pentathlon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pentathlon
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 17 countries
Competition location	Stade de Colombes
Competition phase	July 7, 1924
Medalist Eero Lehtonen ( FIN )   Elemér Somfay ( HUN )   Robert LeGendre ( USA )

The men's pentathlon at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris took place on July 7, 1924. 30 athletes took part in the last Olympic hosting of this discipline.

As at the last Olympic Games, the Finn Eero Lehtonen was the Olympic champion . The silver medal went to the Hungarian Elemér Somfay , the bronze went to the US athlete Robert LeGendre .

Conducting the competition

All 30 starters competed in the first three disciplines ( long jump , javelin throw and 200-meter run ). The order resulted from the addition of the placements achieved in the individual disciplines. After three competitions, only the twelve best athletes qualified for the following discus throw . The points of the remaining athletes have now been recalculated by only taking into account the placements of these top twelve from the three disciplines already completed. Only the six best athletes then competed in the final 1500 meter run .

Attendees

The following 30 athletes from 15 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Clifford Argue	United States
Stelios Benardis	Greece
Constant Bucher	Switzerland
Adolfo Contoli	Italy
Léon Courtejaire	France
Dennis Duigan	Australia
Bertil Fastén	Sweden
Brutus Hamilton	United States
Morton Kaer	United States
Harry de Kaijser	Netherlands
Hugo Lahtinen	Finland
Eero Lehtonen	Finland
Robert LeGendre	United States
Leo Leino	Finland
Gaston Médécin	Monaco
Martin Mølster	Norway
Evert Nilsson	Sweden
Albino Pighi	Italy
Josse Ruth	Belgium
Donald Slack	Great Britain
Elemér Somfay	Hungary
Aleksa Spahic	Yugoslavia
Percy Spark	Great Britain
Antonín Svoboda	Czechoslovakia
Seiichi Ueda	Japan
Göran Unger	Sweden
Roger Much	France
Iivari Yrjölä	Finland
Georgios Zacharopoulos	Greece
Fred Zinner	Belgium

Disciplines

Long jump

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 LeGendre 7.77 m 1 02 Kaer 6.96 m 2 03 Lahtinen 6.90 m 3 04th Hamilton 6.83 m 4th 05 Somfay 6.77 m 5 06th Leino 6.72 m 6th 07th Lehtonen 6.68 m 7th 08th Unger 6.56 m 8th 09 Duigan 6.55 m 9 10 Médécin 6.49 m 10 11 Argue 6.46 m 11 12 Slack 6.43 m 12 13 Nilsson 6.40 m 13 14th Ruth 6.38 m 14th 15th Spahic 6.32 m 15th 16 Courtejaire 6.29 m 16 17th Pighi 6.25 m 17th 18th Yrjölä 6.25 m 18th 19th Mølster 6.20 m 19th 20th de Keijser 6.19 m 20th 21st Books 6.17 m 21st 22nd Ueda 6.05 m 22nd 23 Contoli 5.99 m 23 24 Fast 5.98 m 24 25th Much 5.92 m 25th 26th Tin 5.88 m 26th 27 Zacharopoulos 5.49 m 27 28 Svoboda 5.37 m 28 29 Benardis 5.35 m 29 30th Spark 5.29 m 30th

Robert LeGendre set a new world record in the long jump with 7.77 m . He exceeded the old record of his compatriot Edward Gourdin by 8 cm. LeGendre was not qualified for the special long jump because he had not competed in the US eliminations in the long jump.

Javelin throw

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Leino 54.12 m 1 02 Somfay 52.07 m 2 03 Yrjölä 51.72 m 3 04th Nilsson 51.17 m 4th 05 Lehtonen 50.93 m 5 06th Kaer 50.20 m 6th 07th Zacharopoulos 49.00 m 7th 08th Hamilton 48.96 m 8th 09 Lahtinen 48.76 m 9 10 Unger 48.45 m 10 11 LeGendre 48.04 m 11 12 Mølster 47.91 m 12 13 Fast 47.58 m 13 14th Courtejaire 47.58 m 14th 15th Ueda 47.47 m 15th 16 Duigan 45.60 m 16 17th de Keijser 44.07 m 17th 18th Contoli 42.98 m 18th 19th Much 42.58 m 19th 20th Argue 41.48 m 20th 21st Spark 41.19 m 21st 22nd Tin 40.15 m 22nd 23 Pighi 39.82 m 23 24 Books 38.95 m 24 25th Svoboda 37.88 m 25th 26th Ruth 36.78 m 26th 27 Benardis 35.58 m 27 28 Slack 34.18 m 28 29 Médécin 32.43 m 29 30th Spahic 31.00 m 30th

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Leino 7th 01 Somfay 7th 03 Kaer 8th 04th Hamilton 12 04th Lahtinen 12 04th LeGendre 12 04th Lehtonen 12 08th Nilsson 17th 09 Unger 18th 10 Yrjölä 21st 11 Duigan 25th 12 Courtejaire 29 13 Argue 31 13 Mølster 31 15th Zacharopoulos 34 16 de Keijser 37 16 Ueda 37 18th Fast 38 19th Médécin 39 20th Pighi 40 20th Ruth 40 20th Slack 40 23 Contoli 41 24 Much 44 25th Books 45 25th Spahic 45 27 Tin 48 28 Spark 51 29 Svoboda 53 30th Benardis 56

200 metres

After the 200-meter run , the top twelve athletes qualified for the fourth discipline, the discus throw , the others were eliminated. The ranking of the remaining twelve athletes was recalculated, all positions of the eliminated athletes were deleted, the remaining starters moved up in the points positions.

Note: The starters qualified for the fourth competition are highlighted in blue in the ranking.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Kaer 23.0 s 1 01 LeGendre 23.0 s 1 01 Lehtonen 23.0 s 1 04th Leino 23.2 s 4th 05 Argue 23.4 s 5 05 Somfay 23.4 s 5 07th Lahtinen 23.6 s 7th 08th Contoli 23.8 s 8th 08th Duigan 23.8 s 8th 08th Slack 23.8 s 8th 08th Unger 23.8 s 8th 08th Much 23.8 s 8th 13 Médécin 24.0 s 13 13 Svoboda 24.0 s 13 15th de Keijser 24.2 s 15th 15th Mølster 24.2 s 15th 15th Ruth 24.2 s 15th 18th Books 24.4 s 18th 18th Hamilton 24.4 s 18th 20th Courtejaire 24.6 s 20th 21st Nilsson 25.0 s 21st 21st Pighi 25.0 s 21st 21st Spahic 25.0 s 21st 24 Tin 25.2 s 24 25th Ueda 25.4 s 25th 26th Fast 25.8 s 26th 27 Benardis 26.2 s 27 28 Spark 27.0 s 28 DNF Yrjölä - Zacharopoulos

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Kaer 9 02 Leino 11 03 Somfay 12 04th LeGendre 13 04th Lehtonen 13 06th Lahtinen 19th 07th Unger 26th 08th Hamilton 30th 09 Duigan 33 10 Argue 36 11 Nilsson 38 12 Mølster 46 13 Slack 48 14th Contoli 49 14th Courtejaire 49 16 de Keijser 52 16 Médécin 52 16 Much 52 19th Ruth 55 20th Pighi 61 21st Ueda 62 22nd Books 63 22nd Fast 63 24 Spahic 66 24 Svoboda 66 26th Tin 72 27 Spark 79 28 Benardis 83 - Yrjölä - - Zacharopoulos -

Classification after recalculation space Surname Points 01 Kaer 8th 02 LeGendre 11 02 Leino 11 04th Lehtonen 12 04th Somfay 12 06th Lahtinen 17th 07th Hamilton 21st 08th Unger 24 09 Nisson 26th 10 Argue 27 11 Duigan 28 11 Mølster 32

Discus throw

After the discus throw , the best six athletes qualified for the fifth and final discipline, the 1,500-meter run , the others were eliminated.

Note: The starters qualified for the fifth competition are highlighted in blue in the ranking.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Lehtonen 40.44 m 1 02 Somfay 37.76 m 2 03 Hamilton 37.70 m 3 04th LeGendre 36.76 m 4th 05 Lahtinen 36.08 m 5 06th Unger 35.11 m 6th 07th Mølster 34.69 m 7th 08th Leino 33.62 m 8th 09 Nilsson 33.45 m 9 10 Kaer 32.70 m 10 11 Duigan 27.26 m 11 - Argue DNS -

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Lehtonen 13 02 Somfay 14th 03 LeGendre 15th 04th Kaer 18th 05 Leino 19th 06th Lahtinen 22nd 07th Hamilton 24 08th Unger 30th 09 Nilsson 35 10 Duigan 39 10 Mølster 39 - Argue -

1500 meters

Classification

space	Surname	time	Points
01	Lehtonen	4: 47.1 min	1
02	Somfay	4: 48.4 min	2
03	LeGendre	4: 52.6 min	3
04th	Leino	4: 55.4 min	4th
05	Lahtinen	4: 55.6 min	5
06th	Kaer	5: 38.6 min	6th

Final score

space	Surname	nation	Points	annotation
1	Eero Lehtonen	Finland	14th
2	Elemér Somfay	Hungary	16
3	Robert LeGendre	United States	18th
4th	Leo Leino	Finland	23
5	Morton Kaer	United States	24
6th	Hugo Lahtinen	Finland	27
7th	Brutus Hamilton	United States	after 4 disciplines 7.
6th	Göran Unger	Sweden	after 4 disciplines 8.

Date: July 7, 1924

The Finn Eero Lehtonen, who had already won this competition in 1920 , was also successful this time. He won the gold medal in front of the Hungarian Elemér Somfay and the American Robert LeGendre. The bronze medalist LeGendre managed the feat of setting a new world record in the long jump with 7.77 m . LeGendre did not qualify for participation in the long jump competition that took place a day later.

If the results are calculated using the decathlon table that applies today, LeGendre would have won the competition.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 172

Web links

• SportsReference Pentathlon , accessed September 10, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official report, pp. 143 - 146 (fr.) ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ SportsReference (English) ( Memento from December 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )