Olympic Intermediate Games 1906 / Athletics - 1500 m (men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | 1500 meter run |
gender | Men |
place | Panathinaic Stadium |
Attendees | 20 athletes from 9 countries |
Competition phase | 27./29. April 1906 |
The 1,500-meter race of the men at the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens was on 29 April 1906 in the Panathinaiko Stadium decided. Two days earlier there were two preliminary runs, from each of which four runners reached the final.
Records
World record and Olympic record |
4: 05.4 min | United States | James Lightbody | 1904 |
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Results
Prelim (April 27, 1906)
1. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | James Lightbody | United States | 4: 19.4 |
2 | Kristian Hellström | Sweden | k. A. |
3 | James Sullivan | United States | k. A. |
4th | Greg Wheatley | Australia | k. A. |
Vahram Papazyan | United States | k. A. | |
Khristos Tsatsanifos | Greece | k. A. | |
Georgios Anastasiadis | Greece | k. A. | |
Arnold Churchill | Great Britain | k. A. | |
Henry Hawtrey | Great Britain | DNF |
Both Kluge and "Sports-Reference" lead Papazyan right behind qualified runners. At another point is reported, citing the Turkish NOC, he had not finished the race.
2. Forward
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | John McGough | Great Britain | 4: 18.8 |
2 | Reginald Percy Crabbe | Great Britain | k. A. |
3 | George Bonhag | United States | k. A. |
4th | Harvey Cohn | United States | k. A. |
5 | Michel Soalhat | France | k. A. |
Felix Kwieton | Austria | k. A. | |
Edward Dahl | Sweden | k. A. | |
George Blake | Australia | k. A. | |
Pericle Pagliani | Italy | k. A. | |
Dimitrios Kantzias | Greece | k. A. | |
Andreas Andreadis | Greece | k. A. |
Final run (April 29, 1906)
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | James Lightbody | United States | 4: 12.0 |
2 | John McGough | Great Britain | 4: 12.6 |
3 | Kristian Hellström | Sweden | 4: 13.4 |
4th | Greg Wheatley | Australia | k. A. |
5 | James Sullivan | United States | k. A. |
6th | George Bonhag | United States | k. A. |
7th | Reginald Percy Crabbe | Great Britain | k. A. |
8th | Harvey Cohn | United States | k. A. |
Initially, Bonhag and Wheatley led. They kept the pace slow. British favorites McGough and Crabbe held back and were then surprised when the sprinting lightbody picked up the pace 200 meters from the finish. McGough saved himself in second place. Behind the three medal winners, Wheatley is 13 yards behind Hellström.
- ↑ Wheatley's first name is given differently in the sources: "Dad", "George" or "Greg"
Web links
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