Olympic Intermediate Games 1906 / Athletics - 1500 m (men)

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

Results

Prelim (April 27, 1906)

1. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
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)
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)
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.

1. ↑ Wheatley's first name is given differently in the sources: "Dad", "George" or "Greg"

Web links

• Sports Reference

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