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

sport	athletics
discipline	1500 meter walking
gender	Men
place	Panathinaic Stadium
Attendees	9 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	April 30, 1906

The 1,500-meter track Walking Men at the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens was on 30 April 1906 in the Panathinaiko Stadium discharged.

Results

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	George Bonhag	United States	7: 12.6
2	Donald Linden	Canada	7: 19.8
3	Konstandinos Spetsiotis	Greece	7: 22.0
4th	Georgios Saridakis	Greece	k. A.
5	Charilaos Vasilakos	Greece	k. A.
6th	Alexandros Kouris	Greece	k. A.
7th	György Sztantics	Hungary	k. A.
	Robert Wilkinson	Great Britain	DSQ
	Eugen Spiegler	Austria	DSQ

Wilkinson and Spiegler crossed the finish line first, but were disqualified for violating correct walking technique. Bonhag, too, who competed in his very first walking competition, is said to have broken the rules permanently. However, in the event of a stalemate with the voice of the Greek Crown Prince , the jury decided not to disqualify him. Other sources say that a new competition between Bonhag and Linden had been scheduled, in which the former did not start.

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