Olympic Intermediate Games 1906 / Athletics - 400 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Men
place	Panathinaic Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	27./29. April 1906

The 400-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 six heats and one repetition run.

Records

The existing world record was set in a race over 440 yards .

World record	47.8 s	United States	Maxwell Long	1900
Olympic record	49.2 s	United States	Harry Hillman	1904

Results

Prelim (April 27, 1906)

1. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Harry Hillman	United States	54.8
2	William Anderson	Great Britain	k. A.
	Aage Petersen	Denmark	k. A.
	Eli Parsons	United States	k. A.

2. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Paul Pilgrim	United States	55.2
2	Vincenz Duncker	Germany	k. A.
3	Ioannis Demesthikas	Greece	k. A.
4th	Dimitrios Siantis	Greece	k. A.

3. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Nigel Barker	Australia	53.0
2	James Lightbody	United States	55.0
3	John Horne	Great Britain	k. A.
4th	Georges Malfait	France	k. A.

4. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Wyndham neck shaft	Great Britain	54.0
2	Lawson Robertson	United States	k. A.
	Pantelis Ektoros	Greece	k. A.
	Sotirios Anastasopoulos	Greece	k. A.
	Howard Valentine	United States	k. A.

5. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Charles Bacon	United States	56.2
2	Marc Bellin du Coteau	France	k. A.
3	George Queyrouze	United States	k. A.
4th	Karl Lampelmayer	Austria	k. A.

6. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Fay Moulton	United States	54.8
2	Johannes Runge	Germany	k. A.
3	Martin Beckmann	Germany	k. A.
4th	Reginald Reed	Great Britain	k. A.

Hope Run (April 27, 1906)

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	William Anderson	Great Britain	54.8
2	Marc Bellin du Coteau	France	k. A.
3	Vincenz Duncker	Germany	k. A.

Final run (April 29, 1906)

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Paul Pilgrim	United States	53.2
2	Wyndham neck shaft	Great Britain	k. A.
3	Nigel Barker	Australia	k. A.
4th	Harry Hillman	United States	k. A.
5	Charles Bacon	United States	k. A.
6th	Fay Moulton	United States	k. A.
7th	William Anderson	Great Britain	k. A.
8th	Marc Bellin du Coteau	France	k. A.

Defending champion Hillman could not keep the pace set by the favorites Halswelle and Barker early on. On the home stretch, the outsider Pilgrim overtook the two leaders and still won by a margin. The distances were given as follows: neck shaft 4 yards behind Pilgrim, Barker 2 yards behind neck shaft.

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