Olympic Intermediate Games 1906 / Athletics - 800 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
place	Panathinaic Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	25./30. April 1906

The 800-meter race of the men at the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens was on 30 April 1906 in the Panathinaiko Stadium decided. Already on April 25th there were four preliminary runs, from each of which two runners reached the final.

Records

The existing world record was set in a race over 880 yards .

World record	1: 53.4 min	United States	Charles Kilpatrick	1895
Olympic record	1: 56.0 min	United States	James Lightbody	1904

Results

Prelim (April 25, 1906)

1. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	James Lightbody	United States	2: 05.4
2	Charles Bacon	United States	k. A.
	Ernst Serrander	Sweden	k. A.
	William Anderson	Great Britain	k. A.

Bacon was eight yards behind the winner of the heat.

2. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Kristian Hellström	Sweden	2: 05.8
2	Wyndham neck shaft	Great Britain	k. A.
3	Howard Valentine	United States	k. A.
4th	Georgios Anastasiadis	Greece	k. A.
	Loukas Venizelos	Greece	k. A.
	Michel Soalhat	France	k. A.
	James Sullivan	United States	k. A.

Halswelle was two yards behind.

3. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Reginald Percy Crabbe	Great Britain	2: 07.6
2	Eli Parsons	United States	k. A.
3	John Horne	Great Britain	k. A.
	Pantelis Ektoros	Greece	k. A.
	Hjalmar Mellander	Sweden	k. A.
	Vincenz Duncker	Germany	DNF

4. Forward

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Paul Pilgrim	United States	2: 06.6
2	Johannes Runge	Germany	k. A.
3	Dad Wheatley	Australia	k. A.
	Khristos Tsatsanifos	Greece	k. A.
	John McGough	Great Britain	k. A.
	Vahram Papazyan	United States	k. A.

Runge was four yards behind Pilgrim at the finish. Papazyan was only 13 years old from Turkey. Since Turkey did not provide its own team, he joined the team from the USA.

Final run (April 30, 1906)

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Paul Pilgrim	United States	2: 01.5
2	James Lightbody	United States	k. A.
3	Wyndham neck shaft	Great Britain	k. A.
4th	Reginald Percy Crabbe	Great Britain	k. A.
5	Kristian Hellström	Sweden	k. A.
6th	Charles Bacon	United States	k. A.
7th	Eli Parsons	United States	k. A.
8th	Johannes Runge	Germany	DNF

In a slow race, the field remained closed for a long time. With 60 yards to go, Pilgrim started the final sprint and won thanks to his greater final speed. Only defending champion Lightbody could keep up and was beaten by two feet in the end. The third-placed was already ten yards behind Lightbody.

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