Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 metres

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The men's 100 metres was a sprint athletics (track and field) event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. It was held on 14 July 1900. 20 athletes from nine nations competed.

Contents 1 Medallists 2 Results 2.1 First round 2.1.1 First round, heat 1 2.1.2 First round, heat 2 2.1.3 First round, heat 3 2.1.4 First round, heat 4 2.1.5 First round, heat 5 2.1.6 First round, heat 6 2.2 Semifinals 2.2.1 Semifinal 1 2.2.2 Semifinal 2 2.2.3 Semifinal 3 2.2.4 Repechage 2.3 Final 3 Sources

[edit] Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Frank Jarvis United States	John Tewksbury United States	Stanley Rowley Australia

[edit] Results

[edit] First round

In the first round, there were six heats. The top two runners in each advanced to the semifinals.

[edit] First round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Arthur Duffey	United States	11.4 seconds
2	Frederick Moloney	United States	Unknown
3	Václav Nový	Bohemia	Unknown

Moloney was about a metre behind Duffey at the finish.

[edit] First round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	John Tewksbury	United States	11.4 seconds
2	Thaddeus McClain	United States	Unknown
3	Pál Koppán	Hungary	Unknown

Tewksbury won this heat by less than a foot.

[edit] First round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Frank Jarvis	United States	10.8 seconds =WR
2	Stanley Rowley	Australia	Unknown
3	Umberto Colombo	Italy	Unknown
4	Julius Keyl	Germany	Unknown

The fastest of the preliminary heats featured two of the eventual medallists, one of whom tied the world record for the event.

[edit] First round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Clark Leiblee	United States	11.4 seconds
2	Kurt Dörry	Germany	Unknown
3	Johannes Gandil	Denmark	Unknown

Leiblee won this heat by less than half a metre.

[edit] First round, heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Norman Pritchard	India	11.4 seconds
2	Edmund Minahan	United States	Unknown
3	Ernö Schubert	Hungary	Unknown
4	Isaac Westergren	Sweden	Unknown

The fifth heat was the only one that was not won by an American runner. Minahan was about half a metre behind Pritchard.

[edit] First round, heat 6

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Charles Burroughs	United States	11.4 seconds
2	Dixon Boardman	United States	Unknown
3	Henry Slack	United States	Unknown

In an all-American heat, Burroughs defeated Boardman by about a metre. Slack finished third to become the only American runner to be eliminated in the first round.

[edit] Semifinals

There were three semifinals, each with four runners. The top runner in each of the semifinals advanced to the semifinal, while the second and third place runners competed in the repechage. The winner of the six-runner repechage advanced to the final as well.

[edit] Semifinal 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Arthur Duffey	United States	11.0 seconds
2	Stanley Rowley	Australia	Unknown
3	Charles Burroughs	United States	Unknown
4	Dixon Boardman	United States	Unknown

Duffey dropped almost half a second from his preliminary heat time, while Rowley ran somewhat slower in his second race. He finish about a metre and a half behind the leader. Burroughs again defeated Boardman, eliminating Boardman from competition while remaining in contention in the repechage.

[edit] Semifinal 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	John Tewksbury	United States	10.8 seconds =WR
2	Clark Leiblee	United States	Unknown
3	Frederick Moloney	United States	Unknown
—	Kurt Dörry	Germany	Did not finish

Tewksbury tied the 100 metres world record in this semifinal; he was the second runner to accomplish that at the Paris Games. Leiblee was inches behind him. There is some question as to whether Dörry started the race, but he did not finish it.

[edit] Semifinal 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Frank Jarvis	United States	11.2 seconds
2	Thaddeus McClain	United States	Unknown
3	Norman Pritchard	India	Unknown
4	Edmund Minahan	United States

Jarvis was slower in the semifinal than he had been in the preliminary heats, where he tied the world record at 10.8 seconds. He still won, however, as McClain and Pritchard were relegated to the repechage and Minahan was eliminated.

[edit] Repechage

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Stanley Rowley	Australia	11.0 seconds
2	Norman Pritchard	India	Unknown
3	Clark Leiblee	United States	Unknown
4-6	Charles Burroughs	United States	Unknown
	Thaddeus McClain	United States	Unknown
	Frederick Moloney	United States	Unknown

The repechage was a very close race, with Rowley defeating Pritchard by a couple of inches. Rowley advanced to the final while Pritchard and the four Americans were eliminated.

[edit] Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Frank Jarvis	United States	11.0 seconds
2	John Tewksbury	United States	11.1 seconds (est.)
3	Stanley Rowley	Australia	11.2 seconds (est.)
—	Arthur Duffey	United States	Did not finish

Duffey led halfway through the race before pulling a muscle and withdrawing from the competition. Jarvis and Tewksbury, who had each tied the world record in the earlier races, finished first and second, with Rowley close behind.

[edit] Sources

• International Olympic Committee.
• De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Athletics 1900". Accessed 18 March 2006. Available electronically at [1].
• Mallon, Bill (1998). The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-7864-0378-0. 

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