Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics - Men's shot put

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The men's shot put was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 to have been held at every Summer Olympics.

[edit] Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's shot put United States Patrick McDonald
United States (USA)		 United States Ralph Rose
United States (USA)		 United States Lawrence Whitney
United States (USA)

[edit] Results

Ralph Rose, the two-time defending Olympic champion and holder of the Olympic record (14.81 metres, set at the 1904 Summer Olympics), was unseated by Patrick McDonald after a colossal throw in the final. Rose bettered his own record with his first throw, coming just shy of 15 metres. With his third throw, Rose again topped himself, heaving the shot 15.25 metres while none of the other competitors had yet matched his first throw. At the end of the preliminaries, Rose's 15.25 stood well above McDonald's 14.78 metres and Lawrence Whitney's 13.93 metres.

Each of the three finalists received three more throws for the finals, but only two out of the combined 9 throws were legal marks. Whitney, who had scratched twice in the preliminaries, did so three more times to make his 13.93 metres the only legal throw of his 6. Rose's first throw in the finals was measured at 14.96 metres, giving him three throws that were better than the old record. McDonald, however, launched his first throw fully 15.34 metres to take the record and the gold medal after none of the three throwers could make a legal mark in their second or third throws.

Place Athlete Preliminary Final Best mark
1 2 3 Rank 4 5 6
Image:Med 1.png United States Patrick McDonald (USA) 14.54 14.27 14.78 2nd 15.34
OR		 — — 15.34
Image:Med 2.png United States Ralph Rose (USA) 14.98
OR		 14.68 15.25
OR		 1st 14.96 — — 15.25
Image:Med 3.png United States Lawrence Whitney (USA) — — 13.93 3rd — — — 13.93
4 Finland Elmer Niklander (FIN) 13.52 — 13.65 4th 13.65
5 United States George Philbrook (USA) 12.84 13.13 — 5th 13.13
6 Hungary Imre Mudin (HUN) 6th 12.81
7 Sweden Einar Nilsson (SWE) 12.18 — 12.62 7th 12.62
8 Great Britain Patrick Quinn (GBR) 8th 12.53
9 France André Tison (FRA) — 11.74 12.41 9th 12.41
10 Finland Paavo Aho (FIN) 10th 12.40
11 Greece Michail Dorizas (GRE) 11th 12.05
12 Italy Aurelio Lenzi (ITA) 10.52 11.25 11.57 12th 11.57
13 Austria Josef Schäffer (AUT) 11.44 — — 13th 11.44
14 Germany Karl von Halt (GER) 14th 11.16
15 Bohemia František Janda-Suk (BOH) 15th 11.15
16 France Raoul Paoli (FRA) 9.81 10.61 11.11 16th 11.11
17 Luxembourg Marcel Pelletier (LUX) 10.68 11.04 — 17th 11.04
18 Germany Paul Willführ (GER) — — 10.90 18th 10.90
19 Turkey Migirdiç Migiryan (TUR) 10.33 — 10.63 19th 10.63
20 Russia Eriks Vanags (RUS) — — 10.44 20th 10.44
21 Russia Arvids Ozols-Berne (RUS) — 10.33 — 21st 10.33
22 France Charles Lagarde (FRA) 9.41 — — 22nd 9.41

[edit] References

  • Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). in Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.).: The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. 
  • Wudarski, Pawel (1999). Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich. Retrieved on January 5, 2007. (Polish)
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