Athletics at the 1906 Intercalated Games

At the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, 21 competitive events in athletics were held.[1] A total of 65 medals (21 gold, 23 silver, 21 bronze) were awarded. Now called the Intercalated Games, the 1906 Games are no longer considered as an official Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The marathon distance was 41.775 km according to a contemporary Greek newspaper. The pentathlon event in the 1906 Games consisted of a standing long jump, discus throw (ancient style), javelin throw, 192 metre run, and a Greco-Roman wrestling match. A stone throw was held with a 6.4 kg weight.

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Archie Hahn
  United States
11.2 Fay Moulton
  United States
1 yd behind winner Nigel Barker
  Australia
1 ft behind runner-up
400 metres
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Paul Pilgrim
  United States
53.2 Wyndham Halswelle
  Great Britain
4 yd behind winner Nigel Barker
  Australia
2 yd behind runner-up
800 metres
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Paul Pilgrim
  United States
2:01.5 Jim Lightbody
  United States
2 ft behind winner Wyndham Halswelle
  Great Britain
10 yd behind runner-up
1500 metres
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Jim Lightbody
  United States
4:12.0 John McGough
  Great Britain
4:12.6 Kristian Hellström
  Sweden
4:13.4
5 miles
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Henry Hawtrey
  Great Britain
26:11.8 John Svanberg
  Sweden
26:19.4 Edward Dahl
  Sweden
26:26.2
Marathon
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Billy Sherring
  Canada
2:51:23.6 John Svanberg
  Sweden
2:58:20.8 William Frank
  United States
3:00:46.8
110 metre hurdles
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Robert Leavitt
  United States
16.2 Alfred Healey
  Great Britain
1 ft behind winner Vincent Duncker
  Germany
almost same time as runner-up
1500 metres walk
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George Bonhag
  United States
7:12.6 Donald Linden
  Canada
7:19.8 Konstantinos Spetsiotis
  Greece
7:22.0
3000 metres walk
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György Sztantics
  Hungary
15:13.2 Hermann Müller
  Germany
15:20.0 Georgios Saridakis
  Greece
15:33.0
High jump
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Con Leahy
  Great Britain
1.775 m Lajos Gönczy
  Hungary
1.750 m Themistoklis Diakidis
  Greece
Herbert Kerrigan
  United States
1.725 m
Standing high jump
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Ray Ewry
  United States
1.560 m Léon Dupont
  Belgium
Lawson Robertson
  United States
Martin Sheridan
  United States
1.400 m Not awarded
Pole vault
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Fernand Gonder
  France
3.500 m OR Bruno Söderström
  Sweden
3.400 m Edward Glover
  United States
3.350 m
Long jump
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Myer Prinstein
  United States
7.200 m Peter O'Connor
  Ireland
7.025 m Hugo Friend
  United States
6.960 m
Standing long jump
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Ray Ewry
  United States
3.300 m Martin Sheridan
  United States
3.095 m Lawson Robertson
  United States
3.050 m
Triple jump
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Peter O'Connor
  Ireland
14.075 m Con Leahy
  Ireland
13.980 m Thomas Cronan
  United States
13.700 m
Shot put
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Martin Sheridan
  United States
12.325 m Mihály Dávid
  Hungary
11.830 m Eric Lemming
  Sweden
11.260 m
Discus throw
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Martin Sheridan
  United States
41.460 m WR Nikolaos Georgantas
  Greece
38.060 m Verner Järvinen
  Finland
36.820 m
Greek discus throw
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Verner Järvinen
  Finland
35.170 m Nikolaos Georgantas
  Greece
32.800 m István Mudin
  Hungary
31.910 m
Javelin throw
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Eric Lemming
  Sweden
53.900 m Knut Lindberg
  Sweden
45.170 m Bruno Söderström
  Sweden
44.920 m
Stone throw
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Nikolaos Georgantas
  Greece
19.925 m Martin Sheridan
  United States
19.035 m Michalis Dorizas
  Greece
18.585 m
Pentathlon
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Hjalmar Mellander
  Sweden
24 pts István Mudin
  Hungary
25 pts Eric Lemming
  Sweden
29 pts

Postcards of athletics in the 1906 Olympics

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A number of postcards, then at its peak, were published by various printhouses. The following were printed in Corfu, Greece, by the Aspiotis brothers.

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States116623
2  Great Britain3519
3  Sweden24511
4  Hungary1315
5  Greece1247
6  Canada1102
7  Finland1012
8  France1001
9  Germany0112
10  Belgium0101
11  Australia0022
Totals (11 entries)21232165

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics: 1906 Intercalated Games Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2014-01-28.