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

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Not to be confused with Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's two-handed shot put.
Men's shot put
at the Games of the V Olympiad
Left-right: Pat McDonald, Lawrence Whitney, Ralph Rose
VenueStockholm Olympic Stadium
DateJuly 10
Competitors22 from 14 nations
Winning distance15.34 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pat McDonald
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ralph Rose
 United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lawrence Whitney
 United States
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Pat McDonald of the United States, the nation's fifth consecutive victory in the men's shot put. The American team swept the top three places, the third time in five Games (1900, 1904). Ralph Rose took silver, 9 centimetres shy of a third gold medal; he became the first man to win three medals of any color (through the 2016 Games, matched only by Parry O'Brien
).

Background

This was the fifth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Two-time Olympic champion

Pat McDonald had beaten him in the AAU championships in 1911 and 1912. The Olympic competition was expected to be a match between the two, with everyone else vying for third.[3]

Austria, Bohemia, Italy, Luxembourg, Russia, and Turkey made their debut in the men's shot put. Greece and the United States each appeared for the fifth time, having competed in all Olympic shot put competitions to date.

Competition format

The competition continued to use the two-round format used in 1900 and 1908, with results carrying over between rounds. Each athlete received three throws in the qualifying round. The top three men advanced to the final, where they received an additional three throws. The best result, qualifying or final, counted.[3][4][5]

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics.

World record  Ralph Rose (USA) 15.54 San Francisco, United States 21 August 1909
Olympic record  Ralph Rose (USA) 14.81 St. Louis, United States 31 August 1904

Schedule

Date Time Round
Friday, 12 July 1912 14:00 Qualifying
Final

Results

Pat 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.

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pat McDonald
  United States 14.54 14.27 14.78 15.34 OR X X 15.34 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ralph Rose  United States 14.98 OR 14.68 15.25 OR 14.96 X X 15.25
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lawrence Whitney  United States X X 13.93 X X X 13.93
4 Elmer Niklander  Finland 13.52 X 13.65 Did not advance 13.65
5 George Philbrook  United States 12.84 13.13 X Did not advance 13.13
6 Imre Mudin  Hungary Unknown Did not advance 12.81
7 Einar Nilsson  Sweden 12.18 X 12.62 Did not advance 12.62
8 Patrick Quinn  Great Britain Unknown Did not advance 12.53
9 André Tison  France X 11.74 12.41 Did not advance 12.41
10 Paavo Aho  Finland Unknown Did not advance 12.40
11 Michalis Dorizas  Greece Unknown Did not advance 12.05
12 Aurelio Lenzi  Italy 10.52 11.25 11.57 Did not advance 11.57
13 Josef Schäffer  Austria 11.44 X X Did not advance 11.44
14
Karl Halt
  Germany Unknown Did not advance 11.16
15 František Janda-Suk  Bohemia Unknown Did not advance 11.15
16 Raoul Paoli  France 9.81 10.61 11.11 Did not advance 11.11
17 Marcel Pelletier  Luxembourg 10.68 11.04 X Did not advance 11.04
18 Paul Willführ  Germany X X 10.90 Did not advance 10.90
19
Mgirdiç Migiryan
  Turkey 10.33 X 10.63 Did not advance 10.63
20 Ēriks Vanags  
Russia
 X X 10.44 Did not advance 10.44
21 Arvīds Ozols-Bernē  
Russia
 X 10.33 X Did not advance 10.33
22 Charles Lagarde  France 9.41 X X Did not advance 9.41

References

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Shot Put". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  2. ^ Official report, p. 61.
  3. ^ a b "Shot Put, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  4. ^ Official Report, p. 90.
  5. ^ Official Report, p. 407.

Sources

  • Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.). (ed.). The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  • Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 5 January 2007.
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