Recent Articles



































Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics



         




At the 1896 Summer Olympics, twelve athletics events were contested.

Contents
[edit]

100 m, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Tom Burke (USA)
2 Fritz Hofmann (GER)
3 Alajos Szokolyi (HUN)
3 & Francis Lane (USA)


[edit]

400 m, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Tom Burke (USA)
2 Herbert Jamison (USA)
3 Charles Gmelin (GBR)


[edit]

800 m, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Teddy Flack (AUS)
2 Nándor Dáni (HUN)
3 Dimitrios Golemis (GRE)


[edit]

1500 m, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Teddy Flack (AUS)
2 Arthur Blake (USA)
3 Albin Lermusiaux (FRA)


[edit]

Marathon, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Spiridon Louis (GRE)
2 Kharilaos Vasilakos (GRE)
3 Gyula Kellner (HUN)


[edit]

110 m hurdles, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Thomas Curtis (USA)
2 Grantley Goulding (GBR)


No other athletes started in the final.

[edit]

High jump, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Ellery Clark (USA)
2 Robert Garrett (USA)
2 James Connolly (USA)


[edit]

Pole vault, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Welles Hoyt (USA)
2 Albert Tyler (USA)
3 Evangelos Damaskos (GRE)
3 Ioannis Theodoropoulos (GRE)


[edit]

Long jump, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Ellery Clark (USA)
2 Robert Garrett (USA)
3 James Connolly (USA)


[edit]

Triple jump, Men


Pos Athlete
1 James Connolly (USA)
2 Alexandre Tuffèri (FRA)
3 Ioannis Persakis (GRE)


[edit]

Shot put, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Robert Garrett (USA)
2 Miltiades Gouskos (GRE)
3 Georgios Papsideris (GRE)


[edit]

Discus throw, Men


Pos Athlete
1 Robert Garrett (USA)
2 Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos (GRE)
3 Sotirios Versis (GRE)



Athletics at the Summer Olympics
1896 | 1900 | 1904 | 1906 | 1908 | 1912 | 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004




-This article has been brought to you by BambooWeb and Wikipedia-



  View Live Article   This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License