Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres 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 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Tuesday, July 9, 1912 and on Wednesday, July 10, 1912.[1]

Men's 1500 metres
at the Games of the V Olympiad
The finish with Arnold Jackson setting a new Olympic record.
VenueStockholm Olympic Stadium
DatesJuly 9 (semifinals)
July 10 (final)
Competitors45 from 14 nations
Medalists
Arnold Jackson  Great Britain
Abel Kiviat  United States
Norman Taber  United States
Athletics at the
1912 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 mmen
200 mmen
400 mmen
800 mmen
1500 mmen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmen
110 m hurdlesmen
4×100 m relaymen
4×400 m relaymen
3000 m team racemen
10 km walkmen
Road events
Marathonmen
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Long jumpmen
Triple jumpmen
High jumpmen
Pole vaultmen
Standing long jumpmen
Standing high jumpmen
Shot putmen
Discus throwmen
Hammer throwmen
Javelin throwmen
2-hand shot putmen
2-hand discusmen
2-hand javelinmen
Combined events
Pentathlonmen
Decathlonmen
Cross-country events
Individualmen
Teammen

Forty-five runners from 14 nations competed, including the Olympic champion from 1908, Mel Sheppard.

Arnold Jackson won the final by 0.1 second, ahead of an American trio, in what was acclaimed at the time as "the greatest race ever run". Aged 21, he remains the youngest ever winner of this event. This was the last Olympics where "private entries" were allowed (i.e. not part of a country's officially selected team), and Jackson was one such. His medal is still credited to the United Kingdom, though.

Records

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

World Record 3:55.8 Abel Kiviat Cambridge, MA (USA) June 8, 1912
Olympic Record 4:03.4(**) Norman Hallows London (GBR) July 13, 1908
4:03.4(**) Mel Sheppard London (GBR) July 14, 1908

(**) This track was 536.45 metres=​1⁄3 mile in circumference.

Abel Kiviat finished his semifinal only 1 second off the Olympic record time of 4:03.4; he and all six other finalists whose times are known broke that mark in the final. Kiviat took second behind Arnold Jackson, who set the new record at 3:56.8.

Results

Semifinals

All semi-finals were held on Tuesday, July 9, 1912.

Semifinal 1

PlaceAthleteTimeQual.
1 Mel Sheppard (USA)4:27.6QF
2 Louis Madeira (USA)4:27.9QF
3 Albert Hare (GBR)4:39.4

Semifinal 2

PlaceAthleteTimeQual.
1 Norman Taber (USA)4:25.5QF
2 Philip Baker (GBR)4:26.0QF
3 Georg Amberger (GER)4:27.0
4-5 Teofil Savniky (HUN)
 Rūdolfs Vītols (RUS)
— Dmitri Nazarov (RUS)Did not finish

Semifinal 3

PlaceAthleteTimeQual.
1 Abel Kiviat (USA)4:04.4QF
2 Henri Arnaud (FRA)4:05.4QF
3 Norman Patterson (USA)4:05.5
4 John Tait (CAN)
5 Ferenc Forgács (HUN)
6-7 François Delloye (BEL)
 Jacob Pedersen (NOR)
— Edward Owen (GBR)Did not finish

Semifinal 4

PlaceAthleteTimeQual.
1 Arnold Jackson (GBR)4:10.8QF
2 John Paul Jones (USA)4:12.4QF
3 John Victor (RSA)4:12.7
4 Lewis Anderson (USA)
5 Oscar Larsen (NOR)
6 Arnolds Indriksons (RUS)
7 Alfrēds Ruks (RUS)

Semifinal 5

PlaceAthleteTimeQual.
1 John Zander (SWE)4:05.5QF
2 Evert Björn (SWE)4:07.2QF
3 Herbert Putnam (USA)4:07.6
4 Richard Yorke (GBR)
5 Georg Mickler (GER)
6 Aleksandr Elizarov (RUS)
7 Nikolay Kharkov (RUS)
— Charles Ruffell (GBR)Did not finish

Semifinal 6

PlaceAthleteTimeQual.
1 Erwin von Sigel (GER)4:09.3QF
2 Oscar Hedlund (USA)4:10.8QF
3 William Moore (GBR)4:11.2
4 Nils Frykberg (SWE)4:11.2
5-6 Frederick Hulford (GBR)
 Andrejs Krūkliņš (RUS)
— Guido Calvi (ITA)Did not finish

Semifinal 7

PlaceAthleteTimeQual.
1 Ernst Wide (SWE)4:06.0QF
2 Walter McClure (USA)4:07.3QF
3 Joe Cottrill (GBR)
4 Efraim Harju (FIN)
5 Yevgeny Petrov (RUS)
— Vahram Papazian (TUR)Did not finish

Final
The start of the final.

The final was held on Wednesday, July 10, 1912.

PlaceAthleteTime
1 Arnold Jackson (GBR)3:56.8 OR
2 Abel Kiviat (USA)3:56.9
3 Norman Taber (USA)3:56.9
4 John Paul Jones (USA)3:57.2
5 Ernst Wide (SWE)3:57.6
6 Philip Baker (GBR)4:01.0
7 John Zander (SWE)4:02.0
8 Walter McClure (USA)
9-14 Henri Arnaud (FRA)
 Evert Björn (SWE)
 Oscar Hedlund (USA)
 Louis Madeira (USA)
 Mel Sheppard (USA)
 Erwin von Sigel (GER)

References
  1. "Athletics at the 1912 Stockholm Games: Men's 1500 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2017.

Sources
  • Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.). (ed.). The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  • Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 27 August 2006.
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