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

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. The competition was held on Wednesday, July 10, 1912. Twenty-two shot putters from 14 nations competed.[1]

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
Medalists
Pat McDonald  United States
Ralph Rose  United States
Lawrence Whitney  United States
Athletics at the
1912 Summer Olympics
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Pat McDonald on the way to winning the gold medal.

Records

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

World Record 15.54 Ralph Rose San Francisco (USA) August 21, 1909
16.56(*) Ralph Rose Healdsburg (USA) June 26, 1909
Olympic Record 14.81 Ralph Rose St. Louis (USA) August 31, 1904

(*) unofficial, set in an exhibition

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 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.

PlaceAthletePreliminaryFinalBest mark
123Rank456
1 Pat McDonald (USA) 14.5414.2714.782nd15.34 OR——15.34
2 Ralph Rose (USA) 14.98 OR14.6815.25 OR1st14.96——15.25
3 Lawrence Whitney (USA) ——13.933rd———13.93
4 Elmer Niklander (FIN) 13.52—13.654th13.65
5 George Philbrook (USA) 12.8413.13—5th13.13
6 Imre Mudin (HUN) 6th12.81
7 Einar Nilsson (SWE) 12.18—12.627th12.62
8 Patrick Quinn (GBR) 8th12.53
9 André Tison (FRA) —11.7412.419th12.41
10 Paavo Aho (FIN) 10th12.40
11 Michalis Dorizas (GRE) 11th12.05
12 Aurelio Lenzi (ITA) 10.5211.2511.5712th11.57
13 Josef Schäffer (AUT) 11.44——13th11.44
14 Karl Halt (GER) 14th11.16
15 František Janda-Suk (BOH) 15th11.15
16 Raoul Paoli (FRA) 9.8110.6111.1116th11.11
17 Marcel Pelletier (LUX) 10.6811.04—17th11.04
18 Paul Willführ (GER) ——10.9018th10.90
19 Mgirdiç Migiryan (TUR) 10.33—10.6319th10.63
20 Ēriks Vanags (RUS) ——10.4420th10.44
21 Arvīds Ozols-Bernē (RUS) —10.33—21st10.33
22 Charles Lagarde (FRA) 9.41——22nd9.41

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.

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 5 January 2007.
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