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Athletics At The 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's Shot Put
The men's shot put was a Track and field, track and field athletics event held as part of the athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Wednesday, July 10, 1912. Twenty-two shot putters from 14 nations competed. NOCs could enter up to 12 athletes.Official report, p. 61. The event was won by Pat McDonald (athlete), 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 Ralph Rose returned after competing in 1904 and 1908; other 1908 competitors that returned in 1912 were Michalis Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Stockholm Olympic Stadium ( sv, Stockholms Olympiastadion), most often called Stockholms stadion or (especially locally) simply Stadion, is a stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by architect Torben Grut, it was opened in 1912; its original use was as a venue for the 1912 Olympic Games. At the 1912 Games, it hosted athletics, some equestrian and football matches, gymnastics, the running part of the modern pentathlon, tug of war, and wrestling events. It has a capacity of 13,145–14,500 depending on usage and a capacity of nearly 33,000 for concerts. Overview The Stadium was the home ground for association football team Djurgårdens IF for many decades, until the more modern Tele2 Arena was inaugurated in 2013. Djurgårdens IF still has offices in the Stadium building. In 1956, when Melbourne hosted the Olympics, the equestrian competitions were held here due to quarantine rules in Australia. In 1958 the stadium was the venue of the European Athletics Championships. Finland-S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Philbrook
George Warren Philbrook (October 10, 1884 – March 25, 1964) was an American football player and coach, track and field athlete and coach, and college athletics administrator. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics, where failed to complete his decathlon program, and finished fifth in the shot put and seventh in the discus throw. Philbrook played college football at the University of Notre Dame. His roommate at Notre Dame in 1909 was Knute Rockne. He served as the head football coach at Whittier College from 1927 to 1928 at and the University of Nevada, Reno from 1929 to 1931. Philbrook died on March 25, 1964, at the age of 79, at his home in Vancouver, Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on .... Head coaching record Football References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ä’riks Vanags
Ä’riks Vanags (20 January 1893 in Riga) was a Latvian track and field athlete who competed for the Russian Empire in the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be .... In 1912 he finished 20th in the shot put competition and 39th in the discus throw event. References External linkslist of Latvian athletes 1893 births Year of death missing Latvian male shot putters Male shot putters from the Russian Empire Olympic competitors for the Russian Empire Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics Athletes from Riga {{Latvia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Willführ
Paul Willführ (30 October 1885, Hanover – 22 April 1922) was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be .... In 1912 he finished 23rd in the javelin throw competition and 18th in the shot put event. He also participated in the discus throw event but he was unable to set a width all his three attempts were invalid. References External linkslist of German athletes 1885 births 1922 deaths Sportspeople from Hanover German male javelin throwers German male discus throwers German male shot putters Olympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics {{Germany-shotput-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Pelletier (athlete)
Marcel Pelletier (born 26 February 1888; date of death unknown) was a Luxembourgian track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be ... in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1912 he finished 17th in the shot put competition and 33rd in the discus throw event. References External linkslist of Luxembourgian athletes 1888 births Year of death missing [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Paoli
__NOTOC__ Raoul is a French variant of the male given name Ralph or Rudolph, and a cognate of Raul. Raoul may also refer to: Given name * Raoul Berger, American legal scholar * Raoul Bova, Italian actor * Radulphus Brito (Raoul le Breton, died 1320), grammarian * See Lament for the Makaris for Roull of Corstorphin and Roull of Aberdene; fifteenth-century poets * Raoul de Godewaersvelde, French singer * Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy; also known as Raoul, Duke of Burgundy (and later king of the Franks), son of Richard of Autun * Raoul Heertje, Dutch stand-up comedian * Raoul Moat, English fugitive and gunman at the centre of the 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt * Raoul of Turenne or Saint-Raoul, archbishop of Bourges, 840–866 * Raoul (founder of Vaucelles Abbey) or Saint Raoul * Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian * Raoul Walsh (1887–1980), film director * Raoul, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Surname * Raoul (Byzantine family), Byza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Janda-Suk
FrantiÅ¡ek Janda-Suk (, March 25, 1878 – June 23, 1955) was a Czech athlete who competed for Bohemia in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics and Czechoslovakia at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in PostÅ™ižÃn near Roudnice nad Labem and died in Prague. In the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, where he won the silver medal in the discus throw. He was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body. He invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of ''Discobolus''. After only one year of developing the technique he gained the olympic silver. At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Halt
Dr Karl Ritter von Halt, born Karl Ferdinand Halt (2 June 1891 Р5 August 1964) was a sport official in Nazi Germany and in the German Federal Republic. He was born and died in Munich. Biography Karl Ritter von Halt was a track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He finished 22nd in the javelin throw competition and 14th in the shot put event. He also participated in the pentathlon competition. There he was eliminated in the third event because he did not finish his 200 m run. He also participated as a member of the German team in the first round of the 4x100 metre relay competition. Halt finished ninth in the decathlon. He nearly won the decathlon at the 1914 Baltic Games in Malm̦, losing to Finland's Johan Svanstr̦m by a fraction of a point after a calculation error had been fixed. In 1921 he became Karl Ritter von Halt after he received the Military Order of Max Joseph. In 1932 Less than three days before the 10,000 m, a special commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Schäffer
Josef Schäffer (born July 2, 1891 in Moravia) was an Austrian track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He competed in the decathlon, shot put, discus throw and two-handed discus throw. He finished tenth in the decathlon, throwing the second-furthest in the discus on his way to his score of 6568.585. In the shot put, he finished thirteenth. In the discus throw, he only managed to come twenty-ninth in the regular discus throw, but came sixteenth in the two-handed discus. See also * Austria at the 1912 Summer Olympics Austria competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Austrian and Hungarian results at early Olympic Games are generally kept separate despite the union of the two nations as Austria-Hungary at the time. 85 competitors, 76 men and ... References External links * 1891 births Austrian decathletes Austrian shot putters Austrian male discus throwers Olympic athletes of Austria Athletes (track and field) at the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurelio Lenzi
Aurelio Lenzi (19 June 1891 – 23 December 1967) was an Italian track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Biography He was born in Pistoia. In 1912 he finished twelfth in the shot put competition and 18th in the discus throw event. Eight years later he finished ninth in the discus throw competition and 13th in the shot put event. National titles Franco Leccese has won 5 times the individual national championship. *2 wins in Shot put (1919, 1921) *3 wins in Discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ... (1913, 1919, 1921) References External links * List of Italian athletes {{DEFAULTSORT:Lenzi, Aurelio 1891 births 1967 deaths Italian male discus throwers Italian male shot putters Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paavo Aho
Paavo Aho (22 December 1891 – 19 April 1918) was a Finnish track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he finished sixth in the two handed shot put competition and tenth in the shot put event. He was born in Helsinki and was executed during the Finnish Civil War, captured while acting as a local White Guard commander in Hamina Hamina (; sv, Fredrikshamn, , Sweden ) is a List of cities in Finland, town and a Municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located approximately east of the country's capital Helsinki, in the Kymenlaakso Regions of Finland, reg .... References External linkslist of Finnish athletes 1891 births 1918 deaths Athletes from Helsinki People from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish male shot putters Olympic athletes of Finland Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics People of the Finnish Civil War (White side) 20th-century executions by Finland 19th-century Finni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
