At the
1904 Summer Olympics
The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended s ...
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St. Louis
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...
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archery
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...
events were contested, of which three were men's and three were women's competitions. 23 men and 6 women constituted the field. As was common in early Olympic archery, the events held in 1904 had little resemblance to the previous edition's events. The events were essentially United States national championships: formally named the 26th Grand Annual Target Meeting of the National Archery Association and, while open to international entrants, having no foreign competitors (with some archers from the Philippines entering but not competing).
Team archery was introduced at these Games, as was women's archery.
The medalists were the same for both men's individual events (
George Bryant taking gold,
Robert Williams silver, and
William Thompson bronze in both) and both women's individual events (
Matilda Howell gold,
Emma Cooke silver,
Eliza Pollock
Lida Peyton "Eliza" Pollock (October 24, 1840 – May 25, 1919) was an American archer who competed in the early twentieth century. She won two bronze medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri in the double national and Columbia r ...
bronze).
[ Howell finished with three golds as she was a member of the only women's team to appear.][
In addition to the six events recognized as Olympic events by the ]International Olympic Committee
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, there were also medals awarded for the top scores at each range in the Olympic events, separate flight shooting (longest distance) events, and an "Anthropology Days
The Olympic Games have been criticized as upholding (and in some cases increasing) the Colonialism, colonial policies and practices of some host nations and cities either in the name of the Olympics by associated parties or directly by official Ol ...
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Medal summary
Schedule
Participating nations
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Medal table
References
External links
International Olympic Committee medal database
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January
* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
* January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
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