Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics

At the 1900 Summer Olympics, twenty-three track & field athletics events were contested. 115 athletes from 16 nations competed. In many countries, due in part to the conflagration of the Olympic Games and the World's Fair in Paris, the media of many nations discussed only the athletics events under the "Olympic" name while ignoring the incredible variety of other sports featured at the time.

The 23 events listed are those currently considered to have been of Olympic stature by the International Olympic Committee and most Olympic historians. They exclude all events that used a handicap system as well as all events that were open to professional athletes.

Competitions were held on 14 July, 15 July, 16 July, 19 July, and 22 July. This included Bastille Day, which is a French holiday, and a Sunday, which many of the American athletes protested. Even with many Americans not competing in finals because of confusion caused by the organizers' decision to count scores achieved on Monday, 16 July for finals held on Sunday, 15 July and subsequent rescission of that decision, the United States won more than 4 times as many medals as any other nation, including 16 of the gold medals.

The conditions of competition were also subpar compared even to those at the previous games in 1896. There was no track for the Paris Games, as a grass field dotted with trees and of unequal elevation was used. The course was 500 metres in length, an unusual distance for a track.

Medal table

These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal.

Position	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png United States	16	13	10	39
2	Great Britain and Ireland	5*	2	2	9
3	France	1	4	1	6
4	Australia	1*	0	3	4
5	Canada	1	0	1	2
	Hungary	1	0	1	2
7	India	0	2	0	2
8	Bohemia	0	1	0	1
9	File:National Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
	File:Swedish norwegian union.png Sweden	0	0	1	1

* - Australia's gold medal and one of Great Britain and Ireland's gold medals came as a mixed team, with 4 British athletes and 1 Australian in the team race. If this team is counted separately, Britain remains second with 4/2/2, the mixed team is sixth with 1/0/0, and Australia is ninth with 0/0/3.

Medal summary

Event:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Men's 60 metres	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Alvin Kraenzlein, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Walter Tewksbury, United States	Stanley Rowley, Australia
Men's 100 metres	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Frank Jarvis, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Walter Tewksbury, United States	Stanley Rowley, Australia
Men's 200 metres	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Walter Tewksbury, United States	Norman Pritchard, India	Stanley Rowley, Australia
Men's 400 metres	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Max Long, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png William Holland, United States	File:National Flag of Denmark.svg Ernst Schultz, Denmark
Men's 800 metres	Alfred Tysoe, Great Britain and Ireland	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png John Cregan, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png David Hall, United States
Men's 1,500 metres	Charles Bennett, Great Britain and Ireland	Henri Deloge, France	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png John Bray, United States
Men's 110 metres hurdles	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Alvin Kraenzlein, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png John McLean, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Frederick Moloney, United States
Men's 200 metres hurdles	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Alvin Kraenzlein, United States	Norman Pritchard, India	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Walter Tewksbury, United States
Men's 400 metres hurdles	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Walter Tewksbury, United States	Henri Tauzin, France	George Orton, Canada
Men's 2,500 metres steeplechase	George Orton, Canada	Sidney Robinson, Great Britain and Ireland	Jacques Chastanié, France
Men's 4,000 metres steeplechase	John Rimmer, Great Britain and Ireland	Charles Bennett, Great Britain and Ireland	Sidney Robinson, Great Britain and Ireland
Men's 5,000 metres team race	/ Mixed team Charles Bennett, Great Britain and Ireland John Rimmer, Great Britain and Ireland Sidney Robinson, Great Britain and Ireland Alfred Tysoe, Great Britain and Ireland Stanley Rowley, Australia	France Henri Deloge Jacques Chastanié André Castanet Michel Champoudry Gaston Ragueneau	None
Men's marathon	Michel Théato, France	Emile Champion, France	File:Swedish norwegian union.png Ernst Fast, Sweden
Men's long jump	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Alvin Kraenzlein, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Meyer Prinstein, United States	Patrick Leahy, Great Britain and Ireland
Men's triple jump	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Meyer Prinstein, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png James Connolly, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Lewis Sheldon, United States
Men's high jump	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Irving Baxter, United States	Patrick Leahy, Great Britain and Ireland	Lajos Gönczy, Hungary
Men's pole vault	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Irving Baxter, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Meredith Colkett, United States	Carl-Albert Andersen, Norway
Men's standing long jump	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Ray Ewry, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Irving Baxter, United States	Emile Torcheboeuf, France
Men's standing triple jump	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Ray Ewry, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Irving Baxter, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Robert Garrett, United States
Men's standing high jump	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Ray Ewry, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Irving Baxter, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Lewis Sheldon, United States
Men's shot put	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Richard Sheldon, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Josiah McCracken, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Robert Garrett, United States
Men's discus throw	Rudolf Bauer, Hungary	František Janda-Suk, Bohemia	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Richard Sheldon, United States
Men's hammer throw	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png John Flanagan, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Thomas Truxton Hare, United States	File:Us flag large 45 stars.png Josiah McCracken, United States

References

• International Olympic Committee.
• Mallon, Bill. The 1900 Olympic Games.