Athletics at the 1906 Intercalated Games

At the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, 21 competitive events in athletics were held.^[1] A total of 65 medals (21 gold, 23 silver, 21 bronze) were awarded. Now called the Intercalated Games, the 1906 Games are no longer considered as an official Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The marathon distance was 41.775 km according to a contemporary Greek newspaper. The pentathlon event in the 1906 Games consisted of a standing long jump, discus throw (ancient style), javelin throw, 192 metre run, and a Greco-Roman wrestling match. A stone throw was held with a 6.4 kg weight.

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Archie Hahn (USA)	11.2	Fay Moulton (USA)	1 yd behind winner	Nigel Barker (AUS)	1 ft behind runner-up
400 metres details	Paul Pilgrim (USA)	53.2	Wyndham Halswelle (GBR)	4 yd behind winner	Nigel Barker (AUS)	2 yd behind runner-up
800 metres details	Paul Pilgrim (USA)	2:01.5	Jim Lightbody (USA)	2 ft behind winner	Wyndham Halswelle (GBR)	10 yd behind runner-up
1500 metres details	Jim Lightbody (USA)	4:12.0	John McGough (GBR)	4:12.6	Kristian Hellström (SWE)	4:13.4
5 miles details	Henry Hawtrey (GBR)	26:11.8	John Svanberg (SWE)	26:19.4	Edward Dahl (SWE)	26:26.2
Marathon details	Billy Sherring  Canada	2:51:23.6	John Svanberg (SWE)	2:58:20.8	William Frank (USA)	3:00:46.8
110 metre hurdles details	Robert Leavitt (USA)	16.2	Alfred Healey (GBR)	1 ft behind winner	Vincent Duncker (GER)	almost same time as runner-up
1500 metres walk details	George Bonhag (USA)	7:12.6	Donald Linden  Canada	7:19.8	Konstantinos Spetsiotis (GRE)	7:22.0
3000 metres walk details	György Sztantics (HUN)	15:13.2	Hermann Müller (GER)	15:20.0	Georgios Saridakis (GRE)	15:33.0
High jump details	Con Leahy (GBR)	1.775 m	Lajos Gönczy (HUN)	1.750 m	Themistoklis Diakidis (GRE)  Herbert Kerrigan (USA)	1.725 m
Standing high jump details	Ray Ewry (USA)	1.560 m	Léon Dupont (BEL)  Lawson Robertson (USA)  Martin Sheridan (USA)	1.400 m	Not awarded
Pole vault details	Fernand Gonder (FRA)	3.500 m OR	Bruno Söderström (SWE)	3.400 m	Edward Glover (USA)	3.350 m
Long jump details	Myer Prinstein (USA)	7.200 m	Peter O'Connor (GBR)	7.025 m	Hugo Friend (USA)	6.960 m
Standing long jump details	Ray Ewry (USA)	3.300 m	Martin Sheridan (USA)	3.095 m	Lawson Robertson (USA)	3.050 m
Triple jump details	Peter O'Connor (GBR)	14.075 m	Con Leahy (IRE)	13.980 m	Thomas Cronan (USA)	13.700 m
Shot put details	Martin Sheridan (USA)	12.325 m	Mihály Dávid (HUN)	11.830 m	Eric Lemming (SWE)	11.260 m
Discus throw details	Martin Sheridan (USA)	41.460 m WR	Nikolaos Georgantas (GRE)	38.060 m	Verner Järvinen (FIN)	36.820 m
Greek discus throw details	Verner Järvinen (FIN)	35.170 m	Nikolaos Georgantas (GRE)	32.800 m	István Mudin (HUN)	31.910 m
Javelin throw details	Eric Lemming (SWE)	53.900 m	Knut Lindberg (SWE)	45.170 m	Bruno Söderström (SWE)	44.920 m
Stone throw details	Nikolaos Georgantas (GRE)	19.925 m	Martin Sheridan (USA)	19.035 m	Michalis Dorizas (GRE)	18.585 m
Pentathlon details	Hjalmar Mellander (SWE)	24 pts	István Mudin (HUN)	25 pts	Eric Lemming (SWE)	29 pts

Postcards of athletics in the 1906 Olympics

A number of postcards, then at its peak, were published by various printhouses. The following were printed in Corfu, Greece, by the Aspiotis brothers.

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  100 metres run
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  800 metres run. Winner Pilgrim
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  1000 metres run
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  1500 metres run
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  Pole vault
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  Pole vault winner Gonder
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  Long jump
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  Long jump
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  Shot Put. Sheridan winner
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  Javelin

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	11	6	6	23
2	Great Britain (GBR)	3	5	1	9
3	Sweden (SWE)	2	4	5	11
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	3	1	5
5	Greece (GRE)	1	2	4	7
6	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
7	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
8	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
9	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
10	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
11	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
Totals (11 entries)		21	23	21	65

References

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