Athletics at the 1906 Intercalated Games – Men's 100 metres


The men's 100 metres competition at the 1906 Intercalated Games was held at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece from 25–27 April. A total of 42 athletes from 13 nations competed in the 100 m event.

Summary

The first round of the competition saw several false starts and disqualifications, partly due to the athletes lack of familiarity with the local starter's orders, which were called in Greek. After the first round this issue was rectified. There was no individual timing for each runner and only the winners of each race had their times recorded. Other athletes were ranked visually and in some instances the remaining distance between an athlete and the one behind him was documented.
Four of the six finalists were Americans and two of them took first and second place – Archie Hahn and Fay Moulton. Australia's Nigel Barker came third. Hahn's win built upon his victory from the 1904 Olympic Games. He is sometimes credited with being the first man to retain the Olympic 100 m, but this is disputed as the Intercalated Games have not received official recognition as part of the Olympic series from the International Olympic Committee. Some sports historians argue that the events should be considered part of the true Olympic series as their success helped sustain the modern Olympic movement – the 1900 Summer Olympics and 1904 Summer Olympics were less international and were largely overshadowed by the World's Fairs that the host cities incorporated the games into.

Schedule

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 1906 Intercalated Games.
TypeTimeAthleteLocationDate
World record10.8Luther CaryParis, France4 July 1891
World record10.8Cecil LeeBrussels, Belgium25 September 1892
World record10.8Etienne De ReBrussels, Belgium4 August 1893
World record10.8L. AtcherleyFrankfurt, Germany13 April 1895
World record10.8Harry BeatonRotterdam, Netherlands28 August 1895
World record10.8Harald Anderson-ArbinHelsingborg, Sweden9 August 1896
World record10.8Isaac WestergrenGävle, Sweden11 September 1898
World record10.8Isaac WestergrenGävle, Sweden10 September 1899
World record10.8Frank JarvisParis, France14 July 1900
World record10.8Walter TewksburyParis, France14 July 1900
World record10.8Carl LjungStockholm, Sweden23 September 1900
World record10.8Walter TewksburyPhiladelphia, United States6 October 1900
World record10.8André PassatBordeaux, France14 June 1903
World record10.8Louis KuhnBordeaux, France14 June 1903
World record10.8Harald GrønfeldtAarhus, Denmark5 July 1903
World record10.8Eric FrickJönköping, Sweden9 August 1903
World record10.8Vincent DunckerBerlin, Germany6 August 1905
Olympic record10.8Frank JarvisParis, France14 July 1900
Olympic record10.8Walter TewksburyParis, France14 July 1900

Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat advance to the [|semi-finals]. There were ten heats and seven of them contained five runners while the remaining three had two or three entrants. From the smaller heats only Fay Moulton and Axel Ljung participated in the semi-final. In heats eight and ten, the second-placed athletes Vincent Duncker and Meyer Prinstein did not compete in the semi-final.

Heat 1

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Archie Hahn12.0
2Otto BockUnknown
—Georgios Zinon
—Julius Wagner
—Karl Lampelmayer

Heat 2

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1William Eaton11.6
2Gaspare TorrettaUnknown
3Géo MalfaitUnknown
4Robert SchöffthalerUnknown
5Fritz HofmannUnknown

Heat 3

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Fay Moulton11.8
2Pantelis EktorosUnknown
3Martin BeckmannUnknown

Heat 4

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Knut Lindberg11.8
2Bohuslav Pohl-PolenskýUnknown
—Konstantinos DevetzisUnknown
—Aage Petersen
—Patestos Patestidis

Heat 5

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Georgios Kesar12.6
—George Queyrouze

Heat 6

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1William Schick12.2
2Wyndham HalswelleUnknown
3Gustav KrojerUnknown
4Wilhelm RitzenhoffUnknown
5Gunnar RönströmUnknown

Heat 7

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Reginald Reed12.0
2Axel LjungUnknown

Heat 8

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Alfred Healey12.2
2Vincent Duncker12.2
3Sotirios AnastasopoulosUnknown
4Uno HäggmanUnknown
5Nikolaos MourmourisUnknown

Heat 9

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Lawson Robertson11.4
2Nigel BarkerUnknown
3Martin BrustmannUnknown
—A. Papadakis
—Otto Hahnel-Kohout

Heat 10

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Sidney Abrahams11.8
2Meyer PrinsteinUnknown
3Marc Bélin du CoteauUnknown
—Miksa Hellmich
—Vasilios Stournaras

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat advance to the [|Final]. The semi-finals were divided into three races: heat one with five runners, heat two with three, and heat three with six.

Semifinal 1

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Archie Hahn11.4
2Lawson Robertson2 yds behind
3Otto BockUnknown
4Sidney AbrahamsUnknown
5Bohuslav Pohl-PolenskýUnknown

Semifinal 2

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Fay Moulton11.2
2Knut Lindberg1½ yds behind
3William SchickUnknown

Semifinal 3

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1William Eaton11.6
2Nigel Barker1 yd behind
3Wyndham HalswelleUnknown
4Axel LjungUnknown
5Gaspare TorrettaUnknown
6Alfred HealeyUnknown

Final

RankAthleteNationTime
Archie Hahn11.2
Fay Moulton1 yd behind 1st
Nigel Barker1 ft behind 2nd
4William Eaton1½ yds behind 3rd
5Lawson RobertsonNo distance behind 4th
6Knut Lindberg1 yd behind 5th