Annex: Athletics in the 1900 Paris Olympic Games

In the 1900 Paris Olympic Games, the track and field events were held at the Racing Club de France facilities in the Croix-Catalan in the Bois de Boulogne, which had to be asked for permission due to the lack of facilities suitable to compete. In these facilities there was no regulatory track for the practice of athletics, but an irregular field full of trees had to be set up and the grass had to be cut. The rope of this track had a perimeter of 500 meters, full of potholes and with a main straight line uneven.

An area was also set up for launch tests, full of leafy trees and with a reduced space for spectators.

In addition, in these precarious facilities there was no staff to clean the tracks and launch areas, so it was the athletes themselves who had to clean them up to get them up to standard.

23 athletics events were competed, only in the men's category.

Results

Masculine

Event
60 meters	Alvin Kraenzlein(USA)	John Tewksbury(USA)	Stanley Rowley(AUS)
100 meters	Frank Jarvis(USA)	John Tewksbury(USA)	Stanley Rowley(AUS)
200 meters	John Tewksbury(USA)	Norman Pritchard(IND)	Stanley Rowley(AUS)
400 meters	Maxey Long(USA)	William Holland(USA)	Ernst Schultz(DEN)
800 meters	Alfred Tysoe(GBR)	John Cregan(USA)	David Hall(USA)
1500 meters	Charles Bennet(GBR)	Henri Deloge(FRA)	John Bray(USA)
Marathon	Michel Théato(FRA)	Emile Champion(FRA)	Ernst Fast(SWE)
110 meters fence	Alvin Kraenzlein(USA)	John McLean(USA)	Frederick Moloney(USA)
200 m fence	Alvin Kraenzlein(USA)	Norman Pritchard(IND)	John Tewksbury(USA)
400 m fence	John Tewksbury(USA)	Henri Tauzin(FRA)	George Orton(CAN)
2500 m	George Orton(CAN)	Sidney Robinson(GBR)	Jacques Chastanié(FRA)
4000 m	John Rimmer(GBR)	Charles Bennet(GBR)	Sidney Robinson(GBR)
5000 m per team	Joint team (ZZX) Amateur Athletic Association: Charles Bennet Alfred Tysoe Sidney Robinson Stanley Rowley John Rimmer	France (FRA) Racing Club de France: Henri Deloge Jacques Chastanié André Castanet Michel Champoudry Gaston Ragueneau	No award
Height balance	Irving Baxter(USA)	Patrick Leahy(GBR)	Lajos Gönczy(HUN)
Powdered jump	Irving Baxter(USA)	Meredith Colkett(USA)	Carl-Albert Andersen(NOR)
Length balance	Alvin Kraenzlein(USA)	Myer Prinstein(USA)	Patrick Leahy(GBR)
Triple jump	Myer Prinstein(USA)	James B. Connolly(USA)	Lewis Sheldon(USA)
High balance without impulse	Ray Ewry(USA)	Irving Baxter(USA)	Lewis Sheldon(USA)
Leap without impulse	Ray Ewry(USA)	Irving Baxter(USA)	Emile Torcheboeuf(FRA)
Triple jump without impulse	Ray Ewry(USA)	Irving Baxter(USA)	Robert Garrett(USA)
Weight launch	Richard Sheldon(USA)	Josiah McCracken(USA)	Robert Garrett(USA)
Disk launch	Rudolf Bauer(HUN)	František Janda-Suk(BOH)	Richard Sheldon(USA)
Hammer launch	John Flanagan(USA)	Truxton Hare(USA)	Josiah McCracken(USA)

1 Michel Théato was long regarded as French, until later studies revealed that he was Luxembourgish. Although his medal would be the first of his country of origin, it remains considered by the International Olympic Committee as French.

Participants

A total of 117 athletes from 15 countries took part in athletic events:

• Germany (6)
• Australia (1)
• Austria (1)
• Bohemia (4)
• Canada (2)
• Denmark (4)
• France (23)
• Greece (2)
• Hungary (9)
• India (1)
• Italy (2)
• Norway (2)
• United Kingdom (9)
• Sweden (8)
• United States (43)

Medallero

No.	Country				Total
1	United States (USA)	16	13	10	39
2	United Kingdom (GBR)	3	3	2	8
3	France (FRA)	1	4	2	7
4	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
6	Joint team (ZZX)	1	0	0	1
7	India (IND)	0	2	0	2
8	Bohemia (BOH)	0	1	0	1
9	Australia (AUS)	0	0	3	3
10	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
10	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Total		23	23	22	68