Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the Games of the III Olympiad
Gold medalist Archie Hahn receiving the Skiff Cup for winning the 100 metres
Venue	Francis Field
Date	September 3
Competitors	11 from 3 nations
Winning time	11.0
Medalists
Archie Hahn  United States Nathaniel Cartmell  United States William Hogenson  United States

The men's 100 metres was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. 11 athletes from 3 nations participated. The competition was held on September 3, 1904. The event was won by Archie Hahn of the United States, completing his sprint trifecta (having already won the 60 metres and 200 metres) and marking the third straight gold medal in the event by an American. Hahn would later repeat his win in the now-unofficial 1906 Intercalated Games. The United States swept the medals.

Background

This was the third time the event was held. None of the previous runners competed in 1904. American Archie Hahn, had won the 1903 U.S. and Canadian championships; he had also taken the 60 metres and 200 metres titles earlier in the 1904 Olympics. He was heavily favored.

The 1904 competition was one of only two Olympic Games (along with 1900) where the men's 100 metres was not the shortest sprint, with the 60 metres being held in those two years.

Canada was represented in the event for the first time. Hungary was the only other country, aside from the host, to send a runner; this made the United States and Hungary the only two nations to have appeared at each of the first three Olympic men's 100 metres events.

Competition format

With fewer entrants than in 1900, the event was reduced from four rounds to two: heats and a final. The top two runners in each heat advanced to the final.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1904 Summer Olympics.

World Record	10.8(*)	Luther Cary	Paris (FRA)	July 4, 1891
	10.8(*)	Cecil Lee	Brussels (BEL)	September 25, 1892
	10.8(*)	Etienne De Re	Brussels (BEL)	August 4, 1893
	10.8(*)	L. Atcherley	Frankfurt/Main (GER)	April 13, 1895
	10.8(*)	Harry Beaton	Rotterdam (NED)	August 28, 1895
	10.8(*)	Harald Anderson-Arbin	Helsingborg (SWE)	August 9, 1896
	10.8(*)	Isaac Westergren	Gävle (SWE)	September 11, 1898
	10.8(*)	Isaac Westergren	Gävle (SWE)	September 10, 1899
	10.8(*)	Frank Jarvis	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8(*)	Walter Tewksbury	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8(*)	Carl Ljung	Stockholm (SWE)	September 23, 1900
	10.8(*)	Walter Tewksbury	Philadelphia (USA)	October 6, 1900
	10.8(*)	André Passat	Bordeaux (FRA)	June 14, 1903
	10.8(*)	Louis Kuhn	Bordeaux (FRA)	June 14, 1903
	10.8(*)	Harald Grønfeldt	Aarhus (DEN)	July 5, 1903
	10.8(*)	Eric Frick	Jönköping (SWE)	August 9, 1903
Olympic Record	10.8	Frank Jarvis	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8	Walter Tewksbury	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900

(*) unofficial

Results

Heats

The top two finishers in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Archie Hahn	United States	11.4	Q
2	Lawson Robertson	United States		Q
3	Béla Mező	Hungary

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	William Hogenson	United States	11.6	Q
2	Frederick Heckwolf	United States		Q
3	Robert Kerr	Canada
4	Myer Prinstein	United States

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Nathaniel Cartmell	United States	11.4	Q
2	Fay Moulton	United States		Q
3	Clyde Blair	United States
4	Frank Castleman	United States

Final

Archie Hahn winning a race

Hahn opened quickly, reaching a sizable lead within the first 20 metres. Cartmell started slowly and was in last place at 40 metres, almost halfway through the race, before finishing well and placing second.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Archie Hahn	United States	11.0
	Nathaniel Cartmell	United States	11.2
	William Hogenson	United States	11.2
4	Fay Moulton	United States
5	Frederick Heckwolf	United States
6	Lawson Robertson	United States

Results summary

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Heats	Final
	Archie Hahn	United States	11.4	11.0
	Nathaniel Cartmell	United States	11.4	11.2
	William Hogenson	United States	11.6	11.2
4	Fay Moulton	United States	Unknown	Unknown
5	Frederick Heckwolf	United States	Unknown	Unknown
6	Lawson Robertson	United States	Unknown	Unknown
AC	Clyde Blair	United States	Unknown	Did not advance
	Frank Castleman	United States	Unknown
	Robert Kerr	Canada	Unknown
	Béla Mező	Hungary	Unknown
	Myer Prinstein	United States	Unknown
—	E. F. Annis	United States	DNS
	William Hunter	United States	DNS
	William Marshall	United States	DNS
	Dodge Peters	United States	DNS
	George Poage	United States	DNS
	Ollie Snedigar	United States	DNS
	Joseph Stadler	United States	DNS
	Lee Vernon	Canada	DNS

Sources

• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 13 December 2006.