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Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

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Men's 200 metres
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
The finish of the final, with Charley Paddock (left) in second, Jackson Scholz winning, and Eric Liddell (behind) in third.
VenueStade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir
Dates8 July (heats and quarterfinals)
9 July (semifinals and final)
Competitors65 from 33 nations
Winning time21.6 =OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jackson Scholz
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Charley Paddock
 United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Eric Liddell
 Great Britain
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The men's 200 metres event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. The first two rounds were held on 8 July, with the semifinals and final on 9 July. Sixty-five sprinters from 33 countries competed.[1] Nations were limited to 4 athletes each. The event was won by 0.1 seconds by Jackson Scholz of the United States, the nation's third consecutive victory in the event and fifth in six Games. For the third straight Games, the podium consisted of two Americans winning gold and silver (Charley Paddock) and a Briton taking bronze (Eric Liddell). Paddock, the silver medalist in 1920 as well, was the second man to earn multiple medals in the 200 metres.

Background

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This was the sixth appearance of the event, which was not held at the first Olympics in 1896 but has been on the program ever since. One of the six finalists from the 1920 Games returned: silver medalist Charley Paddock of the United States.[2]

Argentina, Brazil, Haiti, Ireland, Latvia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Turkey, and Yugoslavia each made their debut in the event. The United States made its sixth appearance, the only nation to have competed at each edition of the 200 metres to date.

Competition format

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The competition used the four round format introduced in 1920: heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. There were 17 heats of between 3 and 5 runners each, with the top 2 men in each advancing to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinals consisted of 6 heats of between 5 and 6 athletes each; the two fastest men in each heat advanced to the semifinals. There were 2 semifinals, each with 6 runners. In that round, the top three athletes advanced. The final had 6 runners.[2]

The race was run on a 500-metre track, the last time the Olympics used a track with a different length than the now-standard 400 metres.[2]

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3]

World record  Willie Applegarth (GBR) 21.2 London, United Kingdom 4 July 1914
Olympic record  Archie Hahn (USA) 21.6 St. Louis, United States 31 August 1904

Jackson Scholz of the United States tied the Olympic record in the final.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Tuesday, 8 July 1924 14:30
17:00		 Heats
Quarterfinals
Wednesday, 9 July 1924 14:00
15:45		 Semifinals
Final

Results

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All times shown are in seconds.

Heats

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The first round was held on 8 July. The first two runners of each heat qualified for the second round.

Heat 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Howard Kinsman  South Africa 21.8 Q
2 André Mourlon  France 21.8 Q
3 Pietro Pastorino  Italy 22.1
4 James Hall  India 22.5
5 José-María Larrabeiti  Spain Unknown

Heat 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Bayes Norton[4]  United States 21.8 Q
2 Cyril Coaffee  Canada 21.8 Q
3 Carlos Garces  Mexico Unknown
4 Félix Mendizábal  Spain Unknown
5 Fritz Bürger  Austria Unknown

Heat 3

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Eric Liddell  Great Britain 22.2 Q
2 Rudolf Rauch  Austria 22.6 Q
3 Joseph Hilger  Luxembourg Unknown
4 Herminio Ahumada  Mexico Unknown
5 Emilio Casanovas  Argentina Unknown

Heat 4

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Arthur Porritt  New Zealand 22.4 Q
2 Larry Armstrong  Canada Unknown Q
3 Karl Borner  Switzerland Unknown
4 Lauri Härö  Finland Unknown
5 Artūrs Gedvillo  Latvia Unknown

Heat 5

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Henricus Broos  Netherlands 22.6 Q
2 George Dunston  South Africa Unknown Q
3 Paul Hammer  Luxembourg Unknown
4 Mogens Truelsen  Denmark Unknown
5 Oto Seviško  Latvia Unknown

Heat 6

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Jackson Scholz  United States 22.4 Q
2 George Hester  Canada Unknown Q
3 Terence Pitt  India Unknown
4 Pierre Parrain  France Unknown
5 Reijo Halme  Finland Unknown

Heat 7

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Slip Carr  Australia 22.6 Q
2 Bill Lowe  Ireland 23.0 Q
3 Jan de Vries  Netherlands 23.2
4 Antonín Svoboda  Czechoslovakia

Heat 8

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 John McKechenneay  Canada 23.2 Q
2 Roy Norman  Australia Unknown Q
3 Alexandros Papafingos  Greece Unknown
4 Alois Linka  Czechoslovakia Unknown
5 Wilfred Hildreth  India Unknown

Heat 9

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Wilfred Nichol  Great Britain 22.6 Q
2 Ferenc Gerő  Hungary Unknown Q
3 José Martínez  Mexico Unknown
4 Christiaan Steyn  South Africa Unknown
5 Rauf Hasağası  Turkey Unknown

Heat 10

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Harold Abrahams  Great Britain 22.2 Q
2 Charley Paddock  United States 22.3 Q
3 Gentil dos Santos  Portugal 23.0
4 Johannes van Kampen  Netherlands 23.1
5 Diego Ordóñez  Spain

Heat 11

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Paul Brochart  Belgium 23.0 Q
2 Konstantinos Pantelidis  Greece Unknown Q
3 Stanko Perpar  Yugoslavia Unknown
4 Leo Jørgensen  Denmark Unknown
5 Walter Strebi  Switzerland Unknown

Heat 12

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Lajos Kurunczy  Hungary 22.6 Q
2 Sasago Tani  Japan Unknown Q
3 Gvido Jekals  Latvia Unknown
4 Poul Schiang  Denmark Unknown
5 Hirsch Drisin  Finland Unknown

Heat 13

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 George Hill  United States 22.0 Q
2 Thomas Matthewman  Great Britain 21.0 Q
3 Alvaro de Oliveira  Brazil Unknown
4 Aleksander Szenajch  Poland Unknown
5 Mariano Aguilar  Mexico Unknown

Heat 14

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Joseph Jackson  France 22.8 Q
2 Félix Escobar  Argentina 23.0 Q
3 Zygmunt Weiss  Poland 23.4
4 Ville Ritola  Finland Unknown
5 Bohus Fleischer  Czechoslovakia Unknown

Heat 15

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Maurice Degrelle  France 22.6 Q
2 Marinus van den Berge  Netherlands Unknown Q
3 David Nepomuceno  Philippines Unknown
4 Lawrence Beets  South Africa Unknown
5 Henricus Cockuyt  Belgium Unknown

Heat 16

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Sean Lavan  Ireland 23.2 Q
2 Juan Junquera  Spain Unknown Q
3 Reinhold Kesküll  Estonia Unknown
4 Narciso Valdares Costa  Brazil Unknown
5 Karel Pott  Portugal Unknown

Heat 17

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Valéry Théard  Haiti 23.6 Q
2 Jānis Oja  Latvia Unknown Q
3 Johannes Brock  Denmark Unknown
4 Fortunato Catalon  Philippines Unknown
5 Mohamed Burhan  Turkey Unknown

Quarterfinals

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The quarterfinals were held on 8 July. The first two runners of each heat qualified for the semifinals.

Quarterfinal 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Charley Paddock  United States 22.2 Q
2 Wilfred Nichol  Great Britain 22.6 Q
3 George Dunston  South Africa Unknown
4 Jānis Oja  Latvia Unknown
5 Rudolf Rauch  Austria Unknown

Quarterfinal 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Slip Carr  Australia 21.8 Q
2 Eric Liddell  Great Britain Unknown Q
3 Joseph Jackson  France Unknown
4 Sean Lavan  Ireland Unknown
5 John MacKechenneay  Canada Unknown
6 Juan Junquera  Spain Unknown

Quarterfinal 3

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Jackson Scholz  United States 21.8 Q
2 Cyril Coaffee  Canada Unknown Q
3 Sasago Tani  Japan Unknown
4 Valéry Théard  Haiti Unknown
5 Roy Norman  Australia Unknown
6 Konstantinos Pantelidis  Greece Unknown

Quarterfinal 4

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Harold Abrahams  Great Britain 22.0 Q
2 Bayes Norton  United States 22.3 Q
3 Maurice Degrelle  France 22.4
4 Ferenc Gerő  Hungary 22.4
5 Laurie Armstrong  Canada Unknown
6 Félix Escobar  Argentina Unknown

Quarterfinal 5

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Arthur Porritt  New Zealand 22.0 Q
2 André Mourlon  France 22.1 Q
3 Lajos Kurunczy  Hungary Unknown
4 Thomas Matthewman  Great Britain Unknown
5 Bill Lowe  Ireland Unknown
6 Marinus van den Berge  Netherlands Unknown

Quarterfinal 6

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 George Hill  United States 21.8 Q
2 Howard Kinsman  South Africa Unknown Q
3 Paul Brochart  Belgium Unknown
4 George Hester  Canada Unknown
5 Henricus Broos  Netherlands Unknown

Semifinals

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The semifinals were held on 9 July. The first three runners from each semifinal qualified for the final.

Semifinal 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Jackson Scholz  United States 21.8 Q
2 George Hill  United States 21.8 Q
3 Harold Abrahams  Great Britain 21.9 Q
4 Slip Carr  Australia 22.1
5 Wilfred Nichol  Great Britain 22.4
6 Arthur Porritt  New Zealand 22.6

Semifinal 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Charley Paddock  United States 21.8 Q
2 Eric Liddell  Great Britain 21.8 Q
3 Bayes Norton  United States 22.1 Q
4 André Mourlon  France 22.2
5 Howard Kinsman  South Africa 22.3
6 Cyril Coaffee  Canada 22.4

Final

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The final was held on 9 July.

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Jackson Scholz  United States 21.6 =OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 Charley Paddock  United States 21.7
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 Eric Liddell  Great Britain 21.9
4 1 George Hill  United States 22.0
5 3 Bayes Norton  United States 22.0
6 2 Harold Abrahams  Great Britain 22.3

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1924 Paris Summer Games: Men's 200 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "200 metres, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  3. ^ Olympic.org
  4. ^ Bayes Norton at Sports Reference
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