Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics - Men's pentathlon

The men's pentathlon
Pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...

event was part of the track and field athletics programme

Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics

At the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, 27 athletics events were contested, all for men only.-Medal table:-Medal summary:-Participating nations:657 athletes from 40 nations competed. Ten nations competed in athletics for the first time...

at the 1924 Summer Olympics

1924 Summer Olympics

The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1924 in Paris, France...

. It was the third and last appearance of a pentathlon at the Olympics. The competition was held on Monday, July 7, 1924.

Thirty pentathletes from 17 nations competed.

Records

Robert LeGendre

This article is about the athlete named Robert LeGendre. For the inmate who escaped from prison, see Iowa State PenitentiaryRobert "Bob" Lucien LeGendre is an American athlete and Olympics competitor who competed mainly in the Pentathlon.He competed for the United States in the 1924 Summer...

set a new world record in long jump

Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

during this competition. He improved the old records:

World Record	7.69	Edward Gourdin Edward Gourdin Edward Orval "Ned" Gourdin was an American athlete and jurist...	Cambridge Cambridge The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the... (GBR United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it.... )	July 23, 1923
Olympic Record	7.60	Albert Gutterson Albert Gutterson Albert Lovejoy Gutterson was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump.He competed for the United States in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden in the long jump where he won the gold medal....	Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area... (SWE Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... )	July 12, 1912

Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

The long jump was the first event and started at 2:00 p.m.

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Group 1

Place	Athlete	Width	Overall Rank
1		7.765 WR	1
2		6.83	4
3		6.77	5
4		6.68	7
5		6.545	9
6		6.49	10
7		6.40	13
8		6.25	18
9		6.17	21
10		5.92	25
11		5.88	26
12		5.485	27
13		5.29	30

Group 2

Place	Athlete	Width	Overall Rank
1		6.96	2
2		6.895	3
3		6.72	6
4		6.56	8
5		6.46	11
6		6.43	12
7		6.38	14
8		6.32	15
9		6.29	16
10		6.25	17
11		6.20	19
12		6.19	20
13		6.05	22
14		5.99	23
15		5.98	24
16		5.37	28
17		5.345	29

Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

The javlein throw was the second event and started at 2:45 p.m.

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Group 1

Place	Athlete	Width	Overall Rank
1		52.07	2
2		51.72	3
3		51.17	4
4		50.93	5
5		49.00	7
6		48.96	8
7		48.04	11
8		45.60	16
9		42.58	19
10		41.19	21
11		40.15	22
12		38.95	24
13		32.43	29

Group 2

Place	Athlete	Width	Overall Rank
1		54.12	1
2		50.20	6
3		48.76	9
4		48.45	10
5		47.91	12
6		47.58	13
7		47.58	14
8		47.47	15
9		44.07	17
10		42.98	18
11		41.48	20
12		39.82	23
13		37.88	25
14		36.78	26
15		35.58	27
16		34.18	28
17		31.00	30

200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

The third event was the 200 metres. The heats started at 3:45 p.m.

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Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Time	Overall Rank
1		23.4	=5
2		23.8	=8
3		25.0	=21

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Time	Overall Rank
1		23.0	=1
2		23.8	=8
3		25.2	24

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Time	Overall Rank
1		24.4	=18
2		25.0	=21
—		DNS	—

Heat 4

Place	Athlete	Time	Overall Rank
1		23.0	=1
2		23.8	=8
3		24.4	=18

Heat 5

Place	Athlete	Time	Overall Rank
1		23.8	=8
2		23.8	=8
3		27.0	28

Heat 6

Place	Athlete	Time	Overall Rank
1		23.4	=5
2		24.0	=13
3		24.2	=15

Heat 7

Place	Athlete	Time	Overall Rank
1		24.2	=15
2		25.4	25
—		DNS	—

Heat 8

Place	Athlete	Time	Overall Rank
1		23.0	=1
2		23.8	7
3		24.6	20

Heat 9

Place	Athlete	Time	Overall Rank
1		24.2	=15
2		25.8	26
3		26.2	27

Heat 10

Place	Athlete	Time	Overall Rank
1		23.4	=5
2		24.0	=13
3		25.0	=21

Standings after three events

After these three events only the top twelve competitors were allowed to participate in the following discus throw

Discus throw

The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

contest.

Place	Athlete	Long jump	Javelin	200 m	Total
1		2	6	1	9
2		6	1	4	11
3		5	2	5	12
4		7	5	1	13
4		1	11	1	13
6		3	9	7	19
7		8	10	8	26
8		4	8	18	30
9		9	16	8	33
10		11	20	5	36
11		13	4	21	38
12		19	12	15	46
13		12	28	8	48
14		23	18	8	49
14		16	13	20	49
16		25	19	8	52
		10	29	13	52
		20	17	15	52
19		14	26	15	55
20		17	23	21	61
21		22	15	25	62
22		21	24	18	63
22		24	13	26	63
24		15	30	21	66
24		27	25	13	66
26		26	22	24	72
27		30	21	28	79
28		29	27	27	83
—		18	3	—	DNF
—		27	7	—	DNF

After the determination of the twelve competitors who will participate in the next event all other results from the non-qualified pentathletes were deleted. This gave the following order and current standing at this point of the competition:

Place	Athlete	Long jump	Javelin	200 m	Total
1		2	5	1	8
2		1	9	1	11
2		6	1	4	11
4		7	4	1	12
4		5	2	5	12
6		3	7	7	17
7		4	6	11	21
8		8	8	8	24
9		11	3	12	26
10		10	12	5	27
11		9	9	11	28
12		12	10	10	32

Eero Lehtonen

Eero Reino Lehtonen was a Finnish pentathlete. He won the Olympic gold at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. After pentathlon was removed from the Olympic programme for 1928, Lehtonen quit his career...

and Elemér Somfay

Elemér Somfay

Elemér Somfay was a Hungarian athlete who competed mainly in the Pentathlon.He competed for a Hungary in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France in the Pentathlon where he won the Silver medal....

later gold and silver medalists tied in fourth place after three events. The biggest winner of the deletion of the results from the non-qualified competitors was Robert LeGendre

Robert LeGendre

. He came up from fourth and second place. The biggest loss had Denis Duigan who came from ninth back to eleventh.

Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

The discus throw was the fourth event and started at 4:30 p.m.

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The leader after three events Mort Kaer

Mort Kaer

Morton "Mort" Armour Kaer , nicknamed "Devil May," was a world-famous athlete, as a track star and All-American collegiate and professional American football player....

was able to finish only in tenth place. While Eero Lehtonen

Eero Lehtonen

, Olympic champion in pentathlon at the 1920 Games, won the discus throw competition.

Place	Athlete	Width
1		40.44
2		37.76
3		37.70
4		36.76
5		36.08
6		35.11
7		34.69
8		33.62
9		33.45
10		32.70
11		27.26
—		DNS

After the fourth event again only the best six pentathletes from the overall standings advanced to the last contest. Mort Kaer

Mort Kaer

Morton "Mort" Armour Kaer , nicknamed "Devil May," was a world-famous athlete, as a track star and All-American collegiate and professional American football player....

who only managed to finish in tenth place in the discus throw came back to fourth place overall - enough to participate in the final 1500 metres run. Brutus Hamilton

Brutus Hamilton

Brutus Kerr Hamilton, a scholar, philosopher, poet, and gentleman, is most renowned as one of the leading coaches in American and international track and field....

who finished third in the discus throw did not improve his seventh place overall and failed to qualify for the 1500 metres run. So the first six places were unchanged and three Finns, two US-Americans, and one Hungarian started in the final.

Place	Athlete	Long jump	Javelin	200 m	Discus	Total
1		7	4	1	1	13
2		5	2	5	2	14
3		1	9	1	4	15
4		2	5	1	10	18
5		6	1	4	1	19
6		3	7	7	5	22
7		4	6	11	3	24
8		8	8	8	6	30
9		11	3	12	9	35
10		9	9	11	11	39
10		12	10	10	7	39
—		10	12	5	DNS	DNF

At this point of the competition the results from the non-qualified competitors were not deleted so the results stand for the final event.

1500 metres
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

The 1500 metres run was the fifth and final event and started at 5:15 p.m.

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Place	Athlete	Time
1		4:47.1
2		4:48.4
3		4:52.6
4		4:55.4
5		4:55.6
6		5:38.6

Final standings

The medal ranks were unchanged after the 1500 metres run. Eero Lehtonen

Eero Lehtonen

was able to win his second gold medal in Olympic pentathlon. He also became the last Olympic champion in pentathlon as this event was discontinued. The new world record holder in long jump Robert LeGendre

Robert LeGendre

finished third and won the bronze medal. He would have won the gold medal if this contest were scored by points tables. But his ninth place in the javelin throw pushed him back. And he will not participate in the Olympic long jump event

Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics - Men's long jump

The men's long jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Tuesday, July 8, 1924.34 long jumpers from 22 nations competed.-Records:...

held the next day, because he did not compete in this event at the US Olympic trails.

Place	Athlete	Long jump	Javelin	200 m	Discus	1500 m	Total
1		7	4	1	1	1	14
2		5	2	5	2	2	16
3		1	9	1	4	3	18
4		6	1	4	1	4	23
5		2	5	1	10	6	24
6		3	7	7	5	5	27

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Final standings

Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...