The 1896 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary

Bill Mallon, Ture Widlund

McFarland, Mar 10, 2009 - Sports & Recreation - 168 pages

During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, much of the world watched and celebrated as athletes broke world records and took home medals, fulfilling their Olympic dreams. The athletes' scores were available instantaneously and are now easily accessible, but what about the performance records of the first modern Olympic athletes? The Modern Olympic Games began in 1896 in Athens, Greece, but an official record of these Olympic games does not exist.

This work is the first in a series of comprehensive reference works giving the results of the Olympic Games, beginning in 1896. Based primarily on 1896 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are compiled herein for track and field, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, tennis (lawn), weightlifting, wrestling and other sports and events. Although mainly a statistical analysis, this work does include a short synopsis of the Sorbonne Congress and reprints of famous articles about the Olympics.

Contents

• 1896 Olympic GamesAnalysis and Summaries: 1
• The Olympian Games at Athens Charles Waldstein: 26
• Athletics Track Field: 64
• Cycling: 81
• Fencing: 87
• Gymnastics: 91
• Shooting: 97
• Swimming: 103
• Tennis Lawn: 107
• Weightlifting: 111
• Wrestling: 115
• Other Sports and Events: 117
• 1896 Program: 121
• Competitors by Country: 126
• The Olympic Gamesa Classical Greek Ode by George Stuart Robertson 1896: 143
• Index: 145

About the author

Bill Mallon is a cofounder and vice president of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) and the original editor of the Journal of Olympic History. He is a surgeon in Durham, North Carolina. The late Ture Widlund lived in Stockholm.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The 1896 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary; Volume 1 of History of the Early Olympics
• Authors: Bill Mallon, Ture Widlund
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: McFarland, 2009
• ISBN: 0786440651, 9780786440658
• Length: 168 pages
• Subjects: Reference / General; Sports & Recreation / Olympics & Paralympics