Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the Games of the II Olympiad
Venue	Bois de Boulogne
Date	July 15
Competitors	9 from 6 nations
Medalists
Charles Bennett Great Britain   Henri Deloge France   John Bray United States
«1896	1904»

Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Track events
60 m		men
100 m		men
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
110 m hurdles		men
200 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
2500 m steeplechase		men
4000 m steeplechase		men
5000 m team race		men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men
Pole vault	men
Standing long jump	men
Standing triple jump	men
Standing high jump	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men
Hammer throw	men

The men's 1500 metres was a middle-distance running event on the athletics programme at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. It was held on July 15, 1900. The race was held on a track of 500 metres in circumference. Nine athletes from six nations competed.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1900 Summer Olympics.

World Record	4:09.0(*)	John Bray	Bayonne (FRA)	May 30, 1900
Olympic Record	4:33.2	Edwin Flack	Athens (GRE)	April 7, 1896 (NS)

(*) unofficial

Charles Bennett set a new Olympic record and a new unofficial world record with 4:06.2 minutes.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Charles Bennett (GBR)	4:06.2
2	Henri Deloge (FRA)	4:06.6
3	John Bray (USA)	4:07.2
4	David Hall (USA)	(4:07.5)
5	Christian Christensen (DEN)	Unknown
6	Hermann Wraschtil (AUT)	Unknown
7-9	Ondřej Pukl (BOH)	Unknown
	John Rimmer (GBR)	Unknown
	Louis Segondi (FRA)	Unknown

Bennett, who had led the entire distance by a small margin over Deloge, broke off in the final lap, and ran last 500 metres in a time of 1:10.2 to set an unofficial world record, finishing five yards ahead of Deloge. John Bray edged out David Hall by two yards.

Sources

• International Olympic Committee.
• De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Athletics 1900". Accessed 18 March 2006. Available electronically at [1].
• Mallon, Bill (1998). The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-7864-0378-0.