Sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics – 1 to 2 ton

1 to 2 Ton Sailing at the Games of the II Olympiad
1 - 2 Ton Class
Venue	Meulan
Date	First race: May 22, 1900 Second race: May 25, 1900
Competitors	22 (documented) from 3 nations
Teams	9
Medalists
Hermann de Pourtalès, Hélène de Pourtalès, Bernard de Pourtalès   Switzerland   Paul Wiesner, Georg Naue, Heinrich Peters, Ottokar Weise   Germany   François Vilamitjana, Auguste Albert, Albert Duval, Charles Hugo   France   Hermann de Pourtalès, Hélène de Pourtalès, Bernard de Pourtalès   Switzerland   Jacques Baudrier, Lucien Baudrier, Dubosq, Édouard Mantois   France   François Vilamitjana, Auguste Albert, Albert Duval, Charles Hugo   France

Sailing at the  1900 Summer Olympics
Open class			Open
0 - ½ ton			Open
½ - 1 ton			Open
1 - 2 ton			Open
2 - 3 ton			Open
3 - 10 ton			Open
10 - 20 ton			Open
20+ ton			Open

The 1 to 2 ton was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics program in Meulan. Nine boats started during the two races in the 1 to 2 ton. Twenty–two competitors from three countries are documented. The races were held on 22 and 25 May 1900 on the river Seine.^[1][2]

Race schedule^[1]

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Meulan competition

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Le Havre competition

1900	May								August
	20 Sun	21 Mon	22 Tue	23 Wed	24 Thu	25 Fri	26 Sat	27 Thu	1 Fri	2 Sat	3 Sun	4 Mon	5 Tue	6 Wed
1 to 2 ton			●			●
Total gold medals			1			1

Course area and course configuration

For the 1 to 2 ton the 19 kilometres (10 nmi) course in the Meulan course area was used.

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  Course area Meulan

Weather conditions

The race was troublesome due to an almost complete absence of any wind and that the wind there came perpendicular to the course (river Seine) and was blocked or diverted by trees and buildings.^[2]

Final results^[3]

Two separate races were sailed. No combined results were made.^[1]

Race of 22 May 1900

Rank	Country	Helmsman	Crew	Boat	Medalrace
					Pos.	Pts.
	Switzerland	Hermann de Pourtalès	Hélène de Pourtalès [4][5] Bernard de Pourtalès	Lérina	1	02:15:32
	France	François Vilamitjana	Auguste Albert Albert Duval Charles Hugo	Marthe	2	02:17:29
	France	Jacques Baudrier	Lucien Baudrier Dubosq Édouard Mantois	Nina-Claire	3	02:26:28
4	France	Eugène Laverne	Henri Laverne	Amulet	4	02:26:56
5	France	Marcel Moisand	Unknown	Ducky	5	02:31:14
6	France	Georges Warenhorst	Unknown	Freia	6	02:33:54
7	France	Texier (helmsman)	Texier (crew)	Mamie	7	02:52:30
8	France	Lecointre	Unknown	Alcyon	8	03:05:06

Legend: DNC – Did not compete; Gender: – male; – female;

Race of 25 May 1900

This race saw with Aschenbrödel (German for Cinderella) one more boat competing. One day earlier they had entered in the ½—1 ton class, but were not permitted to race as their boat measured in at 1.041 tons. In this class the German crew sailed the lightest boat, yet easily finished in the quickest time. Their low handicap served only to widen the gap between them and the second-place Swiss team.

Rank	Country	Helmsman	Crew	Boat	Medalrace
					Pos.	Pts.
	Germany	Paul Wiesner	Georg Naue Heinrich Peters Ottokar Weise	Aschenbrödel	1	03:09:19
	Switzerland	Hermann de Pourtalès	Hélène de Pourtalès [4] Bernard de Pourtalès	Lérina	2	03:35:14
	France	François Vilamitjana	Auguste Albert Albert Duval Charles Hugo (sailor)	Marthe	3	03:37:49
4	France	Jacques Baudrier	Lucien Baudrier Dubosq Édouard Mantois	Nina-Claire	4	04:10:17
5	France	Georges Warenhorst	Unknown	Freia	5	04:11:22
6	France	Texier (helmsman)	Texier (crew)	Mamie	6	04:30:08
7	France	Marcel Moisand	Unknown	Ducky	7	04:48:07
	France	Eugène Laverne	Henri Laverne	Amulet	DNF
	France	Lecointre	Unknown	Alcyon	DNF

Legend: DNF – Did not finish; Gender: – male; – female;

Notes

Since Hélène de Pourtalès was the first female Olympic starter in the modern Olympics she holds the first Olympic medals won by a woman. However the Swiss team did not win the first medals for Switzerland, that honor goes to Louis Zutter during the 1896 Olympics.

Hélène de Pourtalès

Other information

Initially only the race on 22 May 1900 was part of the Olympic program. However the race on the 25 May 1900, initially part of the Exposition Universelle program, was afterwards awarded with an Olympic status.^[1]

Further reading

• "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008)" (PDF). Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 13 January 2015.

References

1. "Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, Concours D'Exercices Physiques et de Sports" (PDF) (in French). Imprimerie Nationale (LA84). 1901. pp. 399–430. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
2. "Sailing at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Mixed 1-2 Ton". Sports Reference. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
3. "Official website of the Olympic Movement: Olympics Search all results & Olympic medalists". IOC. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
4. Hélène de Pourtalès was the only documented woman participated in the 1900 Summer Olympics regatta. She won the a gold and a silver medal in the 1 to 2 ton.
5. "The Countess de Pourtales – After all the first modern female Olympic starter" (PDF). International Society of Olympic Historians. Retrieved 24 April 2014.

"Paris 1900". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.