Update Before You Read this. I made an idiotic screwup when I wrote this that someone pointed out to me later in that I failed to consider 2004 running shoes versus 1924 running shoes. My error sorry. Not that it would affect the results so bad here but in the earlier piece it would. I’m still running this as written starting here.

This is the second part of my series comparing Olympic Results on the exact same events between the 2004 Female Olympic Athletes and Male Olympic Athletes of different times. The first part compared the 2004 Females against the 1904 Male Olympians and the historical results were quite startling and totally different from the results in Part 2 using the 1924 Chariots of Fire Olympic Men. If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, I’d recommend you read that first by clicking here.

We always hear how over time athletes have gotten bigger, stronger and faster. Well out of curiosity, I found a website where I could find the Gold, Silver and Bronze Winner of each of the Olympics, plus the results of each Male and Female Athlete from 1896-2004 for each Olympic Event. From these results, I decided to stage a Hypothetical Olympics featuring the Recorded Results of the 2004 Female Olympic Athletes against the 1924 Male Olympic Athletes in the exact same event, no differences whatsoever, and see who would win based on their recorded historical times. I did my best to determine which events were exactly the same so I’m not comparing Apples with Oranges. If you see any discrepancies I missed, I’d appreciate if you would notify me and I’ll revise this as required. Note, this is totally unscientific as Olympic Athletes in 2004 for the most part don’t have to do anything but train while the 1924 Olympic Athletes had to work full-time to support themselves and train on the side. I will be adding 1920’s 1930’s and 40’s Men’s Olympic versus 2004 Female Olympic Results this entire weekend if time allows so please check back periodically with this Blog.

Unlike the 1904 Men, the 1924 Men would have slaughtered the 2004 Women in almost every event except the High Jump which the women totally ruled and the 400 m Hurdles. Of the 8 events that I’ve assumed were identical for the Male and Female Olympic Athletes: 100m run, 200m run, 400m run, 800m run,1500m run, 400m Hurdles, High Jump and Long Jump, Women would have won the gold medal and beaten the men in 1 of the 8 events. All told, 5 of the 24 Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals Awarded would have been Won by Women with the men winning 19 an overwhelming majority.

Here are the results and times for the Gold, Metal and Bronze for each event by best times or distances. If a Woman would not have placed in the top 3 Men, I listed the Female Gold Medal time underneath. Note The 2004 Female Athletes are in Bold:

100m Run

Harold Abrahams, GBR 10.6 Olympic Record (”Chariots of Fire” was about him)
Jackson Scholz, USA 10.7
Arthur Porritt, NZL 10.8

Note the Gold Medal 2004 Female Winner Would Not Have Gotten a Medal in 1924 with this performance Yuliya Nesterenko, BEL 10.93

200m Run

Jackson Scholz, USA 21.6
Charles Paddock, USA 21.7
Eric Liddell, GBR 21.9

Note the Gold Medal 2004 Female Winner Would Not Have Gotten a Medal in 1924 with this performance Veronica Campbell, JAM 22.05

400m Run

Eric Liddell, GBR 47.6 Olympic Record (”Chariots of Fire” was about him)
Horatio Fitch, USA 48.4
Guy Butler, GBR 48.6

Note the Gold Medal 2004 Female Winner Would Not Have Gotten a Medal in 1924 with this performance Tonique Williams Darling, BAH 49.41

800m Run

Douglas Lowe, GBR 1:52.4
Paul Martin, SWI 1:52.6
Schuyler Enck, USA 1:53.0

Note the Gold Medal 2004 Female Winner Would Not Have Gotten a Medal in 1924 with this performance Kelly Holmes, GBR 1:56.38

1500m Run

Paavo Nurmi, FIN 3:53.6 OR
Willy Sch