1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 4 x 400 meter relay | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 64 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
| Competition phase | October 19, 1968 (preliminary) October 20, 1968 (final) |
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The men's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 19 and 20, 1968 in the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 64 athletes took part in 16 relays.
The US relay with Vince Matthews , Ron Freeman , Larry James and Lee Evans was Olympic champion in a new world record time ahead of the relay from Kenya ( Charles Asati , Munyoro Nyamau , Naftali Bon , Daniel Rudisha ) and the Federal Republic of Germany ( Helmar Müller , Manfred Kinder , Gerhard Hennige , Martin Jellinghaus ).
For the GDR - officially East Germany - Hartmut Schwabe , Dieter Fromm , Wolfgang Müller and Michael Zerbes started. This season was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Teams from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
| World record | 2: 59.6 min |
 USA ( Robert Frey , Lee Evans , Tommie Smith , Theron Lewis ) |
Los Angeles , USA | July 24, 1967 |
| Olympic record | 3: 00.7 min |
USA ( Ollan Cassell , Mike Larrabee , Ulis Williams , Henry Carr ) |
Tokyo finals , Japan | October 21, 1964 |
Conducting the competition
The relays competed on October 19 for a total of three preliminary runs. The two best teams and the two fastest teams qualified for the final on October 20th.
Time schedule
October 19, 4.40 p.m .: Preliminaries
October 20, 4 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The relays directly qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue, the relays qualified over time are highlighted in light green.
Prelims
Date: October 19, 1968, from 4.40 p.m.
Forward 1
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
United States
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Vince Matthews Ron Freeman Larry James Lee Evans |
3: 00.7 min | 3: 00.71 min | ORe |
| 2 |
 Kenya
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Daniel Rudisha Munyoro Nyamau Naftali Bon Charles Asati |
3: 00.8 min | 3: 00.84 min | |
| 3 |
 Italy
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Sergio Ottolina Giacomo Puosi Furio Fusi Sergio Bello |
3: 04.8 min | 3: 04.93 min | |
| 4th |
.svg){kind=small} GDR
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Hartmut Schwabe Dieter Fromm Wolfgang Müller Michael Zerbes |
3: 06.9 min | 3: 07.00 min | |
| 5 |
 Dominican Republic
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Rolando Gómez José L'Oficial Radhames Mora David Soriano |
3: 19.4 min | 3: 19.42 min | |
| DNS |
 Malaysia
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Forward 2
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
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Stanisław Grędziński Jan Balachowski Jan Werner Andrzej Badeński |
3: 03.0 min | 3: 03.02 min | |
| 2 |
 Great Britain
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Martin Winbolt-Lewis Colin Campbell David Hemery John Sherwood |
3: 03.6 min | 3: 03.67 min | |
| 3 |
 Nigeria
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Mamman Makama David Ejoke Musa Dogonyaro Anthony Egwunyenga |
3: 05.7 min | 3: 05.78 min | |
| 4th |
 Senegal
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Amadou Gakou Daour M'Baye Papa M'Baye N'Diaye Mamadou Sarr |
3: 06.9 min | 3: 06.94 min | |
| DNS |
 Jamaica
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 Belgium
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Forward 3
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
BR Germany
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Helmar Müller Manfred children Gerhard Hennige Martin Jellinghaus |
3: 03.8 min | 3: 03.90 min | |
| 2 |
 Trinidad and Tobago
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George Simon Euric Bobb Benedict Cayenne Edwin Roberts |
3: 04.5 min | 3: 04.55 min | |
| 3 |
 France
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Jean-Claude Nallet Jacques Carette Gilles Bertould Jean-Pierre Boccardo |
3: 04.6 min | 3: 04.69 min | |
| 4th |
 Cuba
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Carlos Martínez Eddy Téllez Miguel Oliveira Rodobaldo Díaz |
3: 05.2 min | 3: 05.28 min | |
| 5 |
.svg){kind=small} Venezuela
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Víctor Patíñez Raúl Dome Víctor Maldonado José Jacinto Hidalgo |
3: 07.6 min | 3: 07.65 min | |
| 6th |
 Mexico
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Melesio Piña Salvador Medina Carlos Castro Francisco Sardo |
3: 08.1 min | 3: 08.19 min | |
| 7th |
 Canada
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Ross MacKenzie Brian MacLaren Bill Crothers Wes Brooker |
3: 09.6 min | 3: 09.70 min |
final
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
United States
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Vince Matthews Ron Freeman Larry James Lee Evans |
2: 56.1 min | 2: 56.16 min | WR |
| 2 |
Kenya
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Charles Asati Munyoro Nyamau Naftali Bon Daniel Rudisha |
2: 59.6 min | 2: 59.64 min | |
| 3 |
BR Germany
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Helmar Müller Manfred children Gerhard Hennige Martin Jellinghaus |
3: 00.5 min | 3: 00.57 min | |
| 4th |
Poland
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Stanisław Grędziński Jan Balachowski Jan Werner Andrzej Badeński |
3: 00.5 min | 3: 00.58 min | |
| 5 |
Great Britain
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Martin Winbolt-Lewis Colin Campbell David Hemery John Sherwood |
3: 01.2 min | 3: 01.21 min | |
| 6th |
Trinidad and Tobago
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George Simon Euric Bobb Benedict Cayenne Edwin Roberts |
3: 04.5 min | 3: 04.54 min | |
| 7th |
Italy
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Sergio Ottolina Giacomo Puosi Furio Fusi Sergio Bello |
3: 04.6 min | 3: 04.64 min | |
| 8th |
France
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Jean-Claude Nallet Jacques Carette Gilles Bertould Jean-Pierre Boccardo |
3: 07.5 min | 3: 07.51 min |
Date: October 20, 1968, 4 p.m.
The clear favorite was the USA relay team, which competed with its three medal winners from the 400-meter individual race. This team set the existing Olympic record in advance .
In the final, the first round was surprisingly clearly dominated by the Kenyans, Charles Asati brought his team four meters ahead of the Americans. Then Ronald Freeman ran the fastest time of all relay runners and thus laid the foundation for the success of the US relay. The team won the race in the high air of Mexico City by more than 30 meters. The team improved the current world record by 3.5 seconds. This record was not beaten until 1992, making it Mexico City's longest-standing world record. The Kenyan season came in second behind the Americans with 2: 59.6 minutes. This made Kenya the second country to ever stay below the 3-minute mark in this discipline. There was an exciting duel between the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland for the bronze medal. The German final runner Martin Jellinghaus was a tenth of a second behind the British in fourth place when the relay was handed over and had tried to catch the Kenyan Daniel Rudisha from silver, but exhausted himself a bit, so that the Pole Andrzej Badeński almost overtook him on the finish line. It was not until the finish photo made it clear that Jellinghaus was third with a hundredth of a second ahead of Badeński. Both seasons ran a new European record with 3: 00.5 minutes.
In the twelfth Olympic final there was the ninth US victory. This was the fourth in a row.
Kenya and the Federal Republic of Germany won their first medals in this discipline.
Split times and individual running times (in s / min) - unofficial :
- Change 1 - 44.6 Kenya (Asati) / 45.0 USA (Matthews) / 46.1 Trinidad and Tobago (TTO) (Simon) / 46.2 Great Britain. (Winbolt-Lewis) / 46.4 BR German. (H. Müller) / 46.4 Italy (Ottolina) / 46.6 France (Nallet) / 46.8 Poland (Grędziński)
- Change 2 - 1: 28.2 USA (Freeman 43.2) / 1: 30.1 KEN (Nyamau 45.5) / 1: 31.1 FRG (children 44.7) / 1: 31.1 GBR (Campbell 44.9) / 1: 31.5 POL (Balachowski 44.7) / 1: 32.2 ITA (Puosi 45.8) / 1: 32.4 FRA (Carette 45.8) / 1: 33.5 TTO (Bobb 46.7)
- Change 3 - 2: 12.0 USA (James 43.8) / 2: 15.2 KEN (Bon 45.1) / 2: 15.7 GBR (Hemery 44.6) / 2: 15.8 FRG (Hennige 44.7) / 2: 16.0 POL (Werner 44.5) / 2: 18.7 TTO (Cayenne 45.9) / 2: 18.7 ITA (Fusi 46.5) / 2: 19.5 FRA (Bertould 47.1)
- Goal - 2: 56.1 USA (Evans 44.1) / 2: 59.6 KEN (Rudisha 44.4) / 3: 00.5 FRG (Jellinghaus 44.7) / 3: 00.5 POL (Badeński 44.4) , 5) / 3: 01.2 GBR (Sherwood 45.5) / 3: 04.5 TTO (Roberts 45.8) / 3: 04.6 ITA (Bello 45.9) / 3: 07.5 FRA ( Boccardo 48.0)
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 377f
Video
- 4x400m (USA-WR), Mexico City, 1968 , published January 8, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed November 7, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 4 × 400 m , accessed on November 7, 2017
- Official report - summary p. 82f, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 7, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 525, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 7, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 562 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 7, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 11, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 7, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 525, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 7, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 7, 2017
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 295
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