1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	74 athletes from 39 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium (start / finish), Münchner Freiheit , Georg-Brauchle-Ring , Nymphenburg Palace Park , Hirschgarten , English Garden , Olympic Park
Competition phase	September 10, 1972
Winning time	2: 12: 19.8 h
Medalist Frank Shorter ( USA )   Karel Lismont ( BEL )   Mamo Wolde ( ETH )

The men's marathon at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 10, 1972. The start and finish was the Munich Olympic Stadium . 74 athletes took part, of which 62 made it to the finish line.

The Munich-born American Frank Shorter became Olympic champion . Silver went to the Belgian Karel Lismont , bronze went to the Ethiopian Mamo Wolde .

For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - competed: Paul Angenvoorth (16th place), Manfred Steffny (31st place) and Lutz Philipp (32nd place).
The GDR was represented by Eckhard Lesse (25th place).
With Alfons Sidler a Swiss crossed the finish line in 44th place.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World best	2:08:33.6 h	Derek Clayton ( Australia )	Antwerp , Belgium	May 30, 1969
Olympic record	2: 12: 11.2 h	Abebe Bikila ( Ethiopia )	Tokyo Olympic Marathon , Japan	October 21, 1964

Note: World records were not set in the marathon because of the different track conditions.

Routing

The race started in the Olympic Stadium . After a run, the route turned towards the city of Munich , initially heading north past the Olympic village and then turning west. After four kilometers we went south on Hanauer Strasse , then west again over Georg-Brauchle-Ring . The route passed the Westfriedhof over the Wintrichring on the north and west side. After a little more than six kilometers, the path made a right curve into Allacher Straße . The route now led three kilometers westwards to today's Untermenzing S-Bahn stop. Here it went to the left in a south-easterly direction to the Nymphenburg Palace Park , further south through the park. At the Grand Cascade was Nymphenburg Canal crossed. Then it went east, south past Badenburg Lake , then north-east past Nymphenburg Palace again over the Wintrichring to the south-west corner of the west cemetery, which was now passed south. In the Gern district there was another right turn onto Dantestrasse . The eastern end of the Nymphenburg Canal was reached via Waisenhausstrasse . Here the path turned west again, south along the canal. At the roundabout , the route led south to the royal deer garden , which was crossed in an easterly direction. About the Wendl-Dietrich-Strasse , the Donnersbergerstraße and Arnulfstraße was Munich Central Station happened to the north. The Maxvorstadt district was reached on Brienner Strasse . Now it went past the Glyptothek , the Königsplatz and the Karolinenplatz . At Odeonsplatz , the route turned left into Ludwigstrasse to Geschwister-Scholl-Platz . There, in front of the Ludwig Maximilians University , we turned right across Veterinärstraße to the English Garden , where the path first led south, then along the Schwabinger Bach into the park. The route now ran north-east past the Japanese tea house , the Chinese tower and the lake house . After crossing the Isarring , it went along the Eisbach to the Isar up to the level of the Oberföhringer weir , from where the course turned further north. Shortly before the Aumeister tavern at the north end of the park there was a left bend, following the Schwabinger Bach to the south. The park was left to the west via Schwedenstrasse . After crossing the Isarring again, we went south again to Dietlindenstrasse , which turned right. The route followed the course of the road Dietlindenstrasse - Ungerstrasse - Leopoldstrasse - Münchner Freiheit - Karl-Theodor-Strasse , south past Luitpoldpark . About the Ackermannstraße was Olympiapark reached. After crossing the Olympic lake , it went back to the stadium, where the goal was reached after a final lap.

The route had a height difference of 31 meters. The highest point of 529 meters was reached shortly after 25 km at the level of the Old Pappenheim Hospital. The lowest point at 489 meters was 36 kilometers south of the Aumeister tavern.

Race course

Date: September 10, 1972, 3 p.m.

In the initial phase, the Briton Ronald Hill took the lead and was replaced by the Australian Derek Clayton up to kilometer ten. The US runner Frank Shorter took the lead at fifteen kilometers and was then quickly alone in front. By the end of this marathon , Shorter never gave up his leadership position. At twenty kilometer he was 29 seconds ahead, at 25 kilometer by 53 seconds. He was able to keep the pace steadily high and was on course for a new Olympic record up to kilometer 35 . Shorter finally won by over two minutes over Belgian Karel Lismont, for whom there was the silver medal. Another half a minute behind Lismont, the 1968 Olympic champion Mamo Wolde from Ethiopia crossed the finish line and this time won bronze. In the final kilometers, Shorter slowed down a little, feeling sure of victory and finally only missed the Olympic record by just under nine seconds.

Shorter, however, was not the first runner to enter the Olympic Stadium. A young German, the 16-year-old high school student Norbert Südhaus from Wiedenbrück , appeared to the cheers of 80,000 spectators . He was a participant in a youth camp at the Olympic Games, painted the number 72 on his running jersey, dressed as a runner could smuggle himself onto the track and enter the stadium unhindered. The audience celebrated him instead of the actual winner with great cheers. The deception was quickly discovered, however, and the youngster was taken off the track without crossing the finish line. He had previously announced: I will run a lap in the Olympic Stadium . As a motive, he later stated that the sad mood that had spread after the hostage-taking of Munich five days earlier had prompted him to take his action. Südhaus was temporarily arrested and taken to Willi Daume , who greeted him with the sentence you are a stupid boy, you don't even know what you did to us today and made sure that the young man was sent home. Shorter, who had expected applause and cheers when he arrived, was amazed at the uproar in the stadium and later struggled to process his disappointment with the incident. Südhaus later wrote him a letter of apology, which went unanswered.

Richard Mabuza - 17th place - was the first athlete from Swaziland to take part in the Olympic Games.

Kim Chang-son - 37th place - and Ryu Man-Hyong - 49th place - were the first athletes to take part in the Olympic Games for North Korea .

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	5 km time
5 km	15:06 min	Ronald Hill	15:06 min
10 km	31:15 min	Derek Clayton	16:09 min
15 km	46:21 min	Frank Shorter	15:06 min
20 km	1:01:30 h	Frank Shorter	15:09 min
25 km	1:17:05 h	Frank Shorter	15:35 min
30 km	1:32:49 h	Frank Shorter	15:44 min
35 km	1:48:40 h	Frank Shorter	15:51 min
40 km	2:05:31 h	Frank Shorter	16:51 min

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	time	Note
1	Frank Shorter	United States	2: 12: 19.8 h
2	Karel Lismont	Belgium	2: 14: 31.8 h
3	Mamo Wolde	Ethiopia	2: 15: 08.4 h
4th	Kenny Moore	United States	2: 15: 39.8 h
5	Kenji Kimihara	Japan	2: 16: 27.0 h
6th	Ron Hill	Great Britain	2: 16: 30.6 h
7th	Donald Macgregor	Great Britain	2: 16: 34.4 h
8th	Jack Foster	New Zealand	2: 16: 56.2 h
9	Jack Bacheler	United States	2: 16: 56.2 h
10	Lengissa Bedane	Ethiopia	2: 18: 36.8 h
11	Seppo Nikkari	Finland	2: 18: 49.4 h
12	Akio Usami	Japan	2: 18: 58.0 h
13	Derek Clayton	Australia	2: 19: 49.6 h
14th	Yuri Velikorodnych	Soviet Union	2: 20: 02.2 h
15th	Anatolijus Baranovas	Soviet Union	2: 20: 10.4 h
16	Paul Angenvoorth	BR Germany	2: 20: 19.0 h
17th	Richard Mabuza	Swaziland	2: 20: 39.6 h
18th	Demissie Wolde	Ethiopia	2: 20: 44.0 h
19th	Reino Paukkonen	Finland	2: 21: 06.4 h
20th	Colin Kirkham	Great Britain	2: 21: 54.8 h
21st	Antonio Grossi	Italy	2: 22: 12.0 h
22nd	Dave McKenzie	New Zealand	2: 22: 19.2 h
23	Danny McDaid	Ireland	2: 22: 25.2 h
24	Renato Martini	Italy	2: 22: 41.4 h
25th	Eckhard Lesse	GDR	2: 22: 49.6 h
26th	Jacinto Sabinal	Mexico	2: 22: 56.6 h
27	Gyula Tóth	Hungary	2: 22: 59.8 h
28	Fernand Kolbeck	France	2: 23: 01.2 h
29	Hernán Barreneche	Colombia	2: 23: 40.0 h
30th	Jørgen Jensen	Denmark	2: 24: 00.2 h
31	Manfred Steffny	BR Germany	2: 24: 25.4 h
32	Lutz Philipp	BR Germany	2: 24: 25.4 h
33	Ferenc Szekeres	Hungary	2: 25: 17.6 h
34	Terry Manners	New Zealand	2: 25: 29.2 h
35	Igor Shcherbak	Soviet Union	2: 25: 37.4 h
36	Yoshiaki Unetani	Japan	2: 25: 59.0 h
37	Kim Chang-son	North Korea	2: 26: 45.6 h
38	Franco De Menego	Italy	2: 26: 52.2 h
39	Agustín Fernández	Spain	2: 27: 14.2 h
40	Edward Stawiarz	Poland	2: 28: 12.4 h
41	Armando Aldegalega	Portugal	2: 28: 24.6 hours
42	Desmond McGann	Ireland	2: 28: 31.6 h
43	Carlos Cuque	Guatemala	2: 28: 37.0 h
44	Alfons Sidler	Switzerland	2: 29: 09.2 h
45	Alfredo Peñaloza	Mexico	2: 29: 51.0 h
46	Walter Van Renterghem	Belgium	2: 29: 58.4 h
47	Donald Walsh	Ireland	2: 31: 12.0 h
48	Álvara Mejía	Colombia	2: 31: 56.4 h
49	Ryu Man-hyong	North Korea	2: 32: 29.4 h
50	Carlos Perez	Spain	2: 33: 22.6 h
51	Rafael Tadeo	Mexico	2: 35: 48.4 hours
52	Victor Mora	Colombia	2: 37: 34.6 h
53	Fernando Molina	Argentina	2: 38: 18.6 h
54	Julio Quevedo	Guatemala	2: 40: 38.6 h
55	Ramón Cabrera	Argentina	2: 32: 37.2 h
56	Matthews Cambals	Malawi	2: 45: 50.0 h
57	Hla Thein	Burma	2: 48: 53.2 h
58	Ricardo Condori	Bolivia	2: 56: 11.4 h
59	Fulgence Rwabu	Uganda	2:57:04.4 h
60	Bhakta Bahadur Sapkota	Nepal	2: 57: 58.8 h
61	Crispin Quispe	Bolivia	3: 07: 22.8 h
62	Maurice Charlotin	Haiti	3: 29: 21.0 h
DNF	Richard Juma	Kenya		Task at km 10
	Jit Bahadur Khatri Chhetri	Nepal		Task at km 20
	Gaston Roelants	Belgium
	Lucien Rosa	Ceylon
	Julius Wakachu	Tanzania
	İsmail Akçay	Turkey		Task at km 25
	Jama Awil Aden	Somalia
	Shag Musa Medani	Sudan		Task at km 30
	Juvenal Rocha	Bolivia
	Rodolfo Gomez	Nicaragua		Task at km 35
	Pekka Tiihonen	Finland
	Nazario Araújo	Argentina		Task at km 40

literature

• Werner Schneider , Sports Information Service , Bertelsmann Sports Editor, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , pp. 40f

Video

• 1972 Olympic Marathon: Munich , published September 17, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed November 22, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Marathon , accessed November 22, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 55, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 565 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 22, 2017
2. ↑ Course sketch at gpsies.com , accessed on November 22, 2017
3. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. , Pp. 43 and 55, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 22, 2017 
4. ^ David Clay Large: Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games limited preview in the Google book search
5. ↑ Pfalzsport, edition 09, September 2012, page 19
6. ↑ Article at Marathoninfo (French) , accessed on November 22, 2017