1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m walking (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 m walk
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 8, 1912 (preliminary round) July 11, 1912 (final)
Medalist George Goulding ( CAN )   Ernest Webb ( GBR )   Fernando Altimani ( ITA )

The men's 10,000m walk at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm was held on July 7th and 11th, 1912 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 22 athletes took part. This walking competition was held for the first time over the 10,000 meter distance and replaced the walking disciplines from 1908 , which ran over 10 miles and 3500 meters.

Olympic champion was the Canadian George Goulding ahead of the Briton Ernest Webb . The Italian Fernando Altimani won the bronze medal.

Existing records

• World records ; were not run over this distance at that time
• Olympic record : Competition held for the first time, so there was no Olympic record.

Conducting the competition

A total of two preliminary rounds were held on July 8th. Athletes in the top five places qualified for the final, which was held on July 11th.

Note: The walkers qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue.

Preliminary round

Date: July 7, 1912

Round 1

George Goulding (CAN)

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	George Goulding	Canada	47: 14.5 min
2	Ernest Webb	Great Britain	47: 25.4 min
3	Aage Rasmussen	Denmark	48: 15.8 min
4th	Fernando Altimani	Italy	48: 54.2 min
5	William Palmer	Great Britain	51: 21.0 min
6th	Samuel Schwartz	United States	53: 30.8 min
7th	Edward Renz	United States	53: 30.8 min
DNF	Eduard Hermann	Russia
	Kaarel Lukk	Russia
	Rudolf Richter	Bohemia

round 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	William Yates	Great Britain	49: 43.6 min
2	Arthur St. Norman	South African Union	50: 17.9 min
3	Thomas Dumbill	Great Britain	50: 57.6 min
4th	Vilhelm Gylche	Denmark	51: 13.8 min
5	Frederick Kaiser	United States	51: 31.8 min
6th	Alfred Voellmeke	United States	52: 29.0 min
7th	Rolando Salinas	Chile	55: 02.0 min
8th	Henrik Ripszám	Hungary	55: 20.6 min
9	Aleksis Aide	Russia	59: 24.4 min
DNF	Istvan Drubina	Hungary
DSQ	Robert Bridge	Great Britain
	William Murray	Australasia
	Niels Petersen	Denmark

The final: Goulding leads

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	George Goulding	Canada	46: 28.4 min	WR
2	Ernest Webb	Great Britain	46: 50.4 min
3	Fernando Altimani	Italy	47: 37.6 min
4th	Aage Rasmussen	Denmark	48: 00.0 min
DNF	Vilhelm Gylche	Denmark
	Frederick Kaiser	United States
	William Palmer	Great Britain
DSQ	Thomas Dumbill	Great Britain
	Arthur St. Norman	South African Union
	William Yates	Great Britain

Date: July 11, 1912

Ernest Webb, who had won the silver medal in each of the two walking competitions in 1908 , was considered one of the favorites for the Olympic victory. George Larner , the 1908 winner of both walking distances, had resigned. The Canadian George Goulding, who had finished fourth in the 3,500 meters in 1908, had to give up over 10 miles and had also finished the marathon in 22nd place, showed improved walking discipline and was able to defeat Webb before the Stockholm Games. So it was in Stockholm too . Webb had to be content with silver again. Goulding became Olympic champion and set a new world record .

Of the ten finalists who took part, only four made it to the finish. Three walkers gave up and three others were disqualified under the hawk eyes of the judges for impure walking style.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 112

Video

• Olympics 1912 10km Walk on YouTube , accessed February 18, 2019.

Web links

• SportsReference 10k Walk , accessed August 27, 2017
• Official report , English (PDF), accessed on August 27, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information in Sports-Reference (English)