1920 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m walking (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000-meter walk
gender	Men
Attendees	23 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Antwerp Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 17, 1920 (preliminary round) August 18, 1920 (final)
Medalist Ugo Frigerio ( ITA )   Joseph Pearman ( USA )   Charles Gunn ( GBR )

The men's 10,000 meter walk at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp was held on August 17 and 18, 1920 in the Antwerp Olympic Stadium. 23 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Italian Ugo Frigerio ahead of the American Joseph Pearman . The Briton Charles Gunn won the bronze medal.

The Swiss Stanislas Anselmetti could not finish his competition in the preliminary round. German and Austrian athletes were excluded from participating in these games.

Existing records

World record	-	-	-	-
Olympic record	George Goulding ( Canada )	45: 26.4 min	Stockholm	July 11, 1912

Conducting the competition

A total of two preliminary rounds were held on August 17th from 9:30 a.m. Athletes in the first six places qualified for the finals, which took place on August 18 at 11.00 a.m.

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

Preliminary round

Date: August 17, 1920, from 9.30 a.m.

Round 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ugo Frigerio	Italy	47: 06.4 min
2	Joseph Pearman	United States	47: 30.0 min
3	George Parker	Australia	47: 31.0 min
4th	Donato Pavesi	Italy	48: 12.0 min
5	Charles Gunn	Great Britain	48: 22.0 min
6th	Jean Seghers	Belgium	48: 29.0 min
7th	Winfred Rolker	United States	k. A.
DNF	Charles Dowson	Great Britain
	Josef Šlehofer	Czechoslovakia
DSQ	Eduard Hermann	Estonia
	Gunnar Rasmussen	Denmark
	Martial Simon	France
	Paul Verlaeckt	Belgium

Olympic victory for Ugo Frigerio (ITA)

round 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	William Hehir	Great Britain	51: 33.8 min
2	Cecil McMaster	South African Union	51: 39.0 min
3	Thomas Maroney	United States	51: 54.6 min
4th	William Plant	United States	52: 18.3 min
5	Luis Meléndez	Spain	53: 56.6 min
6th	Antoine Doyen	Belgium	k. A.
DNF	Stanislas Anselmetti	Switzerland
DSQ	Eversleigh Freeman	Canada
	Niels Pedersen	Denmark
	Charles Wiggers	Belgium

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ugo Frigerio	Italy	48: 06.2 min
2	Joseph Pearman	United States	49: 40.2 min
3	Charles Gunn	Great Britain	49: 43.9 min
4th	Cecil McMaster	South African Union	50: 04.0 min
5	William Hehir	Great Britain	50: 11.8 min
6th	Thomas Maroney	United States	50: 24.4 min
7th	Jean Seghers	Belgium	50: 32.4 min
8th	Antoine Doyen	Belgium	56: 30.0 min
DNF	Luis Meléndez	Spain
DSQ	Donato Pavesi	Italy
	William Plant	United States
DNS	George Parker	Australia

Date: August 18, 1920, 11 a.m.

The US-American Joseph Pearman led the field until halfway through the race, after which Ugo Frigerio took over the lead and quickly developed a lead that he continued to expand until the finish line. He won by over half a lap over Pearman and the British Charles Gunn. The Olympic record from 1912 was not touched here, whereby the poor track conditions played a major role.

For Frigerio it was the first of three gold medals in his career. In the competition over 3000 meters three days later, he achieved his second Olympic victory in 1920.

Web links

• SportsReference 10k Walk , accessed September 2, 2017
• Official report , French (PDF), accessed on September 2, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official report ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) p. 101, French. (PDF)
2. ↑ Information at SportsReference (Eng.)