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) |
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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 |
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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 |
round 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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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 |
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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
- ^ Official report ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) p. 101, French. (PDF)
- ↑ Information at SportsReference (Eng.)