1920 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000m Walk (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	3000 meter walking
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Antwerp Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 20, 1920 (preliminary round) August 21, 1920 (final)
Medalist Ugo Frigerio ( ITA )   George Parker ( AUS )   Richard Remer ( USA )

Double Olympic Champion Ugo Frigerio (ITA)

The men's 3000 meter competition at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp was held on August 20 and 21, 1920 in the Antwerp Olympic Stadium. 22 athletes took part. This distance was the first and only time at the Summer Olympics.

Olympic champion was the Italian Ugo Frigerio ahead of the Australian George Parker . The American Richard Remer won the bronze medal.

The Swiss Stanislas Anselmetti was disqualified in his preliminary run. German and Austrian athletes were excluded from participating in these games.

Conducting the competition

The preliminary round with two competitions was held on August 20th from 10 a.m. Athletes in the first six places qualified for the finals, which took place on August 21 at 4:00 p.m. The competitions were held on the track in the Olympic Stadium .

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

Preliminary round

Date: August 20, 1920, from 10 a.m.

Round 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Donato Pavesi	Italy	13: 46.8 min	OR
2	George Parker	Australia	13: 47.9 min
3	Thomas Maroney	United States	13: 52.1 min
4th	Charles Dowson	Great Britain	13: 54.9 min
5	Niels Pedersen	Denmark	14: 06.3 min
6th	Jean Seghers	Belgium	14: 09.2 min
7th	Paul Verlaeckt	Belgium	k. A.
DSQ	Cor Gubbels	Netherlands
	Josef Šlehofer	Czechoslovakia
	Eduard Hermann	Estonia
	Joseph Pearman	United States

round 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ugo Frigerio	Italy	13: 40.2 min	OR
2	Cecil McMaster	South African Union	13: 48.5 min
3	Richard Remer	United States	13: 54.1 min
4th	Winfred Rolker	United States	13: 59.8 min
5	William Hehir	Great Britain	k. A.
6th	Charles Gunn	Great Britain	k. A.
7th	August Schotte	Netherlands	k. A.
8th	Edward Freeman	Canada	k. A.
9	Charles Wiggers	Belgium	k. A.
DSQ	Stanislas Anselmetti	Switzerland
	Gunnar Rasmussen	Denmark

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ugo Frigerio	Italy	13: 14.2 min	OR
2	George Parker	Australia	13: 19.6 min
3	Richard Remer	United States	13: 22.2 min
4th	Cecil McMaster	South African Union	13: 23.6 min
5	Thomas Maroney	United States	13: 25.0 min
6th	Charles Dowson	Great Britain	13: 28.0 min
7th	William Hehir	Great Britain	13: 29.8 min
8th	Winfred Rolker	United States	13: 30.4 min
9	Jean Seghers	Belgium	13: 31.3 min
10	Charles Gunn	Great Britain	13: 34.0 min
11	Niels Pedersen	Denmark	13: 36.8 min
DSQ	Donato Pavesi	Italy

Date: August 21, 1920, 4 p.m.

Ugo Frigerio, who had won the 10 km competition three days earlier, also took the lead over the shorter distance from the start. Before the start, Frigerio had given the conductor of the orchestra, who was in the interior, several pages of scores for pieces of music that were to be played during the race. When the orchestra was not playing at the right pace, the Italian went to the conductor during the race and complained. Then he continued the race and was the first to cross the finish line. The other medal ranks were occupied by other athletes than over 10,000 meters. The Australian George Parker came in second and Richard Remer, USA, came in third.

For Frigerio it was the second of three gold medals in his career.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 143

Web links

• SportsReference 3000m walk , accessed September 2, 2017
• Official report , French (PDF), accessed on September 2, 2017

Video

• Ugo Frigerio Wins Double Olympic Walking Gold - Antwerp 1920 Olympics , published October 5, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed September 2, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official report ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) p. 100, French. (PDF)
2. ↑ Information at SportsReference (Eng.)