1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 33 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Stade de Colombes | ||||||||
| Competition phase | July 6, 1924 | ||||||||
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The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 6, 1924 in the Stade de Colombes . The number of participants is not guaranteed. In the official report, 43 starters from 17 countries were given. However, based on photo analyzes - for example from the start - experts came to the conclusion that only 30 to 35 runners took up the race. The participation of the two Eritreans Mareg Mangaschia and Tacle Redda , who started for Italy, as well as the Indian Gurbachan Singh is not documented.
The Olympic champion was the Finn Ville Ritola , who won in a new world record time before the Swede Edvin Wide . Bronze went to the Finn Eero Berg .
A special feature of this race was that the stadium circuit in Colombes was 500 meters long.
Existing records
- World record : 30: 35.4 min - Ville Ritola ( Finland ), Helsinki , May 25, 1924
- Olympic record : 31: 20.8 min - Hannes Kolehmainen ( Finland ), Stockholm , July 8, 1912
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Date: July 8, 1924
Paavo Nurmi , the real favorite at this distance and Olympic champion in 1920 , was advised by the Finnish association not to take part in this race. The officials feared an overload of their star. This allowed Ville Ritola to develop freely and win the race. He improved his own world record by more than twelve seconds. Only the Swede Edvin Wide was initially able to keep up with Ritola's pace, but had to let go after 4000 meters. Third and fourth places also went to Finland. Bronze was won by Eero Berg, fourth was Väinö Sipilä.
Experts assumed that Nurmi would have found it very difficult with this ritola. However, Nurmi pulverized Ritola's world record with 30: 06.2 minutes at the end of August.
Ritola's victory was the third Finnish win over 10,000 meters in the third Olympic competition. Edvin Wide won the first Swedish medal in this discipline.
Picture gallery
Olympic Champion Ville Ritola (FIN)
Edvin Wide (SWE), silver medal winner
The Briton Ernie Harper finished in fifth place
The Italian Carlo Speroni had to give up the race
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 162
Web links
- SportsReference 10,000m , accessed September 5, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official report, page 118 (French) ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2008 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.
- ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 162
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
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