1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m walking (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000-meter walk
gender	Men
Attendees	23 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Stade de Colombes
Competition phase	9/11 July 1924 (preliminary round) July 13, 1924 (final)
Medalist Ugo Frigerio ( ITA )   Gordon Goodwin ( GBR )   Cecil McMaster ( RSA )

The men's 10,000-meter walk at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 9, 11 and 13, 1924 in the Stade de Colombes . 23 athletes took part. It was the only walking competition in Paris. The distance over 10,000 meters was not held again until 1948 in London .

Olympic champion was the Italian Olympic champion of 1920 Ugo Frigerio before the Briton Gordon Goodwin . Bronze went to the South African Cecil McMaster .

A special feature was that the round stadium in the Stade de Colombes was 500 meters long.

Existing records

• World record : 45: 26.4 min - Aage Rasmussen ( Denmark ), Copenhagen , August 18, 1918
• Olympic record : 46: 28.4 min - George Goulding ( Canada ), Stockholm final , August 11, 1912

Conducting the competition

The walkers completed two preliminary rounds, one started on July 9th and the other on July 11th. The five best walkers in each preliminary round qualified for the final, which took place on July 13th.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Not all times have been passed down.

Preliminary round 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Gordon Goodwin	Great Britain	49: 04.0 min
2	Donato Pavesi	Italy	49: 09.0 min
3	Harry Hinkel	United States	k. A.
4th	Luigi Bosatra	Italy	k. A.
5	Henri Clermont	France	k. A.
6th	Henk Keemink	Netherlands	k. A.
DSQ	Daniel Eslava	Mexico
	Eversleigh Freeman	Canada
	Ernie Austen	Australia
	Arvīds Ķibilds	Latvia
	Rudolf Kühnel	Austria
	Alfrēds Ruks	Latvia

Date: July 9, 1924

Preliminary round 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ugo Frigerio	Italy	49: 15.6 min
2	Cecil McMaster	South African Union	k. A.
3	Arthur Tell Schwab	Switzerland	k. A.
4th	Armando Valente	Italy	k. A.
5	Ernest Clark	Great Britain	k. A.
6th	François Decrombecque	France	k. A.
DSQ	Mihály Fekete	Hungary
	Charles Foster	United States
	Philip Grandville	Canada
	Alfrēds Kalniņš	Latvia
	Rudolf Kühnel	Austria
	Gordon Watts	Great Britain

Date: July 11, 1924

The protest of the Austrian Rudolf Kühnel against his disqualification in the first preliminary round competition was granted. Kühnel was allowed to try again in the second race, but was also disqualified there.

Olympic champion Ugo Frigerio (ITA)

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ugo Frigerio	Italy	47: 49.0 min
2	Gordon Goodwin	Great Britain	48: 37.9 min
3	Cecil McMaster	South African Union	49: 08.0 min
4th	Donato Pavesi	Italy	49: 17.0 min
5	Arthur Tell Schwab	Switzerland	49: 50.0 min
6th	Ernest Clark	Great Britain	49: 59.2 min
7th	Armando Valente	Italy	50: 07.0 min
8th	Luigi Bosatra	Italy	50: 09.0 min
9	Harry Hinkel	United States	50: 16.8 min
10	Henri Clermont	France	51: 41.6 min

Date: July 13, 1924

This time there was only one competition for the walkers . Here in Paris , too , the competition was held on the track again. And again Ugo Frigerio was the outstanding athlete in the field. He won the gold medal more than fifty seconds ahead of Gordon Goodwin and Cecil McMaster. George Goulding's Olympic record remained untouched, however. The Canadian was more than 2:50 minutes faster in 1912 . Four years after the Paris Games, walking was temporarily taken out of the Olympic program entirely, before another competition was held in 1932 , which was held in Los Angeles over the distance of fifty kilometers. Ugo Frigerio was there again and won the bronze medal.

Cecil McMaster won the first South African medal in Olympic walking here in Paris.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede : The History of Olympic Athletics. Volume 1: 1896-1936. 2nd Edition. Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin 1970, p. 164 f.

Web links

• SportsReference 10k Walk , accessed September 9, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 164
2. ↑ Official report, pages 129 - 130 ( 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. (French)