1928 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 4 x 400 meter relay | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 56 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Amsterdam | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 4th, 1928 (preliminary) August 5th, 1928 (final) |
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The men's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam was held on August 4th and 5th, 1928 in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam . 56 athletes took part in 14 relays.
The US relay won the gold medal in a new world record time with runners George Baird , Fred Alderman , Emerson Spencer and Ray Barbuti . Silver went to Germany with Otto Neumann , Harry Werner Storz , Richard Krebs and Hermann Engelhard , bronze to Canada with James Ball , Stanley Glover , Phil Edwards and Alex Wilson .
Existing records
- World record : 3: 16.0 min - USA ( Commodore Cochran , William Stevenson , Oliver MacDonald , Alan Helffrich ), Paris , July 13, 1924
- Olympic record : 3: 16.0 min - USA ( Commodore Cochran , William Stevenson , Oliver MacDonald , Alan Helffrich ), Paris final , July 13, 1924
Conducting the competition
The relays competed on August 4 for three preliminary races. The two best teams each qualified for the final, which was held on August 5th.
Note: The qualified relays are highlighted in light blue.
Prelims
Date: August 4, 1928
Not all times have been passed down.
Forward 1
space | Season | occupation | time | annotation |
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1 |
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George Baird Fred Alderman Emerson Spencer Ray Barbuti |
3: 21.4 min | |
2 |
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James Ball Stanley Glover Phil Edwards Alex Wilson |
3: 22.0 min | |
3 |
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Mór Gerő László Magdics László Barsi Antal Odri |
3: 23.2 min | |
4th |
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Feliks Malanowski Zygmunt Weiss Stefan Kostrzewski Klemens Biniakowski |
3: 24.2 min | |
5 |
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Philippe Coenjaerts Émile Vercken François Prinsen Émile Langenraedt |
k. A. |
Forward 2
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1 |
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Otto Neumann Harry Werner Storz Richard Krebs Hermann Engelhard |
3: 20.8 min | |
2 |
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Björn Kugelberg Bertil von Wachenfeldt Erik Byléhn Sten Pettersson |
3: 21.2 min | |
3 |
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Giacomo Carlini Luigi Facelli Guido Cominotto Ettore Tavernari |
3: 22.6 min | |
4th |
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Andries Hoogerwerf Adriaan Paulen Harry Broos Marinus van den Berge |
k. A. | |
5 |
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Johann Bartl Karel Kněnický Vilém Šindler Jaroslav Vykoupil |
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6th |
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Stelios Benardis Renos Frangoudis Vangelis Moiropoulos Vasilios Stavrinos |
Forward 3
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1 |
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Roger Leigh-Wood William Craner John Rinkel Douglas Lowe |
3: 20.6 min | |
2 |
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Georges Krotoff Joseph Jackson Georges Dupont René Féger |
3: 23.0 min | |
3 |
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Alfonso García José Lucílo Iturbe Jesús Moraila Víctor Villaseñor |
3: 23.4 min |
final
space | Season | occupation | time | annotation |
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1 |
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George Baird Fred Alderman Emerson Spencer Ray Barbuti |
3: 14.2 min | WR |
2 |
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Otto Neumann Harry Werner Storz Richard Krebs Hermann Engelhard |
3: 14.8 min | |
3 |
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James Ball Stanley Glover Phil Edwards Alex Wilson |
3: 15.4 min | |
4th |
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Björn Kugelberg Bertil von Wachenfeldt Erik Byléhn Sten Pettersson |
3: 15.8 min | |
5 |
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Roger Leigh-Wood William Craner John Rinkel Douglas Lowe |
3: 16.4 min | |
6th |
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Georges Krotoff Joseph Jackson Georges Dupont René Féger |
3: 19.4 min |
Date: August 5, 1928
Over 4 times 400 meters there was the same result in places one and two as already over 4 times 100 meters . However, the course of the race was very different. The Americans were the dominant season from the start and left no doubt as to who would win. There was a duel for the silver medal between Germany and Canada. Starting runner Otto Neumann switched to second place just before the Canadian Alex Wilson. Phil Edwards then passed Richard Krebs, who was able to regain second position shortly before the move. Harry Storz defended this position against Stanley Glover before the German final runner Hermann Engelhard, Olympic knight over 800 meters , broke away from the Canadian Olympic runner-up over 400 meters James Ball at the end of the race . Engelhard even seemed to be able to attack the US final runner Raymond Barbuti again. But this accelerated again pretty easily and so the medals were distributed. With 3: 14.2 min there was a new world record for the USA, the first four seasons undercut the previous world record of 3: 14.0 min.
Germany and Canada won the first medals in this discipline.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 212f
Web links
- SportsReference 4 × 400 m relay , accessed on September 13, 2017
- Official report pp. 465–466, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 13, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 562 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 212f