1928 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 24 athletes from 12 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Amsterdam | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 29, 1928 | ||||||||
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The men's 10,000 meter run at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam was held on July 29, 1928 in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium. 24 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Paavo Nurmi from Finland, ahead of his compatriot Ville Ritola . Bronze went to Edvin Wide from Sweden .
Existing records
- World record : 30: 06.2 min - Paavo Nurmi ( Finland ), Kuopio , August 31, 1924
- Olympic record : 30: 23.2 min - Ville Ritola ( Finland ), Paris race , July 6, 1924
The race
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Paavo Nurmi | Finland | 30: 18.8 min | OR |
2 | Ville Ritola | Finland | 30: 19.4 min | |
3 | Edvin Wide | Sweden | 31: 00.8 min | |
4th | Jean-Gunnar Lindgren | Sweden | 31: 26.0 min | |
5 | Arthur Muggridge | Great Britain | 31: 31.8 min | |
6th | Ragnar Magnusson | Sweden | 31: 37.2 min | |
7th | Toivo Loukola | Finland | 31: 39.0 min | |
8th | Kalle Matilainen | Finland | 31: 45.0 min | |
9 | Wally Beavers | Great Britain | 31: 48.0 min | |
10 | Suttie Smith | Great Britain | k. A. | |
11 | Robert Marchal | France | ||
12 | George Constable | Great Britain | ||
13 | Arturo Peña | Spain | 32: 21.8 min | |
14th | Joie Ray | United States | k. A. | |
15th | Staņislavs Petkēvičs | Latvia | ||
16 | Seghir Beddari | France | ||
17th | Karel Nedobitý | Czechoslovakia | ||
18th | Julien Serwy | Belgium | ||
19th | Juichi Nagatani | Japan | ||
20th | Danie Jacobs | South African Union | ||
DNF | Henri Lauvaux | France | ||
John Romig | United States | |||
Chavan Singh | British India | |||
Macauley Smith | United States |
Date: July 29, 1928
In this race Paavo Nurmi showed his usual side: fast-paced and extremely strong. Initially, Briton Wally Beavers, who finished ninth, set the pace alone and worked out a smaller lead for himself. But after five laps the three favorites Nurmi, Ville Ritola and Edvin Wide had taken command and increased the distance to the rest of the field lap by lap. With 3,000 meters to go, Wide could not follow either. Ritola was the first to accelerate, Nurmi followed him without any effort, forced himself into the home straight and became Olympic champion with a lead of six tenths of a second and an Olympic record .
Paavo Nurmi won the ninth and final gold medal of his career in this race.
In the fourth Olympic race over 10,000 meters there was the fourth Finnish victory.
The top eight runners included, besides Arthur Muggridge from Britain, only Swedes and Finns.
Picture gallery
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 197f
Web links
- SportsReference 10,000 m , accessed September 12, 2017
- Official report pp. 424-426, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 12, 2017
Video
- Amsterdam 1928 osa 2 , range 1:46 min to 5:27 min published on May 26, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed on September 12, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 198
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)