1928 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	69 athletes from 23 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam (start and finish)
Competition phase	August 5, 1928
Medalist Boughera El-Ouafi ( FRA )   Manuel Plaza ( CHI )   Martti Marttelin ( FIN )

The men's marathon at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam was held on August 5, 1928. 69 athletes took part, 57 of them made it to the finish.

The Olympic champion was the French Boughera El-Ouafi ahead of the Chilean Manuel Plaza . Bronze went to Martti Marttelin from Finland .

Existing records

• World best time: 2: 29: 01.8 h - Albert Michelsen ( USA ), Port Chester , Port Chester Marathon , October 12, 1925 - Official world records are not set in the marathon .
• Olympic record : 2:32: 35.8 h - Hannes Kolehmainen ( Finland ), Antwerp marathon , 22 August 1920

Routing

The runners left the stadium to the left of the marathon goal .

The start was in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam , which was left after less than one lap. We then went east over the Stadionplein to the Amsteldijk. The route turned south and ran towards Ouderkerk , then in a south-westerly direction to Uithoorn . Now we went north again to the Amsteldijk. From there the route led back to the Olympic Stadium, where the runners had to complete a final lap.

The race

Date: August 5, 3:14 p.m.

The weather conditions at the time of take-off were mild. At temperatures around 16 ° C, the humidity was 93% with wind force four. The race was started while a game of demonstration lacrosse was taking place. The one-armed South African Martinus Steytler led the stadium round. On the way to the Amsteldijk, a leading group formed with the US runner Joie Ray, the Belgians Jean Marien and Jean Linsen and the Briton Ernie Harper. On the Amsteldijk, the Japanese Kanematsu Yamada had caught up and now took the lead.

Before Ouderkerk, the German Franz Wanderer and the Finns Eino Rastas, Martti Marttelin and Yrjö Korholin-Koski had pushed their way forward, but were overtaken by the Belgian Linsen in Ouderkerk. The pace was quite high due to the prevailing tail wind. When it went north again, the field slowed as it was now exposed to the headwind. Shortly after the runners turned north, Linsen led in front of Wanderer and the Japanese Seichiiro Tsuda and Nagatani. Behind them were Ray, Clifford Bricker and Albert Michelsen, holders of the world record. Wanderer now took the lead, followed by Ray, Yamada, Laasonen, Marttelin, Rastas and Nagatani.

In Uithoorn the lead changed again. Now the Japanese Tsuda and Yamada went forward. Marttelin, Bricker and Ray followed. This order remained until the arrival at the Amsteldijk. While Tsuda slowed down, Ray moved up to second. Now the French Boughera El-Ouafi came up, followed by the Chilean Manuel Plaza. Ray took the lead but was soon overtaken by Yamada. El-Ouafi caught up with this duo when Yamada fell plagued by convulsions. El-Ouafi, Plaza and Marttelin passed Yamada, who was still able to continue the race. Ray also got muscle cramps.

El-Ouafi was the first runner to enter the stadium. Plaza followed 26 seconds later, then Marttelin. Yamada made it to fourth place. This order did not change any more. El-Ouafi missed the Olympic record of the Finn Hannes Kolehmainen from 1920 by only 22 seconds.

Boughera El-Ouafi achieved the first French victory in the Olympic marathon.

Manuel Plaza won the first Chilean medal at the Olympic Games.

Olympic Champion Boughera El-Ouafi (FRA)

First Olympic medal for Chile by Manuel Plaza

The Briton Ernie Harper reached number 22

After bronze in 1924 only 27th place this time: Clarence DeMar (USA)

The Belgian starters (from left to right): Jean Marien, Léon Broers, Théophilus Steurs and Jean Linsen

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Boughera El-Ouafi	France	2:32:57 h
2	Manuel Plaza	Chile	2:33:23 h
3	Martti Marttelin	Finland	2:35:02 h
4th	Kanematsu Yamada	Japan	2:35:29 h
5	Joie Ray	United States	2:36:04 h
6th	Seiichiro Tsuda	Japan	2:36:20 h
7th	Yrjö Korholin-Koski	Finland	2:36:40 h
8th	Sam Ferris	Great Britain	2:37:41 h
9	Albert Michelsen	United States	2:38:56 h
10	Clifford Bricker	Canada	2:39:24 h
11	Harry Wood	Great Britain	2:41:15 h
12	Verner Laaksonen	Finland	2:41:35 h
13	Harry Payne	Great Britain	2:42:39 h
14th	One of the Rastas	Finland	2:43:08 h
15th	Väinö Sipilä	Finland	2:43:08 h
16	Alois Krof	Czechoslovakia	2:43:18 h
17th	Johnny Miles	Canada	2:43:32 h
18th	Léon Broers	Belgium	2:44:37 h
19th	Hans Stelges	German Empire	2:45:27 h
20th	Dunky Wright	Great Britain	2:45:30 h
21st	Herbert Bignall	Great Britain	2:45:44 h
22nd	Ernie Harper	Great Britain	2:45:44 h
23	Jean Gérault	France	2: 46.08 h
24	Ilmari Kuokka	Finland	2:46:34 h
25th	Gustav Chin	Sweden	2:47:35 h
26th	Silas McLellan	Canada	2:49:33 h
27	Clarence DeMar	United States	2:50:42 h
28	Marcel Denis	France	2:51:15 h
29	Guillaume Tell	France	2:51:18 h
30th	Henri Land Army	Netherlands	2:51:59 h
31	Paul Hempel	German Empire	2:52:01 h
32	Aurelio Terrazas	Mexico	2:52:22 h
33	František Zyka	Czechoslovakia	2:52:42 h
34	Giuseppe Ferrera	Italy	2:53:10 h
35	José Torres	Mexico	2:54:00 h
36	Johan Støa	Norway	2:54:15 h
37	Théophilus Steurs	Belgium	2:54:48 h
38	Artūrs Motmillers	Latvia	2:56:45 h
39	James Henigan	United States	2:56:50 h
40	Martinus Steytler	South African Union	2:57:21 h
41	Harvey Frick	United States	2:57:24 h
42	Jean lenses	Belgium	2:58:08 h
43	Frank Hughes	Canada	2:58:12 h
44	William Agee	United States	2:58:50 h
45	Percy Wyer	Canada	2:58:52 h
46	Georg Hoerger	German Empire	2:59:01 h
47	Kurt Schneider	German Empire	2:59:36 h
48	Juichi Nagatani	Japan	3:03:34 h
49	József Galambos	Hungary	3:05:58 h
50	Paul Gerhardt	German Empire	3:09:30 h
51	Gottlieb Bach	Denmark	3:10:10 h
52	Emilio Ferrer	Spain	3:11:05 h
53	Dimitrije Stefanović	Yugoslavia	3:11:35 h
54	Joop Vermeulen	Netherlands	3:13:47 h
55	Pelp van Leenen	Netherlands	3:14:37 h
56	Jean Marien	Belgium	3:16:13 h
57	Willem van der Steen	Netherlands	3:19:53 h
DNF	Romeo Bertini	Italy
	Vilis Cimmermans	Latvia
	Attilio Conton	Italy
	Vintilǎ Cristescu	Romania
	Axel Elofs	Sweden
	Bram Groeneweg	Netherlands
	Karl Laas	Estonia
	Aksel Madsen	Denmark
	Stefano Natale	Italy
	Orla Olsen	Denmark
	Teunis Sprong	Netherlands
	Franz Wanderer	German Empire

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 201f

Web links

• SportsReference Marathon ,
• Official report pp. 426-430, engl. (PDF),

Video

• Amsterdam 1928 osa 3 , range 2:12 min to 4:09 min published on May 28, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed on September 12, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ David E. Martin, Roger WH Gynn: The Olympic Marathon. Human Kinetics Pub, 2000, ISBN 0-88011-969-1 . (English)
2. ^ David E. Martin, Roger WH Gynn: The Olympic Marathon. Human Kinetics Pub, 2000, ISBN 0-88011-969-1 , pp. 136-139. (English)