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) |
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Competition phase | August 5, 1928 | ||||||||
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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 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.
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
- ^ David E. Martin, Roger WH Gynn: The Olympic Marathon. Human Kinetics Pub, 2000, ISBN 0-88011-969-1 . (English)
- ^ David E. Martin, Roger WH Gynn: The Olympic Marathon. Human Kinetics Pub, 2000, ISBN 0-88011-969-1 , pp. 136-139. (English)