1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 16 athletes from 11 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 31, 1932 | ||||||||
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The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on July 31, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 16 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Janusz Kusociński from Poland, ahead of Volmari Iso-Hollo and Lauri Virtanen from Finland .
Existing records
- World record : 30: 06.2 min - Paavo Nurmi ( Finland ), Kuopio , August 31, 1924
- Olympic record : 30: 18.8 min - Paavo Nurmi ( Finland ), Amsterdam final , July 29, 1928
Conducting the competition
There were no preliminary runs. The 16 runners competed together for the final.
The race
Date: August 1, 1932
In June of the Olympic year, the Pole Janusz Kusociński had improved Paavo Nurmi's world record over 3000 meters with 8: 18.8 minutes , making himself one of the favorites for the long distances of these games. For many years there had been a great dominance of runners from Finland at these distances, which was now in danger. Pretty soon after the start, the two Finns Volmari Iso-Hollo and Lauri Virtanen, together with Kusociński, pulled away from the rest of the field at high speed. Like later over 5000 meters , Virtanen had to tear down before the actual final phase, but had no problems securing the bronze medal. In the finish curve, Kusociński decided the race for himself with a determined start and improved Nurmi's Olympic record by more than seven seconds with 30: 11.4 minutes . All three US participants had no chance in front of their home crowd and gave up the race.
Janusz Kusociński achieved the first Olympic victory for a Polish man in athletics. After four Finnish victories in the first four Olympic finals, it was also the first victory of a non-Finnish.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Janusz Kusociński | Poland | 30: 11.4 min | OR |
2 | Volmari Iso-Hollo | Finland | 30: 12.6 min | |
3 | Lauri Virtanen | Finland | 30: 35.0 min | |
4th | John Savidan | New Zealand | 31: 09.0 min | |
5 | Max Syring | German Empire | 31: 35.0 min | |
6th | Jean-Gunnar Lindgren | Sweden | 31: 37.0 min | |
7th | Juan Morales | Mexico | 32: 03.3 min | |
8th | Clifford Bricker | Canada | k. A. | |
9 | Kitamoto Masamichi | Japan | ||
10 | Shoichiro Takenaka | Japan | ||
11 | José Ribas | Argentina | ||
12 | Fernando Cicarelli | Argentina | ||
13 | Adalberto Cardoso | Brazil | ||
DNF | Louis Gregory | United States | ||
Thomas Ottey | United States | |||
Eino Pentti | United States |
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 232
Web links
- SportsReference 10,000m , accessed September 17, 2017
- Official report pp. 425-426, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 17, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 551 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)