1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
gender	Men
Attendees	15 athletes from 8 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 1st, 1932 (preliminary) August 2nd, 1932 (final)
Medalist Volmari Iso-Hollo ( FIN )   Tom Evenson ( GBR )   Joe McCluskey ( USA )

The men's 3,000-meter obstacle course at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 1 and 6, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 15 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Finn Volmari Iso-Hollo, ahead of the Briton Tom Evenson and the American Joe McCluskey .

Existing records

• Unofficial world record : 9: 08.4 min - George Lemond ( USA ), Cambridge , June 18, 1932 - Official world records were not held in this discipline at that time because the obstacles were not yet standardized.
• Olympic record : 9: 21.8 min - Toivo Loukola ( Finland ), Amsterdam final , August 4, 1928

Conducting the competition

The runners competed in two preliminary runs on August 1st. The five best runners in each case qualified for the finals on August 6th.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

Date: August 1, 1932

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tom Evenson	Great Britain	9: 18.8 min	OR
2	Walter Pritchard	United States	9: 19.2 min
3	Verner Toivonen	Finland	9: 41.0 min
4th	Giuseppe Lippi	Italy	9: 42.0 min
5	Nello Bartolini	Italy	9: 49.0 min
6th	Roger Vigneron	France	9: 57.0 min
DNF	Luis Oliva	Argentina

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	9: 14.6 min	OR
2	Joe McCluskey	United States	9: 14.8 min
3	Glen Dawson	United States	9: 15.0 min
4th	George Bailey	Great Britain	9: 16.0 min
5	Martti Matilainen	Finland	9: 43.0 min
6th	Alfredo Furia	Italy	10: 11.0 min
DNF	Harold Gallop	Canada
	Sonny Murphy	Irish Free State

Olympic champion Volmari Iso-Hollo (FIN)

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	10: 33.4 min
2	Tom Evenson	Great Britain	10: 46.0 min
3	Joe McCluskey	United States	10: 46.2 min
4th	Martti Matilainen	Finland	10: 52.4 min
5	George Bailey	Great Britain	10: 53.2 min
6th	Glen Dawson	United States	10: 58.0 min
7th	Giuseppe Lippi	Italy	11: 04.0 min
8th	Walter Pritchard	United States	11: 04.5 min
9	Verner Toivonen	Finland	11: 10.2 min
10	Nello Bartolini	Italy	11: 29.0 min

Date: August 6, 1932

actual route length 3460 meters

In the first run, Tom Evenson improved the Olympic record to 9: 18.8 minutes. Volmari Iso-Hollo won the second run and improved the Olympic record by more than four seconds with 9: 14.6 minutes. With Joe McCluskey, Glen Dawson and George Bailey, three other runners remained under the Evenson brand from the first run.
In the final, Iso-Hollo, who had won the silver medal over 10,000 meters , already took the lead in the second round and steadily expanded his lead. Due to an error in the lap counter, the runners had to complete an additional 460 meters. Iso-Hollo had passed the regular 3000 meter mark in 9: 08.4 minutes. On the additional lap, Evenson overtook McCluskey, who was still silver after 3000 meters. McCluskey was offered a re-race, but he turned it down.

Volmari Iso-Hollo took the third Finnish win in a row over this distance.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 236f

Web links

• SportsReference 3000 m obstacle , accessed September 17, 2017
• Official report , pp. 420-422, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 17, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 237
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)