1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 800 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 21 athletes from 12 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 1st, 1932 (preliminary) August 2nd, 1932 (final) |
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The men's 800 meter run at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 1 and 2, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 21 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was British Tommy Hampson in a new world record time ahead of Canadians Alex Wilson and Phil Edwards .
Existing records
- World record : 1: 50.6 min - Séra Martin ( France ), Colombes , July 14, 1928
- Olympic record : 1: 51.8 min - Douglas Lowe ( Great Britain ), Amsterdam final , July 31, 1928
Conducting the competition
The runners started three heats on August 1st. The three first placed qualified for the final on August 2nd.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Prelims
Date: August 1, 1932
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Edwin Genung | United States | 1: 54.8 min | |
2 | Phil Edwards | Canada | 1: 55.1 min | |
3 | Jack Powell | Great Britain | 1: 55.6 min | |
4th | Cyril Evans | New Zealand | 1: 56.6 min | |
5 | Paul Martin | Switzerland | 1: 58.4 min | |
6th | Nestor Gomes | Brazil | 2: 00.5 min | |
DNF | Jean Keller | France |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Charles Hornbostel | United States | 1: 52.4 min | |
2 | Alex Wilson | Canada | 1: 52.5 min | |
3 | Otto Peltzer | German Empire | 1: 53.6 min | |
4th | Hjalle Johannesen | Norway | 1: 54.3 min | |
5 | Hermenegildo del Rosso | Argentina | 1: 54.9 min | |
6th | René Morel | France | 1: 55.2 min | |
7th | José Lucílo Iturbe | Mexico | 1: 55.6 min |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Tommy Hampson | Great Britain | 1: 53.0 min | |
2 | Séra Martin | France | 1: 53.2 min | |
3 | Edwin Turner | United States | 1: 54.0 min | |
4th | Clyde Edward King | Canada | 1: 54.4 min | |
5 | Max Danz | German Empire | 1: 58.9 min | |
6th | Domingos Puglisi | Brazil | 1: 59.4 min | |
7th | Miguel Vasconcelos | Mexico | 2: 00.0 min |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Tommy Hampson | Great Britain | 1: 49.7 min | WR |
2 | Alex Wilson | Canada | 1: 49.9 min | |
3 | Phil Edwards | Canada | 1: 51.5 min | |
4th | Edwin Genung | United States | 1: 51.7 min | |
5 | Edwin Turner | United States | 1: 52.5 min | |
6th | Charles Hornbostel | United States | 1: 52.7 min | |
7th | Jack Powell | Great Britain | 1: 53.1 min | |
8th | Séra Martin | France | 1: 53.6 min | |
9 | Otto Peltzer | German Empire | 1: 55.0 min |
Date: August 1, 1932
The US athlete Ben Eastman would have been the top favorite over these 800 meters . But Eastman decided to only run the 400-meter course in Los Angeles .
The final turned into a race with historic dimensions. For the first time the limit of 1:50 min was undercut. The Canadian Phil Edwards, who won the Olympic Games in 1928 , ran from the front at high speed using his usual tactics and was even able to pull away from the field with a 400 meter run time of 52.4 s. But he had to pay tribute to this hellish pace and at that moment the Briton Thomas Hampson accelerated. Edward's compatriot Alex Wilson followed in Hampson's slipstream and the two of them easily passed Edwards. Hampson won the sprint on the home straight twenty meters from the finish and became Olympic champion with the new world record time of 1: 49.7 minutes ahead of Wilson, who with 1: 49.9 minutes was also below the 1: 50-minute Brand remained. The IAAF recognized world record improvements at that time only in the fifth of a second range and so Hampson's world record was officially 1: 49.8 min.
Thomas Hampson and Alex Wilson were the first runners to break the 1:50 mark.
Hampson had the fourth British success in a row over this distance. Wilson and Edwards won the first Canadian 800 meter medals.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 228f
Web links
- SportsReference 800m , accessed September 16, 2017
- Official report pp. 414-416, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 16, 2017
- 800m WR: Tommy Hampson-1932 OG, Los Angeles , published February 24, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed September 16, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 548 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)