1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	August 5, 1936 (preliminary) August 6, 1936 (final)
Winning time	3: 47.8 min
Medalist Jack Lovelock ( NZL ) Glenn Cunningham ( USA ) Luigi Beccali ( ITA )
← 1932 1948 →

The men's 1500 meter run at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 5th and 6th, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 43 athletes took part.

New Zealander Jack Lovelock was Olympic champion in a new world record time ahead of US American Glenn Cunningham . Bronze won Luigi Beccali from Italy.

Existing records

• World record : 3: 48.8 min - Bill Bonthron ( USA ), Milwaukee , June 30, 1934
• Olympic record : 3: 51.2 min - Luigi Beccali ( Italy ), Los Angeles final , August 4, 1932

Conducting the competition

The runners competed in four heats on August 5th. The three best athletes each qualified for the final on August 6th.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

Glenn Cunningham from the USA (starting here for the University of Kansas) won the silver medal.

Luigi Beccali (ITA) won bronze again after his Olympic victory in 1932 .

The Canadian Phil Edwards, third in 1932 and bronze medalist over 800 meters , finished fifth in the final.

August 5, 1936, 5 p.m.

Weather conditions: overcast, 14.6 ° C, wind speeds of approx. 2.8 m / s. Wind from diagonally in front on the back straight, from diagonally behind on the home straight.

Not all times have been passed down.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Eric Ny	Sweden	3: 54.8 min
2	Glenn Cunningham	United States	3: 54.8 min
3	Werner Bottcher	German Empire	3: 55.0 min
4th	Ossi Teileri	Finland	3: 55.6 min
5	Mihály Iglói	Hungary	3: 56.0 min
6th	Grigorios Georgakopoulos	Greece	4: 01.4 min
7th	René Geeraert	Belgium	k. A.
8th	Børge Larsen	Denmark
9	Pierre Hemmer	Luxembourg
10	Paul Martin	Switzerland

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Gene Venzke	United States	4: 00.4 min
2	Jerry Cornes	Great Britain	4: 00.6 min
3	Jack Lovelock	New Zealand	4: 00.6 min
4th	Pierre Leichtnam	France	4: 01.0 min
5	Clarke Scholtz	South African Union	4: 02.0 min
6th	Kiyoshi Nakamura	Japan	4: 04.8 min
7th	Emil Goršek	Yugoslavia	4: 13.0 min
8th	Emil Huebscher	Austria	k. A.
9	Jack Liddle	Canada
10	Miguel Castro	Chile
DNF	Martti Matilainen	Finland

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Luigi Beccali	Italy	3: 55.6 min
2	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	3: 55.6 min
3	Phil Edwards	Canada	3: 56.2 min
4th	Bobby Graham	Great Britain	3: 56.6 min
5	Bedřich Hošek	Czechoslovakia	3: 59.4 min
6th	André Glatigny	France	3: 59.6 min
7th	Gerald Blackhouse	Australia	k. A.
8th	Harry flour pants	German Empire
9	Reginald Uba	Estonia	4: 26.2 min
10	Jia Lianren	China	k. A.
11	Emilio Torres	Colombia

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Robert Goix	France	3: 54.0 min
2	Archie San Romani	United States	3: 55.0 min
3	Fritz Schaumburg	German Empire	3: 55.2 min
4th	Joseph Mostert	Belgium	3: 56.6 min
5	Niilo Hartikka	Finland	3: 59.0 min
6th	Franz Eichberger	Austria	3: 59.2 min
7th	Ragnar Ekholdt	Norway	k. A.
8th	Hugh Thompson	Canada
9	Charles stone	Luxembourg	4: 26.2 min
10	Francisco Váldez	Peru	k. A.
DNF	Sydney Wooderson	Great Britain

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Jack Lovelock	New Zealand	3: 47.8 min	WR
2	Glenn Cunningham	United States	3: 48.4 min
3	Luigi Beccali	Italy	3: 49.2 min
4th	Archie San Romani	United States	3: 50.0 min
5	Phil Edwards	Canada	3: 50.4 min
6th	Jerry Cornes	Great Britain	3: 51.4 min
7th	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	3: 53.0 min
8th	Robert Goix	France	3: 53.8 min
9	Gene Venzke	United States	3: 55.0 min
10	Fritz Schaumburg	German Empire	3: 56.2 min
11	Eric Ny	Sweden	3: 57.6 min
12	Werner Bottcher	German Empire	4: 04.2 min

August 6, 1936, 4.15 p.m.

Weather conditions: overcast, 17.8 ° C, wind speed of 1.4 m / s. Cross wind on the straights.

There was a smaller group of favorites for this competition. These included the Italian Olympic champion from 1932 , Luigi Beccali, the American Glenn Cunningham, the New Zealander Jack Lovelock - Cunningham and Lovelock were also in the final at the 1932 Games - and the British Sydney Charles Wooderson . The Brit started injured at the prelim and was eliminated there. In the final, a race developed at high speed. Above all, the Briton Jerry Cornes did the lead work at the beginning, with 400 meters - passage time 61.5. s - took over first Cunningham and then the Swede Eric Ny , who ran the 800 meters in 2: 05.0 min. after 1000 meters, Cunningham pulled on a long sprint that only Lovelock could follow. At 1200 meters - through time 3: 05.0 min - Lovelock was already in front and ran towards the Olympic victory with a new world record . He had mastered the final lap in a very strong 56.8 seconds. Beccali was third behind Cunningham.

Jack Lovelock's success was all the more astonishing since he could only contest a very few races each year. He suffered from insomnia and claustrophobia, repeatedly accompanied by severe dizziness, which cost him his life in 1949 when he fell under a subway in a fit of dizziness.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 274-276

Web links

• SportsReference 1500 m , accessed September 19, 2017
• Official report p. 632f, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 19, 2017
• 1936, 1500m, Men, Olympic Games, Berlin , published on July 28, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on September 19, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 549 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Official report ( Memento of the original dated January 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 632, engl. (PDF) 
3. ↑ Official report ( Memento of the original dated January 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 633, engl. (PDF) 
4. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 274-276