1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	August 3, 1936 (preliminary) August 8, 1936 (final)
Winning time	9: 03.8 min
Medalist Volmari Iso-Hollo ( FIN ) Kalle Tuominen ( FIN ) Alfred Dompert ( GER )
← 1932 1948 →

The men's 3000 meter obstacle course at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 3rd and 8th, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 28 athletes took part.

The Finn Volmari Iso-Hollo was the Olympic champion with a new world record and a new Olympic record ahead of his compatriot Kalle Tuominen . Bronze won the German Alfred Dompert .

Existing records

• Unofficial world best time: 9: 05.2 min - Harold Manning ( USA ), New York , July 12, 1936 World records were not set over 3000 meters obstacles until 1953, with the exception of championship records due to the not yet standardized obstacle setups.
• Olympic record : 9: 14.6 min - Volmari Iso-Hollo ( Finland ), preliminary to the Olympic competition in Los Angeles , August 1, 1932

Conducting the competition

The runners started three heats on August 3rd. The four best athletes each qualified for the final on August 8th.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

August 3, 1936, 6 p.m.

Weather conditions: drizzle, 16 ° C, wind speed at 2.4 m / s.

Not all times have been passed down.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Alfred Dompert	German Empire	9: 27.2 min
2	Martti Matilainen	Finland	9: 28.4 min
3	Voldemārs Vītols	Latvia	9: 28.8 min
4th	Glen Dawson	United States	9: 29.2 min
5	Tom Evenson	Great Britain	9: 41.2 min
6th	Harry Ekman	Sweden	9: 43.2 min
7th	Bedřich Hošek	Czechoslovakia	k. A.
8th	Giuseppe Lippi	Italy
9	Roger Cuzol	France

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	9: 34.0 min
2	Harold Manning	United States	9: 34.8 min
3	Wilhelm Heyn	German Empire	9: 41.2 min
4th	Harry Holmqvist	Sweden	9: 44.4 min
5	Jenő Szilágyi	Hungary	9: 53.4 min
6th	Oscar van Rumst	Belgium	10: 05.0 min
7th	René Desroches	France	k. A.
8th	Václav Hošek	Czechoslovakia
9	Tetsuo Imai	Japan

Forward 3

The medal winners (from left to right): Alfred Dompert (DEU), Volmari Iso-Hollo (FIN), Kalle Tuominen (FIN)

Volmari Iso-Hollo

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kalle Tuominen	Finland	9: 40.4 min
2	Joe McCluskey	United States	9: 45.2 min
3	Roger Rérolle	France	9: 50.6 min
4th	Lars Larsson	Sweden	9: 52.4 min
5	James Ginty	Great Britain	9: 56.6 min
6th	Hideo Tanaka	Japan	10:00 a.m., 4 min
7th	Bruno Betti	Italy	k. A.
8th	Josef Hušek	Czechoslovakia
9	Ladislaus Simacek	Austria
DNF	Hans Raff	German Empire

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	9: 03.8 min	WBL / OR
2	Kalle Tuominen	Finland	9: 06.8 min
3	Alfred Dompert	German Empire	9: 07.2 min
4th	Martti Matilainen	Finland	9: 09.0 min
5	Harold Manning	United States	9: 11.2 min
6th	Lars Larsson	Sweden	9: 16.6 min
7th	Voldemārs Vītols	Latvia	9: 18.8 min
8th	Glen Dawson	United States	9: 21.1 min
9	Wilhelm Heyn	German Empire	9: 26.4 min
10	Joe McCluskey	United States	9: 29.4 min
11	Roger Rérolle	France	9: 40.8 min
DNF	Harry Holmqvist	Sweden

August 8, 1936, 4 p.m.

Weather conditions: overcast, approx. 19 ° C, wind speed of 1.5 m / s.

The clear favorite role was played by the three Finnish runners, above all the Olympic champion from 1932 , Volmari Iso-Hollo. The German participant Alfred Dompert was actually just an embarrassment report from the German Athletics Association , Dompert had missed the Olympic standard over 1500 meters and did not take part in the German championships over 3000 meters obstacle .

In the finale, Iso-Hollo set a high tempo from the start, initially only the owner of the unofficial world record, Harold Manning (USA), the Finn Martti Matilainen and completely surprisingly Alfred Dompert. Then the third Finn Kalle Tuominen worked his way up to the top group, which stayed together until two laps before the end. At this point, Iso-Hollo pushed hard and set himself apart from everyone else. Manning clearly fell behind. Tuominen was in second place, followed closely by Dompert and Matilainen, who then had to be pulled down. The runners crossed the finishing line in this order, gold for Iso-Hollo with a new Olympic record , silver for Tuominen and a completely unexpected bronze medal for Dompert.

Volmari Iso-Hollo won the fourth gold medal for Finland in the fifth Olympic final. Finnish runners had won eight of the 15 Olympic medals awarded by then.

Volmari Iso-Hollo was the first gold medalist in this discipline to repeat his Olympic victory.

Alfred Dompert won the first German medal over 3000 meters obstacle .

All runners up to and including rank five remained below the Olympic record that was valid up to then .

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 285f

Web links

• SportsReference 3000 m obstacle , accessed September 20, 2017
• Official report pp. 649–650, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 20, 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. 286
2. ↑ IAAF world records. 3000 m obstacle men , accessed on March 10, 2019
3. ↑ Official report p. 649, engl. (PDF)
4. ^ Official report p. 650, engl. (PDF)
5. ^ Official report p. 605, engl. (PDF)