1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 30 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympiastadion Berlin | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 2, 1936 | ||||||||
Winning time | 30: 15.4 min | ||||||||
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The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 2, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Thirty athletes took part.
The Finnish Olympic team celebrated a triple triumph. Ilmari Salminen won ahead of Arvo Askola and Volmari Iso-Hollo .
Existing records
- World record : 30: 06.2 min - Paavo Nurmi ( Finland ), Kuopio , August 31, 1924
- Olympic record : 30: 11.4 min - Janusz Kusociński ( Poland ), Olympic competition in Los Angeles , July 31, 1932
The race
August 2, 1936, 5:30 p.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 20 ° C, wind speed of 2.1 m / s. Headwind on the back straight, tail wind on the home straight
The three Finns Arvo Askola, Volmari Iso-Hollo and Ilmari Salminen took the lead right after the start of the race and initially controlled the action. But the Japanese Kōhei Murakoso quickly took over the lead and hit a high pace - 5000 meters in 15: 00.9 min. The three Finns accelerated at 6000 meters, the Briton Alec Burns, who was the only one to keep up with Murakoso, now fell back. But the Japanese couldn't be shaken off and kept up until the beginning of the last lap. Here the Finns pushed again and now they have won the medals. Iso-Hollo could no longer follow the sprint of his compatriots and won the bronze medal. The fight for gold remained tense until the very end. Salminen finally became Olympic champion, Askola won silver.
In the sixth Olympic final over 10,000 meters, Ilmari Salminen won the fifth Finnish gold medal.
Of the eighteen medals awarded so far, Finnish runners alone have won twelve.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 278f
Web links
- SportsReference 10,000m , accessed September 19, 2017
- Official report pp. 636–639, English (PDF), accessed on September 19, 2017
- 1936, 10,000m, Men, Olympic Games, Berlin , published August 2, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 19, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 551 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 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. 636, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 278f