1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 4 x 100 meter relay | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 60 athletes from 15 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympiastadion Berlin | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 8, 1936 (preliminary) August 9, 1936 (final) |
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The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 8 and 9, 1936 in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin . Sixty athletes took part in fifteen seasons.
The US squadron ( Jesse Owens , Ralph Metcalfe , Foy Draper , Frank Wykoff ) won the gold medal in a new world record time . Silver went to the Italian team with Orazio Mariani , Gianni Caldana , Elio Ragni and Tullio Gonnelli . The German season won the bronze medal in the line-up of Wilhelm Leichum , Erich Borchmeyer , Erwin Gillmeister and Gerd Hornberger .
Existing records
- World record : 40.0 s - USA ( Bob Kiesel , Emmett Toppino , Hector Dyer , Frank Wykoff ), Los Angeles , August 7, 1932
- Olympic record : 40.0 seconds - USA ( Bob Kiesel , Emmett Toppino , Hector Dyer , Frank Wykoff ), Los Angeles final , August 7, 1932
Conducting the competition
On August 8th, three preliminary runs were completed. The two best teams qualified for the final on August 9th.
Note: The qualified relays are highlighted in light blue.
Prelims
August 8, 1936, 3 p.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 19.4 ° C, wind speeds of approx. 1.9 m / s. Cross wind on the straights.
Forward 1
space | Season | occupation | time | annotation |
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1 | United States |
Jesse Owens Ralph Metcalfe Foy Draper Frank Wykoff |
40.0 s | WRe |
2 | Italy |
Orazio Mariani Gianni Caldana Elio Ragni Tullio Gonnelli |
41.1 s | |
3 | South African Union |
Eric Grimbeek Pat Dannaher Tom Lavery Marthinus Theunissen |
41.7 s | |
4th | Finland |
Toivo Ahjopalo Toivo Sariola Palle Virtanen Aki Tammisto |
42.0 s | |
DSQ | Japan |
Takayoshi Yoshioka Monta Suzuki Mutsuo Taniguchi Masao Yazawa |
Forward 2
space | Season | occupation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Netherlands |
Tjeerd Boersma Wil van Beveren Christiaan Berger Martinus Osendarp |
41.3 s | |
2 | Argentina |
Juan Lavenás Antonio Sande Carlos Hofmeister Tomás Beswick |
41.9 s | |
3 | Hungary |
Mario Minai Gyula Gyenes József Kovács József Sir |
42.0 s | |
4th | Great Britain |
Charles Wiard Don Finlay Walter Rangeley Alan Pennington |
42.4 s | |
5 | France |
Maurice Carlton Pierre Dondelinger Paul Bronner Robert Paul |
42.6 s | |
6th | China |
Poh Kimseng Huang Yingjie Chen Kingkwan Liu Changchun |
44.8 s |
Forward 3
space | Season | occupation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | German Empire |
Wilhelm Leichum Erich Borchmeyer Erwin Gillmeister Gerd Hornberger |
41.4 s | |
2 | Canada |
Sam Richardson Bruce Humber Lee Orr Howard McPhee |
41.5 s | |
3 | Sweden |
Lennart Lindgren Irvin Ternström Östen Sandström Åke Stenqvist |
41.5 s | |
4th | Switzerland |
Albert Jud Bernard Marchand Georges Meyer Paul Hänni |
42.2 s |
final
space | Season | occupation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | United States |
Jesse Owens Ralph Metcalfe Foy Draper Frank Wykoff |
39.8 s | WR |
2 | Italy |
Orazio Mariani Gianni Caldana Elio Ragni Tullio Gonnelli |
41.1 s | |
3 | German Empire |
Wilhelm Leichum Erich Borchmeyer Erwin Gillmeister Gerd Hornberger |
41.2 s | |
4th | Argentina | Juan Lavenás Antonio Sande Carlos Hofmeister Tomás Beswick |
42.2 s | |
5 | Canada |
Sam Richardson Bruce Humber Lee Orr Howard McPhee |
42.7 s | |
DSQ | Netherlands | Tjeerd Boersma Wil van Beveren Christiaan Berger Martinus Osendarp |
August 9, 1936, 3:15 p.m.
Weather conditions: sunny, 22.3 ° C, wind speed of 1.6 m / s. Cross wind on the straights.
Against the superiority of the US squadron, which, contrary to previous practice, had the best cast - see next chapter , no other season could achieve anything. The USA set the existing world record in advance . In the final, the team ran even faster and was the first season ever to stay below the 40-second mark with 39.8 seconds. Italy was clearly beaten second. The Dutch were in third place, but the final runner Martinus Osendarp lost the baton, so that the German relay got a bronze medal. The gold relay world record was not beaten until twenty years later at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne .
With 39.8 seconds, a season stayed below the 40-second limit for the first time.
Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Games .
In the sixth Olympic final, the US team won its fifth gold medal.
Speculation about the line-up change
Originally it was expected that the coach of the US team, Lawson Robertson , would provide the US season with the actually not strongest line-up Frank Wykoff , Foy Draper , Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller . In the past, it was common practice with US relays that the substitute runners in the relay got their deployment opportunities, which was usually possible without any problems due to the superiority of the US sprinters without jeopardizing the chances of winning the relay Olympic. However, Glickman and Stoller, both Jews , have now been replaced by Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe. It was speculated that the two Jewish sprinters were exchanged in order not to offend the Germans under the Nazi regime . In other representations it was heard that the Germans had spared their best runners in the individual races for this relay, so that the US team would not be able to do without the relay deployment of Owens and Metcalfe in view of the chances of victory.
In addition, it was rumored that Owens had tried to talk Robertson out of exchanging the runners originally planned for the mission and to set up Glickman and Stoller.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 302f
Web links
- SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on September 20, 2017
- Official report pp. 657–659, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 20, 2017
- 1936, 4x100m, Men, Olympic Games, Berlin , published on July 28, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on September 20, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 561 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Official report p. 659, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ Official report p. 606, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)