1956 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 200 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 66 athletes from 32 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Melbourne Cricket Ground | ||||||||
Competition phase | November 26, 1956 (prelims / quarter-finals) November 27, 1956 (semi-finals / finals) |
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The men's 200-meter run at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne was held on November 26 and 27, 1956 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . 65 athletes took part.
The American Bobby Morrow was the Olympic champion, ahead of his compatriots Andy Stanfield and Thane Baker .
The German participants Karl-Friedrich Haas and Leonhard Pohl reached the semi-finals, but were eliminated there. Manfred Germar qualified for the quarter-finals, but did not take part in the run. Swiss and Austrian athletes did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 20.6 s |
Andy Stanfield ( USA )
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Los Angeles , USA | June 28, 1952 |
Thane Baker ( USA )
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Bakersfield , USA | June 23, 1956 | ||
Olympic record | 20.7 s |
Jesse Owens ( USA )
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Final of Berlin , Germany | August 5, 1936 |
Conducting the competition
The runners competed in twelve preliminary runs on November 26th. The two best of each heat qualified for the quarter-finals on the same day from which the three best runners reached the preliminary decision. The two semi-finals and the final were held on November 27th. In the semi-finals, the first three starters qualified for the final.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Time schedule
November 26th, 2.30 p.m .: Preliminaries
November 26th, 5.40 p.m .: quarter-finals
November 27th, 3 p.m .: semi-finals
November 27, 5 p.m .: final
Note: All times are local Melbourne time (UTC + 10)
Prelims
Date: November 26, 1956, from 2.30 p.m.
Forward 1
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1 | José Telles da Conceição |
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21.5 s | 21.61 s | |
2 | Manfred Germar |
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21.8 s | 21.88 s | |
3 | René Ahumada |
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21.9 s | 21.96 s | |
4th | Melville Spence |
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21.9 s | 22.13 s | Twin brother of Malcolm Spence (run 5) |
5 | Jean-Pierre Goudeau |
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22.0 s | 22.13 s |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
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1 | Karl-Friedrich Haas |
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21.4 s | 21.56 s | |
2 | Václav Janeček |
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21.7 s | 21.85 s | |
3 | Douglas Winston |
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22.0 s | 22.20 s | |
4th | Milkha Singh |
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22.3 s | 22.47 s | |
5 | Kyohei Ushio |
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22.4 s | 22.64 s |
Forward 3
The time of the Thai Manut Bumrungphuk was not taken.
James Roberts crossed the finish line in fifth place with 23.1 s, but was subsequently disqualified.
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1 | Mike Agostini |
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21.6 s | 21.80 s | |
2 | Vincenzo Lombardo |
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21.8 s | 21.94 s | |
3 | Yuri Konovalov |
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22.0 s | 22.09 s | |
4th | Josef Trousil |
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22.3 s | 22.54 s | |
5 | Beyene Legesse |
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23.4 s | 23.63 s | |
6th | Manut Bumrungphuk |
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k. A. | k. A. | |
DSQ | James Roberts |
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Forward 4
Apolinar Solórzano crossed the finish line in fourth place with 22.6 s, but was subsequently disqualified.
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1 | Andy Stanfield |
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21.5 s | 21.69 s | |
2 | Sergio D'Asnasch |
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22.2 s | 22.35 s | |
3 | Muhammad Sharif Butt |
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22.2 s | 22.38 s | |
4th | Fred Hammer |
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22.7 s | 22.73 s | |
5 | Roba Negousse |
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23.7 s | 23.89 s | |
DSQ | Apolinar Solórzano |
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Forward 5
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1 | Abdul Khaliq |
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21.1 s | 21.32 s | |
2 | Maurice Rae |
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21.4 s | 21.57 s | |
3 | João Pires Sobrinho |
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21.6 s | 21.67 s | |
4th | Tom Robinson |
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21.6 s | 21.76 s | |
5 | Sándor Jakabfy |
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21.6 s | 21.78 s | |
6th | Malcolm Spence |
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21.7 s | 21.86 s | Twin brother of Melville Spence (Run 1) |
Forward 6
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Unofficial time electronically |
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1 | Kanji Akagi |
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22.1 s | 22.26 s | |
2 | Jorge de Barros |
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22.2 s | 22.30 s |
Forward 7
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Unofficial time electronically |
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1 | Thane Baker |
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21.8 s | 21.92 s | |
2 | Béla Goldoványi |
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21.9 s | 22.08 s | |
3 | Bjørn Nilsen |
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22.2 s | 22.33 s | |
4th | Oliver Hunter |
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22.4 s | 22.54 s | |
5 | Giovanni Ghiselli |
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22.5 s | 22.68 s | |
6th | Abebe Hailou |
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23.0 s | 23.25 s |
Forward 8
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1 | Vilém Mandlík |
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21.6 s | 21.79 s | |
2 | Hector Hogan |
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21.8 s | 21.97 s | |
3 | David Segal |
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22.1 s | 22.22 s | |
4th | Joe Foreman |
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22.2 s | 22.28 s | |
5 | Kesavan Soon |
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23.0 s | 23.33 s | |
6th | Lee Kah Fook |
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23.7 s | 23.94 s |
Forward 9
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1 | Bobby Morrow |
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21.8 s | 21.95 s | |
2 | Edward Szmidt |
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21.9 s | 22.03 s | |
3 | Graham Gipson |
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22.0 s | 22.06 s | |
4th | Akira Kiyofuji |
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22.5 s | 22.56 s | |
5 | Abdul Aziz |
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22.9 s | 22.98 s |
Forward 10
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1 | Boris Tokarev |
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21.6 s | 21.62 s | |
2 | Brian Shenton |
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21.7 s | 21.87 s | |
3 | Rafael Romero |
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21.8 s | 21.85 s | |
4th | Janusz Jarzembowski |
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21.9 s | 21.91 s | |
5 | Joe Goddard |
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22.3 s | 22.23 s | |
6th | Eero Kivelä |
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22.5 s | 22.56 s | |
7th | Ben Nduga |
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k. A. | 22.89 s |
Forward 11
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1 | Konstantin Lissenko |
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21.8 s | 22.06 s | |
2 | Iván Rodríguez |
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21.9 s | 22.06 s | |
3 | Roy Sandstrom |
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22.1 s | 22.18 s | |
4th | Pentti Rekola |
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22.1 s | 22.22 s | |
5 | Jack Parrington |
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22.4 s | 22.61 s | |
6th | Montri Srinaka |
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k. A. | 23.88 s | |
7th | Emmanuel Putu |
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k. A. | 24.33 s |
Forward 12
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1 | Leonhard Pohl |
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21.6 s | 21.78 s | |
2 | Leonid Bartenew |
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21.8 s | 21.94 s | |
3 | Yves Camus |
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22.2 s | 22.37 s | |
4th | Paiboon Vacharapan |
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23.8 s | 23.92 s | |
5 | Richard Estick |
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25.5 s | 25.81 s |
Quarter finals
Date: November 26, 1956, from 5.40 p.m.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
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1 | Abdul Khaliq |
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21.1 s | 21.34 s | |
2 | Mike Agostini |
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21.1 s | 21.35 s | |
3 | Leonhard Pohl |
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21.3 s | 21.49 s | |
4th | Leonid Bartenew |
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21.4 s | 21.53 s | |
5 | Béla Goldoványi |
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21.5 s | 21.64 s | |
6th | Edward Szmidt |
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21.6 s | 21.73 s |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
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1 | Andy Stanfield |
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21.1 s | 21.22 s | |
2 | Boris Tokarev |
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21.2 s | 21.42 s | |
3 | José Telles da Conceição |
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21.3 s | 21.46 s | |
4th | Vincenzo Lombardo |
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21.4 s | 21.53 s | |
5 | Kanji Akagi |
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21.9 s | 22.05 s | |
DNF | Konstantin Lissenko |
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Run 3
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
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1 | Thane Baker |
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21.2 s | 21.34 s | |
2 | Vilém Mandlík |
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21.3 s | 21.56 s | |
3 | Karl-Friedrich Haas |
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21.5 s | 21.68 s | |
4th | Hector Hogan |
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21.7 s | 21.90 s | |
5 | Iván Rodríguez |
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21.9 s | 22.16 s | |
6th | Sergio D'Asnasch |
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22.6 s | 22.82 s |
Run 4
The German Manfred Germar did not start the run.
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1 | Bobby Morrow |
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21.9 s | 22.03 s | |
2 | Maurice Rae |
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22.0 s | 22.12 s | |
3 | Brian Shenton |
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22.1 s | 22.15 s | |
4th | Václav Janeček |
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22.2 s | 22.26 s | |
5 | Jorge de Barros |
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23.7 s | 23.88 s |
Semifinals
Date: November 27, 1956, from 3 p.m.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
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1 | Thane Baker |
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21.1 s | 21.21 s | |
2 | Bobby Morrow |
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21.3 s | 21.43 s | |
3 | José Telles da Conceição |
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21.4 s | 21.53 s | |
4th | Abdul Khaliq |
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21.5 s | 21.58 s | |
5 | Karl-Friedrich Haas |
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21.5 s | 21.74 s | |
6th | Maurice Rae |
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21.5 s | 21.75 s |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
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1 | Andy Stanfield |
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21.2 s | 21.35 s | |
2 | Bobby Morrow |
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21.3 s | 21.48 s | |
3 | Boris Tokarev |
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21.3 s | 21.50 s | |
4th | Leonhard Pohl |
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21.5 s | 21.64 s | |
5 | Vilém Mandlík |
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21.6 s | 21.74 s | |
6th | Brian Shenton |
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21.9 s | 22.08 s |
final
Date: November 27, 1956, 5 p.m.
It was a duel expected between the Olympic champion in 1952 , Andy Stanfield, and the winner of the 100-meter run from Melbourne , Bobby Morrow. Morrow was walking with his left thigh bandaged. At the start of the home stretch, both favorites were tied, but Morrow increased the pace again and won by a meter over Stanfield, who ran the same time as his Olympic victory in Helsinki . Morrow set the world record , which also meant a new Olympic record . Bronze went to Thane Baker as he did over 100 meters. For Morrow this was his second gold medal at these games, a third was to follow in the 4 x 100 meter relay .
Bobby Morrow won the tenth gold medal for the USA in the twelfth Olympic final.
With Thane Baker's bronze medal, the US team achieved the second triple success in a row. Overall, it was the fourth US triple success in this discipline.
Of the 36 medals awarded so far, US runners alone have won 25.
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
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1 | Bobby Morrow |
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20.6 s | 20.75 s | WRe / OR |
2 | Andy Stanfield |
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20.7 s | 20.97 s | |
3 | Thane Baker |
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20.9 s | 21.05 s | |
4th | Mike Agostini |
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21.1 s | 21.35 s | |
5 | Boris Tokarev |
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21.2 s | 21.42 s | |
6th | José Telles da Conceição |
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21.3 s | 21.56 s |
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 123f
Web links
- SportsReference 200 m , accessed October 1, 2017
- Official report pp. 287–289, engl. (PDF), accessed October 1, 2017
- ✘ Melbourne 1956, Bobby Joe Morrow, 200m (amateur footage) , published June 12, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed October 1, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 124
- ^ Official report p. 284, engl. (PDF), accessed October 1, 2017
- ↑ Official Report S. 287f, Eng. (PDF), accessed October 1, 2017
- ↑ Official Report, p. 287
- ↑ a b c Official report p. 289, engl. (PDF), accessed October 1, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)