1956 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 25 athletes from 15 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Melbourne Cricket Ground | ||||||||
| Competition phase | November 23, 1956 | ||||||||
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The men's 10,000 meter run at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne was held on November 23, 1956 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . 25 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Volodymyr Kuz from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of the Hungarian József Kovács and the Australian Allan Lawrence .
Swiss and Austrian athletes did not take part. Three Germans started. Herbert Schade was ninth, Walter Konrad 13th, Klaus Porbadnik 17th.
Existing records
| World record | 28: 30.4 min |
Volodymyr Kuz ( Soviet Union )
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Moscow , Soviet Union | September 11, 1956 |
| Olympic record | 29: 17.0 min |
Emil Zátopek ( Czechoslovakia )
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Helsinki , Finland | July 20, 1952 |
Conducting the competition
The runners started the race on November 23rd at 6 p.m. (UTC + 10). There were no qualification runs.
The race
World record holder Wolodymyr Kuz from the Soviet Union and Briton Gordon Pirie were favorites . Kuz started the race at high speed. The duo Kuz - Pirie quickly ran alone in front with world record tire intermediate times - 1000 m: 2: 43.0 min / 3000 m: 8: 26.0 min / 5000 m: 14: 06.8 min. Halfway through the course, the two were just two tenths of a second slower than the current Olympic record for this distance. But the Brit could not be shaken off. Therefore, Kuz switched to his tactic quicker pace changes. Pirie took the lead in the meantime, then Kuz tightened again. With three laps to go, Pirie was completely exhausted, he had overtaken himself and ultimately fell back to eighth place. Five days later over 5000 meters , Pirie did better and won the silver medal. Kuz didn't have to give everything anymore and let it run down a bit. He completed the last lap in 66.7 seconds and won his first gold medal with a comfortable margin. Behind them came the Hungarian József Kovács and the Australian Allan Lawrence, who had divided their forces better than Pirie, in second and third place. Kuz improved the Olympic record of his predecessor Emil Zátopek by more than half a minute.
Volodymyr Kuz won the first Soviet Olympic victory over 10,000 meters .
József Kovács and Allan Lawrence were the first medalists for their countries in this discipline.
Bottom line
Date: November 23, 1956
No times were taken from 13th place onwards.
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literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 131f
Web links
- SportsReference 10,000m , accessed October 3, 2017
- Official report p. 298f, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 3, 2017
- Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games - Official Olympic Film | Olympic History , range 26:41 min - 31:18 min, published on July 22, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on October 3, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 551 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Official report p. 284, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 3, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
- ↑ Official report p. 298, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 3, 2017
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