1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Stadio Olimpico
Competition phase	September 8, 1960
Medalist Pyotr Bolotnikov ( URS )   Hans Grodotzki ( GER )   Dave Power ( AUS )

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on September 8, 1960 at the Stadio Olimpico . 32 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Pyotr Bolotnikow from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of the German Hans Grodotzki and the Australian Dave Power .

In addition to Hans Grodotzki, two other German athletes took part. Gerhard Hönicke finished the race in twelfth place, Xaver Höger finished seventeenth. Runners from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	28: 30.4 min	Volodymyr Kuz ( Soviet Union )	Moscow ( Soviet Union / today Russia )	September 11, 1956
Olympic record	28: 45.6 min		Melbourne ( Australia )	November 23, 1956

Conducting the competition

The runners started the race on September 8th at 5.15pm. No qualification runs were completed.

Race course and final result

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Pyotr Bolotnikov	Soviet Union	28: 32.2 min	28: 32.18 min	OR
2	Hans Grodotzki	Germany	28: 37.0 min	28: 37.22 min
3	Dave Power	Australia	28: 38.2 min	28: 37.65 min
4th	Alexei Dessyatchikov	Soviet Union	28: 39.6 min	28: 39.72 min
5	Murray Halberg	New Zealand	28: 48.5 min	28: 49.11 min
6th	Max Truex	United States	28: 50.2 min	28: 50.34 min
7th	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak	Poland	28: 52.4 min	28: 52.75 min
8th	John Merriman	Great Britain	28: 52.6 min	28: 52.89 min
9	Martin Hyman	Great Britain	29: 04.8 min	29: 05.11 min
10	Gordon Pirie	Great Britain	29: 15.2 min	29: 15.49 min
11	Sándor Iharos	Hungary	29: 15.8 min	29: 16.07 min
12	Gerhard Hönicke	Germany	29: 20.4 min	29: 20.14 min
13	Robert Bogey	France	29: 22.4 min	29: 22.53 min
14th	Rhadi Ben Abdesselam	Morocco	29: 34.4 min	29: 32.00 min
15th	József Kovács	Hungary	29: 42.2 min	29: 34.71 min
16	Yevgeny Zhukov	Soviet Union	29: 20.4 min	29: 20.14 min
17th	Xaver Höger	Germany	29: 58.0 min	29: 50.20 min
18th	Stanisław Ożóg	Poland	30: 01.0 min	29: 58.00 min
19th	Arere Anentia	Kenya	30: 03.0 min	30: 01.00 min
20th	Constantin Grecescu	Romania	30: 04.8 min	30: 03.00 min
21st	Simo Saloranta	Finland	30: 12.4 min	30: 04.80 min
22nd	Hamoud Ameur	France	30: 25.4 min	30: 12.40 min
23	Hamida Addèche	France	30: 27.2 min	30: 25.40 min
24	Doug Kyle	Canada	30: 31.6 min	30: 27.20 min
25th	Carlos Perez	Spain	30: 35.8 min	30: 31.60 min
26th	Barry Magee	New Zealand	30: 39.4 min	30: 35.80 min
27	Franco Antonelli	Italy	30: 47.4 min	30: 39.40 min
28	Cyprian Tseriwa	Southern Rhodesia	30: 47.8 min	30: 47.80 min
29	Fevzi Pakel	Turkey	32: 06.2 min	32: 06.20 min
DNF	Jaroslav Bohatý	Czechoslovakia
	Gebru Merawi	Ethiopia
	Kazimierz Zimny	Poland

Date: September 5, 1960

As in the 5000 meter race , there was no clear favorite. In advance, there had been fears about the hot temperatures. But on race day it was raining and the thermometer only showed 20 ° Celsius.

In the initial phase, the Moroccan Rhadi Ben Abdesselam tried to break away. But the Soviet runner Yevgeny Zhukov, who ran for his compatriot Pyotr Bolotnikow, led the field again. Now there were changing guides until the Australian Dave Power accelerated the pace at about 7000 meters. Only Bolotnikow and his compatriot Alexei Dessjattschikow as well as the German Hans Grodotzki could go now. In the penultimate lap, Bolotnikow pushed again and gained a lead that grew bigger and bigger. He was Olympic champion with almost five seconds ahead of Grodotzki. Power won the sprint for the bronze medal ahead of Dessjattschikow.

Overall, it was a very fast race. The Olympic record was improved by seventeen seconds and there were record times for many of the runners involved in the race.

Hans Grodotzki won Germany's first medal in this discipline. For him personally it was the second medal at these games after the silver over 5000 meters.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 191–193

Web links

• SportsReference 10000m , accessed October 12, 2017
• Official report pp. 93–95, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 12, 2017
• 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome 10,000m final , published May 31, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed October 12, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 551 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 12, 2017
3. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 95 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 12, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)