1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 39 athletes from 24 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadio Olimpico | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 3, 1960 (preliminary) September 6, 1960 (final) |
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The men's 1500 meter race at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on September 3 and 6, 1960 at the Stadio Olimpico . 39 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Australian Herb Elliott , who set a new world record. He won in front of the French Michel Jazy and the Hungarian István Rózsavölgyi .
While Swiss athletes did not take part, three Germans, an Austrian and a Liechtensteiner started. Arthur Hannemann, Siegfried Valentin and Adolf Schwarte from Germany as well as Rudolf Klaban from Austria and Egon Oehri from Liechtenstein failed in their preliminary stages.
Existing records
World record | 3: 36.0 min |
Herb Elliott ( Australia )
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Gothenburg , Sweden | August 28, 1958 |
Olympic record | 3: 41.2 min |
Ron Delany ( Ireland )
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Melbourne , Australia | 1st December 1956 |
Conducting the competition
The runners started three heats on September 3rd. Each of the three best runners qualified for the finals on September 6th.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Time schedule
September 3, 5:15 p.m .: preliminary runs
September 6, 4.15 p.m .: Final
Prelims
Date: September 3, 1960, from 5.15 p.m.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Herb Elliott |
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3: 41.4 min | 3: 41.50 min | |
2 | István Rózsavölgyi |
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3: 42.0 min | 3: 42.15 min | |
3 | Dyrol Burleson |
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3: 42.2 min | 3: 42.40 min | |
4th | Terry Sullivan |
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3: 42.8 min | 3: 42.96 min | |
5 | Yevgeny Momotkov |
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3: 43.6 min | 3: 43.80 min | |
6th | Olavi saloons |
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3: 46.4 min | 3: 46.57 min | |
7th | Rudolf Klaban |
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3: 47.1 min | 3: 47.24 min | |
8th | Arthur Hannemann |
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3: 47.4 min | 3: 47.57 min | |
9 | Laurie Reed |
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3: 47.9 min | 3: 48.24 min | |
10 | Joe Mullins |
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3: 53.1 min | 3: 53.45 min | |
11 | Tomás Barris |
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3: 57.3 min | 3: 56.10 min | |
12 | Mohamed Gouider |
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3: 58.4 min | 3: 58.52 min | |
DNF | Zbigniew Orywał |
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Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Michel Bernard |
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3: 42.2 min | 3: 42.34 min | |
2 | Jim Grelle |
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3: 43.5 min | 3: 43.65 min | |
3 | Arne Hamarsland |
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3: 44.4 min | 3: 44.63 min | |
4th | Brian Kent-Smith |
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3: 46.1 min | 3: 46.21 min | |
5 | Albie Thomas |
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3: 46.8 min | 3: 46.95 min | |
6th | Siegfried Valentin |
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3: 46.9 min | 3: 46.99 min | |
7th | Svavar Markússon |
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3: 47.1 min | 3: 47.20 min | |
8th | Alfredo Rizzo |
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3: 47.3 min | 3: 47.56 min | |
9 | Andrei Barabaș |
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3: 47.4 min | 3: 47.71 min | |
10 | Muharrem Dalkılıç |
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3: 47.9 min | 3: 48.18 min | |
11 | Dhira Phiphobmongkol |
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3: 57.3 min | 3: 56.10 min | |
DNF | Egon Oehri |
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Péter Parsch |
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Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Dan Waern |
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3: 43.9 min | 3: 44.18 min | |
2 | Michel Jazy |
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3: 44.9 min | 3: 45.03 min | |
3 | Zoltan Vamoş |
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3: 44.9 min | 3: 45.07 min | |
4th | Adolf Schwarte |
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3: 45.3 min | 3: 45.46 min | |
5 | Lajos Kovács |
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3: 46.0 min | 3: 46.20 min | |
6th | Mike Wiggs |
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3: 46.5 min | 3: 46.61 min | |
7th | Merv Lincoln |
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3: 46.8 min | 3: 47.18 min | |
8th | Evangelos Depastas |
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3: 48.4 min | 3: 48.77 min | |
9 | Pete Close |
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3: 50.2 min | 3: 50.69 min | |
10 | Olavi Vuorisalo |
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3: 52.2 min | 3: 52.68 min | |
11 | Stefan Lewandowski |
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3: 59.3 min | 3: 59.75 min | |
12 | Yair Pantilat |
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3: 59.8 min | 4:00, 14 min | |
13 | Kassim Mukhtar |
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4:00, 1 min | 4: 00.33 min |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Herb Elliott |
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3: 35.6 min | WR |
2 | Michel Jazy |
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3: 38.4 min | |
3 | István Rózsavölgyi |
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3: 39.2 min | |
4th | Dan Waern |
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3: 40.0 min | |
5 | Zoltan Vamoş |
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3: 40.8 min | |
6th | Dyrol Burleson |
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3: 40.9 min | |
7th | Michel Bernard |
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3: 41.5 min | |
8th | Jim Grelle |
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3: 45.0 min | |
9 | Arne Hamarsland |
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3: 45.0 min |
Date: September 6, 1960, 4:15 p.m.
The favorite was the Australian Herb Elliott. Behind that there were some athletes who were given medal chances. These included the two French Michel Jazy and Michel Bernard, the Hungarian István Rózsavölgyi and also Dan Waern from Sweden.
The final was determined on the first two rounds by the French Bernard. The field was still close together. At about 900 meters Elliott tightened enormously and took the lead. The field was now spreading more and more, and there was quickly a clear gap between Elliott and the other runners. The Australian continued to pull through on the last lap, increasing his lead more and more. Elliott's trainer Percy Cerutty signaled to his protégé at the beginning of the last corner that he was on course for a world record . Elliott was not deterred by anything and ran to Olympic gold in a world record time. Almost three seconds behind him, Jazy crossed the finish line, followed by Rózsavölgyi.
István Rózsavölgyi won the first Hungarian medal in this discipline.
The race and the intermediate results:
200 m: 28.3 s Bernard, Waern, Hamarsland, Jazy, Elliott - 400 m: 58.2 s Bernard, Waern, Hamarsland, Vamoş, Rózsavölgyi, Elliott - 600 m: 1: 27.4 min Bernard, Waern, Vamoş , Elliott, Jazy -
800 m: 1: 57.8 min Bernard, Waern, Vamoș, Elliott, Jazy - 1000 m: 2: 25.4 min Elliott, Rózsavölgyi, Jazy, Bernard - 1200 m: 2: 54.0 min Elliott, Rózsavölgyi (3 m), Jazy (5 m), Vamoș (8 m)
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 188–190
Videos
- 25 Olympic Series 1960, Herb Elliott, 1500m 2 30 min , published March 6, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed October 11, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 1500 m , accessed October 11, 2017
- Official report pp. 84–87, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 11, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 549 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63f (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 11, 2017
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , pp. 84–87 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 11, 2017
- ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 87 (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 11, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)