1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 36 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Stadio Olimpico (start / finish) | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 2nd September 1960 | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km walk at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on September 2, 1960. 36 athletes took part, 28 of which made it to the finish line. Start and finish was the Stadio Olimpico .
Olympic champion was Volodymyr Holubnytschyj from the Soviet Union. He won in front of the Australian Noel Freeman and the British Stan Vickers .
Three German walkers took part. Dieter Lindner crossed the finish line in fourth, Hannes Koch in sixteenth. Siegfried Lefanczik was disqualified, as was the Swiss Gabriel Reymond, whose teammate Louis Marquis reached seventeenth place. Walkers from Austria did not take part.
Existing records
| World best | 1:25:58 h |
Anatoly Wedjakow ( Soviet Union )
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Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) | September 6, 1959 |
| Olympic record | 1: 31: 27.4 h |
Leonid Spirin ( Soviet Union )
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Melbourne , Australia | November 28, 1956 |
Note: World records are not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The start was in the Olympic Stadium . After two laps on the cinder track, the route led out of the stadium via the streets of Rome , onto Viale dei Gladiatori , then left onto Via Morra di Lauriano and then left again onto a circuit that had to be completed thirteen times. It led over Viale delli Olimpiadi , to the right into Via Napoleone Canevaro , after an arch over Lungetevere Maresciallo Cadorna back to Via Morra die Lauriano . After the thirteenth round, it was back to the Olympic Stadium.
Conducting the competition
There were no qualifying rounds in this discipline. All registered participants started the competition on September 2nd.
Course of the competition and final result
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Date: September 2, 1960, 4:30 p.m.
The British Ken Matthews took the lead, but after five kilometers he was overtaken by the Soviet walker Volodymyr Holubnytschyj. Matthews lost more and more ground and later gave up the race, Holubnytschyj's compatriot Gennady Solodov was disqualified after 15 kilometers while in second place. Until then, the third-placed Australian Noel Freeman was more than a minute behind the leader. Freeman picked up the pace, with British European Champion Stan Vickers and the two Germans Dieter Lindner and Siegfried Lefanczik in the wake. Lefanczik was disqualified shortly afterwards. Freeman was able to break away from his colleagues and came within nine seconds of Holubnitschyj, but did not reach him. So there was gold for the Soviet walker and silver for the Australian. Vickers followed 40 seconds later and won bronze. Lindner in fourth place was another 37 seconds behind the British.
The Swedish walker John Ljunggren, 1948 Olympic champion over 50 km , achieved an excellent seventh place here.
Split times:
- 5 km - 22: 11.4 min Matthews / 22: 18.4 min Freeman / 22: 27.8 min Holubnytschyj / 22: 33.6 min Solodow / 22: 40.0 min Vickers / 23: 21.8 min Wedjakow / 23: 27.0 min Oakley
- 10 km - 45: 13.4 min Holubnytschyj / 45: 32.2 min Matthews / 45: 37.0 min Freeman / 46: 14.8 min Solodow / 47: 17.6 min Vickers u. Wedjakov
- 15 km - 1: 08: 41.8 h Holubnytschyj / 1: 09: 23.8 h Solodow / 1: 09: 46.2 h Freeman / 1: 10: 10.8 h Vickers / 1: 10: 34.2 h Lindner / 1: 11: 30.2 h Lefanczik
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 200
Videos
- 1960 Olympics Noel Freeman Silver 20km Walk , published May 27, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed October 16, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed October 16, 2017
- Official report pp. 124–126, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 16, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 566 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , route map p. 125 (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 16, 2017
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 124 (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 16, 2017
- ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 126 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 16, 2017
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