1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 50 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 39 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Stadio Olimpico (start / finish) | ||||||||
| Competition phase | September 7, 1960 | ||||||||
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The men's 50 km walk at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on September 7, 1960. 39 athletes took part, 28 of whom made it to the finish. Start and finish was the Stadio Olimpico .
Olympic champion was the Briton Don Thompson . He won ahead of the Swede John Ljunggren and the Italian Abdon Pamich .
Three German and three Swiss walkers took part, Austrians were not at the start. The Germans Max Weber and Horst Astroth reached places 13 and 16, Kurt Sakowski was disqualified. All three Swiss made it to the finish line: Louis Marquis in 22nd, Alfred Leiser in 25th and René Charrière in 27th.
Existing records
| World best | 4:03:53 h |
Anatoly Wedjakow ( Soviet Union )
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Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) | August 13, 1959 |
| Olympic record | 4: 28: 07.8 h |
Giuseppe Dordoni ( Italy )
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Helsinki , Finland | July 21, 1952 |
Routing
The start was in the Olympic Stadium . After leaving the stadium, the route led via Viale dello Stadio Olimpico to the Tiber . The route followed the course of the river and crossed the Tiber on the Ponte Marconi . The Via del Mare continued in a south-westerly direction. The turning point was at the Acilia train station, and the route took the same route back to the 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
Date: September 7, 1960, 2:30 p.m.
The Indian brothers Zora and Ajit Singh initially took the lead, while the Briton Don Thompson stayed in close contact. At the turning point, Thompson took the lead. His pursuer John Ljunggren - already Olympic champion at this distance in 1948 - was more than a minute behind, but was able to make up for it in the course of the next ten kilometers and replaced the leading Briton at the top. But Thompson accelerated the pace again, pulled past Ljunggren and secured the Olympic victory with 17 seconds ahead. At the finish line, Ljunggren was over two minutes ahead of Italian Abdon Pamich, who was four minutes behind Thompson in eighth halfway through the race.
This competition had a unique circumstance. For the first and so far only time at the Olympic Games, five Olympic champions were present in one competition, three earlier ones, the winner of this competition and the winner of the following 50 km walk in Tokyo in 1964 . In addition to winner Thompson, these were in detail: John Ljunggren (winner 1948, this time silver), Giuseppe Dordoni (winner 1952 , this time seventh place), Norman Read (winner 1956 , this time abandoned) and Abdon Pamich (winner 1964, this time bronze).
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Intermediate times in min / h:
- 5 km - 25:40 A. Singh / 25:53 Z. Singh / 25:59 Thompson / 26:02 Read / 26:14 Crawford, Freeman, Allen / 26:17 Oakley, Pamich
- 10 km - 51:17 A. Singh / 51:24 Z. Singh / 51:40 Thompson, Freeman / 52:27 Crawford, Ljiunggren / 52:31 Oakley / 52:36 Read, Pamich
- 15 km - 1:18:59 Z. Singh / 1:19:14 Thompson, A. Singh / 1:19:25 Freeman / 1:19:27 Crawford / 1:19:50 Klimow / 1:19:56 Ljiunggren / 1:20:11 Wedjakov
- 20 km - 1:43:27 Crawford, Klimow, Freeman, Z. Singh / 1:43:36 Thompson / 1:43:36 Schcherbyna / 1:44:45 Ljiunggren / 1:46:19 Pamich, Wedjakow, Oakley
- 25 km - 2:10:30 Thompson / 2:11:38 Ljiunggren, Schcherbyna / 2:11:49 Z. Singh / 2:12:44 Crawford / 2:13:16 Oakley / 2:13:44 Pamich / 2 : 14: 34 Wedjakov
- 30 km - 2:37:31 Thompson / 2:38:05 Ljiunggren / 2:38:27 Shcherbyna / 2:40:51 Pamich / 2:41:18 Z. Singh / 2:41:21 Oakley / 2:43 : 29 Misson / 2:43:40 Read
- 35 km - 3:02:56 Ljiunggren / 3:03:00 Thompson / 3:04:00 Shcherbyna / 3:06:23 Pamich / 3:07:19 Oakley / 3:07:21 Z. Singh / 3:09 : 02 Misson
- 40 km - 3:31:40 Thompson / 3:31:46 Ljiunggren / 3:33:40 Pamich / 3:33:46 Schtscherbyna / 3:37:23 Oakley / 3:37:25 Misson / 3:37:31 Z. Singh
- 45 km - 3:59:56 Thompson / 3:59:57 Ljiunggren / 4:01:14 Pamich / 4:02:24 Shtscherbyna
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 200f
Videos
- 50km marcha Roma 1960 , published March 28, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed October 16, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 50 km walking , engl. (PDF), accessed on October 16, 2017
- Official report pp. 127-131, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 16, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on October 16, 2017
- ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , route map p. 128 (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 16, 2017
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 127 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 16, 2017
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