1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 800 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 47 athletes from 32 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Tokyo Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 14, 1964 (preliminary) October 15, 1964 (semi-finals) October 16, 1964 (final) |
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The men's 800-meter run at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held from October 14 to 16, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 47 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the New Zealander Peter Snell . He won in front of the Canadian Bill Crothers and the Kenyan Wilson Kiprugut .
Three Germans and one athlete each from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein started. All three German starters reached the semifinals. Here Manfred Matuschewski and Manfred Kinder dropped out. Dieter Bogatzki qualified for the final and finished seventh there. The Austrian Rudolf Klaban also made it to the semi-finals, but was eliminated there. For the Swiss Rolf Jelinek and the Liechtenstein Hugo Walser it was already over after the heats.
Existing records
World record | 1: 44.3 min | Peter Snell ( New Zealand ) | Christchurch , New Zealand | 3rd February 1962 |
Olympic record | 1: 46.3 min | Final of Rome , Italy | 2nd September 1960 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a total of six heats on October 14th. The four best runners qualified for the next round. From the semi-finals on October 15th, the two best participants and the two fastest participants reached the final on October 16th.
Time schedule
October 14, 3:15 p.m .: Preliminary
October 15, 3 p.m .: Semi-finals
October 16, 4:40 p.m .: Final
All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)
In the following overviews for the next round directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the athletes qualified over time are highlighted in light green.
Prelims
Date: October 14, 1964, from 3:15 p.m.
Weather conditions: cloudy, approx. 18 ° C, humidity approx. 85%
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Wilson Kiprugut | Kenya | 1: 47.8 min | |
2 | Tom Farrell | United States | 1: 48.6 min | |
3 | Valery Bulishev | Soviet Union | 1: 48.6 min | |
4th | Jos Lambrechts | Belgium | 1: 48.9 min | |
5 | François Châtelet | France | 1: 48.9 min | |
6th | Ebrahim Yazdan Panah | Iran | 1: 54.7 min | |
7th | Hugo Walser | Liechtenstein | 1: 57.5 min | |
8th | Nipon pensuvapap | Thailand | 1: 58.8 min |
Forward 2
Dulamyn Amarsanaa was the first track and field athlete from Mongolia to take part in the Olympic Games.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Dieter Bogatzki | Germany | 1: 50.3 min | |
2 | Stig Lindbäck | Sweden | 1: 50.8 min | |
3 | Chris Carter | Great Britain | 1: 51.0 min | |
4th | Pekka Juutilainen | Finland | 1: 51.0 min | |
5 | Neville Myton | Jamaica | 1: 52.4 min | |
6th | Michel Medinger | Luxembourg | 1: 52.6 min | |
7th | Dulamyn Amarsanaa | Mongolia | 1: 56.3 min | |
8th | Anar Khan | Pakistan | 1: 56.4 min |
Forward 3
Ahmed Issa was the first Olympian from Chad .
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Manfred children | Germany | 1: 49.5 min | |
2 | Ahmed Issa | Chad | 1: 49.7 min | |
3 | Derek McCleane | Ireland | 1: 49.9 min | |
4th | Pure Tölp | Soviet Union | 1: 50.0 min | |
5 | Peter Francis | Kenya | 1: 50.1 min | |
6th | Morgan Groth | United States | 1: 51.4 min | |
7th | José Neira | Colombia | 1: 55.6 min | |
8th | Ramasamy Subramaniam | Malaysia | 1: 58.5 min |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Peter Snell | New Zealand | 1: 49.0 min | |
2 | Jerry Siebert | United States | 1: 49.2 min | |
3 | Jacques Pennewaert | Belgium | 1: 49.2 min | |
4th | Abram Kryvosheev | Soviet Union | 1: 49.5 min | |
5 | Alan Dean | Great Britain | 1: 49.6 min | |
6th | Chung Kyo-mo | South Korea | 1: 51.8 min | |
7th | Don Bertoia | Canada | 1: 52.2 min | |
8th | Mamo Sebsibe | Ethiopia | 1: 52.8 min |
Forward 5
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | John Boulter | Great Britain | 1: 48.9 min | |
2 | George Kerr | Jamaica | 1: 48.9 min | |
3 | Tony Blue | Australia | 1: 49.7 min | |
4th | Manfred Matuschewski | Germany | 1: 50.0 min | |
5 | Noel Carroll | Ireland | 1: 51.1 min | |
6th | Rolf Jelinek | Switzerland | 1: 54.6 min |
Forward 6
Patrick Field was the first track and field athlete to compete for Hong Kong .
With Mohamed Hassan Chabbanga, an athlete from Tanzania took part in the Olympic Games for the first time.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Bill Crothers | Canada | 1: 49.3 min | |
2 | Maurice Lurot | France | 1: 49.8 min | |
3 | Mamoru Morimoto | Japan | 1: 49.9 min | |
4th | Rudolf Klaban | Austria | 1: 49.9 min | |
5 | Francesco Bianchi | Italy | 1: 50.2 min | |
6th | Paul Roekaerts | Belgium | 1: 50.9 min | |
7th | Patrick Field | Hong Kong | 1: 54.0 min | |
8th | Hassan Dyamwale | Tanganyika | 1: 54.9 min |
Semifinals
Date: October 15, 1964, from 3 p.m.
Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 23 ° C, humidity approx. 62%
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Peter Snell | New Zealand | 1: 46.9 min | |
2 | Jerry Siebert | United States | 1: 47.0 min | |
3 | Jacques Pennewaert | Belgium | 1: 47.0 min | |
4th | Manfred Matuschewski | Germany | 1: 47.3 min | |
5 | Valery Bulishev | Soviet Union | 1: 47.5 min | |
6th | Mamoru Morimoto | Japan | 1: 47.7 min | |
7th | Maurice Lurot | France | 1: 49.7 min | |
8th | Stig Lindbäck | Sweden | 1: 49.8 min |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | George Kerr | Jamaica | 1: 46.1 min | OR |
2 | Wilson Kiprugut | Kenya | 1: 46.1 min | OR |
3 | Dieter Bogatzki | Germany | 1: 46.9 min | |
4th | John Boulter | Great Britain | 1: 47.1 min | |
5 | Rudolf Klaban | Austria | 1: 47.4 min | |
6th | Abram Kryvosheev | Soviet Union | 1: 47.5 min | |
7th | Derek McCleane | Ireland | 1: 48.4 min | |
8th | Pekka Juutilainen | Finland | 1: 50.3 min |
Run 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bill Crothers | Canada | 1: 47.3 min | |
2 | Tom Farrell | United States | 1: 47.8 min | |
3 | Manfred children | Germany | 1: 47.9 min | |
4th | Chris Carter | Great Britain | 1: 49.1 min | |
5 | Pure Tölp | Soviet Union | 1: 49.1 min | |
6th | Ahmed Issa | Chad | 1: 49.4 min | |
7th | Tony Blue | Australia | 1: 49.6 min | |
8th | Jos Lambrechts | Belgium | 1: 52.8 min |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Peter Snell | New Zealand | 1: 45.1 min | OR |
2 | Bill Crothers | Canada | 1: 45.6 min | |
3 | Wilson Kiprugut | Kenya | 1: 45.9 min | |
4th | George Kerr | Jamaica | 1: 45.9 min | |
5 | Tom Farrell | United States | 1: 46.6 min | |
6th | Jerry Siebert | United States | 1: 47.0 min | |
7th | Dieter Bogatzki | Germany | 1: 47.2 min | |
8th | Jacques Pennewaert | Belgium | 1: 50.5 min |
Date: October 16, 1964, 4:40 p.m.
Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 19 ° C, humidity approx. 52%
The favorite should actually be the world record holder and Olympic champion from 1960 , Peter Snell. But in the Olympic year his performances were not very convincing. Therefore some doubts arose here about his role. But the New Zealander was already very confident in the run-up and the semi-finals. However, other athletes with good times also moved into the group of favorites. The Jamaican George Kerr and the previously completely unknown Kenyan Wilson Kiprugut improved Snell's Olympic record by two tenths of a second in the second preliminary round.
In the final, as in his prelims, Kiprugut took the lead. He passed the 400 meter mark in an excellent 52.1 seconds. Despite the high speed, the field still remained together. On the back straight, Snell pushed enormously and immediately created an ever-growing gap to his competitors. The decision to win the Olympic gold was made. Behind Snell, the Canadian Bill Crothers ran for the silver medal. Kiprugut and Kerr, who had already crossed the finish line at the same time in the semi-finals, competed for bronze. It was the same now, only with the opposite outcome. Kiprugut won bronze ahead of Kerr. The first four runners undercut the current Olympic record from the semi-finals.
Wilson Kiprugut was Kenya's first Olympic medalist.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 255–257
Video
- Mens 800m and 1500m Tokyo 1964 highlights (Peter Snell Documentary) , published August 22, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed October 25, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 800m , accessed October 25, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 27f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 25, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 548 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on October 25, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 25, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 27 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 25, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 27f (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 25, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 28 (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 25, 2017
- ↑ Sport Reference (Engl.) ( Memento of 22 December 2008 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 25 October 2017