1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)

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Olympic rings
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sport athletics
discipline 20 km walk
gender Men
Attendees 26 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location Yoyogi Park
Olympic Stadium Tokyo (start and finish)
Competition phase October 15, 1964
Medalist
gold medal Ken Matthews ( GBR ) United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Silver medal Dieter Lindner ( GER ) Germany team all GermanAll-German team 
Bronze medal Volodymyr Holubnychy ( URS ) Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union 
Olympic Champion Ken Matthews (GBR)
Bronze medal for Volodymyr Holubnytschyj (URS), in the background Noel Freeman (AUS)

The men's 20 km walk at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held on October 15, 1964. 26 athletes took part. The start and finish was the Tokyo Olympic Stadium .

Olympic champion was the Briton Ken Matthews . He won ahead of the German Dieter Lindner and Wolodymyr Holubnytschyj from the Soviet Union.

In addition to the silver medalist Lindner, Gerhard Sperling and Hans-Georg Reimann were two other German walkers. Sperling was ninth, Reimann was twelfth. Walkers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World best 1:25:58 h Anatoly Wedjakow ( Soviet Union ) Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union  Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) September 6, 1959
Olympic record 1: 31: 27.4 h Leonid Spirin ( Soviet Union ) Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union  Melbourne , Australia November 28, 1956

World records are not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.

Routing

After three laps in the Olympic Stadium , the route led out of the stadium east to Yoyogi Park , where the Meiji Shrine is located. There was a course here that circled the oval area counterclockwise 13 times. After the last round, the route led back to the Olympic Stadium, where the goal was reached after a round of the stadium.

Conducting the competition

The walkers competed together on October 15th. A qualification did not take place.

Race course

Date: October 15, 1964, 3:20 p.m.

The favorite Ken Matthews from Great Britain, European Champion from 1962 , took the lead right from the start. After the first five kilometers, he was in front of the American Ronald Zinn. The 1960 Olympic champion , Volodymyr Holubnytschyj from the USSR , was four seconds behind . Halfway through the course, Matthews was ahead. Behind that, the situation had changed: in second place, the German Dieter Lindner was about 100 meters behind. In the further course, Lindner lost more and more ground, but held his second place and crossed the finish line just two minutes behind the winner. Wolodymyr Holubnytschyj won the bronze medal a good 46 seconds behind Lindner and a good six seconds ahead of the Australian Noel Freeman.
At 45, the Swede John Ljunggren was not only the oldest participant in the field, he was also the oldest athlete ever to take part in Tokyo. Ljunggren started here for the fifth time at the Olympic Games and, after winning numerous medals in the previous games, now reached the finish line in nineteenth place.

Overview: split times
Intermediate
mark
Meanwhile Leading 5 km time
5 km 22:19 min Matthews 22:19 min
10 km 44:23 min Matthews 22:04 min
15 km 1:06:52 h Matthews 22:29 min
20 km 1:29:34 h Matthews 22:42 min

Bottom line

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Ken Matthews United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1: 29: 34.0 h OR
2 Dieter Lindner Germany team all GermanAll-German team Germany 1: 31: 13.2 h
3 Volodymyr Holubnychy Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 1: 31: 59.4 h
4th Noel Freeman AustraliaAustralia Australia 1:32: 06.8 h
5 Gennady Solodov Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 1: 32: 33.0 h
6th Ronald Zinn United StatesUnited States United States 1: 32: 43.0 h
7th Barys Chralovich Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 1:32: 45.4 h
8th John Edgington United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1: 32: 46.0 h
9 Gerhard Sperling Germany team all GermanAll-German team Germany 1: 33: 15.8 h
10 John Paddick United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1: 33: 28.4 h
11 Alexander Bílek CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 1:33: 45.0 h
12 Hans-Georg Reimann Germany team all GermanAll-German team Germany 1: 34: 51.0 h
13 Henri Delerue FranceFrance France 1: 34: 58.0 h
14th Tommy Kristensen DenmarkDenmark Denmark 1: 35: 30.0 h
15th Istvan Gori Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 1: 35: 38.0 h
16 Charles Sowa LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg 1: 36: 16.0 h
17th Jack Mortland United StatesUnited States United States 1: 36: 53.0 h
18th Åke Söderlund SwedenSweden Sweden 1: 36: 53.0 h
19th John Ljunggren SwedenSweden Sweden 1: 37: 03.0 h
20th Roine Karlsson SwedenSweden Sweden 1: 37: 07.0 h
21st Antal Kiss Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 1: 38: 27.0 h
22nd Ronald Crawford AustraliaAustralia Australia 1: 38: 47.0 h
23 Noboru Ishiguro Japan 1870Japan Japan 1: 39: 40.0 h
24 Chedli El-Marghni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 1: 41: 11.0 h
25th Kiue Kuribayashi Japan 1870Japan Japan 1: 43: 07.0 h
26th Mieczyslaw Rutyna Poland 1944Poland Poland 1: 48: 41.0 h
DNF Bob Gardiner AustraliaAustralia Australia
Alex Oakley Canada 1957Canada Canada
DSQ Ron Laird United StatesUnited States United States
Yasuo Naito Japan 1870Japan Japan
DNS Elias Baruh Romania 1952Romania Romania
Naceur Ben Messaoud TunisiaTunisia Tunisia
Andrei Savescu Romania 1952Romania Romania
Hassine Belkhodja TunisiaTunisia Tunisia
István Havasi Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary

literature

  • Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 270f

Video

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 566 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 27 October 2017
  2. 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. 80 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 27, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.la84.org
  3. 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 27, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.la84.org
  4. 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. 77 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 27, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.la84.org
  5. SportsReference , accessed October 27, 2017