1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)
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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) |
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| Competition phase | October 15, 1964 | ||||||||
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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 )
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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 |
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 | |||
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| 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
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literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 270f
Video
- 1964 MARCIA 20 KM - VITTORIA DI KENNETH J. MATTHEWS , published March 26, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed October 27, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed October 27, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 77 engl. (PDF), accessed on October 27, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 566 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 27 October 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. 80 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 27, 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 27, 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. 77 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 27, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 27, 2017
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