1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 68 athletes from 35 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location |
Tokyo Olympic Stadium (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | October 21, 1964 | ||||||||
| Winning time | 2: 12: 11.2 h | ||||||||
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The men's marathon at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was held on October 14, 1964. The start and finish was the Tokyo Olympic Stadium . 68 athletes took part, 58 of which made it to the finish line.
The Ethiopian Abebe Bikila became Olympic champion . He won before the British Basil Heatley and the Japanese Kōkichi Tsuburaya .
Three Germans and two Swiss started, while runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Germany was represented by Heinrich Hagen (24th place), Gerhard Hönicke (38th place) and Manfred Naumann (39th place). For Switzerland, Guido Vögele (32nd place) and Oscar Leupi (41st place) started.
Existing records
| World best |
Basil Heatley ( Great Britain )
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2:13:55 h | London , UK | June 13, 1964 |
| Olympic record |
Abebe Bikila ( Ethiopia )
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2: 15: 16.2 h | Olympic marathon in Rome , Italy | September 10, 1960 |
World records are not set in marathons because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The starting point was the Olympic Stadium . After two laps, the route ran out of the stadium in a north-westerly direction to the Shinjuku district . On the Metropolitan Expressway it went west through the districts Hatagaya, Sasazuka, Izumi, Karasuyama and Shinkawa. Then the route led to the city of Chofu . The turning point was in Fuchū , it was the same way back to the stadium where the goal was.
Race course
Date: October 14, 1964, 1 p.m.
The 1960 Olympic champion , Abebe Bikila, was actually a top favorite. In his career so far he had only lost one marathon. On April 19, 1963, he had to admit defeat to the Belgian Vandendriessche at the Boston Marathon . But Bikila's participation alone seemed to border on a miracle. His appendix had been removed on September 16, less than a month before the Olympic marathon . So he was no longer really one of the favorites from a human perspective. The British owner of the world best, Basil Heatley, and his compatriot Brian Kilby were rated as strong. The US runner Buddy Edelen and the Japanese Tōru Terasawa were also highly traded.
Bikila, who had caused a stir in Rome for running the marathon barefoot, was wearing shoes this time. From the start he was in astonishingly good shape. At the turning point of the very flat course, the Ethiopian led by 15 seconds, which Bikila subsequently expanded. When he crossed the finish line with a new world record, he was over four minutes ahead of the following runners. The next athlete after him came to the delight of the local spectators, the Japanese Kōkichi Tsuburaya, followed by Basil Heatley. The Briton managed to overtake the exhausted Japanese on the last lap. But Tsuburaya managed to save the bronze medal. Brian Kilby crossed the finish line in fourth ahead of the Hungarian József Sütő, Buddy Edelen was sixth in front of the Aurèle Belger Vandendriessche. Bikila improved the existing world record by 1:44 minutes and his own Olympic record by more than three minutes.
Abebe Bikila was the first marathon runner in history to repeat his Olympic victory.
| Overview: split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 15:06 min | Ron Clarke | 15:06 min |
| 10 km | 30:14 min | Ron Clarke, Abebe Bikila, Jim Hogan | 15:08 min |
| 15 km | 45:35 min | Ron Clarke, Abebe Bikila, Jim Hogan | 15:21 min |
| 20 km | 1:00:58 h | Abebe Bikila | 15:23 min |
| 25 km | 1:16:40 h | Abebe Bikila | 15:42 min |
| 30 km | 1:32:50 h | Abebe Bikila | 16:10 min |
| 35 km | 1:49:01 h | Abebe Bikila | 16:11 min |
| 40 km | 2:05:10 h | Abebe Bikila | 16:09 min |
Bottom line
Bhupendra Silwa and Ganga Bahadur Thapa were the first athletes from Nepal to compete in the Olympic Games.
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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. 264–266
Video
- Tokyo Olympiad - The Marathon , published July 29, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed October 26, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Marathon , accessed October 26, 2017
- Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 pp. 73–76 engl. (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 565 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on October 26, 2017
- ↑ Official report p. 74, routing (English) ( Memento of the original dated 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. , accessed October 26, 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. Pp. 73–76 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 26, 2017
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