1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Decathlon
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 14 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	19./20. October 1964
Medalist Willi Holdorf ( GER )   Pure Aun ( URS )   Hans-Joachim Walde ( GER )

The men's decathlon at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was played on October 19 and 20, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 22 athletes took part. In this competition, the decathlon table, newly developed in 1962, was used, which took into account the development of materials, particularly in the pole vault.

Olympic champion was the German Willi Holdorf . He won ahead of Rein Aun from the Soviet Union and his compatriot Hans-Joachim Walde .

Another German took part in the competition with Horst Beyer . He finished sixth in the final. Switzerland was represented by Werner Duttweiler, who broke off the competition after the pole vault. Alois Büchel from Liechtenstein was 14th in the final score. Austrian decathletes did not take part.

Existing records

World record	Yang Chuan-Kwang ( Taiwan )	9121 points (8010)	Walnut (California) , USA	April 28, 1963
Olympic record	Rafer Johnson ( USA )	8392 points (7901)	Olympic decathlon of Rome , Italy	September 6, 1960

Note: The scores are based on the 1952 decathlon table used at that time. The points achieved according to the table valid today are given in brackets.

Conducting the competition

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days. The scoring was based on the points table developed in 1962.

Competition schedule

On October 19 the following were completed:

10.00 a.m .: 100 m

10.40 a.m.: Long jump

2.00 p.m .: Shot put

3.30 p.m .: high jump

5.00 p.m .: 400 m

On October 20th the following were completed:

9 a.m .: 110 m hurdles

9.40 a.m .: Discus throw

1.00 p.m .: pole vault

3 p.m .: javelin throw

5.00 p.m .: 1500 m

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

Attendees

Award ceremony in the decathlon: gold for Willi Holdorf (center), silver for Rein Aun (l.), Bronze for Hans-Joachim Walde (r.)

22 athletes from 14 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Purely aun	Soviet Union
Horst Beyer	Germany
Alois Büchel	Liechtenstein
Werner Duttweiler	Switzerland
Dick Emberger	United States
Bill Gairdner	Canada
Paul Herman	United States
Russ Hodge	United States
Willi Holdorf	Germany
Eef Kamerbeek	Netherlands
Koech Kiprop	Kenya
Vasily Kuznetsov	Soviet Union
Gerry Moro	Canada
Franco Sar	Italy
Dramane Sereme	Mali
Mychajlo Storoshenko	Soviet Union
Shosuke Suzuki	Japan
Héctor Thomas	Venezuela
Valbjörn Þorláksson	Iceland
Hans-Joachim Walde	Germany
Wu Ah-Min	Taiwan
Yang Chuan-Kwang	Taiwan

Disciplines

100 meter run

The discipline was carried out in six runs.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Holdorf 10.7 s 879 Thomas 03 Aun 10.9 s 828 Kuznetsov 05 Hodge 11.0 s 804 Storoshenko Forest Yang 09 Sereme 11.1 s 780 Suzuki Þorláksson 12 Beyer 11.2 s 756 Emberger Gairdner Herman 16 Büchel 11.3 s 733 Duttweiler Kamerbeek Sar 20th Moro 11.6 s 665 21st Kiprop 11.7 s 643 Wu

Long jump

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Aun 7.22 m 865 Storoshenko 03 Forest 7.21 m 863 04th Beyer 7.02 m 824 05 Holdorf 7.00 m 820 Thomas 07th Kuznetsov 6.98 m 816 08th Herman 6.97 m 814 09 Duttweiler 6.94 m 808 10 Büchel 6.81 m 780 11 Yang 6.80 m 778 12 Hodge 6.75 m 767 13 Emberger 6.72 m 761 14th Kamerbeek 6.56 m 728 15th Suzuki 6.53 m 721 16 Sereme 6.51 m 717 17th Kiprop 6.50 m 715 18th Þorláksson 6.43 m 699 19th Gairdner 6.40 m 693 20th Sar 6.31 m 673 21st Moro 6.20 m 648 22nd Wu 5.90 m 682

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Holdorf 1699 Thomas 03 Aun 1693 04th Storoshenko 1669 05 Forest 1667 06th Kuznetsov 1644 07th Yang 1582 08th Beyer 1580 09 Hodge 1571 10 Herman 1570 11 Duttweiler 1541 12 Emberger 1517 13 Büchel 1513 14th Suzuki 1501 15th Sereme 1497 16 Þorláksson 1479 17th Kamerbeek 1461 18th Gairdner 1449 19th Sar 1406 20th Kiprop 1358 21st Moro 1313 22nd Wu 1225

Shot put

With 16.37 m Mychajlo Storoshenko achieved the largest shot put in the Olympic decathlon.

With this attempt, Storoschenko took over the overall lead ahead of Willi Holdorf and Hans-Joachim Walde.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Storoshenko 16.37 m 868 02 Holdorf 14.95 m 786 03 Hodge 14.93 m 784 04th Forest 14.45 m 756 05 Kamerbeek 14.40 m 753 06th Beyer 14.32 m 747 07th Kuznetsov 14.06 m 732 08th Herman 13.89 m 721 09 Aun 13.82 m 717 10 Duttweiler 13.80 m 716 11 Sar 13.60 m 702 12 Gairdner 13.38 m 689 13 Yang 13.23 m 680 14th Þorláksson 13.10 m 671 15th Moro 12.62 m 640 16 Thomas 12.42 m 627 17th Büchel 12.16 m 610 18th Emberger 11.80 m 586 19th Suzuki 11.35 m 556 20th Sereme 11.03 m 534 21st Wu 10.67 m 509 22nd Kiprop 10.55 m 500

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Storoshenko 2537 02 Holdorf 2485 03 Forest 2423 04th Aun 2410 05 Kuznetsov 2376 06th Hodge 2355 07th Beyer 2327 08th Thomas 2326 09 Herman 2291 10 Yang 2262 11 Duttweiler 2257 12 Kamerbeek 2214 13 Þorláksson 2150 14th Gairdner 2138 15th Büchel 2123 16 Sar 2108 17th Emberger 2103 18th Suzuki 2057 19th Sereme 2031 20th Moro 1953 21st Kiprop 1858 22nd Wu 1734

high jump

Wu Ah-Min from Taiwan did not compete in this fourth discipline.

With his performance, Hans-Joachim Walde was able to push his teammate Willi Holdorf out of second place. Vasily Storoshenko remained in the lead.

Classification space Surname height Points 01 Forest 1.96 m 822 02 Aun 1.93 m 796 Duttweiler 04th Beyer 1.90 m 769 Emberger 06th Herman 1.87 m 743 Kiprop 08th Holdorf 1.84 m 716 Storoshenko 10 Büchel 1.81 m 689 Þorláksson Yang 13 Hodge 1.75 m 634 Sar Thomas 16 Gairdner 1.70 m 588 Kamerbeek Kuznetsov Moro Suzuki 21st Sereme 1.60 m 493

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Storoshenko 3253 02 Forest 3245 03 Aun 3206 04th Holdorf 3201 05 Beyer 3096 06th Duttweiler 3053 07th Herman 3034 08th Hodge 2989 09 Kuznetsov 2964 10 Thomas 2960 11 Yang 2951 12 Emberger 2872 13 Þorláksson 2839 14th Büchel 2812 15th Kamerbeek 2802 16 Sar 2742 17th Gairdner 2726 18th Suzuki 2645 19th Kiprop 2601 20th Moro 2541 21st Sereme 2524

400 meter run

The discipline was carried out in six runs.

The previously leading Mychajlo Storoshenko ran the weakest time and slipped to fifth. Willi Holdorf was able to overtake Hans-Joachim Walde again and take the lead. Behind Walde in third place was the Soviet athlete Rein Aun.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Holdorf 48.2 s 889 02 Aun 48.8 s 861 03 Yang 49.0 s 852 04th Emberger 49.1 s 847 05 Gairdner 49.2 s 842 Herman 07th Kuznetsov 49.5 s 829 Forest 09 Hodge 49.6 s 824 10 Büchel 49.7 s 819 11 Beyer 49.8 s 814 12 Þorláksson 50.1 s 801 13 Duttweiler 50.5 s 784 14th Suzuki 50.8 s 770 15th Sereme 51.2 s 753 16 Thomas 51.4 s 744 17th Kamerbeek 52.0 s 720 Moro 19th Sar 52.2 s 712 20th Kiprop 52.8 s 687 21st Storoshenko 53.6 s 655

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Holdorf 4090 02 Forest 4074 03 Aun 4067 04th Beyer 3910 05 Storoshenko 3908 06th Herman 3876 07th Duttweiler 3837 08th Hodge 3813 09 Yang 3803 10 Kuznetsov 3793 11 Emberger 3719 12 Thomas 3704 13 Þorláksson 3640 14th Büchel 3631 15th Gairdner 3568 16 Kamerbeek 3522 17th Sar 3454 18th Suzuki 3415 19th Kiprop 3288 20th Sereme 3277 21st Moro 3261

110 meter hurdles

Eef Kamerbeek from the Netherlands dropped out of the competition

The discipline was carried out in six runs.

The Dutchman Eef Kamerbeek did not take part in this sixth discipline.

The order remained: Willi Holdorf ahead of Hans-Joachim Walde and Rein Aun.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Yang 14.7 s 881 02 Sar 14.8 s 870 03 Emberger 14.9 s 859 Kuznetsov 05 Holdorf 15.0 s 848 Storoshenko 07th Kiprop 15.1 s 837 08th Beyer 15.2 s 827 Herman 10 Forest 15.3 s 817 11 Gairdner 15.4 s 807 12 Þorláksson 15.6 s 787 13 Aun 15.9 s 757 Duttweiler 15th Hodge 16.0 s 748 16 Sereme 16.4 s 712 17th Suzuki 16.5 s 703 18th Thomas 16.7 s 685 19th Moro 16.8 s 676 20th Büchel 17.5 s 621

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Holdorf 4938 02 Forest 4891 03 Aun 4824 04th Storoshenko 4756 05 Beyer 4737 06th Herman 4703 07th Yang 4684 08th Kuznetsov 4652 09 Duttweiler 4594 10 Emberger 4578 11 Hodge 4561 12 Þorláksson 4427 13 Thomas 4389 14th Gairdner 4375 15th Sar 4324 16 Büchel 4252 17th Kiprop 4125 18th Suzuki 4118 19th Sereme 3989 20th Moro 3937

Discus throw

Willi Holdorf was able to extend his lead to 101 points. Hans-Joachim Walde, for his part, was 48 points ahead of Rein Aun.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Sar 47.46 m 827 02 Holdorf 46.05 m 801 03 Beyer 45.17 m 784 04th Hodge 44.64 m 775 05 Aun 44.19 m 766 06th Herman 44.15 m 765 07th Kuznetsov 43.81 m 759 08th Storoshenko 43.20 m 747 09 Forest 43.15 m 747 10 Gairdner 42.91 m 742 11 Moro 40.90 m 703 12 Þorláksson 39.70 m 680 13 Yang 39.59 m 677 14th Thomas 38.43 m 654 15th Büchel 37.19 m 629 16 Emberger 35.32 m 590 17th Suzuki 35.24 m 589 18th Kiprop 33.07 m 542 19th Duttweiler 32.66 m 533 20th Sereme 29.24 m 457

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Holdorf 5739 02 Forest 5638 03 Aun 5590 04th Beyer 5521 05 Storoshenko 5503 06th Herman 5468 07th Kuznetsov 5411 08th Yang 5361 09 Hodge 5336 10 Emberger 5168 11 Sar 5151 12 Duttweiler 5127 13 Gairdner 5117 14th Þorláksson 5107 15th Thomas 5043 16 Büchel 4881 17th Suzuki 4707 18th Kiprop 4667 19th Moro 4640 20th Sereme 4446

Pole vault

Yang Chuan-Kwang from Taiwan won over 110 meter hurdles , in the pole vault and in the javelin throw . In the final accounts he was in fifth place

The Venezuelan Héctor Thomas did not participate in this eighth discipline.

Yang Chuan-Kwang and Guillermo Moro achieved the highest height in the pole vault of the Olympic decathlon with 4.60 m .

Yang, the silver medalist from Rome, came closer and closer to the top group. After the first day he was still ninth, 264 points behind the bronze medal. After the pole vault he had climbed to sixth place, his deficit had decreased to 131 points. Hans-Joachim Waldes lead over Rein Aun had melted to 21 points.

Classification space Surname height Points 01 Moro 4.60 m 957 Yang 03 Kuznetsov 4.40 m 909 Þorláksson 05 Herman 4.35 m 896 06th Suzuki 4.25 m 871 07th Aun 4.20 m 859 Holdorf Sar 10 Forest 4.10 m 832 11 Kiprop 4.05 m 820 12 Büchel 4.00 m 807 Storoshenko 14th Beyer 3.80 m 754 15th Emberger 3.70 m 728 Hodge 17th Gairdner 3.40 m 644 18th Sereme 2.60 m 403 - Duttweiler without height 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Holdorf 6598 02 Forest 6470 03 Aun 6449 04th Herman 6364 05 Kuznetsov 6320 06th Yang 6318 07th Storoshenko 6310 08th Beyer 6275 09 Hodge 6064 10 Þorláksson 6016 11 Sar 6010 12 Emberger 5896 13 Gairdner 5761 14th Büchel 5688 15th Moro 5597 16 Suzuki 5578 17th Kiprop 5487 18th Duttweiler 5127 19th Sereme 4849

Javelin throw

The Swiss Werner Duttweiler did not take part in this ninth discipline.

With 67 points, Hans-Joachim Walde had put some distance between himself and Rein Aun again. Discipline winner Yang Chuan-Kwang was now fourth. Only 23 points separated him from Aun.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Yang 68.15 m 858 02 Kuznetsov 67.87 m 855 03 Herman 63.35 m 802 04th Forest 62.90 m 796 05 Gairdner 59.72 m 758 06th Storoshenko 59.10 m 750 07th Aun 59.06 m 750 08th Beyer 58.17 m 738 09 Emberger 57.54 m 731 10 Holdorf 57.37 m 728 11 Þorláksson 56.19 m 714 12 Kiprop 55.54 m 705 13 Sar 53.59 m 680 14th Suzuki 51.88 m 658 15th Hodge 50.21 m 636 16 Sereme 48.46 m 612 17th Moro 46.63 m 587 18th Büchel 44.90 m 562

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Holdorf 7326 02 Forest 7266 03 Aun 7199 04th Yang 7176 05 Kuznetsov 7175 06th Herman 7166 07th Storoshenko 7060 08th Beyer 7013 09 Þorláksson 6730 10 Hodge 6700 11 Sar 6690 12 Emberger 6627 13 Gairdner 6519 14th Büchel 6250 15th Suzuki 6236 16 Kiprop 6192 17th Moro 6184 18th Sereme 5461

1500 meter run

The discipline was carried out in five runs.

With 4: 19.3 minutes, Dick Emberger achieved the fastest time in the 1,500 meter run in the Olympic decathlon.

To get ahead, Rein Aun had to be ten seconds faster than Hans-Joachim Walde and more than 70 meters ahead of Willi Holdorf. Walde ran in run one, so that Aun already had a good orientation here. In fact, he was almost 15 seconds faster than Walde. However, Aun could not overtake Holdorf.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Emberger 4: 19.3 min 665 02 Aun 4: 22.3 min 643 03 Beyer 4: 23.6 min 634 04th Gairdner 4: 24.5 min 628 05 Hodge 4: 24.9 min 625 06th Herman 4: 25.4 min 621 07th Suzuki 4: 28.1 min 602 08th Büchel 4: 28.6 min 599 09 Holdorf 4: 34.3 min 561 10 Forest 4: 37.0 min 543 11 Moro 4: 38.8 min 532 12 Kiprop 4: 41.6 min 515 13 Yang 4: 48.4 min 474 14th Sereme 4: 51.5 min 456 15th Þorláksson 5: 00.6 min 405 16 Storoshenko 5: 00.7 min 404 17th Kuznetsov 5: 02.5 min 394 18th Sar 5: 08.4 min 364

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	Points - official rating	Points - 1985 rating
1	Willi Holdorf	Germany	7887	7960
2	Purely aun	Soviet Union	7842	7677
3	Hans-Joachim Walde	Germany	7809	7666
4th	Paul Herman	United States	7787	7651
5	Yang Chuan-Kwang	Taiwan	7650	7539
6th	Horst Beyer	Germany	7647	7488
7th	Vasily Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	7569	7454
8th	Mychajlo Storoshenko	Soviet Union	7464	7421
9	Russ Hodge	United States	7325	7130
10	Dick Emberger	United States	7292	7126
11	Bill Gairdner	Canada	7147	6989
12	Valbjörn Þorláksson	Iceland	7135	6958
13	Franco Sar	Italy	7054	6888
14th	Alois Büchel	Liechtenstein	6849	6629
15th	Shosuke Suzuki	Japan	6838	6652
16	Gerry Moro	Canada	6716	6540
17th	Koech Kiprop	Kenya	6707	6556
18th	Dramane Sereme	Mali	5917	5804

Date: 19./20. October 1964, o'clock

The decathlon of Tokyo developed until the last discipline to an exciting and high-class thriller. From the start the German Willi Holdorf was in the lead, which he had to hand over to the Soviet shot put specialist Mychajlo Storoshenko after the shot put , but which he took back at the end of the first day with the 400-meter run . On the second day there was a three-way battle between Holdorf, a second German, Hans-Joachim Walde, and the Soviet athlete Rein Aun. From discipline to discipline, the three remained tight. The order up to and including the ninth discipline was always Holdorf before Walde and Aun. The gaps were tight, however, and in view of the 1,500-meter best performances , things actually looked very good for Rein Aun before the last discipline, who was much faster here than his German competitors. Aun was able to overtake Hans-Joachim Walde, but Willi Holdorf always had his opponent in view and he managed to limit the distance to less than 70 meters. He crashed to the finish as an Olympic champion and his opponent Rein Aun caught him there - a great sporting gesture of this decathlete.

The high level of this competition becomes clear if one makes comparisons using a uniform rating system. According to today's rating, Holdorf's performance was 59 points better than Rafer Johnson's Olympic record of 1960 and was only 50 points below Yang Chuan-Kwang's world record , who was present here and finished fifth.

Willi Holdorf won the first German Olympic victory in the decathlon.

For a better classification of the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1964, the number of points converted according to the current rating system from 1985 is also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been two shifts: Places 14/15 and 16/17 would have been swapped. Otherwise the order would be unchanged. But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 287–291

Video

• TOKYO 1964 DECATHLON HOLDORF GER , published October 1, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed October 29, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Decathlon , accessed October 29, 2017
• Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 pp. 57–60 engl. (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 560 (English) ( memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 29, 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. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
3. ↑ SportsReference Decathlon (shot put) , accessed October 29, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (pole vault) , accessed October 29, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (1500 m) , accessed on October 29, 2017
6. ↑ 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. 58–60 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017