1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 800 meter run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 43 athletes from 33 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
| Competition phase | October 13, 1968 (preliminary) October 14 (semi-finals) October 15, 1968 (final) |
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The men's 800-meter run at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 13, 14 and 15, 1968 at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 43 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Australian Ralph Doubell , who set the world record in the final. Silver went to the Kenyan Wilson Kiprugut , bronze went to Tom Farrell from the USA.
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially 'Germany' - Franz-Josef Kemper and Walter Adams started . Both reached the semifinals, in which Kemper was eliminated. Adams reached fourth place in the final.
The GDR - officially 'East Germany' - was represented by Dieter Fromm . He also reached the final and was sixth there.
For the Principality of Liechtenstein was Xaver Frick Jr. at the start, but was eliminated from the lead.
Runners from Switzerland and Austria did not take part.
Existing records
| World record | 1: 44.3 min |
Peter Snell ( New Zealand )
 |
Christchurch , New Zealand | 3rd February 1962 |
| Olympic record | 1: 45.1 min | Tokyo finals , Japan | October 16, 1964 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a total of six heats on October 13th. The first two runners and the following four fastest runners made it to the semi-finals on October 14th. From the preliminary rounds, the four first placed runners reached the final on October 15th.
Time schedule
October 13th, 3 p.m .: preliminary runs
October 14, 4:20 p.m .: semi-finals
October 15, 6:10 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
Preliminary round
Date: October 13, 1968, from 3 p.m.
Forward 1
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas Saisi |
 Kenya
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1: 47.0 min | 1: 46.99 min | |
| 2 | Jean-Pierre Dufresne |
 France
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1: 47.6 min | 1: 47.61 min | |
| 3 | Matias Habtemichael |
.svg){kind=small} Ethiopia
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1: 49.6 min | 1: 49.63 min | |
| 4th | Papa M'Baye N'Diaye |
 Senegal
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1: 51.3 min | 1: 51.31 min | |
| 5 | Wade Bell |
 United States
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1: 51.5 min | 1: 51.52 min | |
| 6th | Róbert Honti |
 Hungary
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1: 53.8 min | 1: 53.88 min |
Forward 2
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dieter Fromm |
.svg){kind=small} GDR
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1: 46.9 min | 1: 46.98 min | |
| 2 | Franz-Josef Kemper |
BR Germany
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1: 47.0 min | 1: 47.02 min | |
| 3 | Ron Kutschinski |
United States
|
1: 47.6 min | 1: 47.61 min | |
| 4th | Ramasamy Subramaniam |
 Malaysia
|
1: 50.8 min | 1: 50.87 min | |
| 5 | Gilbert Van Manshoven |
 Belgium
|
1: 52.3 min | 1: 52.32 min | |
| DNF | Guillermo Cuello |
 Argentina
|
Forward 3
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walter Adams |
BR Germany
|
1: 48.4 min | 1: 48.50 min | |
| 2 | Jozef Plachý |
 Czechoslovakia
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1: 48.6 min | 1: 48.65 min | |
| 3 | Noel Carroll |
 Ireland
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1: 49.0 min | 1: 49.01 min | |
| 4th | Ahmed Issa |
 Chad
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1: 49.0 min | 1: 49.09 min | |
| 5 | Roberto Silva |
 Mexico
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1: 50.4 min | 1: 50.49 min | |
| 6th | Gerd Larsen |
 Denmark
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1: 51.9 min | 1: 51.98 min | |
| DNF | Neville Myton |
 Jamaica
|
Forward 4
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ralph Doubell |
 Australia
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1: 47.2 min | 1: 47.24 min | |
| 2 | Henryk Szordykowski |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
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1: 47.4 min | 1: 47.48 min | |
| 3 | Robert Ouko |
Kenya
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1: 47.6 min | 1: 47.65 min | |
| 4th | John Ametepey |
 Ghana
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1: 50.7 min | 1: 50.78 min | |
| 5 | Gilles Sibon |
France
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1: 50.8 min | 1: 50.87 min | |
| 6th | Chris Carter |
 Great Britain
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1: 52.9 min | 1: 52.99 min | |
| 7th | José L'Oficial |
 Dominican Republic
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1: 55.6 min | 1: 55.66 min | |
| 8th | Alfredo Cubías |
 El Salvador
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2: 08.7 min | 2: 08.72 min |
Forward 5
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wilson Kiprugut |
Kenya
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1: 46.1 min | 1: 46.17 min | |
| 2 | Tom Farrell |
United States
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1: 47.9 min | 1: 47.96 min | |
| 3 | Tomáš Jungwirth |
Czechoslovakia
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1: 48.7 min | 1: 48.72 min | |
| 4th | Gärderud is different |
 Sweden
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1: 48.9 min | 1: 48.99 min | |
| 5 | Jun Nagai |
.svg){kind=small} Japan
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1: 51.2 min | 1: 51.27 min | |
| 6th | Angelo Hussein |
.svg){kind=small} Sudan
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1: 53.4 min | 1: 53.43 min | |
| 7th | Jacques Pennewaert |
Belgium
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1: 53.8 min | 1: 53.81 min | |
| 8th | Francisco Menocal |
.svg){kind=small} Nicaragua
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1: 58.9 min | 1: 58.96 min |
Forward 6
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dave Cropper |
Great Britain
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1: 47.9 min | 1: 47.96 min | |
| 2 | Benedict Cayenne |
 Trinidad and Tobago
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1: 48.2 min | 1: 48.22 min | |
| 3 | Yevgeny Arshanov |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
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1: 48.4 min | 1: 48.46 min | |
| 4th | Byron Dyce |
Jamaica
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1: 48.5 min | 1: 48.58 min | |
| 5 | Mamo Sebsibe |
Ethiopia
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1: 49.7 min | 1: 49.75 min | |
| 6th | Gianni Del Buono |
 Italy
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1: 50.2 min | 1: 50.23 min | |
| 7th | Xaver Frick Jr. |
.svg){kind=small} Liechtenstein
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1: 52.6 min | 1: 52.68 min | |
| 8th | Carlos Báez |
 Puerto Rico
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1: 52.6 min | 1: 52.70 min |
Semifinals
Date: October 14, 1968, from 4:20 p.m.
Run 1
The Pole Henryk Szordykowski and the Soviet runner Yevgeny Arshanov , both qualified for the semifinals, did not start.
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walter Adams |
BR Germany
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1: 46.4 min | 1: 46.41 min | |
| 2 | Dieter Fromm |
GDR
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1: 46.5 min | 1: 46.54 min | |
| 3 | Thomas Saisi |
Kenya
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1: 46.6 min | 1: 46.64 min | |
| 4th | Benedict Cayenne |
Trinidad and Tobago
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1: 46.8 min | 1: 46.83 min | |
| 5 | Ron Kutschinski |
United States
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1: 47.3 min | 1: 47.39 min | |
| 6th | Jean-Pierre Dufresne |
France
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1: 51.8 min | 1: 51.89 min |
Run 2
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ralph Doubell |
Australia
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1: 45.7 min | 1: 45.78 min | |
| 2 | Wilson Kiprugut |
Kenya
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1: 46.4 min | 1: 46.41 min | |
| 3 | Jozef Plachý |
Czechoslovakia
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1: 45.9 min | 1: 45.96 min | |
| 4th | Tom Farrell |
United States
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1: 46.1 min | 1: 46.11 min | |
| 5 | Robert Ouko |
Kenya
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1: 47.1 min | 1: 47.15 min | |
| 6th | Byron Dyce |
Jamaica
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1: 47.2 min | 1: 47.30 min | |
| 7th | Franz-Josef Kemper |
BR Germany
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1: 47.3 min | 1: 47.47 min | |
| 8th | Dave Cropper |
Great Britain
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1: 47.6 min | 1: 47.67 min |
final
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ralph Doubell |
Australia
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1: 44.3 min | 1: 44.40 min | WRe / OR |
| 2 | Wilson Kiprugut |
Kenya
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1: 44.5 min | 1: 44.57 min | |
| 3 | Tom Farrell |
United States
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1: 45.4 min | 1: 45.46 min | |
| 4th | Walter Adams |
BR Germany
|
1: 45.8 min | 1: 45.83 min | |
| 5 | Jozef Plachý |
Czechoslovakia
|
1: 45.9 min | 1: 45.99 min | |
| 6th | Dieter Fromm |
GDR
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1: 46.2 min | 1: 46.30 min | |
| 7th | Thomas Saisi |
Kenya
|
1: 47.5 min | 1: 47.59 min | |
| 8th | Benedict Cayenne |
Trinidad and Tobago
|
1: 54.3 min | 1: 54.40 min |
Date: October 15, 1968, 6:10 p.m.
There was a larger group of favorites for this race. These included the Kenyan Wilson Kiprugut, Olympic Knight from 1964 , the American Wade Bell and also the German runner Franz-Josef Kemper. Bell, however, suffered from diarrhea - Montezuma's revenge - and dropped out weakly in the run-up. Due to an injury, Kemper was so handicapped that he only made it to the semi-finals. After his impressive appearance in his preliminary round, the Australian Ralph Doubell had to be counted among the contenders for victory.
In the final, Kiprugut took the lead right after the start. At high speed he tried to break Doubell's sprint force - in the semifinals Doubell had surprisingly defeated the favored Kenyan. So the field was spread wide and Kiprugut had created a clear gap to his rivals apart from Doubell, but the Australian stayed on his heels. In the last corner, Doubell started his final sprint and fought his way past Kiprugut. The Kenyan couldn't counter, Ralph Doubell ran to victory with a new Olympic record and also set Peter Snell's world record . Behind Wilson Kiprugut, the US athlete Thomas Farrell won the sprint duel with the West German middle-distance athlete Walter Adams for the bronze medal.
Wilson Kiprugut won the first Kenyan medal in this discipline.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 340–342
Video
- Ralph Doubell (WR), 800m. 1968 Olympic Games, Mexico City , published January 3, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed November 2, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 800m , accessed November 2, 2017
- Official report - summary p. 60f, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 2, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 522, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 2, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 548 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 2, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 10, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 2, 2017
- ↑ a b c Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 522, engl./frz. (PDF), accessed on November 2, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 2, 2017
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