1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 54 athletes from 38 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 18, 1968 (preliminary) October 19 (semi-finals) October 20, 1968 (final) |
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The men's 1500 meter run at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 18, 19 and 20, 1968 at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 54 athletes took part.
The Kenyan Kipchoge Keino became Olympic champion . Silver went to the American Jim Ryun , bronze went to Bodo Tümmler from the Federal Republic of Germany.
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially 'Germany' - Arnd Krüger and Harald Norpoth started alongside the medal winner Tümmler . While Krüger failed in the semifinals, Norpoth qualified for the final and finished fourth there.
Hansrüedi Knill represented Switzerland. He survived the preliminary run, but was eliminated in the semifinals as ninth of his run.
For the Principality of Liechtenstein was Xaver Frick Jr. at the start, but different, as well as the Austrian Rudolf Klaban made during preprocessing.
Runners from the GDR - officially 'East Germany' - did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 3: 33.1 min |
Jim Ryun ( USA )
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Los Angeles , USA | July 8, 1967 |
Olympic record | 3: 35.6 min |
Herb Elliott ( Australia )
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Final of Rome , Italy | September 6, 1960 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a total of five heats on October 18. The first five made it to the semi-finals on October 19th. From the preliminary rounds, the six best runners qualified for the final on October 20th.
Time schedule
October 18, 11.00 a.m .: Preliminaries
October 19, 5.20 p.m .: Semi-finals
October 20, 3.30 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Preliminary round
Date: October 18, 1968, from 11 a.m.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
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1 | Kipchoge Keino |
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3: 46.9 min | 3: 46.96 min |
2 | Bodo Bottlenose Dolphin |
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3: 51.5 min | 3: 51.59 min |
3 | John Boulter |
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3: 51.6 min | 3: 51.63 min |
4th | Jorge Grosser |
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3: 51.7 min | 3: 51.79 min |
5 | Francesco Arese |
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3: 51.8 min | 3: 51.86 min |
6th | Dave Bailey |
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3: 52.1 min | 3: 52.11 min |
7th | Róbert Honti |
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3: 54.9 min | 3: 54.95 min |
8th | Rudolf Klaban |
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3: 59.1 min | 3: 59.11 min |
9 | Julio Quevedo |
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4: 03.1 min | 4: 03.13 min |
10 | Edouard Sagna |
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4: 04.1 min | 4:04.12 min |
11 | Emilio Barahona |
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4: 56.0 min | 4: 56.08 min |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
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1 | Tom Von Ruden |
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3: 59.1 min | 3: 59.15 min |
2 | André Dehertoghe |
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3: 59.3 min | 3: 59.33 min |
3 | Henryk Szordykowski |
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3: 59.3 min | 3: 59.34 min |
4th | Claude Nicolas |
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3: 59.3 min | 3: 59.35 min |
5 | Arnd Kruger |
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3: 59.3 min | 1: 52.32 min |
6th | Renzo Finelli |
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3: 59.5 min | 3: 59.51 min |
7th | Ove mountain |
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4: 00.4 min | 4: 00.42 min |
8th | Tom Hansen |
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4: 01.4 min | 4: 01.47 min |
9 | Ramasamy Subramaniam |
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4: 06.4 min | 4: 06.49 min |
10 | Miguel Nuñez |
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4: 23.6 min | 4: 23.67 min |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
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1 | Ben Jipcho |
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3: 46.4 min | 3: 46.51 min |
2 | Oleg Rayko |
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3: 46.8 min | 3: 46.84 min |
3 | Harald Norpoth |
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3: 46.9 min | 3: 47.00 min |
4th | Josef Odložil |
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3: 47.4 min | 3: 47.49 min |
5 | Jacky Boxberger |
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3: 47.5 min | 3: 47.55 min |
6th | José Neri |
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3: 47.5 min | 3: 47.88 min |
7th | Jorge González |
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3: 50.4 min | 3: 50.49 min |
8th | Ioannis Virvilis |
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3: 55.5 min | 3: 55.57 min |
9 | Xaver Frick Jr. |
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4: 15.3 min | 4: 15.38 min |
10 | Alfredo Cubías |
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4: 32.5 min | 4: 32.58 min |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
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1 | Jim Ryun |
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3: 45.7 min | 3: 45.80 min |
2 | Hamadi Haddou |
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3: 47.0 min | 3: 47.01 min |
3 | Edgard Salvé |
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3: 47.1 min | 3: 47.17 min |
4th | Arne Kvalheim |
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3: 47.4 min | 3: 47.50 min |
5 | Norm Trerise |
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3: 47.6 min | 3: 47.67 min |
6th | Gianni Del Buono |
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3: 48.4 min | 3: 48.41 min |
7th | Peter Watson |
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3: 55.4 min | 3: 55.41 min |
8th | Maurice Benn |
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3: 56.4 min | 3: 56.43 min |
9 | Pekka Vasala |
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4: 08.5 min | 4: 08.51 min |
10 | Willie Rios |
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4: 14.4 min | 4: 14.47 min |
11 | Jeff Payne |
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4: 18.9 min | 4: 18.92 min |
Forward 5
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
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1 | Marty Liquori |
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3: 52.7 min | 3: 52.78 min |
2 | Hansrüedi Knill |
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3: 52.8 min | 3: 52.87 min |
3 | John Whetton |
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3: 53.0 min | 3: 53.04 min |
4th | Ahmed Issa |
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3: 53.1 min | 3: 53.13 min |
5 | Mikhail Shelobovsky |
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3: 53.2 min | 3: 53.23 min |
6th | Matias Habtemichael |
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3: 53.2 min | 3: 53.27 min |
7th | Gärderud is different |
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3: 54.2 min | 3: 54.28 min |
8th | Byron Dyce |
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3: 54.6 min | 3: 54.65 min |
9 | Jerzy Maluśki |
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3: 54.8 min | 3: 54.83 min |
10 | Frank Murphy |
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3: 54.8 min | 3: 54.85 min |
11 | Rudi Simon |
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4: 06.9 min | 4: 06.97 min |
12 | Arturo Cordoba |
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5: 18.9 min | 5.18.92 min |
Semifinals
Date: October 19, 1968, from 5:20 p.m.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
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1 | Bodo Bottlenose Dolphin |
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3: 53.6 min | 3: 53.66 min |
2 | Jacky Boxberger |
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3: 53.9 min | 3: 54.00 min |
3 | Tom Von Ruden |
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3: 54.1 min | 3: 54.12 min |
4th | Henryk Szordykowski |
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3: 54.2 min | 3: 54.24 min |
5 | Harald Norpoth |
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3: 54.3 min | 3: 54.34 min |
6th | Ben Jipcho |
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3: 54.6 min | 3: 54.69 min |
7th | Francesco Arese |
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3: 54.8 min | 3: 54.85 min |
8th | Arne Kvalheim |
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3: 55.3 min | 3: 55.32 min |
9 | John Boulter |
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3: 56.1 min | 3: 56.13 min |
10 | Edgard Salvé |
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3: 58.1 min | 3: 58.16 min |
11 | Mikhail Shelobovsky |
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3: 59.0 min | 3: 59.08 min |
12 | Hamadi Haddou |
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4: 01.6 min | 4: 01.70 min |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
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1 | Jim Ryun |
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3: 51.2 min | 3: 51.25 min |
2 | Kipchoge Keino |
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3: 51.4 min | 3: 51.50 min |
3 | John Whetton |
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3: 52.0 min | 3: 52.05 min |
4th | Marty Liquori |
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3: 52.1 min | 3: 52.17 min |
5 | Josef Odložil |
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3: 52.5 min | 3: 52.53 min |
6th | André Dehertoghe |
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3: 52.5 min | 3: 52.57 min |
7th | Oleg Rayko |
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3: 52.7 min | 3: 52.73 min |
8th | Ahmed Issa |
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3: 53.2 min | 3: 53.26 min |
9 | Hansrüedi Knill |
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3: 53.6 min | 3: 53.65 min |
10 | Norm Trerise |
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3: 57.2 min | 3: 57.30 min |
11 | Claude Nicolas |
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4: 04.4 min | 4: 04.47 min |
12 | Arnd Kruger |
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4: 05.3 min | 4: 05.40 min |
DNF | Jorge Grosser |
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final
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Kipchoge Keino |
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3: 34.9 min | 3: 34.91 min | OR |
2 | Jim Ryun |
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3: 37.8 min | 3: 37.89 min | |
3 | Bodo Bottlenose Dolphin |
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3: 39.0 min | 3: 39.08 min | |
4th | Harald Norpoth |
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3: 42.5 min | 3: 42.57 min | |
5 | John Whetton |
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3: 43.8 min | 3: 43.90 min | |
6th | Jacky Boxberger |
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3: 46.6 min | 3: 46.65 min | |
7th | Henryk Szordykowski |
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3: 46.6 min | 3: 46.69 min | |
8th | Josef Odložil |
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3: 48.6 min | 3: 48.69 min | |
9 | Tom Von Ruden |
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3: 49.2 min | 3: 49.27 min | |
10 | Ben Jipcho |
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3: 51.2 min | 3: 51.22 min | |
11 | André Dehertoghe |
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3: 53.6 min | 3: 53.63 min | |
12 | Marty Liquori |
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4: 18.2 min | 4: 18.22 min |
Date: October 20, 1968, 3:30 p.m.
In particular, the US world record holder Jim Ryun, who fell ill with Pfeiffer glandular fever at the beginning of the year , was the favorite. However, there were concerns about the mountain air of Mexico City . The Kenyan Kipchoge Keino, who lived at heights, was considered his greatest competitor. Another candidate for a medal was European champion Bodo Tümmler, FR Germany, while his compatriot Harald Norpoth, third in the European championship in 1966, after whose problems over 5000 meters was no longer as expected.
The Kenyans Keino and Benjamin Jipcho came up with their own strategy for the final. Jipcho ensured a high pace for Keino from the start in order to prevent Ryun's dreaded final spurt. At first only Norpoth followed him, behind it there was a small gap, but this was soon closed by Tümmler and Keino. Ryun was further back. At 800 meters, Keino took the lead, the two Germans were in the next places and Ryun in the back field. After the third lap, Keino was on a world record course, now well ahead. Bottlenose dolphins and Norpoth followed. Ryun had meanwhile worked his way up to fourth position, the gap to the two Germans was getting smaller. The rest of the field was further back. On the back straight, Ryun passed Norpoth and Tümmler, but had no chance to intercept the unleashed Keino. With a 25 meter lead, Kipchoge Keino won with a new Olympic record ahead of Jim Ryun. Bodo Tümmler won the bronze medal ahead of Harald Norpoth. Such a fast race was never expected by the experts given the altitude.
Kipchoge Keino won the first Kenyan Olympic victory on this route.
Bodo Tümmler won the first medal for the Federal Republic of Germany 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. 342-344.
Video
- Keino v.Ryun.1500m. 1968 Olympic Games, Mexico City , published February 1, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed November 3, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 1500 m , accessed November 3, 2017
- Official report - summary p. 64 f, (English, French, PDF), accessed on November 3, 2017
- Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games p. 523, (English, French, PDF), accessed on November 3, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 549 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 3, 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 f, (English, French, PDF), accessed on November 3, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d Official Report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 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. 523, (English, French, PDF), accessed on November 3, 2017.
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 3, 2017.