1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 4 x 100 meter relay | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 76 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 19, 1968 (preliminary / semi-finals) October 20, 1968 (final) |
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The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 19 and 20, 1968 in the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 76 athletes took part in nineteen seasons.
The US relay ( Charles Greene , Mel Pender , Ronnie Ray Smith , Jim Hines ) was Olympic champion in a new world record time ahead of the relay from Cuba ( Hermes Ramírez , Juan Morales , Pablo Montes , Enrique Figuerola ) and France ( Gérard Fenouil , Jocelyn Delecour , Claude Piquemal , Roger Bambuck ).
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Karl-Peter Schmidtke , Gert Metz , Gerhard Wucherer and Joachim Eigenherr started , for the GDR - officially East Germany - Heinz Erbstößer , Hartmut Schelter , Peter Haase and Harald Eggers . Both seasons reached the finals. The GDR team finished fifth, the BR Germany team sixth.
Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record |
38.6 s race over 4 × 110 yards (= 4 × 100.584 m) |
USA / Jamaica team of the University of Southern California ( Earl McCullouch , Fred Kuller , OJ Simpson , Lennox Miller ) |
Provo , USA | June 17, 1967 |
Olympic record | 39.0 s |
USA ( Paul Drayton , Gerry Ashworth , Richard Stebbins , Bob Hayes ) |
Tokyo finals , Japan | October 21, 1964 |
Relay world records with casts from different countries are no longer recognized today.
Conducting the competition
The teams competed on October 19 for a total of three preliminary runs. The five best seasons and the fastest after that qualified for the semi-finals on the same day. From this, the four best teams reached the final on October 20th.
Time schedule
October 19, 10.40 a.m .: Preliminaries
October 19, 4 p.m .: Semi-finals
October 20, 4.50 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The relays directly qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue, the relays qualified over time are highlighted in light green.
Prelims
Date: October 19, 1968, from 10:40 a.m.
Forward 1
space | Season | occupation | Time (hand stopped) |
Time (electronically stopped) |
annotation |
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1 | Cuba |
Hermes Ramírez Juan Morales Pablo Montes Enrique Figuerola |
38.7 s | 38.76 s | OR |
2 | United States |
Charles Greene Mel Pender Ronnie Ray Smith Jim Hines |
38.8 s | 38.86 s | |
3 | Trinidad and Tobago |
Raymond Fabien Winston Short Carl Archer Edwin Roberts |
38.9 s | 38.97 s | |
4th | Bahamas |
Jerry Wisdom Tom Robinson Bernard Nottage Edwin Johnson |
39.4 s | 39.45 s | |
5 | Nigeria |
Timon Oyebami Robert Ojo Benedict Majekodunmi Kolawole Abdulai |
39.4 s | 39.47 s | |
6th | Ghana |
Edward Owusu Michael Ahey William Quaye James Addy |
39.8 s | 39.87 s | |
7th | Dominican Republic |
Luis Soriano Alberto Torres Rafael Domínguez Porfirio Veras |
41.4 s | 41.48 s | |
DNS | Puerto Rico |
Forward 2
space | Season | occupation | Time (hand stopped) |
Time (electronically stopped) |
annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jamaica |
Errol Stewart Michael Fray Clifton Forbes Lennox Miller |
38.6 s | 38.65 s | WRe / OR |
2 | France |
Gérard Fenouil Jocelyn Delecour Claude Piquemal Roger Bambuck |
39.0 s | 39.03 s | |
3 | BR Germany |
Karl-Peter Schmidtke Gert Metz Gerhard Wucherer Joachim Eigenherr |
39.1 s | 39.16 s | |
4th | Great Britain |
Joseph Speake Ronald Jones Ralph Banthorpe Barrie Kelly |
39.3 s | 39.33 s | |
5 | Ivory Coast |
Atta Kouakou N'dri Kouame Boy Akba Diby Gaoussou Koné |
39.6 s | 39.68 s | |
6th | Japan |
Naoki Abe Hiroomi Yamada Shinji Ogura Hideo Iijima |
40.0 s | 40.02 s | |
7th | Mexico |
Félix Bécquer Enrique Labadie Galdino Flores Miguel Ángel González |
40.0 s | 40.09 s |
Forward 3
space | Season | occupation | Time (hand stopped) |
Time (electronically stopped) |
annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | GDR |
Heinz Erbstößer Hartmut Schelter Peter Haase Harald Eggers |
38.9 s | 38.93 s | |
2 | Soviet Union |
Oleksiy Khlopotnov Yevgeny Sinyayev Nikolai Ivanov Vladislav Sapeja |
39.0 s | 39.03 s | |
3 | Poland |
Wiesław Maniak Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak |
40.2 s | 40.27 s | |
4th | Malaysia |
Manikavasagam Jegathesan Tambusamy Krishnan Rajalingam Gunaratnam Ooi Hock Lim |
40.6 s | 40.69 s | |
5 | Italy |
Sergio Ottolina Ennio Preatoni Angelo Sguazzero Livio Berruti |
41.5 s | 41.59 s | |
DNS | Taiwan | ||||
Switzerland | |||||
Venezuela |
Semifinals
Date: October 19, 1960, from 4 p.m.
Run 1
space | Season | occupation | Time (hand stopped) |
Time (electronically stopped) |
annotation |
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1 | Jamaica |
Errol Stewart Michael Fray Clifton Forbes Lennox Miller |
38.3 s | 38.39 s | WR |
2 | GDR |
Heinz Erbstößer Hartmut Schelter Peter Haase Harald Eggers |
38.7 s | 38.72 s | |
3 | BR Germany |
Karl-Peter Schmidtke Gert Metz Gerhard Wucherer Joachim Eigenherr |
38.9 s | 38.93 s | |
4th | Poland |
Wiesław Maniak Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak |
38.9 s | 38.99 s | |
5 | Great Britain | Joseph Speake Ronald Jones Ralph Banthorpe Barrie Kelly |
39.4 s | 39.46 s | |
6th | Trinidad and Tobago | Raymond Fabien Winston Short Carl Archer Edwin Roberts |
39.5 s | 39.52 s | |
7th | Ivory Coast | Atta Kouakou N'dri Kouame Boy Akba Diby Gaoussou Koné |
39.6 s | 39.69 s | |
8th | Malaysia |
Manikavasagam Jegathesan Tambusamy Krishnan Rajalingam Gunaratnam Ooi Hock Lim |
40.8 s | 40.89 s |
Run 2
space | Season | occupation | Time (hand stopped) |
Time (electronically stopped) |
annotation |
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1 | Cuba |
Hermes Ramírez Juan Morales Pablo Montes Enrique Figuerola |
38.6 s | 38.64 s | |
2 | United States |
Charles Greene Mel Pender Ronnie Ray Smith Jim Hines |
38.6 s | 38.69 s | |
3 | France |
Gérard Fenouil Jocelyn Delecour Claude Piquemal Roger Bambuck |
38.8 s | 38.83 s | |
4th | Italy |
Sergio Ottolina Ennio Preatoni Angelo Sguazzero Livio Berruti |
39.4 s | 39.46 s | |
5 | Ghana |
Edward Owusu Michael Ahey William Quaye James Addy |
39.9 s | 39.96 s | |
DNF | Soviet Union | Oleksiy Khlopotnov Yevgeny Sinyayev Nikolai Ivanov Vladislav Sapeja |
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DSQ | Nigeria |
Timon Oyebami Robert Ojo Benedict Majekodunmi Kolawole Abdulai |
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Bahamas | Jerry Wisdom Tom Robinson Bernard Nottage Edwin Johnson |
final
space | Surname | nation | Time (hand stopped) |
Time (electronically stopped) |
annotation |
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1 | United States |
Charles Greene Mel Pender Ronnie Ray Smith Jim Hines |
38.2 s | 38.24 s | WR |
2 | Cuba |
Hermes Ramírez Juan Morales Pablo Montes Enrique Figuerola |
38.3 s | 38.40 s | |
3 | France |
Gérard Fenouil Jocelyn Delecour Claude Piquemal Roger Bambuck |
38.4 s | 38.43 s | |
4th | Jamaica |
Errol Stewart Michael Fray Clifton Forbes Lennox Miller |
38.4 s | 38.47 s | |
5 | GDR |
Heinz Erbstößer Hartmut Schelter Peter Haase Harald Eggers |
38.6 s | 38.66 s | |
6th | BR Germany |
Karl-Peter Schmidtke Gert Metz Gerhard Wucherer Joachim Eigenherr |
38.7 s | 38.76 s | |
7th | Italy |
Sergio Ottolina Ennio Preatoni Angelo Sguazzero Livio Berruti |
39.2 s | 39.22 s | |
8th | Poland |
Wiesław Maniak Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak |
39.2 s | 39.22 s |
Date: October 20, 1968, 4:50 p.m.
Excellent times were already achieved in the preliminary round and the semi-finals. In the first run, Cuba was the first to improve the Olympic record by three tenths of a second. Then the Jamaican relay was again a tenth of a second faster and thus equalized the world record . In the semifinals, the Jamaicans improved by a further three tenths and were the sole world record holders. The 39-second mark - a world record four years ago - was beaten by seven seasons before the final.
In the final, the high expectations were fully met. In the last change, however, neither the USA nor Jamaica led, but the Cuban relay, Pablo Montes switched to Enrique Figuerola. The US final runner Jim Hines, winner of the 100-meter individual race , was about one and a half meters behind, but Hines passed the Cubans and brought the US relay to the Olympic victory with a lead of almost two meters and a new world record. Cuba won the silver medal quite surprisingly, ahead of the team from France, which set a new European record at the same time as the Cubans. The Jamaicans, who were also favorites, only stayed fourth at the same time as Cuba and France. The GDR was fifth, the FR Germany sixth. These two seasons were also only two and three tenths of a second behind Cuba.
In the twelfth Olympic final there was the tenth US victory.
Cuba won the first 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. 375–377
Video
- Record relay races. Jim Hines and his team at Olimpic Mexico-1968 4x100m 38.19 , published April 19, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed November 7, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on November 7, 2017
- Official report - summary p. 80f., English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 7, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 524f, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 7, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 561 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 7, 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. 11, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 7, 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. 524, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 7, 2017
- ↑ a b 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. 525, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 7, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 7, 2017