1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pentathlon (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pentathlon
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Competition phase	15./16. October 1968
Medalists Ingrid Becker ( FRG )   Liese Prokop ( AUT )   Annamária Tóth ( HUN )

The women's pentathlon at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was played on October 15 and 16, 1968 at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 33 athletes took part.

Ingrid Becker from the Federal Republic of Germany became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Austrian Liese Prokop and the Hungarian Annamária Tóth .

In addition to the Olympic champion Becker, Manon Bornholdt took part for the team of the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - and took fifth place. Inge Bauer and Gerda Uhlemann
started for the GDR - officially East Germany . Bauer came in seventh, Uhlemann came in 19. While Austria was only represented by the silver medalist Prokop, two Swiss women started. Meta Antenen was eighth, Sieglinde Ammann 23. Pentathletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	5246 points	Irina Press ( Soviet Union )	Tokyo , Japan	October 16-17, 1964
Olympic record			Tokyo Olympic Pentathlon , Japan

Conducting the competition

Like today the heptathlon and the decathlon for men, the competition was held over two days. Day one - here October 15 - is reserved for the 80-meter hurdles , the shot put and the high jump . On the second day - here October 16 - the long jump and the 200-meter run take place. The basis for the evaluation was the pentathlon table modified in 1962. If there was a tie in the final bill, the number of better placements decided.

Competition schedule

On October 15 the following were completed:

10.00 a.m .: 80-meter hurdles

10.30 a.m .: Shot put

4 p.m .: high jump

On October 16 the following were completed:

11.30 a.m .: long jump

4.30 p.m .: 200 meter run

Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)

Participants

33 athletes from 24 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Marjan Ackermans	Netherlands
Sieglinde Ammann	Switzerland
Meta antennas	Switzerland
Monique Bantégny	France
Inge Bauer	GDR
Ingrid Becker	BR Germany
Berit Berthelsen	Norway
Manon Bornholdt	BR Germany
Gunilla Cederström	Sweden
Roswitha Emonts guest	Belgium
Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia
Catherine Hamblin	United States
Nina Hansen	Denmark
Snezhana Yurukova	Bulgaria
Lolita Lagrosas	Philippines
Lin Chun-yu	Taiwan
Marijana Lubej	Yugoslavia
Jenny Meldrum	Canada
Mary Peters	Great Britain
Cornelia Popescu	Romania
Read Procopius	Austria
Sue Scott	Great Britain
Jean Robotham	Costa Rica
Mercedes Roman	Mexico
Aída dos Santos	Brazil
Galina Sofina	Soviet Union
Annamária Tóth	Hungary
Valentina Tikhomirova	Soviet Union
Tien Ah-mei	Taiwan
Gerda Uhlemann	GDR
Magalì Vettorazzo	Italy
Ann Wilson	Great Britain
Pat Winslow	United States

Disciplines

80 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in seven runs.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Antennas 10.7 s 1096 02 Becker 10.9 s 1061 Hansen Lubej Tóth 06th Bornholdt 11.0 s 1044 Yurukova Meldrum Peters Scott 11 Fočić 11.1 s 1027 Vettorazzo Wilson 14th Procopius 11.2 s 1011 Tikhomirova 16 Novel 11.3 s 995 Uhlemann 18th Farmer 11.4 s 979 Winslow 20th Ackermans 11.5 s 963 Bantégny Emonts guest 23 Berthelsen 11.6 s 948 Cederström Lin dos Santos Sofina 28 Ammann 11.7 s 933 29 Lagrosas 11.8 s 918 Tien 31 Hamblin 11.9 s 904 32 Popescu 12.1 s 876 33 Robotham 13.4 s 712

Shot put

Marjan Ackermans from the Netherlands took eighth place in the shot put . In the final bill it was enough to place 17

With her victory in the shot put Mary Peters took the lead ahead of Liese Prokop and Valentina Tichomirowa. Annamária Tóth followed in fourth place, Ingrid Becker was twelfth after the second discipline, 216 points behind Peters.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Peters 15.09 m 1052 02 Procopius 14.61 m 1023 03 Sofina 14.43 m 1012 04th Tikhomirova 14.12 m 993 05 Winslow 13.33 m 943 06th Farmer 13.00 m 921 07th Tóth 12.69 m 901 08th Ackermans 12.62 m 896 09 Meldrum 12.41 m 882 dos Santos 11 Bornholdt 12.37 m 880 12 Emonts guest 12.33 m 877 13 Bantégny 12.18 m 867 14th Uhlemann 12.00 m 855 15th Yurukova 11.83 m 843 16 Fočić 11.80 m 841 17th Becker 11.48 m 819 18th Scott 11.33 m 809 19th Popescu 11.25 m 803 20th Antennas 11.06 m 790 21st Hansen 10.92 m 780 22nd Berthelsen 10.80 m 771 23 Hamblin 10.66 m 761 24 Wilson 10.58 m 755 25th Lubej 10.38 m 741 26th Cederström 10.36 m 740 27 Ammann 10.35 m 739 28 Vettorazzo 10.34 m 738 29 Novel 10.08 m 719 30th Lagrosas 9.93 m 708 31 Lin 9.82 m 700 32 Tien 9.04 m 640 33 Robotham 8.73 m 615

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Peters 2096 02 Procopius 2034 03 Tikhomirova 2004 04th Tóth 1962 05 Sofina 1960 06th Meldrum 1926 07th Bornholdt 1924 08th Winslow 1922 09 Farmer 1900 10 Yurukova 1887 11 Antennas 1886 12 Becker 1880 13 Fočić 1868 14th Ackermans 1859 15th Scott 1853 16 Uhlemann 1850 17th Hansen 1841 18th Emonts guest 1840 19th Bentégny 1830 dos Santos 21st Lubej 1802 22nd Wilson 1782 23 Vettorazzo 1765 24 Berthelsen 1719 25th Novel 1714 26th Cederström 1688 27 Popescu 1679 28 Ammann 1672 29 Hamblin 1665 30th Lin 1648 31 Lagrosas 1626 32 Tien 1558 33 Robotham 1327

high jump

The high jump brought a change at the top. Mary Peters slipped to third place, Liese Prokop and Walentina Tichomirowa passed. Ingrid Becker improved to fourth, Annamária Tóth was sixth behind Pat Winslow. Becker had made up 198 points on Peters. There were now 124 points separated from the leading Austrian.

Classification space Surname height Points 01 Becker 1.71 m 1057 02 Procopius 1.68 m 1027 03 Ackermans 1.65 m 996 Bantégny Tikhomirova Winslow 07th Antennas 1.62 m 965 Fočić Popescu Wilson 11 Farmer 1.59 m 934 Bornholdt Hansen Yurukova Lubej Meldrum dos Santos Sofina Tóth 20th Berthelsen 1.56 m 902 Scott 22nd Ammann 1.53 m 869 Cederström Lagrosas Peters Uhlemann 27 Hamblin 1.50 m 836 28 Lin 1.48 m 814 29 Vettorazzo 1.45 m 780 30th Tien 1.35 m 660 - Emonts guest without height 0 Robotham Novel

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Procopius 3061 02 Tikhomirova 3000 03 Peters 2965 04th Becker 2937 05 Winslow 2918 06th Tóth 2896 07th Sofina 2894 08th Meldrum 2860 09 Bornholdt 2858 10 Ackermans 2855 11 Antennas 2851 12 Farmer 2834 13 Fočić 2833 14th Bantégny 2826 15th Yurukova 2821 16 Hansen 2775 17th dos Santos 2764 18th Scott 2755 19th Wilson 2747 20th Lubej 2736 21st Uhlemann 2719 22nd Popescu 2644 23 Berthelsen 2621 24 Cederström 2557 25th Vettorazzo 2545 26th Ammann 2541 27 Hamblin 2501 28 Lagrosas 2495 29 Lin 2462 30th Tien 2218 31 Emonts guest 1840 32 Novel 1714 33 Robotham 1327

Long jump

Fifth place in the long jump , seventh place in the overall ranking: Inge Bauer, GDR

The Swede Gunilla Cederström did not take part in this fourth discipline.

With her second discipline victory Ingrid Becker was able to work her way up to 22 points on Liese Prokop. The poor long jump performance of Mary Peters let her slip to ninth place. In third place followed Valentina Tichomirowa, followed by Manon Bornholdt, who jumped just one centimeter shorter than her teammate Becker. Annamária Tóth was fifth behind Bornholdt.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Becker 6.43 m 1084 02 Bornholdt 6.42 m 1082 03 Antennas 6.30 m 1056 04th Berthelsen 6.28 m 1051 05 Farmer 6.22 m 1038 06th Scott 6.20 m 1034 07th Hansen 6.19 m 1031 08th Tóth 6.12 m 1016 09 Ammann 6.07 m 1004 10 Uhlemann 6.02 m 993 11 Lubej 6.01 m 991 Wilson 13 Tikhomirova 5.99 m 986 14th Yurukova 5.98 m 984 15th Procopius 5.97 m 982 Winslow 17th Bantégny 5.90 m 966 Fočić 19th Meldrum 5.89 m 964 Popescu 21st Vettorazzo 5.84 m 952 22nd Emonts guest 5.81 m 945 23 Sofina 5.76 m 934 24 Hamblin 5.72 m 924 25th Novel 5.71 m 922 26th Ackermans 5.65 m 908 27 Peters 5.60 m 897 28 Lagrosas 5.50 m 873 dos Santos 30th Lin 5.36 m 839 31 Tien 5.06 m 767 32 Robotham 4.74 m 686

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Procopius 4043 02 Becker 4021 03 Tikhomirova 3986 04th Bornholdt 3940 05 Tóth 3912 06th Antennas 3907 07th Winslow 3900 08th Farmer 3872 09 Peters 3862 10 Sofina 3828 11 Meldrum 3824 12 Hansen 3806 13 Yurukova 3805 14th Fočić 3799 15th Bantégny 3792 16 Scott 3789 17th Ackermans 3763 18th Wilson 3738 19th Lubej 3727 20th Uhlemann 3712 21st Berthelsen 3672 22nd dos Santos 3637 23 Popescu 3608 24 Ammann 3545 25th Vettorazzo 3497 26th Hamblin 3425 27 Lagrosas 3368 28 Lin 3301 29 Tien 2985 30th Emonts guest 2785 31 Novel 2636 32 Robotham 2013

200 meter run

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

Ingrid Becker achieved the fastest time in the 200-meter run in the Olympic pentathlon with 23.5 seconds .

Becker had 22 points to catch up on Liese Prokop and therefore had to be three tenths of a second faster than the Austrian. Overall, Becker was 1.6 seconds faster in her third individual victory in this Olympic pentathlon in Mexico City . Annamária Tóth was also 1.3 seconds ahead of Prokop, but it was not enough for her to win silver. The Hungarian was beaten by seven points - a tenth of a second - the bronze medal.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Becker 23.5 s 1077 02 Tóth 23.8 s 1047 03 Lubej 23.9 s 1037 04th Vettorazzo 24.2 s 1007 05 Scott 24.3 s 997 06th Farmer 24.5 s 977 Berthelsen Winslow 09 Novel 24.6 s 968 10 Bornholdt 24.8 s 950 Meldrum Wilson 10 Antennas 24.9 s 941 Peters dos Santos Tikhomirova 17th Hansen 25.0 s 932 Uhlemann 19th Yurukova 25.1 s 923 Procopius 21st Tien 25.2 s 914 22nd Bantégny 25.3 s 905 Hamblin 24 Robotham 25.4 s 896 25th Ackermans 25.5 s 887 26th Ammann 25.7 s 869 Emonts guest 28 Popescu 26.2 s 827 29 Lin 26.5 s 803 30th Lagrosas 27.0 s 763 31 Fočić 41.8 s 15th - Sofina DNF 0

Bottom line

Date: October 15-16, 1968

The clear favorite for this competition was the German athlete Heide Rosendahl , best of the year in the world with 5129 points. But here, of all places, she injured herself warming up for the first discipline and was thus condemned to watch. Her greatest successes were to come four years later at the Munich Games . Ingrid Becker, also from Germany, started with very good prospects and took second place in the world's best list for the year.

In the 80-meter hurdles , the first discipline, the Swiss Meta Antenen was in front with a strong performance. Becker held up well two tenths of a second behind and was in second place with three other pentathletes. The second exercise, the shot put, was Becker's weak point. She was three and a half meters behind the British Mary Peters, who now took the lead with her push of 15.09 m. The equally strong shot putters Liese Prokop from Austria and Walentina Tichomirowa, USSR, followed in the intermediate ranking in second and third place, the Hungarian Annamária Tóth was fourth, while Becker was only in twelfth place, 216 points behind. But there were still three disciplines left and the competition was not yet decided. In the third exercise, the high jump , Ingrid Becker finished her first Olympic Games in 1960 with a 1.65 m finish. In the pentathlon here she jumped 1.71m and was better than her pentathlon rivals. But above all Prokop and Tichomirowa were not far behind, so that they were clearly ahead of Becker. At the end of the first day, the Austrian was leading with 61 points ahead of Tichomirowa and 96 points ahead of Peters. Becker followed in fourth place with 124 points behind Prokop.

Now came the second day with two particular strengths of the Germans. In the long jump , Becker reached 6.43 m and was again the best pentathlon one centimeter ahead of Manon Bornholdt, also BR Germany, who meanwhile improved to fourth place. Prokop and Tichomirowa lost so much ground here that the Austrian was only 22 points ahead of Becker, who was now second, and the Soviet athlete was third, 35 points behind Becker. Not far behind was Annamária Tóth from Hungary, a strong 200-meter runner. This was the intermediate result before the final 200-meter run . Ingrid Becker was also the best athlete in this competition in this last discipline. With an excellent 23.5 seconds, she ran 1.6 seconds faster than Liese Prokop. The gold and silver medals were awarded. The Hungarian Annamária Tóth improved to bronze place with her 23.8 seconds, who almost reached Prokop with this fast time. Valentina Tichomirowa fell back to fourth place, Manon Bornholdt was fifth.

For Liese Prokop there was the Australian flag.

space	Surname	nation	Points	annotation
1	Ingrid Becker	BR Germany	5098
2	Read Procopius	Austria	4966
3	Annamária Tóth	Hungary	4959
4th	Valentina Tikhomirova	Soviet Union	4927
5	Manon Bornholdt	BR Germany	4890
6th	Pat Winslow	United States	4877
7th	Inge Bauer	GDR	4849
8th	Meta antennas	Switzerland	4848
9	Mary Peters	Great Britain	4803
10	Sue Scott	Great Britain	4768
11	Jenny Meldrum	Canada	4774
12	Marijana Lubej	Yugoslavia	4764
13	Nina Hansen	Denmark	4738
14th	Snezhana Yurukova	Bulgaria	4728
15th	Monique Bantégny	France	4697
16	Anne Wilson	Great Britain	4688
17th	Marjan Ackermans	Netherlands	4650
18th	Berit Berthelsen	Norway	4649
19th	Gerda Uhlemann	GDR	4644
20th	Aída dos Santos	Brazil	4578
21st	Magalì Vettorazzo	Italy	4504
22nd	Cornelia Popescu	Romania	4435
23	Sieglinde Ammann	Switzerland	4414
24	Catherine Hamblin	United States	4330
25th	Lolita Lagrosas	Philippines	4131
26th	Lin Chun-yu	Taiwan	4104
27	Tien Ah-mei	Taiwan	3899
28	Galina Sofina	Soviet Union	3828
29	Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia	3814
30th	Roswitha Emonts guest	Belgium	3654
31	Mercedes Roman	Mexico	3604
32	Jean Robotham	Costa Rica	2909

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 392–394

Video

• "The slow motion" Olympia '68 in Mexico City , range 4:59 min - 5:03 min published on June 26, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed on November 12, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Pentathlon , accessed November 12, 2017
• Official report - summary p. 118f, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 12, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 538, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 12, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 12, 2017 
2. ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (200 m) , accessed on November 12, 2017
3. ↑ 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. 538, engl./frz. (PDF), accessed on November 12, 2017 
4. ^ "Australian flag for Lisl Prokop" in "Volkszeitung Kärnten" No. 240 of October 18, 1968, page 7, POS. Box middle right
5. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 392f