1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Shot put | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 19 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 13, 1968 (qualification) October 14, 1968 (final) |
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The shot put men at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City was on 13 and 14 October 1968 at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario held. 19 athletes took part.
The American Randy Matson became Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot George Woods and Eduard Guschtschin from the Soviet Union.
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Traugott Glöckler and Heinfried Birlenbach started , both of whom reached the final. Birlenbach was eighth, Glöckler twelfth.
The GDR - officially East Germany - was represented by Uwe Grabe and Dieter Hoffmann , who also both reached the final. Hoffmann was fourth, Grabe seventh. Edy Hubacher , who became Olympic champion in the four-man bobsleigh in Sapporo in 1972
, competed for Switzerland . Hubacher failed because of the qualification range.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 21.78 m | Randy Matson ( USA ) | College Station , USA | April 22, 1967 |
Olympic record | 20.33 m | Dallas Long ( USA ) | Tokyo finals , Japan | 17th October 1964 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed on October 13 for a qualifying round that was completed in two groups. The twelve best starters qualified for the final. The qualification distance for directly reaching the final on October 14th was 18.90 m. Since only eleven participants made this qualification distance, the next best thrower was allowed to start as the twelfth in the final. There, each participant initially had three attempts. For the first time, the eight best - and not the six best, as was the case until 1964 - athletes were then able to complete three more attempts.
Time schedule
October 13, 10 a.m .: Qualification
October 14, 3:30 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The athletes qualified over the distance are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
qualification
Date: October 13, 1968, from 10 a.m.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Randy Matson | United States | 20.68 m OR | - | - | 20.68 m | OR |
2 | Eduard Gushchin | Soviet Union | 19.88 m | - | - | 19.88 m | |
3 | George Woods | United States | 19.79 m | - | - | 19.79 m | |
4th | Dieter Hoffmann | GDR | 18.30 m | 19.75 m | - | 19.75 m | |
5 | Heinfried Birlenbach | BR Germany | 19.43 m | - | - | 19.43 m | |
6th | Dave Maggard | United States | 18.73 m | 19.26 m | - | 19.26 m | |
7th | Uwe Grabe | GDR | 18.08 m | 18.59 m | 19.15 m | 19.15 m | |
8th | Wladyslaw Komar | Poland | 19.09 m | - | - | 19.09 m | |
9 | Traugott Glöckler | BR Germany | 18.89 m | 19.08 m | - | 19.08 m | |
10 | Vilmos Varjú | Hungary | 18.69 m | x | 18.86 m | 18.86 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pierre Colnard | France | 19.57 m | - | - | 19.57 m | |
2 | Les Mills | New Zealand | 18.56 m | 19.00 m | - | 19.00 m | |
3 | Jeff Teale | Great Britain | 18.76 m | x | 18.87 m | 18.87 m | |
4th | Arnjolt Beer | France | 18.72 m | x | x | 18.72 m | |
5 | Edy Hubacher | Switzerland | 18.54 m | 18.38 m | x | 18.54 m | |
6th | Guðmundur Hermannsson | Iceland | 16.24 m | 16.77 m | 17.35 m | 17.35 m | |
7th | Georgios Lemonis | Greece | 16.43 m | x | x | 16.43 m | |
8th | Rolando Mendoza | Nicaragua | 11.39 m | 13.33 m | 13.32 m | 13.33 m | |
9 | Mauricio Jubis | El Salvador | 12.04 m | 12.46 m | 12.92 m | 12.92 m |
final
Date: October 14, 1968, 3:30 p.m.
The favorite role fell to the 1964 silver medalist and world record holder Randy Matson from the USA. His compatriot George Woods was the main candidate for the silver medal. The question of who would win bronze was more open because there was a smaller circle. The main traders were the European Eduard Guschtschin from the USSR, who had set a European record shortly before the games, the West German Heinfried Birlenbach, who held the European record before Guschtschin, and the GDR athlete Dieter Hoffmann, who had already exceeded the 20-meter mark.
In qualifying, Matson Dallas Long's Olympic record improved from 1964 by 35 centimeters to 20.68 m. He was the only one to exceed 20 meters in this elimination. In the final, the placement in the first five places was already decided after the first round. None of the athletes could improve. Randy Matson stayed a good ten centimeters under his width from the qualification, but that was enough for him to win the Olympic gold. George Woods also lived up to his role and won the silver medal with 20.12 m. Eduard Guschtschin won the battle for third place with 20.09 m, just ahead of Dieter Hoffmann, who came to exactly 20.00 m. Heinfried Birlenbach, still in the qualification with an appealing width, got stuck at 18.80 m and eighth place. He was caught by a gastrointestinal virus that was common at these games. In the 16th Olympic final, Randy Matson achieved the 14th US victory. It was also the sixth in a row.
For the USA it was the twelfth double victory, as well as the sixth in a row.
Eduard Gushchin won the first Soviet medal in this discipline.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Randy Matson | United States | 20.54 m | 20.09 m | 18.67 m | 20.15 m | 20.02 m | 20.18 m | 20.54 m | |
2 | George Woods | United States | 20.12 m | x | x | - | 19.19 m | x | 20.12 m | |
3 | Eduard Gushchin | Soviet Union | 20.09 m | 19.45 m | 19.69 m | x | x | 19.41 m | 20.09 m | |
4th | Dieter Hoffmann | GDR | 20.00 m | 19.33 m | 19.75 m | 19.68 m | 19.85 m | 19.86 m | 20.00 m | |
5 | Dave Maggard | United States | 19.43 m | 19.33 m | 18.46 m | 18.90 m | 19.15 m | x | 19.43 m | |
6th | Wladyslaw Komar | Poland | 18.66 m | 19.28 m | 18.54 m | x | x | 19.21 m | 19.28 m | |
7th | Uwe Grabe | GDR | 18.20 m | 18.74 m | 19.03 m | 17.43 m | 17.66 m | 18.34 m | 19.03 m | |
8th | Heinfried Birlenbach | BR Germany | 18.80 m | 18.48 m | x | 18.13 m | 18.67 m | x | 18.80 m | |
9 | Pierre Colnard | France | 18.62 m | x | 18.79 m | not in the final of the eight best athletes |
18.79 m | |||
10 | Jeff Teale | Great Britain | 18.65 m | 18.57 m | 18.60 m | 18.65 m | ||||
11 | Les Mills | New Zealand | 18.18 m | 18.01 m | 17.95 m | 18.18 m | ||||
12 | Traugott Glöckler | BR Germany | x | 17.20 m | 18.14 m | 18.14 m |
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 365f
Video
- Randy Matson Olympics 1968 (20.54m) , published January 7, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed November 9, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Shot Put , accessed November 9, 2017
- Official report - summary p. 102, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 529, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 557 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 9, 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 9, 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. 529, engl./frz. (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 365f