1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 74 athletes from 41 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario (destination) | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 20th October 1968 | ||||||||
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The men's marathon at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games was held on October 20, 1968. 76 athletes took part in the last athletics decision of these Summer Olympics. 58 of them reached the destination.
The Ethiopian Mamo Wolde became Olympic champion . Silver went to the Japanese Kenji Kimihara , bronze went to Mike Ryan from New Zealand.
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Manfred Steffny (17th place), Karl-Heinz Sievers (23rd place) and Hubert Riesner (33rd place) started.
The GDR - officially East Germany - was represented by Jürgen Busch, who reached the finish line in fifteenth.
Josef Gwerder (32nd place), Helmut Kunisch (44th place) and Edgar Friedli (retired) started for Switzerland.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
| World best | 2:09:36.4 h |
Derek Clayton ( Australia )
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Fukuoka , Japan | 3rd December 1967 |
| Olympic record | 2: 12: 11.2 h |
Abebe Bikila ( Ethiopia )
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Tokyo Marathon , Japan | October 21, 1964 |
World records were not set in the marathon because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The start was on Constitution Square , the central main square of the Mexican capital, right in front of the cathedral . The course led back and forth through the city, past the Palacio de Bellas Artes , the Alameda Central and u. a. via the Paseo de la Reforma . The route also crossed the Bosque de Chapultepec , the largest green space in the city. Via the Avenida de los Insurgentes , it was then to the finish in the Olympic Stadium .
The many changes in direction were characteristic of the course. Only the last ten kilometers, which were mainly covered on the Avenida de los Insurgentes, were free of curves. From kilometer 36, the route rose. The difference in altitude between start and finish was 62 meters, of which 53 meters between kilometers 36 and 41.5 just before the stadium had to be mastered.
Race course
Date: October 14, 1968, 3 p.m. (UTC −6)
Abebe Bikila, who had already won the last two Olympic marathons in Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964 , was considered the favorite, especially in the heights of Mexico City. But he was n't in the best of shape in Mexico City . He suffered from the effects of a knee injury and a cold.
As in the previous long-distance runs on the track, we started out slowly and carefully. A large group stayed together for the first ten kilometers. At kilometer 20, the top field had been reduced to four participants. The Belgian Gaston Roelants, Olympic champion over 3000 meters obstacle from 1964, set the pace, followed by the British Tim Johnston and the Ethiopians Mamo Wolde, Olympic runner-up over 10,000 meters and Naftali Temu, Olympic winner over 10,000 meters and Olympic runner-up over 5000 meters . Then Temu pushed again, only Wolde remained in sight. After another five kilometers, Wolde had caught up again and now took the initiative himself. Naftali Temu fell back more and more, he was finally 19th. Mamo Wolde could not be denied the Olympic victory and reached the goal with more than three minutes ahead of second placed Japanese Kenji Kimihara. The bronze medal was won by New Zealander Michael Ryan, who finished the race just 16 seconds after Kimihara.
Mamo Wolde won the third Ethiopian gold medal in a row in the marathon .
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 16:44 min | Jürgen Busch and eleven other runners | 16:44 min |
| 10 km | 33:55 min | Kenny Moore and fifteen other runners | 17:11 min |
| 15 km | 50:26 min | Tim Johnston and twelve other runners | 16:31 min |
| 20 km | 1:06:02 h | Gaston Roelants and three other runners | 15:36 min |
| 25 km | 1:22:58 h | Naftali Temu - 8 s ahead of Mamo Wolde | 15:42 min |
| 30 km | 1:39:20 h | Mamo Wolde - 6 s ahead of Naftali Temu | 16:22 min |
| 35 km | 1:55:54 h | Wolde - 1:51 min ahead of Kimhihara and 1:56 min ahead of Ryan | 16:34 min |
| 40 km | 2:12:59 h | Wolde - 2:32 min before Kimhihara and 2:38 min before Ryan | 17:04 min |
Bottom line
Date: October 14, 1968, 3 p.m. (UTC −6)
Saoud Obaid Daifallah and Mraljeb Ayed Mansoor were the first Kuwaiti athletes to compete in the Olympic Games.
Rafael Pérez was Costa Rica's first track and field athlete.
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literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 348f
Video
- Mexico 1968 Olympic Marathon | Marathon Week , published April 22, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed November 5, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Marathon , accessed November 5, 2017
- Official report - summary p. 64f., English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 5, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 532, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 5, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 565 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 5, 2017
- ^ Online excerpt from "The Olympic Marathon" by David E. Martin and Roger WH Gynn, pp. 261–265 , accessed on November 5, 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 5, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 5, 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. 532, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 5, 2017
- ↑ is missing in the official results
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