1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 51 athletes from 33 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Munich | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 31, 1972 (preliminary) September 3, 1972 (final) |
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The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on August 31 and September 3, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 51 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Finn Lasse Virén , who set a new world record in the final. The silver medal went to the Belgian Emiel Puttemans , bronze went to the Ethiopian Miruts Yifter .
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Günter Mielke and Manfred Letzerich started . Both were eliminated in the heats, Mielke had to give up his run, Letzerich was 14th of his heat.
The two Swiss Werner Dössegger and Albrecht Moser were also eliminated in the preliminary stages .
Runners from the GDR, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 27: 39.4 min | Ron Clarke ( Australia ) | Oslo , Norway | July 14, 1965 |
Olympic record | 28: 24.4 min | Billy Mills ( United States ) | Tokyo 10,000 meter run , Japan | October 14, 1964 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes started a total of three heats on August 31. The first four and the three fastest runners afterwards reached the final on September 3rd.
Time schedule
August 31, 5:30 p.m .: Preliminaries
September 3, 5:15 p.m .: Final
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
Preliminary round
Date: August 31, 1972, from 5.30 p.m.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Emiel Puttemans | Belgium | 27: 53.4 min | OR |
2 | David Bedford | United Kingdom | 27: 53.6 min | |
3 | Javer Álvarez | Spain | 28: 08.6 min | |
4th | Abdelkader Zaddem | Tunisia | 28: 14.8 min | |
5 | Josef Jánský | Czechoslovakia | 28: 23.2 min | |
6th | Anatoly Badrankov | Soviet Union | 28: 35.8 min | |
7th | Noël Tijou | France | 28: 36.2 min | |
8th | Werner Doessegger | Switzerland | 28: 36.4 min | |
9 | Tadesse Wolde-Medhin | Ethiopia | 28: 45.4 min | |
10 | Akio Usami | Japan | 29: 24.8 min | |
11 | Jeff Galloway | United States | 29: 35.0 min | |
12 | Naftali Temu | Kenya | 30: 19.6 min | |
13 | Esaie Fongang | Cameroon | 31: 32.6 min | |
14th | Phang Cue Suppiah | Singapore | 31: 59.2 min | |
15th | Crispin Quispe | Bolivia | 32: 31.8 min | |
16 | Giuseppe Cindolo | Italy | 33: 03.4 min | |
DNF | Günter Mielke | BR Germany | ||
Usaia Sotutu | Fiji |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Mohamed Gammoudi | Tunisia | 27: 54.8 min | |
2 | Mariano Haro | Spain | 27: 56.0 min | |
3 | Frank Shorter | United States | 27: 58.2 min | |
4th | Let Virén | Finland | 28: 04.4 min | |
5 | Paul Mose | Kenya | 28: 18.8 min | |
6th | Raschid Sharafetdinov | Soviet Union | 28: 24.6 min | |
7th | Wohib Masresha | Ethiopia | 28: 28.2 min | |
8th | Pedro Miranda | Mexico | 28: 35.8 min | |
9 | Karel Lismont | Belgium | 28: 41.8 min | |
10 | Neil Cusack | Ireland | 28: 45.8 min | |
11 | Dave Holt | United Kingdom | 28: 46.8 min | |
12 | Keisuke Sawaki | Japan | 29: 29.0 min | |
13 | Rafael Perez | Costa Rica | 29: 36.6 min | |
14th | Julio Quevedo | Guatemala | 30: 08.4 min | |
15th | Abdel Hamid Khamis | Egypt | 30: 19.2 min | |
16 | Lucien Rosa | Ceylon | 30: 20.2 min | |
DNF | Richard Mabuza | Swaziland | ||
DNS | Abdi Gulet | Somalia | ||
By hall | Norway |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Miruts Yifter | Ethiopia | 28: 18.2 min | |
2 | Willy Polleunis | Belgium | 28: 19.8 min | |
3 | Pavlo Andreev | Soviet Union | 28: 21.0 min | |
4th | Dane Korica | Yugoslavia | 28: 22.2 min | |
5 | Juan Martínez | Mexico | 28: 23.2 min | |
6th | Lachie Stewart | United States | 28: 31.4 min | |
7th | Arne Risa | Norway | 28: 31.8 min | |
8th | Jon Anderson | United States | 28: 34.2 min | |
9 | Carlos Lopes | Portugal | 28: 53.6 min | |
10 | Albrecht Moser | Switzerland | 29: 05.8 min | |
11 | Richard Juma | Kenya | 29: 13.0 min | |
12 | Domingo Tibaduiza | Colombia | 29: 24.0 min | |
13 | Shag Mousa Medani | Sudan | 29: 32.8 min | |
14th | Manfred Letzerich | BR Germany | 29: 37.8 min | |
15th | Hikmet Şen | Turkey | 29: 51.8 min | |
DNF | Anilus Joseph | Haiti | ||
Gavin Thorley | New Zealand | |||
DNS | Juha Väätäinen | Finland | ||
Edmundo Warnke | Chile |
final
Date: September 3, 1972, 5:15 p.m.
The field was so large that it was necessary to run heats on this long distance . That last happened at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp . Fast times were already run in these preliminary rounds. Five athletes undercut the 28-minute mark, and Belgian Emiel Puttemans improved Billy Mills ' Olympic record by more than half a minute in the first run . The outcome of the race was open, there was a larger group of favorites. The Finnish double European champion from 1971 in the 5000 and 10,000 meters , Juha Väätäinen, his compatriot Lasse Virén, the Puttemans who were so strong in the run-up, the Tunisian Mohamed Gammoudi, 1968 Olympic champion in the 5000 and second in the 10,000 meters, as well as the Briton David Bedford .
Bedford, who had to use his speed on the track because of his weak sprints, took the lead right from the start and kept the pace high up to the 2000 meter mark. The race then slowed down a bit, but remained at a high level. Bedford continued to lead. In the twelfth lap a group of nine had formed. On the back straight there was a contact between Puttemans, who ran in fourth place, and Virén, who ran up. The Finn fell, the Tunisian Gammoudi behind him stumbled over Virén and was initially injured. Virén was able to get up quickly and start the race again in eighth place. Before the home stretch of the same lap he had run back to the group. Gammoudi also tried again, but gave up the race after another one and a half laps.
After about 6000 meters, Virén took the lead, the speed remained fairly constant up to the 9000 meter mark. Gradually the field tore apart more and more. Five laps from the finish there were five runners together: Virén, the Spaniard Mariano Haro, the Ethiopian Miruts Yifter, Puttemans and the American Frank Shorter. On the penultimate lap, Haro took over the lead and pushed again. Shorter was falling behind now. With 600 meters from the finish, Virén tightened and Haro could no longer follow either. Puttemans and Yifter fought to catch up, but Virén was now gaining distance from his pursuers. Behind that there was also a gap from Puttemans to Yifter. On the back straight of the last lap, the Belgian tried everything again, narrowed the gap and almost came up again. But Lasse Virén was unstoppable and won the gold medal with a lead of around seven meters from Emiel Puttemans and, despite his fall, erased Ron Clarke's world record, which had been in place for more than seven years . Bronze went to Miruts Yifter, who was well ahead of Mariano Haro. Behind Frank Shorter, David Bedford finished sixth.
For Lasse Virén it was the first of two Olympic victories in Munich . A week later he triumphed over 5000 meters.
In the thirteenth Olympic final, Virén won the sixth gold medal for Finland over 5000 meters.
Emiel Puttemans won the first Belgian medal in this discipline.
Split times | |||
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Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 1000 m time |
1000 m | 2: 36.8 min | David Bedford | 2: 36.8 min |
2000 m | 5: 18.8 min | David Bedford | 2: 42.0 min |
3000 m | 8: 06.4 min | David Bedford | 2: 47.6 min |
4000 m | 10: 55.4 min | David Bedford | 2: 49.0 min |
5000 m | 13: 43.9 min | David Bedford | 2: 48.5 min |
6000 m | 16: 35.7 min | David Bedford | 2: 51.8 min |
7000 m | 19: 27.7 min | Let Virén | 2: 52.0 min |
8000 m | 22: 17.7 min | Let Virén | 2: 50.0 min |
9000 m | 25: 09.2 min | Let Virén | 2: 51.5 min |
10,000 m | 27: 38.4 min | Let Virén | 2: 29.2 min |
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Let Virén | Finland | 27: 38.35 min | WR |
2 | Emiel Puttemans | Belgium | 27: 39.35 min | |
3 | Miruts Yifter | Ethiopia | 27: 40.96 min | |
4th | Mariano Haro | Spain | 27: 48.14 min | |
5 | Frank Shorter | United States | 27: 51.32 min | |
6th | David Bedford | United Kingdom | 28: 05.44 min | |
7th | Dane Korica | Yugoslavia | 28: 15.18 min | |
8th | Abdelkader Zaddem | Tunisia | 28: 18.17 min | |
9 | Josef Jánský | Czechoslovakia | 28: 23.59 min | |
10 | Juan Martínez | Mexico | 28: 44.08 min | |
11 | Pavlo Andreev | Soviet Union | 28: 46.27 min | |
12 | Javier Álvarez | Spain | 28: 56.38 min | |
13 | Paul Mose | Kenya | 29: 02.87 min | |
14th | Willy Polleunis | Belgium | 29: 10.15 min | |
DNF | Mohamed Gammoudi | Tunisia |
literature
- Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 33
Video
- Munich 1972: 10,000 m , published on April 19, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on November 20, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 10,000m , accessed November 20, 2017
- Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 53, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 20, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 551 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 20, 2017
- ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 20, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 53, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 20, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 20, 2017