1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 24 athletes from 12 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Olympiastadion Munich (start / finish) | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 31, 1972 | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km walk at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on August 31, 1972. The start and finish was the Munich Olympic Stadium . 24 athletes took part, 22 of which made it to the finish line.
Olympic champion was Peter Frenkel from the GDR. Silver won Wolodymyr Holubnytschyj from the Soviet Union, bronze went to Hans-Georg Reimann from the GDR.
For the Federal Republic of Germany competed with the following results: Heinz Mayr - place 13, Wilfried Wesch - place 16 and Bernd Kannenberg - task.
In addition to the medal winners, Gerhard Sperling also competed for the GDR and came fourth.
Walkers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
| World best | 1:24:50 h |
Paul Nihill ( Great Britain )
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Douglas , UK | July 30, 1972 |
| Olympic record | 1: 29: 34.0 h |
Ken Matthews ( Great Britain )
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Tokyo , Japan | October 15, 1964 |
Note: World records were not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
Conducting the competition
The walkers started their competition on August 31st. There were no preliminary fights.
Course of the competition
Date: August 31, 1972, 3:45 p.m.
The favorite were the Soviet walkers Mykola Smaha, European champion 1971 , and Wolodymyr Holubnitschyj, Olympic champion 1968 , as well as the GDR athletes Gerhard Sperling, Peter Frenkel and Hans-Georg Reimann, at the European championships in 1971 in second, fourth and fifth place. The Briton Paul Nihill, owner of the world best and third at the European Championships in 1971, as well as the West German walker Bernd Kannenberg were among the contenders for a top placement. At the beginning of the Olympic year, Kannenberg set a world record over 50 kilometers .
The two East Germans Frenkel and Reimann set the pace on the first ten kilometers, taking turns in leadership work. Holubnitschyj kept up. There was a gap to Sperling and Smaha, behind it was Kannenberg. The rest of the field was a little further back. In the further course Frenkel was able to break away more and more from his opponents. Reimann was in second place, Holubnitschyj was third. After eighteen kilometers, the Soviet walker passed Reimann. Bernd Kannenberg got out of the competition lying in fifth place with knee problems, he wanted to concentrate on his stronger discipline, walking 50 km. Peter Frenkel was Olympic champion thirteen seconds ahead of Volodymyr Holubnitschyj, who was able to win the fourth Olympic medal in a row over 20 km . Hans-Georg Reimann won bronze in front of Gerhard Sperling and Mykola Smaha. Paul Nihill finished sixth.
Peter Frenkel remained just under three minutes with Ken Matthews ' Olympic record of 1964 . Frenkel missed the world record by almost two minutes.
At 39, Charles Sowa from Luxembourg was the oldest participant in the field. Like Volodymyr Holubnichyj, he appeared for the fourth time at the Olympic Games.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 22:16 min | Peter Frenkel | 22:16 min |
| 10 km | 43:57 min | Hans-Georg Reimann | 21:41 min |
| 15 km | 1:05:22 h | Peter Frenkel | 21:25 min |
| 20 km | 1:26:42 h | Peter Frenkel | 21:20 min |
Bottom line
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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. 38
Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed November 25, 2017
- Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 56, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 25, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 566 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 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 25, 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. 56, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 25, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 25, 2017
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