1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 74 athletes from 39 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium (start / finish), Münchner Freiheit , Georg-Brauchle-Ring , Nymphenburg Palace Park , Hirschgarten , English Garden , Olympic Park | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 10, 1972 | ||||||||
Winning time | 2: 12: 19.8 h | ||||||||
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The men's marathon at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 10, 1972. The start and finish was the Munich Olympic Stadium . 74 athletes took part, of which 62 made it to the finish line.
The Munich-born American Frank Shorter became Olympic champion . Silver went to the Belgian Karel Lismont , bronze went to the Ethiopian Mamo Wolde .
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - competed: Paul Angenvoorth (16th place), Manfred Steffny (31st place) and Lutz Philipp (32nd place).
The GDR was represented by Eckhard Lesse (25th place).
With Alfons Sidler a Swiss crossed the finish line in 44th place.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World best | 2:08:33.6 h | Derek Clayton ( Australia ) | Antwerp , Belgium | May 30, 1969 |
Olympic record | 2: 12: 11.2 h | Abebe Bikila ( Ethiopia ) | Tokyo Olympic Marathon , Japan | October 21, 1964 |
Note: World records were not set in the marathon because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The race started in the Olympic Stadium . After a run, the route turned towards the city of Munich , initially heading north past the Olympic village and then turning west. After four kilometers we went south on Hanauer Strasse , then west again over Georg-Brauchle-Ring . The route passed the Westfriedhof over the Wintrichring on the north and west side. After a little more than six kilometers, the path made a right curve into Allacher Straße . The route now led three kilometers westwards to today's Untermenzing S-Bahn stop. Here it went to the left in a south-easterly direction to the Nymphenburg Palace Park , further south through the park. At the Grand Cascade was Nymphenburg Canal crossed. Then it went east, south past Badenburg Lake , then north-east past Nymphenburg Palace again over the Wintrichring to the south-west corner of the west cemetery, which was now passed south. In the Gern district there was another right turn onto Dantestrasse . The eastern end of the Nymphenburg Canal was reached via Waisenhausstrasse . Here the path turned west again, south along the canal. At the roundabout , the route led south to the royal deer garden , which was crossed in an easterly direction. About the Wendl-Dietrich-Strasse , the Donnersbergerstraße and Arnulfstraße was Munich Central Station happened to the north. The Maxvorstadt district was reached on Brienner Strasse . Now it went past the Glyptothek , the Königsplatz and the Karolinenplatz . At Odeonsplatz , the route turned left into Ludwigstrasse to Geschwister-Scholl-Platz . There, in front of the Ludwig Maximilians University , we turned right across Veterinärstraße to the English Garden , where the path first led south, then along the Schwabinger Bach into the park. The route now ran north-east past the Japanese tea house , the Chinese tower and the lake house . After crossing the Isarring , it went along the Eisbach to the Isar up to the level of the Oberföhringer weir , from where the course turned further north. Shortly before the Aumeister tavern at the north end of the park there was a left bend, following the Schwabinger Bach to the south. The park was left to the west via Schwedenstrasse . After crossing the Isarring again, we went south again to Dietlindenstrasse , which turned right. The route followed the course of the road Dietlindenstrasse - Ungerstrasse - Leopoldstrasse - Münchner Freiheit - Karl-Theodor-Strasse , south past Luitpoldpark . About the Ackermannstraße was Olympiapark reached. After crossing the Olympic lake , it went back to the stadium, where the goal was reached after a final lap.
The route had a height difference of 31 meters. The highest point of 529 meters was reached shortly after 25 km at the level of the Old Pappenheim Hospital. The lowest point at 489 meters was 36 kilometers south of the Aumeister tavern.
Race course
Date: September 10, 1972, 3 p.m.
In the initial phase, the Briton Ronald Hill took the lead and was replaced by the Australian Derek Clayton up to kilometer ten. The US runner Frank Shorter took the lead at fifteen kilometers and was then quickly alone in front. By the end of this marathon , Shorter never gave up his leadership position. At twenty kilometer he was 29 seconds ahead, at 25 kilometer by 53 seconds. He was able to keep the pace steadily high and was on course for a new Olympic record up to kilometer 35 . Shorter finally won by over two minutes over Belgian Karel Lismont, for whom there was the silver medal. Another half a minute behind Lismont, the 1968 Olympic champion Mamo Wolde from Ethiopia crossed the finish line and this time won bronze. In the final kilometers, Shorter slowed down a little, feeling sure of victory and finally only missed the Olympic record by just under nine seconds.
Shorter, however, was not the first runner to enter the Olympic Stadium. A young German, the 16-year-old high school student Norbert Südhaus from Wiedenbrück , appeared to the cheers of 80,000 spectators . He was a participant in a youth camp at the Olympic Games, painted the number 72 on his running jersey, dressed as a runner could smuggle himself onto the track and enter the stadium unhindered. The audience celebrated him instead of the actual winner with great cheers. The deception was quickly discovered, however, and the youngster was taken off the track without crossing the finish line. He had previously announced: I will run a lap in the Olympic Stadium . As a motive, he later stated that the sad mood that had spread after the hostage-taking of Munich five days earlier had prompted him to take his action. Südhaus was temporarily arrested and taken to Willi Daume , who greeted him with the sentence you are a stupid boy, you don't even know what you did to us today and made sure that the young man was sent home. Shorter, who had expected applause and cheers when he arrived, was amazed at the uproar in the stadium and later struggled to process his disappointment with the incident. Südhaus later wrote him a letter of apology, which went unanswered.
Richard Mabuza - 17th place - was the first athlete from Swaziland to take part in the Olympic Games.
Kim Chang-son - 37th place - and Ryu Man-Hyong - 49th place - were the first athletes to take part in the Olympic Games for North Korea .
Split times | |||
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Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
5 km | 15:06 min | Ronald Hill | 15:06 min |
10 km | 31:15 min | Derek Clayton | 16:09 min |
15 km | 46:21 min | Frank Shorter | 15:06 min |
20 km | 1:01:30 h | Frank Shorter | 15:09 min |
25 km | 1:17:05 h | Frank Shorter | 15:35 min |
30 km | 1:32:49 h | Frank Shorter | 15:44 min |
35 km | 1:48:40 h | Frank Shorter | 15:51 min |
40 km | 2:05:31 h | Frank Shorter | 16:51 min |
Bottom line
literature
- Werner Schneider , Sports Information Service , Bertelsmann Sports Editor, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , pp. 40f
Video
- 1972 Olympic Marathon: Munich , published September 17, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed November 22, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Marathon , accessed November 22, 2017
- Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 55, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 22, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 565 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 22, 2017
- ↑ Course sketch at gpsies.com , accessed on November 22, 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. , Pp. 43 and 55, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 22, 2017
- ^ David Clay Large: Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games limited preview in the Google book search
- ↑ Pfalzsport, edition 09, September 2012, page 19
- ↑ Article at Marathoninfo (French) , accessed on November 22, 2017