1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 23, 1976 (preliminary round) July 26, 1976 (final)
Medalist Lasse Virén ( FIN )   Carlos Lopes ( POR )   Brendan Foster ( GBR )

The men's 10,000 meter run at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 23 and 26, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 41 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the 1972 Finnish Olympic champion , Lasse Virén . The Portuguese Carlos Lopes won the silver medal, the bronze medal went to the Briton Brendan Foster .

Detlef Uhlemann started for the Federal Republic of Germany , who failed in the preliminary run.
Runners from the GDR, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	27: 30.8 min	David Bedford ( Great Britain )	London , UK	July 13, 1973
Olympic record	27: 38.35 min	Lasse Virén ( Finland )	Final of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany )	3rd September 1972

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in three heats on July 23. The four best runners and the four fastest runners reached the final on July 26th.

Annotation:

Both in the official report and in the SportsReference database it is noted that, in addition to the four best runners, the three fastest runners qualified for the final. In fact, in addition to the directly qualified runners, the four fastest runners, a total of sixteen runners, were represented in the final field. Have the time values ​​rounded to tenths of a second been used here? Then the third and fourth fastest runners - after the directly qualified athletes - would actually have been at the same time:

Karel Lismont 28: 17.45 min, rounded 28: 17.5 min / Chris Wardlaw 28: 17.52 min, rounded 28: 17.5 min.

Time schedule

July 23, 5:40 p.m .: Prelim

July 26, 5:05 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

Preliminary round

Date: July 23, 1976, from 5.40 p.m.

Forward 1

Jos Hermens from the Netherlands, in tenth place in the final

The Belgian Karel Lismont finished eleventh in the final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	28: 04.53 min
2	Jean-Paul Gomez	France	28: 10.52 min
3	Mariano Haro	Spain	28: 11.66 min
4th	Jos Hermens	Netherlands	28: 16.07 min
5	David Fitzsimons	Australia	28: 16.43 min
6th	Bernie Ford	Great Britain	28: 17.26 min
7th	Karel Lismont	Belgium	28: 17.45 min
8th	Martti Vainio	Finland	28: 26.60 min
9	Dušan Janicijevic	Yugoslavia	28: 48.87 min
10	Ed Mendoza	United States	29: 02.97 min
11	Victor Mora	Colombia	30: 26.57 min
12	Chris McCubbins	Canada	33: 33.35 min
13	Charles Olemus	Haiti	42: 00.11 min
DNS	Abdelaziz Bouguerra	Tunisia
	Mikhail Kousis	Greece

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Marc Smet	Belgium	28: 22.07 min
2	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	28: 22.19 min
3	Knut Børø	Norway	28: 23.07 min
4th	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	28: 23.40 min
5	Franco Fava	Italy	28: 24.80 min
6th	Craig Virgin	United States	28: 30.22 min
7th	Edmundo Warnke	Chile	28: 43.63 min
8th	Hari Chand	India	28: 48.72 min
9	Eddie Leddy	Ireland	28: 55.49 min
10	Domingo Tibaduiza	Colombia	29: 28.17 min
11	Rodolfo Gomez	Mexico	30: 05.19 min
12	Pierre Lévisse	France	30: 07.84 min
DNF	Raja Faradj Al-Shalawi	Saudi Arabia
	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland
DNS	Abdelkader Zaddem	Tunisia

Forward 3

The New Zealander Dick Quax, silver medalist over 5000 m, was eliminated over 10,000 m in the preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tony Simmons	Great Britain	28: 01.24 min
2	Garry Bjorklund	United States	28: 12.24 min
3	Let Virén	Finland	28: 14.95 min
4th	Emiel Puttemans	Belgium	28: 15.52 min
5	Chris Wardlaw	Australia	28: 17.52 min
6th	Detlef Uhlemann	BR Germany	28: 29.28 min
7th	Toshiaki Kamata	Japan	28: 36.21 min
8th	Luis Hernández	Mexico	28: 44.17 min
9	Dick Quax	New Zealand	28: 56.92 min
10	Dan Shaughnessy	Canada	29: 26.96 min
11	Lucien Rault	France	29: 40.76 min
12	José Luis Ruiz	Spain	31: 03.43 min
13	Hossein Rabbi	Iran	31: 44.27 min
14th	Tau John Tokwepota	Papua New Guinea	32: 26.96 min
DNS	Mohamed Gammoudi	Tunisia

final

The two-time double Olympic champion Lasse Virén, Finland

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Let Virén	Finland	27: 40.38 min
2	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	27: 45.17 min
3	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	27: 54.92 min
4th	Tony Simmons	Great Britain	27: 56.26 min
5	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	27: 59.93 min
6th	Mariano Haro	Spain	28: 00.28 min
7th	Marc Smet	Belgium	28: 02.80 min
8th	Bernie Ford	Great Britain	28: 17.78 min
9	Jean-Paul Gomez	France	28: 24.07 min
10	Jos Hermens	Netherlands	28: 25.04 min
11	Karel Lismont	Belgium	28: 26.48 min
12	Chris Wardlaw	Australia	28: 29.91 min
13	Garry Bjorklund	United States	28: 38.08 min
14th	David Fitzsimons	Australia	29: 17.74 min
DNF	Knut Børø	Norway
	Emiel Puttemans	Belgium

Date: July 26, 1976, 5:05 p.m.

Due to the boycott of many African countries, especially Kenya and Ethiopia, the path for the 1972 double Olympic champion , Lasse Virén, who was confronted with blood doping allegations, to repeat the double 5000 / 10,000 meters was no longer that difficult. After his Olympic victories in Munich , Virén had not come out with comparable outstanding performances. At the 1974 European Championships, for example, he took third and seventh places over 5000 and 10,000 meters. Even without the Africans, he was faced with high-profile opponents. These included the two British Brendan Foster, European champion 1974 over 5000 meters, and Tony Simmons, vice European champion 1974 over 10,000 meters, as well as the Portuguese Carlos Lopes.

The final race was determined after eight laps by the Portuguese Lopes, who took the lead here. The field fell apart more and more, Lopes set a fast pace. Nine laps before the finish there was a four-man leading group with all favorites, i. H. Lopes, Simmons, Virén and Foster. The gap to the pursuers was still small, however. It was followed by the Romanian Ilie Floroiu and, a little further behind, the Belgian Marc Smet and the Spaniard Mariano Haro. At about 7000 meters, Lopes pushed again. Virén immediately plunged into the resulting hole and attached himself to the Portuguese's heels. Foster also found another connection. These three now separated from the pursuers. However, the Brit struggled to follow Virén and Lopes and there was a gap. Behind the three leaders a group of four followed, consisting of Simmons, Floroiu, Smet and Haro. On the last two kilometers Foster lost contact with the two leaders, but also kept the chasing group at a distance. Already about 450 meters from the finish Virén made a long sprint that Lopes had nothing more to offer. So Lasse Virén had taken the first step to repeat his double from Munich. Carlos Lopes won the silver, Brendan Foster the bronze. Tony Simmons had come close to his compatriot from the group of four, which had since been disbanded, and was fourth ahead of Ilie Floroiu and Mariano Haro.

Carlos Lopes won the first medal for Portugal in Olympic athletics.

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 222f

Video

• 1976 Olympics 10000m , published December 20, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed December 13, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 10,000m , accessed December 13, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 57, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 13, 2017
• Foreign blood doping This is how tuning works for the dying , Spiegel Online, accessed on December 13, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 551 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 13 December 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 13, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 13, 2017
4. ↑ 1972 - 1984: Anabolic steroids consumption until death on lawm.sportschau.de, accessed on December 12, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)