1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 800 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 42 athletes from 30 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Montreal Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 23, 1976 (preliminary round) July 24, 1976 (semi-finals) July 25, 1976 (final) |
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The men's 800-meter run at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held from July 23 to 25, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 42 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Cuban Alberto Juantorena , who set a new world record in the final. The Belgian Ivo Van Damme won the silver medal, the bronze medal went to Rick Wohlhuter from the USA.
Three athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany took part in the competition: Paul-Heinz Wellmann , Thomas Wessinghage and Willi Wülbeck . Wellmann failed in the preliminary round, Wessinghage in the semi-finals. Wülbeck qualified for the final and was fourth there.
Both the Swiss Rolf Gysin and the Liechtenstein Günther Hasler were eliminated in their preliminary stages.
Runners from the GDR and Austria did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 1: 43.7 min | Marcello Fiasconaro ( Italy ) | Milan , Italy | June 27, 1973 |
Olympic record | 1: 44.40 min | Ralph Doubell ( Australia ) | Mexico City Final , Mexico | 15th October 1968 |
Comment on the Olympic record:
At the above Time is the time taken electronically. Officially, record times in 1976 were still kept as a mixture of hand-timed and electronically determined times. The official winning time for Ralph Doubell was actually 1: 44.3 minutes, which was also a world record in 1968.
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in six heats on July 23. The two best runners and the following four fastest runners made it to the semi-finals on July 24th. From this, the four winners of each of the two races qualified for the final, which took place on July 25th.
Time schedule
July 23, 3 p.m .: preliminary runs
July 24, 4:35 p.m .: semi-finals
July 25, 5:15 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 3 p.m.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Rick Wohlhuter | United States | 1: 45.71 min | |
2 | Sriram Singh | India | 1: 45.86 min | |
3 | Leandro Civil | Cuba | 1: 45.88 min | |
4th | Marian Gęsicki | Poland | 1: 46.36 min | |
5 | Thomas Wessinghage | BR Germany | 1: 46.56 min | |
6th | Viktor Anochin | Soviet Union | 1: 46.81 min | |
7th | Muhammad Younis | Pakistan | 1: 48.50 min |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Frank Clement | Great Britain | 1: 47.51 min | |
2 | James Robinson | United States | 1: 47.56 min | |
3 | John Walker | New Zealand | 1: 47.63 min | |
4th | Andrés Ballbé | Spain | 1: 48.38 min | |
5 | Fernando Mamede | Portugal | 1: 49.58 min | |
6th | Francisco Solis | Dominican Republic | 1: 55.56 min | |
7th | Wilnor Joseph | Haiti | 2: 15.26 min |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Steve Ovett | Great Britain | 1: 48.27 min | |
2 | Seymour Newman | Jamaica | 1: 48.46 min | |
3 | Paul-Heinz Wellmann | BR Germany | 1: 48.47 min | |
4th | Jozef Plachý | Czechoslovakia | 1: 48.63 min | |
5 | Günther Hasler | Liechtenstein | 1: 48.83 min | |
6th | Evert Hoving | Netherlands | 1: 48.99 min | |
7th | Roy Bottse | Suriname | 1: 49.85 min | |
8th | Erasmo Gomez | Nicaragua | 1: 57.97 min |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Alberto Juantorena | Cuba | 1: 47.15 min | |
2 | Carlo Grippo | Italy | 1: 47.21 min | |
3 | János Zemen | Hungary | 1: 47.40 min | |
4th | Milovan Savic | Yugoslavia | 1: 47.73 min | |
5 | Jorge Ortíz | Puerto Rico | 1: 51.38 min | |
DSQ | Roqui Sanchez | France | ||
DNS | Markku Taskinen | Finland |
Forward 5
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Willi Wuelbeck | BR Germany | 1: 48.47 min | |
2 | Horace Tuitt | Trinidad and Tobago | 1: 48.48 min | |
3 | Vladimir Ponomarev | Soviet Union | 1: 48.59 min | |
4th | Åke Svensson | Sweden | 1: 48.86 min | |
5 | José Marajo | France | 1: 49.60 min | |
6th | Orlando Greene | Barbados | 1: 51.43 min | |
7th | Attiya Al-Qahtani | Saudi Arabia | 1: 57.67 min |
Forward 6
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Ivo Van Damme | Belgium | 1: 47.80 min | |
2 | Luciano Sušanj | Yugoslavia | 1: 47.82 min | |
3 | Mark Enyeart | United States | 1: 47.96 min | |
4th | Rolf Gysin | Switzerland | 1: 48.69 min | |
5 | Niall O'Shaughnessy | Ireland | 1: 49.29 min | |
7th | Luis Medina | Cuba | 1: 50.15 min | |
8th | Marcel Philippe | France | 1: 50.81 min |
Semifinals
Date: July 24, 1976, from 4.35 p.m.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Alberto Juantorena | Cuba | 1: 45.88 min | |
2 | Ivo Van Damme | Belgium | 1: 46.00 min | |
3 | Steve Ovett | Great Britain | 1: 46.14 min | |
4th | Sriram Singh | India | 1: 46.42 min | |
5 | James Robinson | United States | 1: 46.43 min | |
6th | Marian Gęsicki | Poland | 1: 47.06 min | |
7th | Thomas Wessinghage | BR Germany | 1: 48.18 min | |
DNF | Horace Tuitt | Trinidad and Tobago |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rick Wohlhuter | United States | 1: 46.72 min | |
2 | Carlo Grippo | Italy | 1: 46.95 min | |
3 | Luciano Sušanj | Yugoslavia | 1: 47.03 min | |
4th | Willi Wuelbeck | BR Germany | 1: 47.18 min | |
5 | Seymour Newman | Jamaica | 1: 47.22 min | |
6th | Leandro Civil | Cuba | 1: 47.31 min | |
7th | Viktor Anochin | Soviet Union | 1: 47.71 min | |
8th | Frank Clement | Great Britain | 1: 48.28 min |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alberto Juantorena | Cuba | 1: 43.50 min | WR |
2 | Ivo Van Damme | Belgium | 1: 43.86 min | |
3 | Rick Wohlhuter | United States | 1: 44.12 min | |
4th | Willi Wuelbeck | BR Germany | 1: 45.26 min | |
5 | Steve Ovett | Great Britain | 1: 45.44 min | |
6th | Luciano Sušanj | Yugoslavia | 1: 45.75 min | |
7th | Sriram Singh | India | 1: 45.77 min | |
8th | Carlo Grippo | Italy | 1: 48.39 min |
Date: July 25, 1976, 5:15 p.m.
With Mike Boit , the best 800-meter runner of the year was missing due to the Kenyan boycott. The eagerly awaited duel with Cuban Alberto Juantorena was therefore canceled. Other medal candidates were the Belgian Ivo Van Damme, the US runner Rick Wohlhuter, the European champion from 1974 , Luciano Sušanj from Yugoslavia, and vice European champion Steve Ovett from Great Britain.
The pace in the final was extremely high from the start. At first Juantorena had the top position. After 300 meters, the Indian Sriram Singh, here still clearly back, stormed more and more forward until he finally took the lead. The 400 meter split was 50.85 seconds, so fast that a new world record was within the realm of possibility. At about 500 meters Juantorena took over the lead again, the pace remained high. Wohlhuter followed the Cuban, followed by Van Damme, the gaps were close. The German Willi Wülbeck was fourth. Wohlhuter tried to attack Juantorena until the start of the home stretch, but the Cuban stayed in front and now broke away from his pursuers. He sprinted to win the Olympic gold in a new world record time. Rick Wohlhuter won bronze because he now had to let Ivo Van Damme pass, who thus won the silver medal. Behind Wohlhuter, Willi Wülbeck crossed the finish line in fourth, ahead of the British Steve Ovett and Luciano Sušanj.
Alberto Juantorena won the first Cuban gold medal in Olympic athletics.
Four days later, Juantorena also won over 400 meters and was the first athlete to achieve an Olympic double victory over 400 and 800 meters . Only at the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 did the US runner Paul Pilgrim achieve the same feat.
Ivo Van Damme won the first Belgian medal over 800 meters.
literature
- Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 218f
Videos
- Momento histórico: Juantorena, doble campeón olímpico , range 0; 00 min - 2; 22 min, published on June 28, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed on December 12, 2017
- Olympics - 1976 Montreal - Track - Mens 800m - CUB Alberto Juantorena imasportsphile , published on February 19, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on December 12, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 800m , accessed December 12, 2017
- Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 54, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 12, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 548 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 12 December 2017
- ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 12, 2017
- ↑ a b c Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 54, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 12, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 12, 2017