1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 45 athletes from 27 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Montreal Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 29, 1976 (preliminary round) July 30, 1976 (semi-finals) July 31, 1976 (final) |
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The men's 1500 meter run at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held from July 29 to 31, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 45 athletes took part.
New Zealander John Walker became Olympic champion . The Belgian Ivo Van Damme won the silver medal, the bronze medal went to Paul-Heinz Wellmann from the Federal Republic of Germany.
In addition to the medalist Wellmann, Karl Fleschen and Thomas Wessinghage also competed for the Federal Republic of Germany . While Fleschen was eliminated in the preliminary stages, Wessinghage was able to reach the semi-finals. Here he failed in fifth of his run, he was only twelve hundredths of a second short of qualifying for the final.
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 | 3: 32.16 min | Filbert Bayi ( Tanzania ) | Christchurch , New Zealand | 2nd February 1974 |
Olympic record | 3: 34.91 min | Kipchoge Keino ( Kenya ) | Mexico City Final , Mexico | 20th October 1968 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in five heats on July 29th. The three best runners and the following three fastest runners made it to the semi-finals on July 30th. From this, the four best runners and the following fastest qualified for the final, which took place on July 31st.
Time schedule
July 29, 4:40 p.m .: Prelim
July 30, 4:20 p.m .: semi-finals
July 31, 6:00 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 29, 1976, from 4.40 p.m.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Marc Nevens | Belgium | 3: 44.18 min | |
2 | Heroes Baiona De Jesus | Portugal | 3: 44.20 min | |
3 | János Zemen | Hungary | 3: 44.27 min | |
4th | Åke Svensson | Sweden | 3: 44.42 min | |
5 | Evert Hoving | Netherlands | 3: 45.00 min | |
6th | Matt Centrowitz | United States | 3: 45.02 min | |
7th | Antti Loikkanen | Finland | 3: 45.32 min | |
8th | Ruben Sørensen | Denmark | 3: 45.39 min | |
DNS | Mohamed Amakdouf | Morocco |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Steve Ovett | Great Britain | 3: 37.89 min | |
2 | Thomas Wessinghage | BR Germany | 3: 37.93 min | |
3 | Fernando Mamede | Portugal | 3:37:98 min | |
4th | Herman Mignon | Belgium | 3: 38.32 min | |
5 | Mike Durkin | United States | 3: 38.89 min | |
6th | Gheorghe Ghipu | Romania | 3: 39.20 min | |
7th | Günther Hasler | Liechtenstein | 3: 39.34 min | |
8th | Markku Laine | Finland | 3: 45.32 min | |
9 | Francisco Menocal | Nicaragua | 4: 12.47 min |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | John Walker | New Zealand | 3: 36.87 min | |
2 | Frank Clement | Great Britain | 3: 37.53 min | |
3 | Graham Crouch | Australia | 3: 37.97 min | |
4th | Paul Craig | Canada | 3: 38.00 min | |
5 | Francis Gonzalez | France | 3: 38.59 min | |
6th | Bronislaw Malinowski | Poland | 3: 41.67 min | |
7th | Ágúst Ásgeirsson | Iceland | 3: 45.47 min | |
8th | Sheikr Al-Shabani | Saudi Arabia | 4: 08.70 min | |
DNS | Gärderud is different | Sweden |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Paul-Heinz Wellmann | BR Germany | 3: 39.86 min | |
2 | Ivo Van Damme | Belgium | 3: 39.93 min | |
3 | Rick Wohlhuter | United States | 3: 39.94 min | |
4th | Niall O'Shaughnessy | Ireland | 3: 40.12 min | |
5 | Anthony Colón | Puerto Rico | 3: 43.51 min | |
6th | Ulf Högberg | Sweden | 3: 47.96 min | |
7th | Peter Spir | Canada | 3: 59.60 min | |
8th | Emmanuel Saint-Hilaire | Haiti | 4: 23.41 min | |
DNS | Carlo Grippo | Italy |
Forward 5
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Eamonn Coghlan | Ireland | 3: 39.87 min | |
2 | David Moorcroft | Great Britain | 3: 40.69 min | |
3 | Dave Hill | Canada | 3: 41.24 min | |
4th | Karl Fleschen | BR Germany | 3: 42.09 min | |
5 | Rolf Gysin | Switzerland | 3: 42.69 min | |
6th | Luis Medina | Cuba | 3: 42.71 min | |
7th | Lars Martin Kaupang | Norway | 3: 44.59 min | |
8th | Spilios Zacharopoulos | Greece | 3: 45.12 min | |
9 | Muhammad Siddique | Pakistan | 3: 45.59 min |
Semifinals
Date: July 30, 1976, from 4:20 p.m.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | John Walker | New Zealand | 3: 39.65 min | |
2 | Graham Crouch | Australia | 3: 39.86 min | |
3 | David Moorcroft | Great Britain | 3: 39.88 min | |
4th | János Zemen | Hungary | 3: 39.94 min | |
5 | Thomas Wessinghage | BR Germany | 3: 40.06 min | |
6th | Steve Ovett | Great Britain | 3: 40.34 min | |
7th | Herman Mignon | Belgium | 3: 40.92 min | |
8th | Fernando Mamede | Portugal | 3: 42.59 min | |
DNF | Dave Hill | Canada |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Eamonn Coghlan | Ireland | 3: 38.60 min | |
2 | Rick Wohlhuter | United States | 3: 38.71 min | |
3 | Ivo Van Damme | Belgium | 3: 38.75 min | |
4th | Frank Clement | Great Britain | 3: 38.92 min | |
5 | Paul-Heinz Wellmann | BR Germany | 3: 38.99 min | |
6th | Francis Gonzalez | France | 3: 40.73 min | |
7th | Paul Craig | Canada | 3: 41.02 min | |
8th | Marc Nevens | Belgium | 3: 41.52 min | |
9 | Heroes Baiona De Jesus | Portugal | 3: 47.37 min |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | John Walker | New Zealand | 3: 39.17 min | |
2 | Ivo Van Damme | Belgium | 3: 39.27 min | |
3 | Paul-Heinz Wellmann | BR Germany | 3: 39.33 min | |
4th | Eamonn Coghlan | Ireland | 3: 39.51 min | |
5 | Frank Clement | Great Britain | 3: 39.65 min | |
6th | Rick Wohlhuter | United States | 3: 40.64 min | |
7th | David Moorcroft | Great Britain | 3: 40.94 min | |
8th | Graham Crouch | Australia | 3: 41.80 min | |
9 | János Zemen | Hungary | 3: 43.02 min |
Date: July 31, 1976, 6:00 p.m.
With world record holder Filbert Bayil , one of the best 1,500-meter runners of the time was missing due to the Tanzanian boycott . Thus the eagerly awaited duel between Bayi and New Zealander John Walker was not possible. Walker was clearly favored, but there was one imponderable: he suffered from compartment syndrome , which meant that his abilities could not be properly assessed. One of his strongest rivals was seen in the German middle distance athlete Thomas Wessinghage, who had top times in the Olympic season before the Games in Munich . After their strong performance over 800 meters, the Belgian Ivo Van Damme and the American Rick Wohlhuter belonged to the wider circle of medal contenders. Quite surprisingly, Wessinghage was eliminated in the preliminary decision, where his compatriot Paul-Heinz Wellmann threw him out of the race as the fastest fifth.
The finale started rather leisurely. The British David Moorcroft led the field for the first 600 meters. Here the Irishman Eamonn Coghlan took the lead. The 800 meter passage time was 2: 03.15 min. The field went into the last lap closely staggered and partly running next to each other. The 1200 meters were covered in 3; 01.23 minutes. On the back straight, about 250 meters from the target, Walker pushed forward from his second position and pulled on his dreaded sprint. Some runners were still able to keep up, but Walker gradually broke up and there was a small gap to his opponents. Behind him were Van Damme and Wohlhuter, followed by Coghlan. In the target curve Wohlhuter lost more and more of the connection. Paul-Heinz Wellmann recognized his chance and an exciting finale broke out between him, Van Damme and Coghlan for the medals behind John Walker, who managed to save his lead and became Olympic champion. As he did over 800 meters, Ivo Van Damme finally sprinted the silver medal from Paul-Heinz Wellmann, who surprisingly won bronze. Eamonn Coghlan was fourth ahead of Frank Clement and Rick Wohlhuter. John Walker covered the last 400 meters in a very fast 52.5 seconds, which was not surprising given the delayed pace of up to 1200 meters.
Ivo Van Damme won the first Belgian medal over 1500 meters .
literature
- Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 220
Video
- 1976 Olympic 1500m Final , published September 24, 2006 on youtube.com, accessed December 12, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 1500 m , accessed December 12, 2017
- Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 55, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 12, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 549 (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. 55, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 12, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 12, 2017