1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pentathlon (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Pentathlon | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 20 athletes from 13 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Montreal Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | 25./26. July 1976 | ||||||||
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The women's pentathlon at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was played on July 25 and 26, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 20 athletes took part.
There was a triple success for the GDR team. Siegrun Siegl won ahead of Christine Laser and Burglinde Pollak .
Margot Eppinger started for the Federal Republic of Germany and was tenth in the final ranking.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 4932 points | Burglinde Pollak ( GDR ) | Bonn , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany ) | 21./22. September 1973 |
Olympic record | 4801 points | Mary Peters ( Great Britain ) | Pentathlon of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany ) | 2/3. September 1972 |
Note: All of the above Score results from the scoring table from 1971, which is also valid for these games.
Conducting the competition
Like today the heptathlon and the decathlon for men, the competition was held over two days. Day one - here July 25th - is reserved for the 100 meter hurdles , the shot put and the high jump . On the second day - here July 26th - the long jump and the 200-meter run take place. The basis for the evaluation was the all-around table from 1971. In the event of a tie in the final accounts, the number of better placements decided what should come into effect here for the first time when the gold and silver medals are awarded.
For the last time this all- around competition was held in this form here in Montreal at a major event. Starting next year, instead of the 200-meter run , the 800-meter run will be replaced by a middle distance in the program to emphasize the versatility of this competition even more.
Time schedule
July 25, 9.30 a.m .: 100-meter hurdles
July 25, 10.30 a.m .: Shot put
July 25, 4 p.m .: High jump
July 26, 10.30 a.m .: Long jump
July 26, 5.50 p.m .: 200-meter run
Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )
Note: In the shot put and long jump , the respective best widths are printed in bold. In the high jump , the last valid attempt is printed in bold.
Participants
20 athletes from 13 countries took part in the Olympic competition:
Disciplines
100 meter hurdles
The discipline was carried out in three runs.
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Shot put
With her victory Burglinde Pollak took the lead with 71 points ahead of Ludmila Popowskaja. Christine Laser was fifth, 142 points behind, Siegrun Siegl, 190 points, only ninth.
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high jump
With 1.82 m, Andrea Bruce achieved the greatest height in the high jump in the Olympic pentathlon.
Burglinde Pollak lost her lead to Nadija Tkachenko and slipped to third place. Christine Laser was five points behind her in fifth place, Siegrun Siegl had reduced her gap to Pollak to 91 points and was ninth.
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Long jump
The Peruvian Edith Noeding did not participate in this fourth discipline.
Nadija Tkatschenko was only 20 points ahead of Burglinde Pollak, where she managed the feat of achieving exactly the same distance of 6.08 m in all three attempts. Between the two, Lyudmila Popovskaya was four points ahead of Pollak. Christine Laser was now fifth eleven points behind Pollak, with Canadian Jones fourth in between - four points behind Pollak. Siegrun Siegl had worked his way up to 50 points on Pollak and was seventh behind the Hungarian Margit Papp.
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200 meter run
The discipline was carried out in three runs.
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Bottom line
Date: July 25/26, 1976, PM
The decision in the pentathlon should end with one of the tightest and most exciting results of a competition. One of the Olympic favorites was once again the GDR athlete Burglinde Pollak, who had been in this role since 1971. Despite excellent placements, she never made it to the very front. She had won medals three times: second at the 1971 European Championships , third at the 1972 Olympic Games and second at the 1974 European Championships . In 1973 she had improved the world record twice, most recently to 4932 points. But there were very strong competitors again here in Montreal . These included above all the European champion from 1974, Nadija Tkatschenko from the USSR, as well as Pollak's teammates Siegrun Siegl, former Siegrun Thon, world record holder in the long jump , in which she had won the Olympics two days before, and Christine Laser, previously known as Christine Bodner. With Lyudmila Popovskaya there was a second Soviet athlete who should not be underestimated.
In the first two disciplines, the 100-meter hurdles and the shot put , things went extremely well for Pollak. In both exercises she achieved the best performance and led with 71 points ahead of Popovskaya and 89 points ahead of Tkachenko. The American Jane Frederick and Laser followed. Siegl finished ninth, 190 points behind. In the high jump , Tkachenko was the most convincing of the favorites. She jumped 1.80 m and thus held the top position with 2864 points at the end of the first day. Popovskaya was behind here - 39 points behind. Pollak was third - behind: 67 points - ahead of the Canadian Diane Jones - 69 points - and Laser - 72 points. Siegl was ninth and had reduced her gap to Pollak to 91 points. It was extremely tight, nothing was decided.
On the second day, the long jump world record holder Siegl was best in her specialty, but stayed half a meter below her record. In the ranking in the first five places nothing changed, but everything came closer together. Tkachenko was only 16 points ahead of Popovskaya, 20 points ahead of Pollak and 31 points ahead of Laser. Siegl was seventh, 70 points behind. The final outcome had become even more open and in fact the result of the final 200-meter run turned everything upside down again. Siegl won this race 41 hundredths of a second ahead of Laser and Pollak. Jones fell behind with a weaker running result. Even the two leading Soviet pentathletes were not fast enough to repel the assault by the GDR athletes. Lyudmila Popovskaya was fourth in the final, Nadija Tkachenko fifth. Siegl made up so many points that she caught up with Laser. The IAAF regulation now had to decide on gold and silver . Siegrun Siegl was better than Christine Laser in three out of five disciplines, which earned her the Olympic victory. Burglinde Pollak won the bronze medal just five points behind.
For a better classification of the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1971, the points converted according to the current rating system from 1980 are also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been only one deviation: the athletes in ranks seven and eight would have swapped their places. Otherwise the order would be unchanged. But these comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.
space | Surname | nation | Points - official rating | Points - 1980 rating |
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1 | Siegrun Siegl | GDR | 4745 | 4777 |
2 | Christine Laser | GDR | 4745 | 4774 |
3 | Burglinde Pollak | GDR | 4740 | 4767 |
4th | Lyudmila Popovskaya | Soviet Union | 4700 | 4719 |
5 | Nadia Tkachenko | Soviet Union | 4669 | 4692 |
6th | Diane Jones | Canada | 4582 | 4616 |
7th | Jane Frederick | United States | 4566 | 4564 |
8th | Margit Papp | Hungary | 4535 | 4567 |
9 | Penka Sokolova | Bulgaria | 4394 | 4353 |
10 | Margot Eppinger | BR Germany | 4352 | 4318 |
11 | Đurđa Fočić | Yugoslavia | 4314 | 4290 |
12 | Susan Longden | Great Britain | 4276 | 4232 |
13 | Gale Fitzgerald | United States | 4263 | 4209 |
14th | Tatyana Vorokhobko | Soviet Union | 4245 | 4166 |
15th | Andrea Bruce | Jamaica | 4198 | 4153 |
16 | Ilona Bruzsenyák | Hungary | 4193 | 4152 |
17th | Marilyn King | United States | 4165 | 4095 |
18th | Miriama Tuisorisori | Fiji | 3827 | 3736 |
19th | Ana María Desivici | Uruguay | 3628 | 3478 |
literature
- Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, pp. 251f
Video
- 1976 Summer Olympics Women's Pentathlon 1976 , published May 1, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed December 21, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Pentathlon , accessed December 21, 2017
- Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 48f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Track and Field Statistics, World Records Progression , Pentathlon, accessed December 21, 2017
- ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (high jump) , accessed December 21, 2017
- ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 49, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017