1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 38 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location |
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | 3rd August 1984 | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km walk at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 3, 1984. 38 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Mexican Ernesto Canto . He won before his compatriot Raúl González and the Italian Maurizio Damilano .
The Austrian Martin Toporek finished the competition as the 29th
walker from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 1980 |
Maurizio Damilano ( Italy )
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1:23:35 h | Moscow 1980 |
| World Champion 1983 |
Ernesto Canto ( Mexico )
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1:20:49 h | Helsinki 1983 |
| European Champion 1982 |
José Marín ( Spain )
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1:23:43 h | Athens 1982 |
| Pan American Champion 1983 |
Ernesto Canto ( Mexico )
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1:28:12 h | Caracas 1983 |
| Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983 | David Castro ( Cuba )
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1:29:44 h | Havana 1983 |
| South America Champion 1983 |
Héctor Moreno ( Colombia )
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1:24:12 h | Santa Fe 1983 |
| Asian champion 1983 | Chand Ram ( India )
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1:30:14 h | Cairo 1983 |
| African champions 1982 | Shemsu Hassan ( Ethiopia )
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1:41:39 h | Cairo 1982 |
Existing records
| World record | 1:19:30 h |
Jozef Pribilinec ( Czechoslovakia )
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Bergen , Norway | September 24, 1983 |
| Olympic record | 1: 24: 40.6 h |
Daniel Bautista ( Mexico )
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20km walk from Montreal , Canada | July 23, 1976 |
Note: World records were not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The start took place in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . After five rounds of the stadium, the route ran north outside the stadium. The path turned left onto Exposition Boulevard . A circuit of 2.5 km between Raymond Avenue and Denker Avenue was completed seven times. Then it went back to the stadium, where another one and a half laps had to be completed before the final destination.
Race course
Date: August 3, 1984
The favorites were the Mexican world champion from 1983 , Ernesto Canto, the Olympic champion from 1980 Maurizio Damilano and the reigning European champion from 1982 José Marín from Spain. In this competition the strong goers from the boycotting countries were missing. The two Czechoslovaks Jozef Pribilinec and Pavol Blažek as well as the Soviet walker Yevgeny Jewsjukow should be mentioned here . The two GDR athletes Hartwig Gauder and Ronald Weigel would have had a lot of opportunities at the start, but perhaps would have preferred the 50 km distance .
After five kilometers, the Canadian Guillaume Leblanc was about ten seconds ahead. He was followed by a group of nine with all the favorites. After ten kilometers, the Canadian was caught again, but was able to assert himself in the lead group, which now consisted of only five walkers, Damilano and Canto mostly had the top position, the Mexican Raúl González and the Italian Carlo Mattioli stayed with them Heels. In a two-man chasing group, Australian David Smith and Norwegian Erling Andersen were a little more than twenty seconds behind, with American Marco Evoniuk just a few seconds behind. After fifteen kilometers, Damilano had pulled away and was leading by eight seconds over Canto and Leblanc. González was another nine seconds behind. The distance to the other walkers had increased significantly. Mattioli was about half a minute behind, Marin was about 1:20 minutes. Damilano, however, could not bring his lead to the finish. At 19 km, first Canto and then González passed him. World champion Ernesto Canto also became Olympic champion, seven seconds ahead of Raúl González. González, in turn, had six seconds ahead of bronze medalist Maurizio Damilano. The order in the next places behind the medal winners did not change until the finish. Guillaume Leblanc came fourth ahead of Carlo Mattioli, José Marín, Marco Evoniuk and Erling Andersen.
The walking competition was quick from the start. The first three 5 km sections were all covered in under 20:50 min, the last in 20:59 min. In the end, Ernesto Canto improved the existing Olympic record by almost one and a half minutes.
At the age of 42, the Australian Willi Sawall was the oldest participant in the field. He finished 16th. The youngest participant was Amjad Tawalbeh from Jordan at the age of 19. He was 38th and last.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 20:48 min | Guillaume Leblanc | 20:48 min |
| 10 km | 41:33 min | five-person leadership group | 20:45 min |
| 15 km | 1:02:14 h | Maurizio Damilano | 20:41 min |
| 20 km | 1:23:13 h | Ernesto Canto | 20:59 min |
Result
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literature
- Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 26f
Web links and sources
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed January 9, 2018
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 282, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 9, 2018
Video
- 1984 Olympic Games Track & Field - Men's 20 Kilometer Walk , published July 22, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed January 9, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 687 , accessed on January 9, 2018
- ↑ Route map in the Official Report, page 98 , accessed on January 9, 2018
- ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 282, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 9, 2018
- ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 282, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 9, 2018
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