1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 50 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 42 athletes from 22 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location |
Seoul Olympic Stadium (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | September 30, 1988 | ||||||||
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The men's 50 km walk at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held on September 30, 1988. The start and finish was the Seoul Olympic Stadium . 42 athletes took part, 35 of which made it to the finish.
Olympic champion was Vyacheslav Ivanenko from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of Ronald Weigel and Hartwig Gauder , both from the GDR.
In addition to the medal winners Weigel and Gauder, Dietmar Meisch also took part for the GDR, who finished the race in ninth place.
Walkers from the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 1984 |
Raúl González ( Mexico )
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3:47:26 h | Los Angeles 1984 |
| World Champion 1987 |
Hartwig Gauder ( GDR )
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3:40:53 h | Rome 1987 |
| European champion 1986 | 3:40:55 h | Stuttgart 1986 | |
| Pan American champion 1987 |
Martín Bermúdez ( Mexico )
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3:58:54 h | Indianapolis 1987 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions | 50 km walking not in the championship program | ||
| South America champion | |||
| Asian champion | |||
| African champions | |||
Existing records
| World record | 3:38:17 h |
Ronald Weigel ( GDR )
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Potsdam , GDR (now Germany ) | May 25, 1986 |
| Olympic record | 3:47:26 h |
Raúl González ( Mexico )
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50 km walk from Los Angeles , USA | August 11, 1984 |
Note: World records were not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The race started in the Seoul Olympic Stadium . After one lap, the route ran south out of the stadium and shortly afterwards east. It went over the Olympic-ro north past the Asian Park . At the level of the Baekjegobun-ro , a circuit of around 2.5 km in length began, which had to be completed nineteen times. Then it went back to the stadium on the running track, where the goal was after a final lap.
Race course
Date: September 30, 1988
The favorites of the race were the two GDR walkers Ronald Weigel - world champion 1983 , also holder of the world record - and Hartwig Gauder - Olympic champion 1980 , reigning world and European champion - as well as the Soviet participant Vyacheslav Ivanenko - world championship third and vice European champion.
At ten kilometers, the Mexican Hernán Andrade had established an easy ten-second lead. Behind him lay a group of more than twenty people. After ten miles, Andrade's lead had increased to more than half a minute. His compatriot Martín Bermúdez increased the pace and set himself apart from the pursuers. At twenty kilometers he was within fourteen seconds of Andrade, and the field in pursuit was now half a minute behind Bermudez. A short time later, Andrade was disqualified for violating the walking rules, which brought Bermúdez the lead. At kilometer 25, the Mexican was more than a minute ahead of the field. The chasing field now increased the pace. Gauder and Weigel, their teammate Dietmar Meisch and the two Soviet walkers Iwanenko and Aljaksandr Pataschou, the Spaniard José Marín, the Swede Bo Gustafsson, the Italian Raffaello Ducceschi, the French Alain Lemercier, the Norwegian Erling Andersen and the Hungarian Sándor Urbanik were all except for six seconds closer. After 35 kilometers, Bermúdez was overtaken by the field again, which in the meantime had shrunk to six walkers including Bermúdez at the consistently high pace. At forty kilometers, Ivanenko had taken the lead, behind him were Weigel and Gauder, and directly behind were Pataschou and Marín. Ivanenko continued to expand his lead. Five kilometers from the end he was eighteen seconds ahead of Weigel, who in turn was three seconds ahead of Gauder. Another five seconds later followed Pataschou, Marín had to tear down. At the finish, Vyacheslav Ivanenko had almost half a minute ahead of Weigel. The Olympic champion was just twelve seconds ahead of Weigel's world record, setting a new Olympic record . Hartwig Gauder crossed the finish line 49 seconds after the silver medalist Ronald Weigel and won bronze. Aljaksandr Pataschou was also unable to keep up with the final pace and crossed the finish line in fourth more than a minute after Gauder. José Marín was fifth, the Australian Simon Baker sixth
Vyacheslav Ivanenko was the first Olympic champion of the Soviet Union in the 50 km walk .
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 22:43 min | large top group | 22:43 min |
| 10 km | 45:23 min | Hernán Andrade | 22:40 min |
| 15 km | 1:07:35 h | Hernán Andrade | 22:12 min |
| 20 km | 1:29:47 h | Hernán Andrade | 22:12 min |
| 25 km | 1:51:58 h | Martín Bermúdez | 22:11 min |
| 30 km | 2:14:25 h | Martín Bermúdez | 22:27 min |
| 35 km | 2:35:50 h | six-person top group | 21:25 min |
| 40 km | 2:56:20 h | Vyacheslav Ivanenko | 20:30 min |
| 45 km | 3:17:22 h | Vyacheslav Ivanenko | 21:02 min |
| 50 km | 3:38:29 h | Vyacheslav Ivanenko | 21:07 min |
Result
Web links and sources
- Men's 50km walk at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference.com database ,
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 235f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 27, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 688 , accessed on January 27, 2018
- ↑ Route map in a study by the Korean Society of Geodesy, Photogrammetry & Cartography (p. 217-220) ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 27, 2018
- ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul, volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 235f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 27, 2018
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