1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 118 athletes from 65 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location |
Seoul Olympic Stadium (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | October 2nd, 1988 | ||||||||
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The men's marathon at the 1988 Seoul Olympics was held on October 2, 1988. 118 athletes took part, 98 of which made it to the finish. The start and finish was the Seoul Olympic Stadium .
Olympic champion was the Italian Gelindo Bordin . He won ahead of the Kenyan Douglas Wakiihuri and Ahmed Salah from Djibouti.
Ralf Salzmann started for the Federal Republic of Germany and finished the race in 23rd place.
Both Jörg Peter from the GDR and the Swiss Bruno Lafranchi had to give up the race early.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 1984 |
Carlos Lopes ( Portugal )
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2:09:21 h | Los Angeles 1984 |
| World Champion 1987 |
Douglas Wakiihuri ( Kenya )
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2:11:48 h | Rome 1987 |
| European champion 1986 |
Gelindo Bordin ( Italy )
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2:10:54 h | Stuttgart 1986 |
| Pan American champion 1987 |
Ivo Rodrigues ( Brazil )
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2:20:13 h | Indianapolis 1987 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions |
held: a half marathon / winner: Alfredo Bolívar ( Mexico ) 1:13:26 h
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| South America Champion 1987 |
Osmiro Silva ( Brazil )
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2:21:06 h | São Paulo 1987 |
| Asian champion | Marathon run not in the championship program | ||
| African Champion 1988 |
Dereje Nedi ( Ethiopia )
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2:27:51 h | Annaba 1988 |
Existing records
| World record | 2:06:50 h |
Belayneh Dinsamo ( Ethiopia )
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Rotterdam , Netherlands | April 17, 1988 |
| Olympic record | 2:09:21 h |
Carlos Lopes ( Portugal )
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Los Angeles Marathon , USA | August 12, 1984 |
Routing
The race started in the Seoul Olympic Stadium . After three laps, the track ran out of the stadium to the south and shortly afterwards to the west. She crossed the Tanjeon River and came to Gangnam Town . After continuing in a north-westerly direction, the route reached the Seocho district and there came to the south bank of the Hangang . The course now followed the quayside to the Dongjak district . Turning north it went on the Mapo bridge over the river. Immediately afterwards, the path led eastward on the north bank through the districts of Mapo-gu and Yongsan-gu . We went over the Benpo Bridge over the slope to the other bank of the river. Now the route ran in an easterly direction parallel to the south bank. The Tanjeon was crossed again near the confluence with the Hangang, then the course approached the Olympic Stadium from the north. There was now an arch around the stadium. From the south, the route led back into the Olympic Stadium, where the goal was reached after a final lap on the track there.
Race course
Date: October 2, 1988 , 2:30 p.m. local time ( UTC + 9 h )
The favorites were the African marathon runners, who had become stronger and stronger in recent years, especially Ahmed Salah from Djibouti and the Kenyan world champion Douglas Wakiihuri. Other medal candidates were the Australian Robert de Castella, holder of the world record from 1981 to 1984, and the Italian European champion Gelindo Bordin.
With Gary Fanelli, a track and field athlete from American Samoa took part in the Olympic Games for the first time. The Pacific island of Guam , for which Fred Schumann, Ricardo Taitano and James Walker competed, was also represented at the Olympic track and field competitions for the first time.
The field stayed together for a long time, only at kilometer 25 a top group of thirteen had formed, which was reduced to six athletes at kilometer thirty. Co-favorite Bordin had not kept up the pace between ten and fifteen kilometers and was at times almost fifty seconds behind. But he fought his way back and had caught up again at twenty kilometers. He was in the lead group at thirty kilometers, as did Salah and Wakiihuri. In addition there were the Australian Steve Moneghetti, the British Charles Spedding and the Japanese Takeyuki Nakayama, while de Castella had fallen behind. At forty kilometers, Salah, Wakiihuri, and Bordin had separated from the group. The next kilometer section, which was slightly downhill, brought the preliminary decision. Bordin took the lead, separated from his two companions and stayed in front until the finish. In the end, Gelindo Bordin had a fifteen second lead - the smallest lead an Olympic champion had since 1920 . Behind him, Douglas Wakiihuri won the silver medal twelve seconds ahead of Ahmed Salah.
Gelindo Bordin was the first Italian Olympic marathon champion .
Douglas Wakiihuri and Ahmed Salah won the first medals in this discipline for their countries.
Ahmed Salah was also the first and so far only medalist in Djibouti - as of January 2018.
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 15:29 min | big group | 15:29 min |
| 10 km | 30:32 min | big group | 15:03 min |
| 15 km | 45:57 min | big group | 15:25 min |
| 20 km | 1:01:21 h | big group | 15:24 min |
| 25 km | 1:16:57 h | 13-strong top group | 15:36 min |
| 30 km | 1:32:49 h | top group of nine | 15:52 min |
| 35 km | 1:48:25 h | Wakihuri, Salah, Bordin, Nakayama, Spedding, Ikangaa | 15:36 min |
| 40 km | 2:03:39 h | Salah, Wakihuri, Bordin | 15:14 min |
Result
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Web links
- marathoninfo.free.fr , accessed January 24, 2018
- 1988 Summer Olympics men's marathon from Sports-Reference.com database , accessed January 24, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 240f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 24, 2018
Video
- Seoul 1988 Olympic Marathon | Marathon Week , published April 22, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 24, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 687 , accessed on January 24, 2018
- ↑ Route map in a study by the Korean Society of Geodesy, Photogrammetry & Cartography (p. 43–57) ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 24, 2018
- ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul, volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 240f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 24, 2018
- ↑ IAAF records. Men's marathon , accessed January 24, 2018
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