1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 42 athletes from 23 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Barcelona | ||||||||
| Competition phase | July 31, 1992 | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on July 31, 1992. 42 athletes took part, 32 reached the finish in the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona .
Olympic champion was the Spaniard Daniel Plaza . He won ahead of the Canadian Guillaume LeBlanc and the Italian Giovanni De Benedictis .
Robert Ihly and Axel Noack started for Germany . Ihly reached the finish line in eleventh, Noack in twenty.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion in 1988 |
Jozef Pribilinec ( Czechoslovakia )
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1:19:57 h | Seoul 1988 |
| World Champion 1991 |
Maurizio Damilano ( Italy )
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1:19:37 h | Tokyo 1991 |
| European champion 1990 |
Pavol Blažek ( Czechoslovakia )
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1:22:05 h | Split 1990 |
| Pan American champion 1991 |
Héctor Moreno ( Colombia )
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1:24:56 h | Havana 1991 |
| Central American and Caribbean Champion 1991 | Alberto Cruz ( Mexico )
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1:27:09 h | Xalapa 1991 |
| South American Champion 1991 | Sérgio Galdino ( Brazil )
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1:26:26 h | Manaus 1991 |
| Asian champion 1991 | Bu Lintang ( People's Republic of China )
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1:31:36 h | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
| African Champion 1992 | Chris Blitz ( South Africa )
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1:29:56 h | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 |
| Oceania Champion 1990 | Paul McElwee ( New Zealand )
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1:39:46 h | Suva 1990 |
Existing records
| World record | 1:18:13 h |
Pavol Blažek ( Czechoslovakia )
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Hildesheim , Germany | September 16, 1990 |
| Olympic record | 1:19:57 h |
Jozef Pribilinec ( Czechoslovakia )
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20km walk from Seoul , South Korea | September 23, 1988 |
Note: World records are not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
Routing
Most of the competition was held on Zona Franca Street . The street is about 1.5 km southwest of the Olympic Stadium . After the start on the Zona Franca , the route ran on an approx. 2000 meter long circuit that had to be completed nine times. The route then led over Carrer del Foc and Passeig Olimpic to the stadium, where, after a final lap on the running track, the finish line was reached.
Course of competition
Date: July 31, 1992
There were a number of favorites for this competition. Among them were the Italian world champion Maurizio Damilano, also Olympic champion from 1980 , bronze medalist from 1984 and 1988 , the Czechoslovakian Pavol Blažek as the reigning European champion and holder of the world record, vice world champion Michail Schchennikow, who started for the United Team, Damilano's compatriot Giovanni De Benedictis as World Cup -Fourth. The 1984 Olympic champion, the Mexican Ernesto Canto, also competed, but was no longer in the form of previous years.
Viktoras Meškauskas was the first athlete from Lithuania to take part in the Summer Olympics in 64 years . He finished 26th in the end.
In hot weather conditions, after five kilometers a group of six had formed. In this group were De Benedictis, Damilano, the Spanish local hero Daniel Plaza, the German Robert Ihly, the Hungarian Sándor Urbanik and Shchennikow. As the time went on, the group got smaller and smaller, with Plaza and Damilano alone at the top halfway through the course. The gap to the chasing field was very small.
At fifteen kilometer, Plaza was still leading to the delight of the spectators, while De Benedictis lost touch with the leading Spaniard. The Canadian Guillaume LeBlanc positioned himself behind Plaza. A second Spaniard, Valentí Massana moved up to third. De Benedictis and Damilano followed a good half minute later. To the horror of the domestic audience, Massana was disqualified shortly afterwards. Daniel Plaza, however, was able to stay at the front, increased his lead over LeBlanc to around forty seconds on the steep climb to the stadium and became Olympic champion. Behind silver medalist Guillaume LeBlanc, the two Italians fought for bronze. Giovanni De Benedictis finally crossed the finish line 28 seconds ahead of Maurizio Damilano. Pavol Blažek finished seventeenth, Ernesto Canto only 29.
Due to the high temperatures, records or top performances were hard to think of. On the contrary, the time was extremely valuable, especially in view of the difference in altitude to be overcome in the final part.
Daniel Plaza achieved the first Spanish Olympic victory in a walking competition .
Guillaume LeBlanc won the first Canadian medal in an Olympic walking competition.
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 19:50 min | six-person management group | 19:50 min |
| 10 km | 40:06 min | Daniel Plaza and Maurizio Damilano | 20:16 min |
| 15 km | 1:00:31 h | Daniel Plaza in front of Guillaume LeBlanc | 20:25 min |
| 20 km | 1:21:45 h | Daniel Plaza | 21:14 min |
Result
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Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed February 9, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 62, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 9, 2018
Video
- 3745 Olympic Track & Field 1992 20km Walk Men , published March 18, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed February 9, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 687 , accessed on February 9, 2018
- ↑ Route map in the Official Report (p. 203) , accessed on February 9, 2018
- ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 62, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 9, 2018
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