1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 50 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 52 athletes from 27 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location |
Centennial Olympic Stadium (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | 2nd August 1996 | ||||||||
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The men's 50 km walk at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on August 2, 1996. 51 athletes took part, 36 reached the finish.
The Olympic champion was Robert Korzeniowski from Poland . He won ahead of the Russian Mikhail Schchennikow and the Spaniard Valentí Massana .
Axel Noack , Thomas Wallstab and Ronald Weigel started for Germany . Noack was twelfth and Wallstab fifteenth. Weigel gave up the race.
The Swiss Pascal Charrière reached the goal in 31st place.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 1992 |
Andrei Perlow ( EUN )
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3: 50.13 h | Barcelona 1992 |
| World Champion 1995 |
Valentin Kononen ( Finland )
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3:43:42 h | Gothenburg 1995 |
| European Champion 1994 |
Valery Spitsyn ( Russia )
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3:41:07 h | Helsinki 1994 |
| Pan American champion 1995 |
Carlos Mercenario ( Mexico )
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3:47:55 h | Mar del Plata 1995 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions 1995 | 50 km walking not in the championship program | ||
| South American Champion 1995 | |||
| Asian champion 1995 | |||
| African champion 1996 | |||
| Oceania Champion 1994 | |||
Existing records
| World record | 3:37:41 h |
Andrei Perlow ( Soviet Union )
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Leningrad , Russia | 5th August 1989 |
| Olympic record | 3:38:29 h |
Vyacheslav Ivanenko ( Soviet Union )
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50km walk from Seoul , South Korea | September 30, 1988 |
Note: World records are not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The starting point was in the Centennial Olympic Stadium , in which two laps had to be covered. Then the way out of the stadium led out and crossed at the Georgia Avenue to Interstate 85 . Immediately after that, the route turned left onto Central Avenue . A two-kilometer circuit began here and had to be completed 24 times. The route ran first to the right to a large parking lot, which was lapped. Then it went right again on Central Avenue , then further north to the turning point and back to the parking lot entrance. After completing the last lap, the route led back to the stadium where the finish line was.
Starting field
In the favorites field there were many names of walkers who had been way ahead in the last major championships. Among them were first and foremost the 1995 world champion Valentin Kononen from Finland, the vice world champion and European Championship third from 1994 Giovanni Perricelli from Italy, the Polish World Championship third Robert Korzeniowski, the Spaniard Jesús Ángel García, European Championship fourth and World Championship fifth, as well as the French Vice European Champion Thierry Toutain.
Course of competition
July 26, 1996
Together with his compatriot Valentí Massana, who was previously successful in the 20 km walk, García pulled away from the field early on. The two developed a clear lead over their competitors. Up to thirty kilometers, some walkers caught up and a ten-headed group formed with about half a minute ahead of the Russian Mikhail Schchennikow. Other pursuers were already a minute behind the lead field. Now the pace has increased and the leading group reduced to six walkers over the next ten kilometers. These were Korzeniowski, Jesús García, Massana, the two Mexicans Ignacio Zamudio and Daniel García and the Belarusian Wiktor Ginko. Less than half a minute back, Shchennikov was still following, five seconds ahead of Kononen. Not far before forty kilometers, Korzeniowski picked up the pace again. Only Massana was able to follow initially. A little later, Jesús García gave up the race. Korzeniowski continued his high pace and now also left Massana behind. The three walkers Zamudio, Ginko and Daniel García, who remained from the previously existing top group, quickly lost ground. Massana, on the other hand, held up well in second place. From behind, however, Shchennikov approached. He passed all the walkers in front of him and even came close to the leading Poles. But Robert Korzeniowski saved a lead of sixteen seconds and reached the finish line as an Olympic champion ahead of Mikhail Shchennikov, for whom it was only the second start on the long distance. Valentí Massana crossed the finish line in third another 33 seconds. The Italian Arturo Di Mezza came fourth ahead of Wiktor Ginko, Ignacio Zamudio and Valentin Kononen.
Robert Korzeniowski won the first Polish medal in an Olympic walking competition.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 10 km time |
| 10 km | 45:44 min | Jesús Ángel García and Valentí Massana | 45:44 min |
| 20 km | 1:31:10 h | Valentí Massana | 45:26 min |
| 30 km | 2:16:10 h | Tim Berrett with ten people in the lead | 45:00 min |
| 40 km | 3:00:06 h | Robert Korzeniowski with a top group of five | 43:54 min |
| 50 km | 3:43:30 h | Robert Korzeniowski | 43:24 min |
Result
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Web links
- SportsReference 50km Walk , accessed March 3, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 106, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 3, 2018
Video
- 50km Atlanta 1996 , published September 6, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed March 3, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 688 , accessed on March 3, 2018
- ↑ Route course on runscore.com, Annex WN 11 (English) ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2016 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 March 3, 2018
- ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 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. , P. 106, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 3, 2018
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