1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 60 athletes from 34 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location |
Centennial Olympic Stadium (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | July 26, 1996 | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km walk at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 26, 1996. Sixty athletes took part, 53 made it to the finish.
The Ecuadorian Jefferson Pérez became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Russian Ilya Markow and the Mexican Bernardo Segura .
Nischan Daimer, Andreas Erm and Robert Ihly started for Germany . Daimer was fifteen, Ihly seventeen and Erm 24th.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 1992 |
Daniel Plaza ( Spain )
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1:21:45 h | Barcelona 1992 |
| World Champion 1995 |
Michele Didoni ( Italy )
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1:19:59 h | Gothenburg 1995 |
| European Champion 1994 |
Mikhail Shchennikov ( Russia )
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1:18:45 h | Helsinki 1994 |
| Pan American champion 1995 |
Jefferson Pérez ( Ecuador )
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1:22:53 h | Mar del Plata 1995 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions 1995 | Jorge Segura ( Mexico )
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1:25:08 h | Guatemala City 1995 |
| South American Champion 1995 |
Jefferson Pérez ( Ecuador )
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1:25:33 h | Sao Paulo 1995 |
| Asian champion 1995 | Li Mingcai ( People's Republic of China )
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1: 23: 58.8 h | Jakarta 1995 - Railway competition over 20,000 m |
| African champion 1996 |
Hatem Ghoula ( Tunisia )
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1:29:48 h | Yaoundé 1996 |
| Oceania Champion 1994 | Shane Brown ( New Zealand )
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1:43:55 h | Auckland 1994 |
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
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 . Here began a two-kilometer circuit that had to be completed nine 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.
initial situation
There was a wider field of favorites for this competition. Among them were the Italian world champion from 1995 Michele Didoni, the Spanish vice world champion from 1995 and world champion from 1993 Valentí Massana, the Russian European champion from 1994 Michail Schchennikow , the vice European champion and World Cup third Jauhen Misjulja from Belarus, the World Cup fourth Ilya Markov from Russia , the Pan America and South America champion Jefferson Pérez from Ecuador and the Slovak owner of the world record Pavol Blažek.
Course of competition
July 26, 1996, starting at 8:00 a.m., Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 )
On the first kilometers, the Slovak Igor Kollár pulled away from the field alone and had a lead of a good ten seconds. But he was caught up again, fell back and had to put up with his disqualification over the last few kilometers. From the eighth kilometer onwards, Rischat Schafikow dared to make the next advance and, up to twelve kilometers, had a lead of fifteen seconds over a group of twelve pursuers. But even he did not stay alone in front. After twelve kilometers, the later disqualified Mexican Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, his compatriot Bernardo Segura, Jefferson Pérez from Ecuador, the two Russians Schafikow and Ilja Markow, the Australian Nicholas A'Hern and the Latvian Aigars Fadejevs formed a top group of seven walkers. On the way back to the stadium about one kilometer from the finish, Pérez made the decisive advance. Jefferson Pérez pulled away and won nine seconds ahead of Ilja Markow, who, as a silver medalist, crossed the finish line seven seconds ahead of the Mexican Bernardo Segura. Ranks four to six went to Nicholas A'Hern, Rischat Schafikow and Aigars Fadejevs.
Jefferson Pérez's victory brought Ecuador the first ever Olympic medal.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 4 km time |
| 4 km | 16:34 min | Igor Kollár | 16:34 min |
| 8 kilometers | 32:56 min | Rischat Schafikow with a large group | 16:22 min |
| 12 km | 48:41 min | Rishat Schafikow | 15:45 min |
| 16 km | 1:04:44 h | Miguel Ángel Rodríguez | 15:57 min |
| 20 km | 1:20:07 h | Jefferson Perez | 15:23 min |
Result
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literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 35
Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed March 2, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 105, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 2, 2018
Video
- Perez wins men's walk by nearly a minute , published August 26, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed March 2, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 687 , accessed on March 2, 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 2, 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. 105, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 2, 2018
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