Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres
Men's 10,000 metres at the Games of the XX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany | ||||||||||||
Date | 31 August 1972 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 51 from 33 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
5000 m | men | |
10,000 m | men | |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | |
3000 m steeplechase | men | |
4×100 m relay | men | women |
4×400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | |
20 km walk | men | |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | |
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | |
Combined events | ||
Pentathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich was held on 31 August and 3 September. This event featured a qualifying round for the first time since the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. The favorites in the event included Belgium's Emiel Puttemans, Great Britain's Dave Bedford, and Finland's Lasse Virén.[1]
The men's 10,000 metres final was notable for Lasse Virén's world record performance.[2] At the start of the race, Bedford led the pace; he maintained a world record pace at the 4000 m mark, and he still led halfway through the race. On the 12th lap, just before the halfway point, Virén and Tunisia's Mohammed Gammoudi, 10,000 m bronze medalist and 5000 m gold medalist in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, tangled into each other and fell onto the track.[1] Both recovered, and while Gammoudi fell out of the race two laps later, Virén caught up to the front and passed Bedford to take the lead at about the 6000 m mark.[2]
With Virén leading for the rest of the race, the lead pack reduced to five competitors with 600 m remaining when he made his charge.[3] He ran the final lap (the last 400 m) in 56.4 seconds; he won the gold medal, beating runner-up Puttemans by 7 m and setting a world record time of 27:38.35.[1][2] Virén would go on to win the 5000 metres event, where he would set an Olympic record there; he also went on to win both the 10,000 metres and 5000 metres races at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.[2]
The Guardian listed Virén's world record performance as the greatest sport comeback of all time.[2]
Heats
The top four runners in each of the three heats (blue) and the next three fastest (green), advanced to the final round.
Heat one
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Emiel Puttemans | 27:53.28 | OR | |
2 | Dave Bedford | 27:53.64 | ||
3 | Javier Álvarez | 28:08.58 | ||
4 | Abdel Kader Zaddem | 28:14.70 | ||
5 | Josef Jánský | 28:23.15 | ||
6 | Anatoly Badrankov | 28:35.84 | ||
7 | Noël Tijou | 28:36.08 | ||
8 | Werner Dössegger | 28:36.4 | ||
9 | Tadesse Wolde-Medhin | 28:45.4 | ||
10 | Akio Usami | 29:24.8 | ||
11 | Jeff Galloway | 29:35.0 | ||
12 | Naftali Temu | 30:19.6 | ||
13 | Esaie Fongang | 31:32.6 | ||
14 | P.C. Suppiah | 31:59.2 | ||
15 | Crispin Quispe | 32:31.8 | ||
16 | Giuseppe Cindolo | 33:03.4 | ||
– | Günter Mielke | DNF | ||
– | Usaia Sotutu | DNF | ||
Heat two
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
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1 | Mohammed Gammoudi | 27:54.69 | |
2 | Mariano Haro | 27:55.89 | |
3 | Frank Shorter | 27:58.23 | |
4 | Lasse Virén | 28:04.41 | |
5 | Paul Mose | 28:18.74 | |
6 | Rashid Sharafetdinov | 28:24.64 | |
7 | Wohib Masresha | 28:28.2 | |
8 | Pedro Miranda | 28:35.8 | |
9 | Karel Lismont | 28:41.8 | |
10 | Neil Cusack | 28:45.8 | |
11 | Dave Holt | 28:46.8 | |
12 | Keisuke Sawaki | 29:29.0 | |
13 | Rafael Pérez | 29:36.6 | |
14 | Julio Quevedo | 30:08.4 | |
15 | Abdel Hamid Khamis | 30:19.2 | |
16 | Lucien Rosa | 30:20.2 | |
– | Richard Mabuza | DNF | |
– | Abdi Gulet | DNS | |
– | Per Halle | DNS | |
Heat three
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
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1 | Miruts Yifter | 28:18.11 | |
2 | Willy Polleunis | 28:19.71 | |
3 | Pavlo Andreiev | 28:20.97 | |
4 | Dane Korica | 28:22.24 | |
5 | Juan Martínez | 28:23.14 | |
6 | Lachie Stewart | 28:31.33 | |
7 | Arne Risa | 28:31.74 | |
8 | Jon Anderson | 28:34.2 | |
9 | Carlos Lopes | 28:53.6 | |
10 | Albrecht Moser | 29:05.8 | |
11 | Richard Juma | 29:13.0 | |
12 | Domingo Tibaduiza | 29:24.0 | |
13 | Shaq Musa Medani | 29:32.8 | |
14 | Manfred Letzerich | 29:37.8 | |
15 | Hikmet Şen | 29:51.8 | |
16 | Anilus Joseph | DNF | |
17 | Gavin Thorley | DNF | |
18 | Juha Väätäinen | DNS | |
19 | Edmundo Warnke | DNS | |
Final
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Lasse Virén | 27:38.35 | WR | ||
Emiel Puttemans | 27:39.35 | |||
Miruts Yifter | 27:40.96 | |||
4 | Mariano Haro | 27:48.14 | ||
5 | Frank Shorter | 27:51.32 | ||
6 | Dave Bedford | 28:05.44 | ||
7 | Dane Korica | 28:15.18 | ||
8 | Abdel Kader Zaddem | 28:18.17 | ||
9 | Josef Jánský | 28:23.59 | ||
10 | Juan Martínez | 28:44.08 | ||
11 | Pavlo Andreiev | 28:46.27 | ||
12 | Javier Álvarez | 28:56.38 | ||
13 | Paul Mose | 29:02.87 | ||
14 | Willy Polleunis | 29:10.15 | ||
15 | Mohammed Gammoudi | DNF | ||
References
- 1 2 3 "Athletics at the 1972 Munich Games: Men's 10,000 metres". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Hendersen, John (7 October 2001). "The 10 greatest comebacks of all time". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
- ↑ Tanser, Toby (September 2004). "Last of the Nordic Gods: Lasse Viren's training and triumphs". Running Times. Retrieved 1 October 2011.