1976 World Championships in Athletics

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1976 World Championships in Athletics
The race started and finished in Malmö Stadion
Host cityMalmö, Sweden
Nations20
Athletes42
Events1 – men's 50 km walk
Dates18 September 1976
Opened byKing Carl XVI Gustaf
Main venueMalmö Stadion

The 1976 World Championships in Athletics (Swedish: Världsmästerskapen i friidrott 1976) was the first global, international athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Hosted on 18 September 1976 in Malmö, Sweden, it featured just one event: a men's 50 kilometres race walk contest.[1] The course passed through the streets of the city and the start and finish points were within Malmö Stadion.

Summary

The International Olympic Committee had decided to drop the men's 50 km walk from the Olympic athletics programme for the 1976 Montreal Olympics, despite its constant presence at the games since 1932. The IAAF chose to host its own world championship event instead, a month and a half after the Olympics.[2][3] It was the first World Championships that the IAAF had hosted separate from the Olympic Games (traditionally the main championship for the sport) and race winner Soviet athlete Veniamin Soldatenko (runner-up at the 1972 Olympics) became the first ever IAAF world champion and at 37 years and 258 days he remains the oldest male athlete to win that accolade. Mexico's Enrique Vera came second and Finnish walker Reima Salonen was third. A total of 42 walkers representing 20 countries entered the championships race and 37 finished, with four failed to finish and one being disqualified.[4] This marked the beginning of a move away from this arrangement as a 1976 IAAF Council meeting decided that the organisation would host its own, full-programme, championships on a quadrennial basis. The two-race 1980 World Championships in Athletics filled in for the lack of a women's 400 metres hurdles and 3000 metres run at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The competition came of age at the 41-event 1983 World Championships in Athletics, which is considered the first edition proper.[5][6]

Records

Standing records prior to the 1976 World Athletics Championships
World record File:Flag of Germany.svg Bernd Kannenberg (FRG) 3:52:45 27 May 1972 Bremen, West Germany
Championship record New event

Results

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
File:Gold medal icon.svg Veniamin Soldatenko File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union (URS) 3:54:40 CR
File:Silver medal icon.svg Enrique Vera File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico (MEX) 3:58:14
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Reima Salonen File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland (FIN) 3:58:53
4 Domingo Colín File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico (MEX) 4:00:34
5 Matthias Kröl File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany (GDR) 4:00:58
6 Yevgeniy Lyungin File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union (URS) 4:04:36
7 Paolo Grecucci File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (ITA) 4:04:59
8 Ralf Knütter File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany (GDR) 4:05:41
9 Gerhard Weidner File:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany (FRG) 4:06:20
10 Yevgeniy Yevsyukov File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union (URS) 4:07:14
11 Bogusław Kmiecik File:Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg Poland (POL) 4:09:30
12 Steffan Müller File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany (GDR) 4:10:17
13 Bob Dobson File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 4:10:20
14 Agustí Jorba Argentí [es] File:Flag of Spain (1945–1977).svg Spain (ESP) 4:11:04
15 Lennart Lundgren File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden (SWE) 4:11:43
16 Heinrich Schubert File:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany (FRG) 4:11:55
17 Franco Vecchio File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (ITA) 4:12:14
18 Bohdan Bułakowski File:Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg Poland (POL) 4:13:20
19 Hans Binder File:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany (FRG) 4:13:49
20 Seppo Immonen File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland (FIN) 4:15:28
21 Larry Young File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (USA) 4:16:47
22 Willy Sawall File:Flag of Australia.svg Australia (AUS) 4:18:27
23 Timothy Ericsson File:Flag of Australia.svg Australia (AUS) 4:20:23
24 Ferenc Danovsky File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary (HUN) 4:22:36
25 Stefan Ingvarsson File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden (SWE) 4:26:45
26 Lucien Faber File:Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg (LUX) 4:26:48
27 August Hirt File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (USA) 4:28:35
28 Pat Farrelly File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada (CAN) 4:29:54
29 Robin Whyte File:Flag of Australia.svg Australia (AUS) 4:30:08
30 Shaul Ladany File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel (ISR) 4:33:02
31 Claude Saurriat File:Flag of France.svg France (FRA) 4:34:57
32 Roy Thorpe File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 4:35:57
33 Glen Sweazey File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada (CAN) 4:36:00
34 Max Grob File:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland (SUI) 4:38:08
35 Nico Schroten File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands (NED) 4:42:53
36 Helmut Bueck File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada (CAN) 4:50:52
37 Henry Klein File:Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg U.S. Virgin Islands (ISV) 5:09:04
Gérard Lelièvre File:Flag of France.svg France (FRA) DNF
Carl Lawton File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) DNF
Fred Godwin File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (USA) DNF
Vittorio Visini File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (ITA) DNF
Bengt Simonsen File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden (SWE) DQ

Participation

References

  1. ↑ Archive of Past Events. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-09-08.
  2. ↑ Matthews, Peter (2012). Historical Dictionary of Track and Field (pg. 217). Scarecrow Press (eBook). Retrieved on 2013-09-08.
  3. ↑ IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (pg. 179). IAAF/AFTS (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2013-09-09.
  4. ↑ IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (pg. 20). IAAF/AFTS (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2013-09-09.
  5. ↑ IAAF World Championships in Athletics. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-09-08.
  6. ↑ "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009" (PDF). Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. 2009. p. 153. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
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