Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres
Men's 800 metres at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
Dates | August 31 (heats and quarterfinals) September 2 (semifinals and final) | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | |
5000 m | men | |
10,000 m | men | |
80 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 | |
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 | ||
Decathlon | men | |
The men's 800 metres middle distance event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 2.[1]
Only six men were seeded into the final. From the gun Christian Wägli led the pack of five runners off the turn, with only Manfred Matuschewski already beaten. Falling in the back of the pack was Peter Snell from lane 6, the far outside. Wägli held the lead down the final backstretch and through the final turn, with Roger Moens moving in behind him ready to pounce out of a still tight pack. Snell was still at the back, boxed in with George Kerr to his outside. Coming off the turn, Moens pounced, passing Wägli in lane 2 with clear sailing to victory. But Moens' move broke up the pack, it was a free-for-all sprint to the finish. With Wägli struggling on the rail, Snell had a path down lane 1. On the outside Kerr passed Paul Schmidt and was sprinting in lane 3. A surprised Moens looked to his inside to see who the competitor was who was passing him. It was Snell with more power. Moens tried to accelerate again but Snell's strength was too much. Looking at Snell again he leaned for the line but too little too late to catch Snell.
Results
Heats
The fastest three runners in each of the nine heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.
Heat one
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Donal Smith | ![]() |
1:51.86 | |
2 | Valery Bulyshev | ![]() |
1:51.83 | |
3 | Zbigniew Makomaski | ![]() |
1:52.70 | |
4 | Brian Hewson | ![]() |
1:54.73 | |
5 | Yair Pantilat | ![]() |
1:54.86 | |
6 | George Johnson | ![]() |
1:56.04 |
Heat two
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Tom Farrell | ![]() |
1:49.05 | |
2 | Jerry Siebert | ![]() |
1:49.08 | |
3 | Jos Lambrechts | ![]() |
1:49.24 | |
4 | Pierre-Yvon Lenoir | ![]() |
1:49.41 | |
5 | Jaromír Šlégr | ![]() |
1:50.23 | |
6 | Moussa Said | ![]() |
1:50.49 |
Heat three
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Peter Snell | ![]() |
1:48.22 | |
2 | Christian Wägli | ![]() |
1:48.88 | |
3 | Ernie Cunliffe | ![]() |
1:48.95 | |
4 | István Rózsavölgyi | ![]() |
1:49.51 |
Heat four
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Tony Blue | ![]() |
1:50.82 | |
2 | Ergas Leps | ![]() |
1:50.93 | |
3 | Manfred Matuschewski | ![]() |
1:51.17 | |
4 | Vasily Savinkov | ![]() |
1:51.49 | |
5 | Konstantinos Moragiemos | ![]() |
1:54.60 | |
6 | Ahmed Lazreg | ![]() |
1:55.91 |
Heat five
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Abram Kryvosheiev | ![]() |
1:53.49 | |
2 | Jörg Balke | ![]() |
1:53.72 | |
3 | John Wenk | ![]() |
1:54.27 | |
4 | Norbert Haupert | ![]() |
1:54.83 | |
5 | Frederick Owusu | ![]() |
1:55.41 | |
6 | Egon Oehri | ![]() |
2:00.49 |
Heat six
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Roger Moens | ![]() |
1:50.73 | |
2 | Per Knuts | ![]() |
1:51.36 | |
3 | Lajos Kovács | ![]() |
1:51.45 | |
4 | Stefan Lewandowski | ![]() |
1:51.75 | |
5 | Svavar Markússon | ![]() |
1:52.88 | |
6 | Abdeslem Dargouth | ![]() |
1:54.87 |
Heat seven
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | George Kerr | ![]() |
1:51.11 | |
2 | Terry Sullivan | ![]() |
1:51.26 | |
3 | Péter Parsch | ![]() |
1:51.34 | |
4 | Borut Ingolič | ![]() |
1:51.51 | |
5 | Pertti Ålander | ![]() |
1:52.20 | |
6 | Zbigniew Orywał | ![]() |
1:55.89 |
Heat eight
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Paul Schmidt | ![]() |
1:50.97 | |
2 | Rudolf Klaban | ![]() |
1:50.96 | |
3 | Ronnie Delany | ![]() |
1:51.19 | |
4 | Joe Mullins | ![]() |
1:51.46 | |
5 | Gianfranco Baraldi | ![]() |
1:52.15 | |
6 | Julio Gómez | ![]() |
1:53.90 | |
7 | Somsakdi Tongaram | ![]() |
1:57.24 |
Heat nine
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Tom Murphy | ![]() |
1:52.30 | |
2 | Ralph Gomes | ![]() |
1:53.06 | |
3 | Ekrem Koçak | ![]() |
1:59.12 | |
4 | Sig Ohlemann | ![]() |
2:07.40 |
Quarterfinals
The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Tom Murphy | ![]() |
1:48.12 | |
2 | Christian Wägli | ![]() |
1:48.15 | |
3 | Manfred Matuschewski | ![]() |
1:48.24 | |
4 | Donal Smith | ![]() |
1:48.52 | |
5 | Terry Sullivan | ![]() |
1:50.01 |
Heat two
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Paul Schmidt | ![]() |
1:51.38 | |
2 | Abram Krivosheyev | ![]() |
1:51.40 | |
3 | Jerry Siebert | ![]() |
1:51.53 | |
4 | Zbigniew Makomaski | ![]() |
1:51.72 | |
5 | Ralph Gomes | ![]() |
1:52.47 | |
6 | Lajos Kovács | ![]() |
1:52.55 | |
7 | Per Knuts | ![]() |
1:52.91 |
Heat three
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | George Kerr | ![]() |
1:49.58 | |
2 | Ernie Cunliffe | ![]() |
1:49.83 | |
3 | Tony Blue | ![]() |
1:50.05 | |
4 | John Wenk | ![]() |
1:50.13 | |
5 | Valery Bulyshev | ![]() |
1:50.74 | |
6 | Ronnie Delany | ![]() |
151.42 |
Heat four
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Roger Moens | ![]() |
1:48.69 | |
2 | Peter Snell | ![]() |
1:48.84 | |
3 | Jörg Balke | ![]() |
1:48.98 | |
4 | Rudolf Klaban | ![]() |
1:50.32 | |
5 | Tom Farrell | ![]() |
1:50.84 | |
6 | Ergas Leps | ![]() |
1:52.13 | |
7 | Ekrem Koçak | ![]() |
1:52.66 |
Semifinals
The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | George Kerr | ![]() |
1:47.26 | OR |
2 | Christian Wägli | ![]() |
1:47.40 | |
3 | Manfred Matuschewski | ![]() |
1:47.54 | |
4 | Jörg Balke | ![]() |
1:47.63 | |
5 | Tony Blue | ![]() |
1:47.97 | |
6 | Tom Murphy | ![]() |
1:48.29 |
Heat two
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Peter Snell | ![]() |
1:47.34 | |
2 | Roger Moens | ![]() |
1:47.49 | |
3 | Paul Schmidt | ![]() |
1:47.95 | |
4 | Jerry Siebert | ![]() |
1:48.20 | |
5 | Abram Krivosheyev | ![]() |
1:48.25 | |
6 | Ernie Cunliffe | ![]() |
1:50.92 |
Final
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Peter Snell | ![]() |
1:46.48 | OR |
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Roger Moens | ![]() |
1:46.55 | |
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George Kerr | ![]() |
1:47.25 | |
4 | Paul Schmidt | ![]() |
1:47.82 | |
5 | Christian Wägli | ![]() |
1:48.19 | |
6 | Manfred Matuschewski | ![]() |
1:52.21 |
Key: OR = Olympic record
References
- ^ "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 800 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2017.