1976 World Championships in Athletics

International sporting event 1976 World Championships in Athletics North Stand, Malmö Stadion.jpg 200px Malmö, Sweden The race started and finished in Malmö Stadion 20 42 1 – men's 50 km walk 18 September 1976 King Carl XVI Gustaf Malmö Stadion 1980 Sittard The 1976 World Championships in Athletics (sv 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.Archive of Past Events. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-09-08. 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.Matthews, Peter (2012). Historical Dictionary of Track and Field (pg. 217). Scarecrow Press (eBook). Retrieved on 2013-09-08.IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (pg. 179). IAAF/AFTS (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2013-09-09. 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.IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (pg. 20). IAAF/AFTS (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2013-09-09. 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.IAAF World Championships in Athletics. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-09-08. 12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009. http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf IAAF Media & Public Relations Department Monte Carlo 153 2009 5 August 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20110629134819/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf 29 June 2011 Records Standing records prior to the 1976 World Athletics Championships World record Bernd Kannenberg FRG 3:52:45 27 May 1972 Bremen, West Germany Championship record New event Results Rank Name Nationality Time NotesVeniamin Soldatenko URS3:54:40CREnrique VeraMEX3:58:14Reima SalonenFIN3:58:534Domingo ColínMEX4:00:345Matthias KrölGDR4:00:586Yevgeniy LyunginURS4:04:367Paolo GrecucciITA4:04:598Ralf KnütterGDR4:05:419Gerhard WeidnerFRG4:06:2010Yevgeniy YevsyukovURS4:07:1411Bogusław KmiecikPOL4:09:3012Steffan MüllerGDR4:10:1713Bob DobsonGBR4:10:2014Agustí Jorba Argentí es ESP4:11:0415Lennart LundgrenSWE4:11:4316Heinrich SchubertFRG4:11:5517Franco VecchioITA4:12:1418Bohdan BułakowskiPOL4:13:2019Hans BinderFRG4:13:4920Seppo ImmonenFIN4:15:2821Larry YoungUSA4:16:4722Willy SawallAUS4:18:2723Timothy EricssonAUS4:20:2324Ferenc DanovszkyHUN4:22:3625Stefan IngvarssonSWE4:26:4526Lucien FaberLUX4:26:4827August HirtUSA4:28:3528Pat FarrellyCAN4:29:5429Robin WhyteAUS4:30:0830Shaul LadanyISR4:33:0231Claude SaurriatFRA4:34:5732Roy ThorpeGBR4:35:5733Glen SweazeyCAN4:36:0034Max GrobSUI4:38:0835Nico SchrotenNED4:42:5336Helmut BueckCAN4:50:5237Henry KleinISV5:09:0438Gérard LelièvreFRADNF38Carl LawtonGBRDNF38Fred GodwinUSADNF38Vittorio VisiniITADNF38Bengt SimonsenSWEDQ Participation 22em (3) (3) (3) (2) (2) (3) Hungary 1957 (1) (1) (3) (1) (2) (1) (2) (3) Spain 1945 (1) (3) (1) (3) (1) (3) References Results IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (pg. 179). IAAF/AFTS (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2013-09-09. External links Official IAAF website Category:World Athletics Championships Category:1976 World Championships in Athletics World Championships Category:International athletics competitions hosted by Sweden Category:International sports competitions in Malmö World Championships in Athletics Category:Men's sport of athletics competitions Category:1970s in Malmö Category:1976 in men's international sport Category:September 1976 sports events in Europe