UFA-Dabei 639/1968 24.10.1968

Olympics Mexico this special report: Olympics 1968 image: launching runners, long jump, discus thrower.
100 m women: start. Barrel. ZL. Wyomia Tyus (Negress) WINS in 11.0 seconds. Barbara Ferrel, United States, wins the silver medal (Negril). Event / Poland wins bronze. Award ceremony.
Discus women: untarnished Stadium. Rain splashing in a puddle. Lia Manoliu, Romania raises 58,28 m and won gold medal. ZL. Liesel Westermann wins the silver medal. ZL. Award ceremony. Liesel Westermann congratulates Lia Manoliu.
110 m hurdles men: start and run ZL. Willie Dawenport, United States, (Negro) wins the gold medal. Werner Tamil, Darmstadt, running the inside lane and 5 stand photo. Finish.
Long jump men: Bob Beaman, United States, (Negro) jumping 8.90 m and wins the gold medal. ZL.
Pole vault: Seagren / United States jumps 5.40 m and wins gold medal ZL. Silver WINS Claus Schiprowski / Germany, 5.40 m. ZL. Mexican older spectator with cigarette, big. Award ceremony: Seagren/United States Saha / Germany, Wolfgang nordwig (GDR), East Germany.
200 m men: man fired on runners. Gold Medal winner Tommie Smith / United States (Negro). Time: 19.8 sec. Peter Norman / Australia overhauled John Carlo / United States (Negroes) from the finish and WINS silver. Award ceremony. Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised hand with black glove demonstrates the "Black Power". City image Mexico City. Transfokator recording. Mexicans on the road. City traffic. Modern buildings.
Weightlifting: Heavyweight: Leonid Tschabotinski lifting 572,5 kg and wins the gold medal.
Rowing eights: Germany wins the gold medal ahead of Australia and the Soviet Union. Scoreboard. Award ceremony of the team. German flag on the mast.
100 m freestyle swimming women: start and swimming. The Americans win it.
Springboard diving women: Sue Gossick / United States, WINS.
400 m hurdles: Starter shoots. Henn and Schubert / Germany run on the inside lane. Sombrero, large audience. Hemery, England runs and WINS in 48.1 sec. Henn-sprints and won the silver medal. Scoreboard. Award ceremony. Athlete below oxygen mask on the lawn. Transport on a stretcher. Martin Lauer interviews the German Olympic doctor Professor Reindell about possible health damage. Actuality, big: "Do you think that there is a real danger to health and life of our athletes?" - "the crisis look certainly Very much threatening, and it must be admitted that we didn't expect a such multitude of failures, but the electro-cartographic studies have shown that the crisis left no lasting damage, first and foremost at heart, which were won at the rowers, where the most serious crisis observed. No notice was given, that any damage to organic remains."
1500 m run: Keno / Kenya via Norpoth and Jipcho Kenya sprints. Jim Ryun across sprints Norpoth and bottlenose dolphins. Keno / Kenya, wins gold dolphins before Jim Ryun and Bodø.
High jump men: Dick Fosbury jumping backwards 2.24 m and won gold medal.
Cycling team pursuit driving: The victorious German team on the track. (Disqualification). Winner: Denmark.
Marathon run: runners start. Runners on the track. Mamu Wolde / Ethiopia, leads. Mamu Wolde arrives first at the stadium. Kenji Kimihara / Japan, will clap 2 viewers. Last runner arrives after 1 1/2 hours at award ceremony at Stadium.
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This special report Olympics 1968 Olympics Mexico 100m women origin: Polygoon, INA-pool discus women origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 110m hurdles men origin: Polygoon, INA-pool pole vault origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 200 m men origin: Polygoon, INA-pool weightlifting - heavyweight origin: Polygoon, INA-pool rowing - eighth origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 100 m swimming freestyle women origin: Polygoon, INA-pool diving women origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 400 m hurdles origin: Polygoon, INA pool interview Olympic medical Professor Reindell camera: Fire 1500m race origin: Polygoon, INA-pool high jump men origin: Polygoon, INA pool cycling pursuit race origin: Polygoon, INA pool marathon race origin: Polygoon, INA-pool at the beginning and end of total length

The success of colored athletes at the XIX are summer in the history of Olympic Games without example. America's Black Star sprinter Wyomia Tyus WINS in a new world record time of 11 seconds over 100 meters. Their countrywoman Barbara Ferrel pleased event on silver, the Polish the bronze medal.
Incessant rain brings the discus throwers to their Olympic show. During a rain break, Romanian flings Lia Manoliu the 1 kilogram heavy disk on 58 m 28 - a distance which later achieved none of its competitors more. Liesel Westermann, world record from Leverkusen, needs To give beaten by half a meter. The 23 year old Sportstudentin - is disappointed by the own performance - time of 36 Romanian the first gold medal of their sporting career.
The favorite Willie Davenport can be do not dispute the victory in the 110 metres hurdles, a domain of the Americans. The Darmstadt-based Werner Trzmiel on the inside lane won even for experts surprisingly - 5th place.
The 22-year old Bob Beaman continues the successful series of American athletes in Mexico. With a jump of 8 m 90, he improved the world record to 55 inches. Experts doubt whether this performance in this generation can be surpassed.
World record must jump also the Americans Seagren, to get Olympic gold. The dwarf reaches 5 m 40, the new world record height, also among the giants of the Springer Claus Schiprowski Leverkusen – with 1 meter 76. The lower number of incorrect To try rescues Seagren ranked first and the Americans the record, since the start of the Olympic Games of the modern era in this discipline unbeaten. Wolfgang Nordwig from Jena also creates world record height in third place.
The Americans Tommie Smith reached the new world record time of 19.8 seconds in the 200 metres. His compatriot of John Carlos loses it sure felt silver on the last meters at the Australian Peter Norman. The demonstration of two Americans for the militant black civil rights movement punished their team leaders with the exclusion from the Olympic team.
Mexico City, a 3 1/2 million-city between illiteracy and tourist boom, between Inca art and avant-garde architecture, for 14 days the heart of the world.
On the stage of the Téatro Olímpico, the Russian Leonid Tschabotinski fears only a violation, but not the competition. In the three-way battle of the heavyweights, he raises 572,5 kilo - 17 1/2 pounds more than the 2nd and 3rd of this competition.
On the race track of the artificial rowing basin of Xochimilco, German rower defend the call to sit eighth in the world in the best. Up to 1,500 metres mark the rowing Knights of Adam crew to yield leadership to the black shirts from New Zealand. In the finish above them spurt New Zealanders and repel the attacks of the Australian and Soviet rowers until the finish. The will to go to the limit of human performance rewarded the eight and their helmsman 2nd gold medal, which was awarded to German athletes in Mexico.
In the Alberca stadium is America, the most successful swimming nation in the world, the other countries on extra places. There are 3 Americans among themselves in the 100 meter freestyle swimming. Separated only by an order they win gold, silver and bronze after exactly one minute.
An American woman has topped both in the art. Safe staunch jumps; Gold for Sue Gossick.
One of the biggest surprises is the final of the 400 m hurdle race. The two German Hennige and Schubert on the inside lane have only outsider chances against the favored Americans.
Englishman Hemery is 100 meters from the finish as first of the 91 centimeters high hurdles. The two Germans seem off.
No one can follow the Sprint of Hemerys. In the last 40 meters but Hennige dashes forward, reached the Americans ahead of him, and wins the silver medal. Gold in a new world record time of 48.1 seconds for Hémery.
Collapse of many athletes in the low-oxygen air of Mexico City are a negative indicator of these games. That's why we asked Professor Reindell, the doctor of the German Olympic team.
"Do you think that there is a real danger to health and life of our athletes?
The crisis certainly Very much threatening look for, and it must be admitted that we didn't expect a such multitude of failures, but the electro-cartographic studies have shown that the crisis left no lasting damage, first and foremost at heart, which were won at the rowers, where the most serious crisis observed. No notice was given, that any damage to organic remains."
Campaign promises the final of the 1,500 meters run until exhaustion. For Kenya's miracle runner Keno last chance after his defeats 5 metres and 10,000 metres to win gold. After 2 rounds of Keno puts everything on one card. He have sprints Norpoth and his country man Jipcho. Nobody can follow him.
Favourite Jim Ryun begins too late with his spurt. It runs about 300 meters from the finish Norpoth and bottlenose dolphins, he achieved Keno. After 3 minutes 34.9 seconds this longed-for gold for Keno.
70,000 cheered as Dick Fosbury to take the leap. With 2 meters 24, the Americans is propelled backwards on the gold podium.
The biggest disappointment experienced Germany's Olympic team in the velodrome of Mexico City. The German team in the pursuit trial loses the gold medal by disqualification. The jury opts for their opponents, the Danes, ranked first. The second will be decided until after the games. 72 athletes fight at the end of the track and field competitions for the title ausdauerndster running of these games to be. The Favorites of the 42.2-kilometer run of the suffering come from the African Highlands. You To want to complete the triumph of the colored runner on the long distances.
After 30 kilometers, the Ethiopians Mamu Wolde takes over the top. The Japanese Kenji Kimihara loses second despite all refreshments 3 minutes.
After 2 hours, 20 minutes, m Wolde meets the expectations of the Ethiopians. For the 3rd time consecutively, they are the Olympic champion. 1 1/2 hours after Mamu Wolde staggers the last this contest through the target. Just in time, to be at the award ceremony for the Ethiopians here.

Date of Release:

24.10.1968

Year of Production:

1968

Camera Work:

Brandes, Klaus

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Polygon; Ina-Pool

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German