1976 Olympics Men's 800m Final
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- Incredible Alberto Juantorena (1:43:50) and respect to Ivo Van Damme (1:43:86)...
What a race !
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This is the first time I've watched this since 1976, thanks for sharing. Juantorena is still one of the all-time greats.
I just watched the 1972 and the 1976, and I had not noticed it before 1972 they broke lane after 100 metres in 1972, in 1976 ,it was 300 metres ,I couldn't understand why a brilliant athlete Steve ovett , the European 800m champion , could not get a strike or challenge him, because of the advantage.
Lies again? Watching My Mom Go Black
Wohlhuter ear your heart out!
Juantorema made the cover of SI by barely beating the injured Olympic favorite Kenyan Mike Boot the next year!
He broke the world record in one of his first races at 800m. Unforgettable.
Only man ever to win 400 and 800 in same Olympics. There is actually a huge difference in the training methods for the 4 and the 8. That's why this is so rare. Andale caballo!
I remember a coach once told me that if you are good at one distance then if you can learn the necessary endurance you can be better at the next distance up. I think Juantorena proved him right!
@@paulwilliams8389Top 800m are also fast 400m runners by necessity but very seldom the best in the world too.
Anyone heard of Marcello Fiasconaro, south african 400, 800m runner. Broke world record in 1973, 1 min 43 7, running for italy. His world record was broken by the Cuban. Most track followers today have never heard of Fiasconaro. He was a great athlete, a big hero in south africa and italy in those days. Roy b, CapeTown south africa 🇿🇦
He ran both distances too, 400 and 800 , like Juabtorena. And like him suffered from injuries that eventually forced him to stop running. That is why he was not here, racing against the Cuban.
@@juliomiguel6597 In SA Fiasconaro ran some 100 and 200m races as well. At club level only. I was a school kid in about 76, I was not a bad school sprinter. I read in newspaper Fiasconaro was running the 100m in a club event. Although I was still a junior, I trekked out to what was called the Bellville athletics track, a grass track, in great excitement. I was going to run against him. Lined up on the starting line, Fiasconaro was not there. He was not even at the stadium I noticed, as if he was there would have been kids following him around. He was that popular here. If you Google his name, you will find a vid of him telling his life story. He was a rugby player, only came into track when his rugby club and a athletics club merged. He was about 21 when he was discovered by the clubs track coach. That's probably one of the reasons he had many injuries, started very late. Roy b, CapeTown south africa 🇿🇦
@@roybean7166 Yeah I heard because they kept saying he was the WWHolder of the 800 at those Olympics!
@juliomiguel6597 By the way, Fiasconaro became a athlete by chance. He was a rugby player, played centre for Villagers rugby club in CapeTown. About 70 or 71, Villagers rugby merged with a local track club, Celtics Harriers. TCeltics coach was looking for some sprinters, 3 or 4 rugby players started running in our summer. End of season they went back to playing rugby. Fiasconaro remained with the track club. In his first season he had run a sub 46 sec 400. He became a big hero here. So if not for the merger, he would never have known he was a great track athlete. Amazing story, on internet , Google him, he tells his life story. Roy b , CapeTown south africa 🇿🇦
@user-kh2ig7ew3w Google Fiasconaro, there a vid on internet where he tells his life story. Amazing story of the rugby player who became a great athlete by chance. Roy b, CapeTown south africa 🇿🇦
My uncle Zygmunt Zabierzowski was Juantorena's coach
Zygmunt was my grandmothers nephew
Alberto Juantorena was a special athlete, to do that 400m and 800m Olympic games gold winning double was just incredible.
One of the all time greats and I remember Juantorena at this Olympics like it was yesterday, such is the impact he had.
We all remember, at least those of us who watch. Supremely gifted athlete.
Juantorena's 400 - 800 double was soo badass, like Michael Johnson's 200-400 and Lasse Viren's 5,000-10,000.
Don't forget zatopeks triple 5000,10,000 and the marathon!!
@@victorherrera2567 I did forget! That's maybe better. But the 400-800 double is the longest sprint and the shortest distance races. Alberto was such an elegant runner!
I thought about both of the men you mentioned. And hey, America has a lady that just might duplicate Alberto's feat in Paris. Look her up. Thanks for your comment.
@@soundking4 Man, so elegant.
@@jeffryhammel3035 I know, Athing Mu. Nearly every women's race at Tokyo this year was epic.
Thanks! Alberto was a supreme athlete. To complete the double was amazing. Why don't more folks know about this?
I know, amazing. 400/800 meters. Not just different categories, different DISCIPLINES. A sprint and a middle distance.
@@stephaniegormley9982 Back when Alberto ran, we were all track athletes. Alberto was the butt of our friendly jokes because Cuba was a Communist Country. It was just friendly ranking - socially incorrect today. But man, he had strides like no one ever saw before, and just destroyed America's proud 400 runners. I've heard that he's still around and doing good. But I wanted to mention another current fascinating 400 runner - Sydney McLaughlin. At the 2022 World's, she won the 400 hurdles by almost 2 seconds, ecplising even Jaunterina's margins of victory. Like Alberto, Syden has that classic, almost loping stride. She anchored the 4×400 women's relay team with a split just over 47! I'd like to go back and watch the Men's 400 in 1976, just to catch the wonderful Alberto's time, because a 47 is incredible. I love being a track junkie, and am hoping for Sydney to double in 2024 Paris, and maybe to see some of the sterling records of all time fall - Flo Jo, Ussien, Johnson, ect. But first I'll watch Alberto one mo time!
They were too busy trippin on Nadia Comaneche and Sugar Ray Leonard!
@@user-kh2ig7ew3w Yeah, Alberto never got his due. Americans were too busy calling him a Commie.
To understand how fast these men were, they'd have won gold at 2023 World Championships Eugene! Legends! Memorial Van Damme is named after this man! RIP.
But not in the top 50 times all time. 17 of the top 25 times belong to 3 Kenyans.
My favorite athlete ever!! He was discovered, practiced hard for several months and broke WR in 800m at his first major competition ever. Unbelievable athlete!
van damme best ever
@tonymartinis2956 Yeah, Wilson Kipketer best ever, but never a gold medal at the Olympics..
@@ricardogonzalez1894 van damm best ever
@@yourkiwimate Wilson Kipketer
@@ricardogonzalez1894 Falco - Der Kommissar my brother czcams.com/video/8-bgiiTxhzM/video.html&ab_channel=FalcoVEVO
El atleta más elegante de la Historia. ¡Qué zancada tenía este hombre!
Ivo van damme , belgium,who finished second in 800 and 1500, died one year later by car accident. Since then memorial van damme meeting in brussels.
It was actually less than 6 months later, and within 1976. Very sad.
@@billplaney2585 , yes coming back by road , south France.
Van Damme was the favorite to this course. He was just 22, too young. He could have closer rivaled Juantorena 1 or 2 years later.
I remember van Damme from the 70s. He ran in South Africa once or twice, before SA was expelled from world athletics. Many top runners ran in SA in those days. South africa had 4 of the top 800m runners in those days. Fiasconaro, Broberg, Malan, and van Zyl. Roy b Cape town, south africa 🇿🇦
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@@roybean7166 hi, what year was SA expelled from world athletics ?
African countries did not participate in Montreal OG because of an incident : a team ( or the national team ) of rugby of SA had been invited to play in Australia, for sure once the exclusion of SA from world sports was already implemented ) and Africa asked the IOC to suspend Australia from the incoming Games, which was refused. Then African countries decided not go to the Games. That is why Mike Boit, the favorite for the 800 mts did not participate. Next year, 1977, he ran against Juantorena and lost. But at that time VAn Dammed unfortunately had already passed away.
He was also an incredible 400m runner.
Impressive that a man that big could do another lap and still run away from the field. He has long legs but the stride length is just incredible. I would be taking two strides for one of his.
6'2" 185 lb.!
Great to see Alberto doing the double eating up the ground, with that incredible stride.
Digging the Wolverine head on him!
Juantorena was an awesome physical beast in his prime! What a pity injuries held him back for much of his career after this.
I always wondered. Alberto was a marvel to watch. Thanks.
In fact his injuries started in 1975, before these games, he got operated and could train only several months for this. He never recovered completely. In 1978 he went again to surgery and he was never the same afterwards
I've never seen any runner(middle distance or sprinter) with stride like Juantorena's.
Perhaps Edwin Moses. I can't think of any other
Rudisha. Bolt. Moezuss. Mu. etcetera
Juantorena: o cavalo !! Viva Cuba !! Saudações brasileiras ao grande povo cubano.
Cuba really needed this. Thanks for your comment.
Wonderful love this race
I do remember watching this race on TV outstanding x x 👏 👌
Fun fact: he broke the world record of Italian / South African Marcello Fiasconaro, who coached me once, and, like Juantorena , also a 400m runner who preferred running positive splits
I am grateful to you for mentioning Marcello Fiasconaro, a great and versatile athlete. It is strange that his 800 m Italian record is still unbroken (1:43.7)
And a great run from the up-and-coming but ill-fated Belgian Ivo Van Damm.
Rick Wohlhuter was a bit disappointing here and might have won the silver if he hadn't tried to overtake Juantorena on the back straight. He seemed to run out of energy when he was passed by Van Damme and then seemed to slow down after that in disappointment. In a race in which the World Record was broken he didn't even equal his own personal best.
Trying to catch Juantorena in his prime must've felt like chasing the wind.
Хуанторена , в 1976 году, совершил нечто уникальное, не только победил на дистанциях 400м и 800м, что ни до него, не после него, не удавалось никому, но и установил два мировых рекорда 800м 143.50 и 400м 44.26(для равнинных стадионов)
Это называется писать историю!
And we all loved this voice over commentator from those days. Such a classic voice.
The stride on these athletes is amazing.
They didn't call Juantorena "El Caballo" (Spanish for "Horse") for nothing. Wolhuter also had a beautiful stride. He glided like a gazelle around the track.
Such fluid actions too.
Each stride was a massive 2.40 m (7.8 ft). It always blew my mind as a kid. I met him at the Rio 2016 Olympics and we talked about this.
Never seen an 800m runner with such a huge stride pattern.
Sorry if it’s been said before but he was athlete who made David Coleman ( best sports commentator who ever lived) produce his classic comment
“ Juantorena came to the crown of the bend, opened his legs & showed his class “
Alberto Juantoreno.and..watching Bruce Jenner's 10 decathlon events is also 1976 impressive!
True. And now Bruce Jenner doesn't exist. He is now his sister.
Que elegancia al correr , por algo le llamaron ‘ el caballo ‘
They used to say add 60 seconds to your best 440 time....
Que zancada más característica la de Juantorena, larga, flotante, fluida y poderosa como la de un caballo purasangre.
Nacido para correr...
Remember sitting watching this ...spectacular.............Ivo Van damm and Ovett in there as well....
Tremendous performance by Ivo Van Damme in this race! If he had not left us too soon, he could have made us watch very special races that went down in the history of athletics. A true unsung hero!
@@alpsargn1713 Yes. Tragically killed in a car crash (like Prefontaine) in December 1976. Prefontaine died in May 1975.
El Caballo - such a powerful runner!!
I would like to say that my uncle Zygmunt Zabierzowski from Poland was Juantorena's coach. He was my grandmother's hephew Grandma sister son
Hello, thank you very much for mentioning your uncle Mr. Zabierzowski. On this occasion, I had the opportunity to learn about his belief in Juantorena and his strategy for this legendary 800 meters race. Juantorena completed the first lap at an unexpectedly high pace of 50.5 seconds and Ivo Van Damme and Rick Wolhutter, worn out by the speed, finished the race behind Juantorena. I pay tribute to Zygmunt Zabierzowski, the Polish athlete, sprinter, and coach who contributed so much to Alberto Juantorena's achievements.
@@alpsargn1713 Zygmunt have good coach pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Petkiewicz and after that he could used trening methods when he worked with Juantorena. Zygmunt took Polish champion on 400 m before the war in August 1939
“He opens his legs and shows his class”
A classic Colemanball.
Remember the classic line from David Coleman commentating a Juantorena race, "and Juantorena opens his legs and shows his class"...........Brilliant slip of the tongue.
Splendid :) Leaving aside slips of tongue, maybe it was the voices of the commentators that made us love athletics when we were kids.
Incorrectly ascribed to Coleman.
It was actually Ron Pickering who said it.
@@graemestarkey7524 A brilliant line whom ever it was.
Grande entre los grandes. Elegante y poderoso.
That dude just flies, Juantorena.
after the win he said, glory belongs to the revolution
Excellent! The Best Runner for the 800 meters ever! 1:43.5 can you imagine if he at 500 meters or look at 1:02 at this video again, was not cut off for 3 seconds more than sure the time would have been 1:40.5.
Really? Google David Rudisha who won in 2012 and 2016, still holds the world record at 3 seconds faster than Juantorena’s best.
He was the star of the olympics
We thought we had just seen the new paradigm of an 800m runner. Someone who treated the race as an extended sprint.
If I was that Indian runner , I would have a plaque on my wall that said , I was once beating the great Alberto Juantorino ..
Y'know what's funny is Singh from India went ahead and ran the Marathon after that since he didn't medal in the that race.
And the young Steve ovett already there in the final !!!
Indeed! He finished the race fifth with 1: 45.44
Looked like a man running against boys with that fabulous stride and high turnover. El caballo.
The outside lanes ,had no chance unless they ran a crazy 300 m first lap , Steve ovett was 5th he finished so fast. Whoever changed the break of from the l 100 m to make it to a 300 m completely ruined this Olympic 800 m. I doubt the Cuba would of front runed if he had ovett next to him .Coe tired the same tactics in the European 800,m ovett just sat there and kicked past him but he didn't expect Bauer to be just behind him and lost
El elegante de las pista un extra clase.
Juantorena el mejor en su tiempo.
The great name of the 76 Olympics. Interesting that he got a very bad start in the 400m.
he was awarded a gold metal and a new fangled 12 in color tv when he got back in cuba.
Interesting that the ran the first 300m in lanes in those days.
This convention had the effect of increasing speed and cutting down on bumping and elbowing when the runners moved across into the inside lane. However, it was eventually abolished because fans did not like it and officials thought being in the outside lanes would be a disadvantage.
Cuban athlete cleared 8 feet in the high jump in 1973.
No, broad jump. New Cuban record.
What an athlete! Imagine trying to keep up with Alberto Juantorena with that incredible ten-foot stride of his. No chance!
MsG
Indeed! He still looks fit at 71.
@@alpsargn1713 Thanks. I'm very happy to read this. Alberto was many of our favorites. Glad to know he's doing well.
Best thing about "El Caballo" was he actually
Raced his competition...unlike David Rushida.
Junterterana could fly!
Juantoreno .."Der Stimmt Dinge"...
I never knew that Steven Hawking was a race announcer.
The excitement, the exclamations, the thrilling play-by-play had me screaming!
I miss this voice from the seventies
I remember it well.
those in the stands seeing this WR, also saw a world record in the men's 400m hurdles, set by Edwin Moses, USA. Which event was first on the track that day- men's 400 hurdles or men's 800m? I was there, I saw them both, they were back to back, but can't remember in which order they appeared.
July 25,1976... According to the official program: 17h15 - Men's 800 m final & 17h30 - Men's 400 m hurdles. You remember perfectly, they were back to back races.
@@alpsargn1713 Thanks for your consideration and understanding of my request. :-)
I was there, too, but I didn't recall they were back-to-back until you mentioned it. What a fun day of track watching. Our family saw 4 days of track, 1 day of basketball, and watched the end of the marathon from underneath the overpass just outside the stadium while it rained.
So glad to see these comments. I couldn't make it to the Olympics this time. But we were pulling for both Edwin and Alberto.
With American Mike Shine getting the Silver behind Moses prompting O.J. Simpson doing the commentary on the entire Track competition to say "he's not even supposed to be here!!!"
About Mike Shine.
NICE TO WATCH IT
The horse juantorena the Best
This could have been one of the races of the century if Kenya's Mike Boit had been running. Their IAAF World Cup 800m in 1977 gave a glimpse of what might have been.
I do not like boycotts in sports! If Boit had raced as you said, we would have watched a great tactical battle.
Santo de la gloria
inmortalizado en la historia!
I wonder how many 400m runners can run 800m?
My wife has been murdered but I will continue speaking in this monotone voice.
Never forgot the classic line from David Coleman the BBC athletics commentator ‘Juantorana opens his legs and shows the World what he’s got’. Everyone in Britain laughed at the double meaning
That was probably why he was called "the horse".
Yeah I was still 15, and you couldn't miss that bulge that guy had. @@Steffne2743
Any 400 runner is unlikely to double. Juantorena and Michael Johnson are unique. The one on the one hand, and the other on the other, right?
el caballo🇨🇺
Dios mio mi deporte fa
Vorito
Tainted! 76-84 were boycotted by a lot of countries
No one who boycotted would have beaten Juantorena in that race. Mike Boit may have got a medal but he wouldn't have won against the Cuban in that form.
I really liked the 2 turn stagger for 800m.
I was thinking the same thing. We never got to run it in my lifetime. Wonder why they got rid of it.
WHITE LIGHTNING HE WAS KNOWN AS
great
Amazing runner! And was that a young Steve Ovett in the race?
Yeah, Steve Ovett finished fifth in the race.👍
The dude ran 1:43 wearing tube socks !
We all ran in tube socks then.
@@billplaney2585 I know , so did I. I was trying to make a humorous comment about them . Tube socks were terrible compared to the socks runners have now not to mention the shoes and clothing they have now . I had many blisters and lost toenails because of them .
Este atleta no es pariente de osmany juantorena ?jugador de voleibol de Cuba
The Horse
1972 Olympic 400 meters
Nadia ❤❤❤❤
No African athletes at the 1976 Olympics - boycott protesting New Zealand playing rugby against South Africa. Buy Juantorena most likely would have won anyway.
Yikes...would take a horse 🐎to run down "El Caballo" in the final 50 meters!
He was blessed with speed and endurance, "El Caballo" the perfect nickname!
Steve Ovett was in this race
He was and Juantorena, like all the Cubans - and East Germans and Russians - was almost certainly doped-up to the eyeballs.
Rick could have gotten Silver had he not gone for the Gold.
Absolutely right, his attempt to overtake Juantorena on the back straight cost him.
He wasn't there to get second.
Dude make that 800m look like a 400
El Cabelo
El cavaglio...
Where's a video of the women's final?
czcams.com/video/dU_8W1Mte9g/video.html
soul this skinny american went fast on the invincible
Incredible Alberto Juantorena and lost the silver
And that was pretty much all that the Cuban did, yes a great Olympics in 76 and didn’t a major race ever again. After this he was forever in the shadow of Sebastion Coe, Ovett and a long list of American 400 m runners
He did win the 400 and 800m at the IAAF World Cup in 1977.
He had a lot of problems with injuries after these games - had problems with his back and had to have corrective surgery in 1977 and wasn't quite the same athlete afterwards.
Coe & Ovett were flamers!
Was the Canadian Paul Craig in that final?
Paul Craig competed in the 1500 metres at the 1976 Olympics. He was eliminated in the 2nd semi-final race.
@@alpsargn1713 Thank you for the info. Paul was my colleague (teacher in high school). Not only a strong athlete, but also a great guy.
Pointfare Mr Burns
When white guys used to win...
이 대회에는 케냐선수가 없구나 ㅋ
But dead will not be there
These guys were lucky Kenya missed both 1976 & 1980 Olympics...
van damme beat everyone, greatest ever
No one who boycotted could have beaten Juantorena in this form. Mike Boit could have given him a race but wouldn't have beaten him for the gold medal.
@@paulwilliams8389 We will never know about that,..but Kenya has been a powerhouse in middle & long distance running since the 60's. The Kenyans must have been planning & strategizing on how to win the 800m among other races...
Juantorena beat Mike Boot the next year. It was on the cover of SI as "Juantorena beats Boot!"
Boit
VV. C. B. A
HE CAME IN WAY T00 FAST ...1st straight