OlÃmpico Universitario Stadium
UNAM Pumas ( football) Pumas UNAM Doradas ( American football)
- Summer Olympic Games 1968
- Football World Cup 1986
- Games of the UNAM Pumas
- Games of Pumas UNAM Doradas
The Estadio Olímpico Universitario is a stadium in Mexico City and has hosted the Summer Olympics in 1968. It was designed in 1952 by architect Augusto Pérez Palacios, Raúl Salinas Moro and Jorge Bravo and Jiménez at the time was the largest stadium in Mexico. The wall around the stadium built in the style of a volcanic crater stadium should be decorated by a mosaic of Diego Rivera. But this work could only be made at a fraction. The Mexican football club UNAM Pumas and the American football team Pumas Dorados UNAM play their home games at on the grounds of the National University ( UNAM, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ) located Stadium from.
Olympics 1968: leap into the 21st century
In 1968, the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City took place. For the Estadio Olímpico Universitario competitions was used with 70,500 seats. Prior to the Olympics, it had come to Mexico as well as in other countries such as Czechoslovakia and the Prague Spring so-called riots. Mexico's President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz had had brutally put down with tanks and secret police, the riots in Mexico City at the Plaza de Tlatelolco. Another movement in the sixties was the civil rights movement in which African Americans were fighting for their equality in the United States. Due to the civil rights Malcolm X was the mid 60's called the Black Power movement in life, combined with the previously existing successes of the civil rights movement under the principles of Martin Luther King a kind of widespread Afro-American nationalism. The symbol of Black Power was in the air stretched, fisted, Hand with black glove. After the two African-American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos won the race over the 200 meters with a double victory for the United States, they celebrated at the awards ceremony precisely that ritual. The International Olympic Committee presented the American Association before the decision to either withdraw the two athletes of Olympia or the entire U.S. team from all competitions indemnify, whereupon the association for former decided.
At the Olympic Games of 1968 the crew of the United States of America presented the team in the medal most represented. Second was " class enemy " Soviet Union. For the first time in the Olympic Games were in 1968 African Nations special. So Kenya presented with Kipchoge Keino, Naftali Temu and Amos Biwott three Olympic gold medalist, with Mamo Wolde Ethiopia and Tunisia with Mohamed Gammoudi each a winner of each competition. The two German states did not occur this time as in 1956 and 1964 as all-German team, but started separately. The number of gold medals for East Germany was nine greater than that of the Federal Republic of Germany with five. Another feature of the games of Mexico was the first time the presence of a running track to host the running events.
The outstanding performance of these Games was the " leap into the 21st century " by Bob Beamon, the 8.90 m setting a new world record in the long jump, which meant an improvement of the old world record by 55 cm. Due to the fact that this distance was beneficiary by the height and the lower air resistance involved and an approximate length has not been reached over the years, it was assumed that this record would last forever. It was not until Mike Powell exceeded 8.95 meters on 30 August 1991 in the long jump final battle at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo this record.
Even more sustainable for the future development of a sport was in this stadium presented to a wider public for the first time new jumping technique in the high jump: Dick Fosbury revolutionized the high jump by the created by him Fosbury Flop, which replaced the then practiced straddle - style step by step.
On the occasion of the Olympic Games, the stadium was expanded. It currently has a capacity of 63 186 seats. At the games, the opening and closing ceremony was held at the stadium. It was also the venue for athletics and football, as well as target the marathon. In 1986, the Estadio Olímpico Venue of the Football World Cup.