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Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

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Men's 10,000 metres
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
DatesJuly 20 (final)
Competitors33 from 21 nations
Winning time29:17.0 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Emil Zátopek
 Czechoslovakia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alain Mimoun
 France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Aleksandr Anufriyev
 Soviet Union
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The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place July 20. The final was won by Emil Zátopek of Czechoslovakia.[1] The winning margin was 15.8 seconds.

Results

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Final

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Rank Name Nationality Time (hand) Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia 29:17.0 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alain Mimoun  France 29:32.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Aleksandr Anufriyev  Soviet Union 29:48.2
4 Hannu Posti  Finland 29:51.4
5 Frank Sando  Great Britain 29:51.8
6 Valter Nyström  Sweden 29:54.8
7 Gordon Pirie  Great Britain 30:04.2
8 Fred Norris  Great Britain 30:09.8
9 Ivan Pozhidayev  Soviet Union 30:13.4
10 Martin Stokken  Norway 30:22.2
11 Nikifor Popov  Soviet Union 30:24.2
12 Bertil Albertsson  Sweden 30:34.6
13 Bertil Karlsson  Sweden 30:35.8
14 Béla Juhász  Hungary 30:39.6
15 Osman Coşgül  Turkey 30:42.4
16 Väinö Koskela  Finland 30:43.0
17 Ould Lamine Abdallah  France 30:53.0
18 Franjo Mihalić  Yugoslavia 30:53.2
19 Hugo Niskanen  Finland 30:59.6
20 Curt Stone  United States 31:02.6
21 Fred Wilt  United States 31:04.0
22 Marcel Vandewattyne  Belgium 31:15.8
23 Raúl Inostroza  Chile 31:28.6
24 Thyge Thøgersen  Denmark 31:47.8
25 Ahmed Ben Labidi  France 31:52.2
26 Kristján Jóhannsson  Iceland 32:00.0
27 Helmuth Perz  Austria 32:13.2
28 Bill Keith  South Africa 32:32.4
29 Alphonse Vandenrydt  Belgium 33:13.4
30 Abdul Rashid  Pakistan 33:50.4
31 Luis Velásquez  Guatemala 35:34.0
32 Trần Văn Lý  Vietnam 37:33.0
Les Perry  Australia DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1952 Helsinki Games: Men's 10,000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2017.