User:Gamer9678/1920 athletics draft
| Men's 5000 metres at the Games of the VII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympisch Stadion | ||||||||||||
| Dates | August 16 (round 1) August 17 (final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 38 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 14:55.6 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics | |
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| Track events | |
| 100 m | men |
| 200 m | men |
| 400 m | men |
| 800 m | men |
| 1500 m | men |
| 5000 m | men |
| 10,000 m | men |
| 110 m hurdles | men |
| 400 m hurdles | men |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men |
| 4 × 100 m relay | men |
| 4 × 400 m relay | men |
| 3000 m team race | men |
| 3 km walk | men |
| 10 km walk | men |
| Road events | |
| Marathon | men |
| Field events | |
| Long jump | men |
| Triple jump | men |
| High jump | men |
| Pole vault | men |
| Shot put | men |
| Discus throw | men |
| Hammer throw | men |
| Javelin throw | men |
| 56 lb weight throw | men |
| Combined events | |
| Pentathlon | men |
| Decathlon | men |
| Cross-country events | |
| Individual | men |
| Team | men |
The men's 5000 metres event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Monday, August 16, 1920, and on Tuesday, August 17, 1920. Thirty-eight runners from 16 nations competed.[1]
Competition format
[edit]The competition consisted of two rounds. First four semifinals were held of 9 to 10 runners with the top four in each heat advancing. The final race was then held the next day with 16 competitors.[2]
Records
[edit]These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1920 Summer Olympics.[3]
| World Record | 14:36.6 |  Hannes Kolehmainen (FIN)
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Stockholm (SWE) | July 10, 1912 |
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| Olympic Record | 14:36.6 |  Hannes Kolehmainen (FIN)
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Stockholm (SWE) | July 10, 1912 |
Schedule
[edit]| Date | Time | Round |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, 16 August 1920 | 10:00 | Round 1 |
| Tuesday, 17 August 1920 | 15:15 | Final |
Results
[edit]Times were generally only published for the winners of each heat. Some of the times listed below are estimates based on contemporary reports of the races.[4]
Round 1
[edit]Heat 1
[edit]| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rudolf Falk |  Sweden |
15:17.8 | Q |
| 2 | Herbert Irwin |  Great Britain |
15:17.8 | Q |
| 3 | Teodor Koskenniemi |  Finland |
15:22.0 | Q |
| 4 | Clifford Furnas |  United States |
15:23.0 | Q |
| 5 | Augusto Maccario |  Italy |
15:23.2 | |
| 6 | Alfred Gaschen |  Switzerland |
15:38.0 | |
| 7 | Jean-Baptiste Manhès |  France |
16:17.8 | |
| — | Tommy Town |  Canada |
DNF | |
| — | Panagiotis Retelas |  Greece |
DNF | |
| — | Pierre Trullemans |  Belgium |
DNF |
Heat 2
[edit]| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joe Blewitt | Great Britain |
15:19.8 | Q |
| 2 | Julien Van Campenhout | Belgium |
15:22.6 | Q |
| 3 | Hal Brown | United States |
15:31.8 | Q |
| 4 | Nils Bergström | Sweden |
15:39.2 | Q |
| 5 | Lucien Duquesne | France |
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| 6 | Juan Muguerza |  Spain |
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| 7 | Konosuke Sano |  Japan |
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| — | Teodoro Pons | Spain |
DNF | |
| — | Carlo Martinenghi | Italy |
DNF | |
| — | Artur Nielsen |  Denmark |
DNF | |
| — | Heikki Liimatainen | Finland |
DNS |
Heat 3
[edit]| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carlo Speroni | Italy |
15:27.6 | Q |
| 2 | Paavo Nurmi | Finland |
15:33.0 | Q |
| 3 | William Seagrove | Great Britain |
15:53.6 | Q |
| 4 | Emanuel Lundström | Sweden |
16:04.2 | Q |
| 5 | Charles Hunter | United States |
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| 6 | Alexandros Kranis | Greece |
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| 7 | François Vyncke | Belgium |
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| 8 | Karel Pacák |  Czechoslovakia |
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| 9 | Abdul Ali Maghoub |  Egypt |
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| — | Gaston Heuet | France |
DNS | |
| — | Jüri Lossman |  Estonia |
DNS | |
| — | Saburo Hasumi | Japan |
DNS |
Heat 4
[edit]| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Guillemot | France |
15:33.0 | Q |
| 2 | Eric Backman | Sweden |
15:34.0 | Q |
| 3 | Ivan Dresser | United States |
15:41.6 | Q |
| 4 | Alfred Nichols | Great Britain |
15:54.0 | Q |
| 5 | Ilmari Vesamaa | Finland |
15:54.4 | |
| 6 | Tomeichi Ohura | Japan |
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| 7 | Jón Jónsen | Denmark |
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| 8 | Henri Smets | Belgium |
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| 9 | Gerardus van der Wel |  Netherlands |
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| — | Eddie Lawrence | Canada |
DNS | |
| — | Constantino Lussana | Italy |
DNS |
Final
[edit]| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
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Joseph Guillemot | France |
14:55.6 |
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Paavo Nurmi | Finland |
15:00.0 |
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Eric Backman | Sweden |
15:13.0 |
| 4 | Teodor Koskenniemi | Finland |
15:17.0 |
| 5 | Joe Blewitt | Great Britain |
15:19.0 |
| 6 | William Seagrove | Great Britain |
15:21.0 |
| 7 | Carlo Speroni | Italy |
15:21.2 |
| 8 | Alfred Nichols | Great Britain |
15:24.0 |
| 9 | Julien Van Campenhout | Belgium |
15:25.0 |
| 10 | Nils Bergström | Sweden |
15:29.5 |
| 11 | Rudolf Falk | Sweden |
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| 12 | Herbert Irwin | Great Britain |
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| 13 | Emanuel Lundström | Sweden |
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| — | Clifford Furnas | United States |
DNF |
| — | Hal Brown | United States |
DNF |
| — | Ivan Dresser | United States |
DNF |
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletics at the 1920 Antwerp Games: Men's 5000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
- ^ "5000 metres, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "World Record Progression of 5000 Metres". World Athletics. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
Further reading
[edit]- Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French).
- Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 12 August 2007.