Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 31, 1928 (semifinals) August 3, 1928 (final)
Competitors	38 from 19 nations
Winning time	14:38.0
Medalists
Ville Ritola   Finland Paavo Nurmi   Finland Edvin Wide   Sweden
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The men's 5000 metres event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Tuesday, July 31, 1928, and Friday, August 3, 1928. Thirty-eight long-distance runners from 19 nations competed. ^[1]

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record	14:28.2	Paavo Nurmi	Helsinki (FIN)	June 19, 1924
Olympic Record	14:31.2	Paavo Nurmi	Paris (FRA)	July 10, 1924

Results

Semifinals

All semifinals were held on Tuesday, July 31, 1928, and started at 5:10 p.m.

The best four finishers of every heat qualified for the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Leo Lermond	United States	15:02.6	Q
2	Staņislavs Petkēvičs	Latvia	15:03.0	Q
3	Eino Purje	Finland	15:03.6	Q
4	Ragnar Magnusson	Sweden	15:03.8	Q
5	Wally Beavers	Great Britain
6	Carl Petersen	Denmark	15:13.0
7	Frederick Light	Great Britain
8	Lucien Duquesne	France
9	Seghir Beddari	France
—	Ciro Chapa	Mexico	DNF
	Charles Haworth	United States
	Karel Nedobitý	Czechoslovakia
	Billy Kibblewhite	Canada
	Nol Wolf	Netherlands
	Julien Serwy	Belgium

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Nils Eklöf	Sweden	15:07.4	Q
2	Ville Ritola	Finland	15:10.8	Q
3	Armas Kinnunen	Finland	15:10.8	Q
4	Brian Oddie	Great Britain	15:16.0	Q
5	Jesús Oyarbide	Spain	15:22.0
6	Roger Pelé	France
7	Willi Boltze	Germany	15:33.0
8	Jozef Koščak	Czechoslovakia	15:42.0
9	Andreas Paouris	Greece
10	Julius Petraitis	Lithuania
11	David Abbott	United States
—	Art Keay	Canada	DNF
	George Hyde	Australia
	Pieter Gerbrands	Netherlands

Semifinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Macauley Smith	United States	15:04.0	Q
2	Edvin Wide	Sweden	15:05.0	Q
3	Herbert Johnston	Great Britain	15:06.3	Q
4	Paavo Nurmi	Finland	15:08.0	Q
5	Otto Kohn	Germany
6	Arie Klaase	Netherlands
7	Arturo Peña	Spain	15:45.0
8	Vincent Callard	Canada
—	Gurbachan Singh	India	DNF

Final

The final was held on Friday, August 3, 1928, and started at 2:30 p.m.

The same three runners finished on the podium as four years earlier in the 5000 metre event at the 1924 Games. But this time Ritola won the gold medal and Nurmi silver, Wide won the bronze medal again.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Ville Ritola	Finland	14:38.0
	Paavo Nurmi	Finland	14:40.0
	Edvin Wide	Sweden	14:41.2
4	Leo Lermond	United States	14:50.0
5	Ragnar Magnusson	Sweden	14:59.6
6	Armas Kinnunen	Finland	15:02.0
7	Staņislavs Petkēvičs	Latvia
8	Herbert Johnston	Great Britain
9	Brian Oddie	Great Britain
10	Macauley Smith	United States
—	Nils Eklöf	Sweden	DNF
	Eino Purje	Finland

References

1. "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Games: Men's 5000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2017.

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2009.