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

Men's 10,000 metres at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 20, 1952 (final)
Competitors	33 from 21 nations
Winning time	29:17.0 OR
Medalists
Emil Zátopek   Czechoslovakia Alain Mimoun   France 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

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	29:17.0	OR
	Alain Mimoun	France	29:32.8
	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

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.