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


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.

Results

Final

RankNameNationalityTime Notes
Emil Zátopek29:17.0OR
Alain Mimoun29:32.8
Aleksandr Anufriyev29:48.2
4Hannu Posti29:51.4
5Frank Sando29:51.8
6Valter Nyström29:54.8
7Gordon Pirie30:04.2
8Fred Norris30:09.8
9Ivan Pozhidayev30:13.4
10Martin Stokken30:22.2
11Nikifor Popov30:24.2
12Bertil Albertsson30:34.6
13Bertil Karlsson30:35.8
14Béla Juhász30:39.6
15Osman Coşgül30:42.4
16Väinö Koskela30:43.0
17Ould Lamine Abdallah30:53.0
18Franjo Mihalić30:53.2
19Hugo Niskanen30:59.6
20Curt Stone31:02.6
21Fred Wilt31:04.0
22Marcel Vandewattyne31:15.8
23Raúl Inostroza31:28.6
24Thyge Thøgersen31:47.8
25Ahmed Ben Labidi31:52.2
26Kristján Jóhannsson32:00.0
27Helmuth Perz32:13.2
28Bill Keith32:32.4
29Alphonse Vandenrydt33:13.4
30Abdul Rashid33:50.4
31Luis Velásquez35:34.0
32Trần Văn Lý37:33.0
Les PerryDNF

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