Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres


The men's 5000 metres long distance event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 2.

Results

Heats

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Hans Grodotzki14:01.29
2Luigi Conti14:01.55
3Nyandika Maiyoro14:06.29
4Yury Zakharov14:10.41
5Reijo Höykinpuro14:21.92
6Hedwig Leenaert14:25.81
7Frank Salvat14:33.64
8Gebru Merawi14:41.22
9Jim Beatty14:44.40
10Michael Hoey15:00.52
11Kassim Mukhtar15:00.97
-José AceitunoDNF
-Béla SzekeresDNF

Heat two
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Horst Flosbach14:09.25
2Sándor Iharos14:09.38
3Aleksandr Artynyuk14:09.92
4Allan Lawrence14:10.71
5Hamoud Ameur14:14.17
6Manuel de Oliveira14:16.14
7Doug Kyle14:25.36
8Marian Jochman14:31.29
9José Molíns14:31.30
10Mohamed Saïd14:53.6
11Ranjit Bhatia15:06.6

Heat three
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Friedrich Janke14:02.58
2Michel Bernard14:04.82
3Albie Thomas14:06.27
4Bill Dellinger14:08.72
5Boris Yefimov14:14.68
6Simo Saloranta14:15.35
7Jaroslav Bohatý14:30.34
8Gordon Pirie14:43.6
9Khristos Khiotis15:01.2
10Cyprian Tseriwa15:02.8
11Somnuek Srisombati15:32.6

Heat four
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Dave Power14:03.31
2Murray Halberg14:04.28
3Kazimierz Zimny14:07.75
4Bruce Tulloh14:17.30
5Miroslav Jurek14:31.53
6Eugène Allonsius14:37.20
7Bob Soth14:40.85
8Miklós Szabó14:51.99
9Andrei Barabaș15:11.2
10Muharrem Dalkılıç15:13.6
11Jean Aniset15:17.0
12Mubarak Shah15:43.0
13George De Peana15:54.2

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Murray Halberg13:43.76
Hans Grodotzki13:45.01
Kazimierz Zimny13:45.09
4Friedrich Janke13:47.14
5Dave Power13:52.38
6Nyandika Maiyoro13:53.25
7Michel Bernard14:04.68
8Horst Flosbach14:07.03
9Aleksandr Artynyuk14:08.45
10Sándor Iharos14:11.91
11Albie Thomas14:20.88
12Luigi Conti14:34.45

Key: DNF = did not finish