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

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1952 Olympic Games
1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

took place July 20. The final was won by Czechoslovakian Emil Zátopek.

Final

Rank	Name	Time (hand)	Notes
	Emil Zátopek Emil Zátopek Emil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final medal came when he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life...	29:17.0	OR
	Alain Mimoun Alain Mimoun Alain Mimoun is a retired French runner and Olympic marathon champion.-Early life:Born in El Telagh, then in French Algeria, Mimoun lost several years of competition to World War II...	29:32.8
	Aleksandr Anufriyev Aleksandr Anufriyev Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Anufriyev was a Soviet athlete who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was born in village Diyur, Izhemsky District, Komi ASSR....	29:48.2
4	Hannu Posti	29:51.4
5	Frank Sando Frank Sando Frank Dennis Sando is a retired British World Cross-Country Champion. Regarded as one of Britain's most accomplished athletes, Frank was a dominant force throughout the 1950s, winning the International Cross-Country Championship in 1955 and 1957, and representing Great Britain in two consecutive...	29:51.8
6	Valter Nyström Valter Nyström Valter Erik Nyström was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Competing out of Sandvikens Gymnastikklubb, he finished sixth out of thirty-three participants in the men's 10,000 metres event...	29:54.8
7	Gordon Pirie Gordon Pirie Douglas Alistair Gordon Pirie was an English long-distance runner and orienteerer.He was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England and died of stomach cancer in Lymington, Hampshire....	30:04.2
8	Fred Norris	30:09.8
9	Ivan Pozhidayev	30:13.4
10	Martin Stokken Martin Stokken Martin Stokken was a Norwegian cross-country skier and athlete who competed in the 1950s. He was born in Snillfjord and represented Selsbakk IF in Trondheim....	30:22.2
11	Nikifor Popov	30:24.2
12	Bertil Albertsson Bertil Albertsson Bertil Ebbe Gustaf Albertsson was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 10,000 metres.He competed for Sweden in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 10,000 metres where he won the Bronze medal....	30:34.6
13	Bertil Karlsson Bertil Karlsson Karl Bertil Karlsson is a Swedish athlete who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He finished 13th in the men's 10,000 metres event and was eliminated in the heats of the men's 5000 metres. He was born in Uppsala and competed out of IF Linnéa...	30:35.8
14	Béla Juhász	30:39.6
15	Osman Coşgül	30:42.4
16	Väinö Koskela	30:43.0
17	Ould Lamine Abdallah	30:53.0
18	Franjo Mihalić Franjo Mihalic Franjo Mihalić is a long-distance runner best known for his 1958 win at the Boston Marathon and his marathon silver medal in the 1956 Summer Olympics...	30:53.2
19	Hugo Niskanen	30:59.6
20	Curt Stone Curt Stone Curtis Charles Stone is a retired long-distance runner from the United States...	31:02.6
21	Fred Wilt Fred Wilt Fred Wilt was an American athlete. He won the James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the US in 1950. He was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1981....	31:04.0
22	Marcel Vandewattyne	31:15.8
23	Raúl Inostroza	31:28.6
24	Thyge Thøgersen	31:47.8
25	Ahmed Ben Labidi	31:52.2
26	Kristján Jóhannsson	32:00.0
27	Helmuth Perz	32:13.2
28	Bill Keith	32:32.4
29	Alphonse Vandenrydt	33:13.4
30	Abdul Rashid	33:50.4
31	Luis Velásquez	35:34.0
32	Trần Văn Lý	37:33.0
	Les Perry		DNF

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

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