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

Men's 10,000 metres
at the Games of the XV Olympiad

Dates

July 20 (final)

Medalists

	Emil Zátopek Czechoslovakia
	Alain Mimoun France
	Aleksandr Anufriyev Soviet Union

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place July 20. The final was won by Czechoslovakian Emil Zátopek.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1 !	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	29:17.0	OR
2 !	Alain Mimoun	France	29:32.8
3 !	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

10,000 metres at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Men's	1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008

Women's	1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008