Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres
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| Men's 5000 metres at the Games of the XI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany | |||||||||
| Dates | August 4, 1936 (heats) August 7, 1936 (final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 41 from 23 nations | |||||||||
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The men's 5000 metres event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place August 4 and August 7. The final was won by Finn Gunnar Höckert in Olympic record time.[1]
Results
Heats
The fastest five runners in each of the three heats advanced to the final round. Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Umberto Cerati |  Italy |
15:01.0 | |
| 2 | Harry Siefert |  Denmark |
15:02.8 | |
| 3 | Don Lash |  United States |
15:04.4 | |
| 4 | Ilmari Salminen |  Finland |
15:06.6 | |
| 5 | Aubrey Reeve |  Great Britain |
15:06.8 | |
| 6 | Åke Jansson |  Sweden |
15:10.0 | |
| 7 | Raymond Lefebvre |  France |
15:15.4 | |
| 8 | Edmund Stadler |  Germany |
15:17.0 | |
| 9 | István Simon |  Hungary |
15:25.0 | |
| 10 | Scotty Rankine |  Canada |
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| 11 | Friedrich Fischer |  Austria |
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| 12 | Ivan Krevs |  Yugoslavia |
15:40.0 | |
| 13 | Mohamed Ahmed Abu Sobea |  Egypt |
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| 14 | Gottfried Utiger |  Switzerland |
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| 15 | Raunaq Singh Gill |  India |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Gunnar Höckert | Finland |
15:10.2 | |
| 2 | Frank Close | Great Britain |
15:10.6 | |
| 3 | Józef Noji |  Poland |
15:11.2 | |
| 4 | Bror Hellström | Sweden |
15:12.0 | |
| 5 | Rolf Hansen |  Norway |
15:12.6 | |
| 6 | René Lécuron | France |
15:14.2 | |
| 7 | Henry Nielsen | Denmark |
15:25.0 | |
| 8 | Karl-Heinz Becker | Germany |
15:27.0 | |
| 9 | Tom Deckard | United States |
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| 10 | János Kelen | Hungary |
15:35.0 | |
| 11 | Hideo Tanaka |  Japan |
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| 12 | Oscar Van Rumst |  Belgium |
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| 13 | Valentín González |  Mexico |
Heat three
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Henry Jonsson | Sweden |
14:54.0 | |
| 2 | Kohei Murakoso | Japan |
14:56.6 | |
| 3 | Peter Ward | Great Britain |
14:59.0 | |
| 4 | Lauri Lehtinen | Finland |
15:00.0 | |
| 5 | Louis Zamperini | United States |
15:02.2 | |
| 6 | Salvatore Mastroieni | Italy |
15:02.2 | |
| 7 | Roger Rochard | France |
15:12.2 | |
| 8 | Cecil Matthews |  New Zealand |
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| 9 | Jenő Szilágyi | Hungary |
15:20.6 | |
| 10 | Max Syring | Germany |
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| 11 | Milton Wallace | Canada |
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| 12 | Hernando Navarrete |  Colombia |
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| 13 | Michel Medinger Sr. |  Luxembourg |
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Gunnar Höckert | Finland |
14:22.2 | OR |
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Lauri Lehtinen | Finland |
14:25.8 | |
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Henry Jonsson | Sweden |
14:29.0 | |
| 4 | Kohei Murakoso | Japan |
14:30.0 | |
| 5 | Józef Noji | Poland |
14:33.4 | |
| 6 | Ilmari Salminen | Finland |
14:39.8 | |
| 7 | Umberto Cerati | Italy |
14:44.4 | |
| 8 | Louis Zamperini | United States |
14:46.8 | |
| 9 | Rolf Hansen | Norway |
14:48.0 | |
| 10 | Harry Siefert | Denmark |
14:48.4 | |
| 11 | Peter Ward | Great Britain |
14:57.2 | |
| 12 | Frank Close | Great Britain |
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| 13 | Don Lash | United States |
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| 14 | Bror Hellström | Sweden |
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| Aubrey Reeve | Great Britain |
DNF |
Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record
References
- ↑ "Athletics at the 1936 Berlin Games: Men's 5000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
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