Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
VenueOlympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
DatesAugust 4 (heats)
August 7 (final)
Competitors41 from 23 nations
Medalists
 
 
 
Athletics at the
1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men
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 steeple men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men
Road events
Marathon men
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Decathlon men

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.

Results

Heats

The fastest five runners in each of the three heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Umberto Cerati Italy 15:01.0
2 Harry Siefert Denmark 15:02.8
3 Don Lash United States 15:04.4
4Ilmari Salminen Finland 15:06.6
5Aubrey Reeve Great Britain 15:06.8
6Åke Jansson Sweden 15:10.0
7Raymond Lefebvre France 15:15.4
8Edmund Stadler Germany 15:17.0
9István Simon Hungary 15:25.0
10Scotty Rankine Canada
11Friedrich Fischer Austria
12Ivan Krevs Yugoslavia 15:40.0
13Mohamed Ahmed Abu Sobea Egypt
14Gottfried Utiger Switzerland
15Raunaq Singh Gill India

Heat two

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Gunnar Höckert Finland 15:10.2
2 Frank Close Great Britain 15:10.6
3 Józef Noji Poland 15:11.2
4Bror Hellström Sweden 15:12.0
5Rolf Hansen Norway 15:12.6
6René Lécuron France 15:14.2
7Henry Nielsen Denmark 15:25.0
8Karl-Heinz Becker Germany 15:27.0
9Tom Deckard United States
10János Kelen Hungary 15:35.0
11Hideo Tanaka Japan
12Oscar Van Rumst Belgium
13Valentín González Mexico

Heat three

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Henry Jonsson Sweden 14:54.0
2 Kohei Murakoso Japan 14:56.6
3 Peter Ward Great Britain 14:59.0
4Lauri Lehtinen Finland 15:00.0
5Louis Zamperini United States 15:02.2
6Salvatore Mastroieni Italy 15:02.2
7Roger Rochard France 15:12.2
8Cecil Matthews New Zealand
9Jenő Szilágyi Hungary 15:20.6
10Max Syring Germany
11Milton Wallace Canada
12Hernando Navarrete Colombia
13Michel Medinger, Sr. Luxembourg

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Gunnar Höckert Finland 14:22.2 OR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Lauri Lehtinen Finland 14:25.8
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 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
13 Don Lash United States
14 Bror Hellström Sweden
Aubrey Reeve Great Britain DNF

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

References

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