Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
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
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
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 10,000 metres event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Sunday, July 29, 1928. Twenty-four long-distance runners from twelve nations competed.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Paavo Nurmi  Finland	Ville Ritola  Finland	Edvin Wide  Sweden

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record	30:06.2	Paavo Nurmi	Kuopio (FIN)	August 31, 1924
Olympic Record	30:23.2	Ville Ritola	Paris (FRA)	July 6, 1924

Paavo Nurmi set a new Olympic record with 30:18.8 minutes.

Results

Only a final race was held.

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Paavo Nurmi (FIN)	30:18.8 OR
2	Ville Ritola (FIN)	30:19.4
3	Edvin Wide (SWE)	31:00.8
4	Jean-Gunnar Lindgren (SWE)	31:26.0
5	Arthur Muggridge (GBR)	31:31.8
6	Ragnar Magnusson (SWE)	31:37.2
7	Toivo Loukola (FIN)	31:39.0
8	Kalle Matilainen (FIN)	31:45.0
9	Wally Beavers (GBR)	31:48.0
10	Suttie Smith (GBR)	31:50.0
11	Robert Marchal (FRA)
12	George Constable (GBR)
13	Arturo Peña (ESP)	32:21.8
14	Joie Ray (USA)
15	Staņislavs Petkēvičs (LAT)
16	Seghir Beddari (FRA)
17	Karel Nedobitý (TCH)
18	Julien Serwy (BEL)
19	Juichi Nagatani (JPN)
20	Danie Jacobs (RSA)
—	Henri Lauvaux (FRA)	DNF
	Macauley Smith (USA)	DNF
	John Romig (USA)	DNF
	Chavan Singh (IND)	DNF

References

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.