Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

Men's marathon at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
Dates	July 27
Competitors	66 from 32 nations
Winning time	2:23:03.2
Medalists
Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia Reinaldo Gorno  Argentina Gustaf Jansson  Sweden

The marathon at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July on a course running from the Helsinki Olympic Stadium to Korso, Vantaa and back.^[1] The full length of the road was hard-surfaced.^[2]

Official Video

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

Results

Rank	Athlete	Country	Result
	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	2:23:03.2
	Reinaldo Gorno	Argentina	2:25:35.0
	Gustaf Jansson	Sweden	2:26:07.0
4	Choi Yun-Chil	South Korea	2:26:36.0
5	Veikko Karvonen	Finland	2:26:41.8
6	Delfo Cabrera	Argentina	2:26:42.4
7	József Dobronyi	Hungary	2:28:04.8
8	Erkki Puolakka	Finland	2:29:35.0
9	Geoffrey Iden	Great Britain	2:30:42.0
10	Wally Hayward	South Africa	2:31:50.2
11	Syd Luyt	South Africa	2:32:41.0
12	Gustaf Östling	Sweden	2:32:48.4
13	Victor Dyrgall	United States	2:32:52.4
14	Luis Celedón	Chile	2:33:45.8
15	Adrien van de Zande	Netherlands	2:33:50.0
16	Viktor Olsen	Norway	2:33:58.4
17	Mikko Hietanen	Finland	2:34:01.0
18	Charles Dewachtere	Belgium	2:34:32.0
19	William Keith	South Africa	2:34:38.0
20	Yakov Moskachenkov	Soviet Union	2:34:43.8
21	Mihály Esztergomi	Hungary	2:35:10.0
22	Doroteo Flores	Guatemala	2:35:40.0
23	Jean Simonet	Belgium	2:35:43.0
24	Jakob Kjersem	Norway	2:36:14.0
25	Katsuo Nishida	Japan	2:36:19.0
26	Keizo Yamada	Japan	2:38:11.2
27	Feodosy Vanin	Soviet Union	2:38:22.0
28	Grigory Suchkov	Soviet Union	2:38:28.8
29	Henry Norrström	Sweden	2:38:57.4
30	Dieter Engelhardt	Germany	2:39:37.2
31	Cristea Dinu	Romania	2:39:42.2
32	Jean Leblond	Belgium	2:40:37.0
33	Choi Chung-Sik	South Korea	2:41:23.0
34	John Systad	Norway	2:41:29.8
35	Jaroslav Šourek	Czechoslovakia	2:41:40.4
36	Tom Jones	United States	2:42:50.0
37	Robert Prentice	Australia	2:43:13.4
38	Muhammad Havlidar Aslam	Pakistan	2:43:38.2
39	Adolf Gruber	Austria	2:45:02.0
40	Paul Collins	Canada	2:45:58.0
41	Vasile Teodosiu	Romania	2:46:00.8
42	Erik Simonsen	Denmark	2:46:41.4
43	Ludwig Warnemünde	Germany	2:50:00.0
44	Ted Corbitt	United States	2:51:09.0
45	Claude Smeal	Australia	2:52:23.0
46	Asfò Bussotti	Italy	2:52:55.0
47	Winand Osiński	Poland	2:54:38.2
48	Olaf Sørensen	Denmark	2:55:21.0
49	Joseph West	Ireland	2:56:22.8
50	Rudolf Morgenthaler	Switzerland	2:56:33.0
51	Abdelgani Abdel Fattah	Egypt	2:56:56.0
52	Surat Mathur	India	2:58:09.2
53	Artidoro Berti	Italy	2:58:36.2
–	Ahmet Aytar	Turkey	DNF
–	Franjo Krajčar	Yugoslavia	DNF
–	Hong Jong-O	South Korea	DNF
–	Muhammad Ben Aras	Pakistan	DNF
–	Lionel Billas	France	DNF
–	Constantin Radu	Romania	DNF
–	Corsino Fernández	Argentina	DNF
–	Raúl Inostroza	Chile	DNF
–	Luis Velásquez	Guatemala	DNF
–	Stanley Cox	Great Britain	DNF
–	James Peters	Great Britain	DNF
–	Egilberto Martufi	Italy	DNF
–	Yoshitaka Uchikawa	Japan	DNF

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