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

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]

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
Gunnar Höckert
 Finland
Lauri Lehtinen
 Finland
Henry Jonsson
 Sweden

Results

Heats

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

Heat one

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Umberto Cerati Italy15:01.0
2Harry Siefert Denmark15:02.8
3Don Lash United States15:04.4
4Ilmari Salminen Finland15:06.6
5Aubrey Reeve Great Britain15:06.8
6Åke Jansson Sweden15:10.0
7Raymond Lefebvre France15:15.4
8Edmund Stadler Germany15:17.0
9István Simon Hungary15:25.0
10Scotty Rankine Canada
11Friedrich Fischer Austria
12Ivan Krevs Yugoslavia15:40.0
13Mohamed Ahmed Abu Sobea Egypt
14Gottfried Utiger Switzerland
15Raunaq Singh Gill India

Heat two

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Gunnar Höckert Finland15:10.2
2Frank Close Great Britain15:10.6
3Józef Noji Poland15:11.2
4Bror Hellström Sweden15:12.0
5Rolf Hansen Norway15:12.6
6René Lécuron France15:14.2
7Henry Nielsen Denmark15:25.0
8Karl-Heinz Becker Germany15:27.0
9Tom Deckard United States
10János Kelen Hungary15:35.0
11Hideo Tanaka Japan
12Oscar Van Rumst Belgium
13Valentín González Mexico

Heat three

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Henry Jonsson Sweden14:54.0
2Kohei Murakoso Japan14:56.6
3Peter Ward Great Britain14:59.0
4Lauri Lehtinen Finland15:00.0
5Louis Zamperini United States15:02.2
6Salvatore Mastroieni Italy15:02.2
7Roger Rochard France15:12.2
8Cecil Matthews New Zealand
9Jenő Szilágyi Hungary15:20.6
10Max Syring Germany
11Milton Wallace Canada
12Hernando Navarrete Colombia
13Michel Medinger Sr. Luxembourg

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gunnar Höckert Finland14:22.2OR
Lauri Lehtinen Finland14:25.8
Henry Jonsson Sweden14:29.0
4Kohei Murakoso Japan14:30.0
5Józef Noji Poland14:33.4
6Ilmari Salminen Finland14:39.8
7Umberto Cerati Italy14:44.4
8Louis Zamperini United States14:46.8
9Rolf Hansen Norway14:48.0
10Harry Siefert Denmark14:48.4
11Peter Ward Great Britain14:57.2
12Frank Close Great Britain
13Don Lash United States
14Bror Hellström Sweden
Aubrey Reeve Great BritainDNF

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

References

  1. "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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