1948 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	27 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Wembley Stadium
Competition phase	July 30, 1948
Medalist Emil Zátopek ( TCH )   Alain Mimoun ( FRA )   Bertil Albertsson ( SWE )

The men's 10,000 meter run at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was held on July 30, 1948 at Wembley Stadium . 27 athletes took part, 22 of them finished. The runners who crossed the finish line after 11th place remained without timekeeping and without any indication of placement.

The Olympic champion was the Czechoslovak Emil Zátopek ahead of the French Alain Mimoun . Bertil Albertsson from Sweden won bronze .

Existing records

• World record : 29: 35.4 min - Viljo Heino ( Finland ), Helsinki , August 25, 1944
• Olympic record : 30: 11.4 min - Janusz Kusociński ( Poland ), Olympic competition in Los Angeles , July 31, 1932

Emil Zátopek (TCH), Olympic champion

Result

July 30, 1948, 6 p.m.

The top favorite was the world record holder and European champion from 1946, Viljo Heino. The Finn took the lead from the start. After 3000 meters Emil Zátopek accelerated the pace and went forward. Heino was able to regain the lead in the meantime, but Zátopek kept stepping up the pace, which wore the Finn down so much that he got out after about 6000 meters. All other competitors had long since lost touch. Zátopek won by almost 48 seconds. He was able to overtake all runners except for the other medalists Alain Mimoun and Bertil Albertsson.

Emil Zátopek's gold medal was the first medal for Czechoslovakia in this discipline.

Zátopek was the first runner to stay under 30 minutes in the Olympics.

For the first time there was no Finnish medalist.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Emil Zatopek	Czechoslovakia	29: 59.6 min	OR
2	Alain Mimoun	France	30: 47.4 min
3	Bertil Albertsson	Sweden	30: 53.6 min
4th	Martin Stokken	Norway	30: 58.6 min
5	Severt Dennolf	Sweden	31: 05.0 min
6th	Ben Said Abdallah	France	31: 07.8 min
7th	Stan Cox	Great Britain	31: 08.0 min
8th	Jim Peters	Great Britain	31: 16.0 min
9	Solomon Kings	Finland	k. A.
10	Edward O'Toole	United States
11	Fred Wilt	United States
-	Ricardo Bralo	Argentina	o. W.
	Eusebio Guiñez	Argentina
	Jakob Kjersem	Norway
	Jef lataster	Netherlands
	Steve McCooke	Great Britain
	Constantino Miranda	Spain
	Harold Nelson	New Zealand
	André Paris	France
	Manny Ramjohn	Trinidad and Tobago
	Gregorio Rojo	Spain
	Lou Wen-ngau	China
DNF	Paddy Fahey	Ireland
	Viljo Heino	Finland
	Evert Heinström	Finland
	Robert Everaert	Belgium
	Herman Goffberg	United States

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 24f

Web links

• SportsReference 10,000 m , accessed August 17, 2017
• Official report , page 251 engl. (PDF), accessed on August 17, 2017
• Emil Zátopek Wins 10,000m In Incredible Time For Gold - Helsinki 1952 Olympics , published June 15, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed August 20, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 551 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" page 240
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)