1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 7, 1912 (preliminary round) July 8, 1912 (final)
Medalist Hannes Kolehmainen ( FIN )   Lewis Tewanima ( USA )   Albin Stenroos ( FIN )

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm was held on July 7th and 8th, 1912 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 30 athletes took part. This discipline was first performed at the Olympic Games.

The first Olympic champion was Hannes Kolehmainen from Finland, ahead of Lewis Tewanima from the United States . The Finn Albin Stenroos won the bronze medal.

The only German participant was Gregor Vietz . He had to give up the race in his lead. Austrians and Swiss were not at the start.

Existing records

World record	Jean Bouin ( France )	30: 58.8 min - officially recognized only in 1926	Colombes	November 16, 1911
Olympic record	Competition held for the first time	therefore no Olympic record yet	-	-

Conducting the competition

A total of three preliminary runs were carried out on July 7th. The athletes who finished in the first five places qualified for the final, which took place the following day.

Note: The runners qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue.

leader

Date: July 7, 1912

The first Olympic record was achieved in the first run and improved in the second run. The first five runners in each case qualified for the final.

Forward 1

Ernest Glover (GBR)

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Hannes Kolehmainen	Grand Duchy of Finland	33: 49.0 min	OR
2	Joe Keeper	Canada	33: 58.8 min
3	Gaston Hay	France	34: 50.0 min
4th	John Eke	Sweden	34.55.8 min
5	Ernest Glover	Great Britain	35: 12.2 min
6th	Albert Öberg	Sweden	35: 45.0 min
7th	George Lee	Great Britain	k. A.
8th	Charles Ruffell	Great Britain
9	Vladimír Penc	Bohemia
9	William Kramer	United States
9	Mikhail Nikolsky	Russia
10	Harry Hellawell	United States

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Leonard Richardson	South African Union	32: 30.3 min	OR
2	Lewis Tewanima	United States	32: 31.4 min
3	Mauritz Carlsson	Sweden	33: 06.2 min
4th	Albin Stenroos	Grand Duchy of Finland	33: 28.4 min
5	Alfonso Orlando	Italy	33: 44.6 min
6th	Bror Fock	Sweden	k. A.
7th	Brynolf Larsson	Sweden
8th	Alfonso Sánchez	Chile
9	Thomas Humphreys	Great Britain
10	Frederick Hibbins	Great Britain
11	Gregor Vietz	German Empire

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tatu Kolehmainen	Grand Duchy of Finland	32: 47.8 min
2	William Scott	Great Britain	32: 55.2 min
3	Louis Scott	United States	34: 14.2 min
4th	Martin Persson	Sweden	34: 18.6 min
5	Hugh Maguire	United States	34: 32.0 min
6th	George Hill	Australasia	k. A.
7th	George Wallach	Great Britain

final

Olympic champion Hannes Kolehmainen (FIN) at the finish line

Lewis Tewanima (USA), silver medal winner

Date: July 8, 1912

Since the Frenchman Jean Bouin , two days later Olympic runner-up over 5000 meters , did without the 10,000 meters , there were no serious opponents for Hannes Kolehmainen and he won the race by over 45 seconds. Officially, his time was initially even rated as a world record . However, Jean Bouin was the first ever to run faster than 31 minutes with 30: 58.8 minutes in November 1911. It was only in 1926 that the Frenchman's time was subsequently recognized as a world record.

Six of the eleven runners who competed in the final did not reach the finish line, and four actually qualified athletes did not even make it to the final after the heats.

Hannes Kolehmainen, who played the final together with his older brother Tatu Kolehmainen , won the first of three gold medals at the Stockholm Games .

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Hannes Kolehmainen	Grand Duchy of Finland	31: 20.8 min	OR
2	Lewis Tewanima	United States	32: 06.6 min
3	Albin Stenroos	Grand Duchy of Finland	32: 21.8 min
4th	Joe Keeper	Canada	32: 36.2 min
5	Alfonso Orlando	Italy	33: 31.2 min
DNF	Mauritz Carlsson	Sweden
	Tatu Kolehmainen	Grand Duchy of Finland
	Hugh Maguire	United States
	Leonard Richardson	South African Union
	Louis Scott	United States
	William Scott	Great Britain
DNS	John Eke	Sweden
	Ernest Glover	Great Britain
	Gaston Hay	France
	Martin Persson	Sweden

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970

Web links

• SportsReference 10000m , accessed August 26, 2017
• Official report , English (PDF), accessed on August 26, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 551 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 108f