1928 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 29, 1928
Medalist Paavo Nurmi ( FIN )   Ville Ritola ( FIN )   Edvin Wide ( SWE )

The men's 10,000 meter run at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam was held on July 29, 1928 in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium. 24 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Paavo Nurmi from Finland, ahead of his compatriot Ville Ritola . Bronze went to Edvin Wide from Sweden .

Existing records

• World record : 30: 06.2 min - Paavo Nurmi ( Finland ), Kuopio , August 31, 1924
• Olympic record : 30: 23.2 min - Ville Ritola ( Finland ), Paris race , July 6, 1924

The race

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Paavo Nurmi	Finland	30: 18.8 min	OR
2	Ville Ritola	Finland	30: 19.4 min
3	Edvin Wide	Sweden	31: 00.8 min
4th	Jean-Gunnar Lindgren	Sweden	31: 26.0 min
5	Arthur Muggridge	Great Britain	31: 31.8 min
6th	Ragnar Magnusson	Sweden	31: 37.2 min
7th	Toivo Loukola	Finland	31: 39.0 min
8th	Kalle Matilainen	Finland	31: 45.0 min
9	Wally Beavers	Great Britain	31: 48.0 min
10	Suttie Smith	Great Britain	k. A.
11	Robert Marchal	France
12	George Constable	Great Britain
13	Arturo Peña	Spain	32: 21.8 min
14th	Joie Ray	United States	k. A.
15th	Staņislavs Petkēvičs	Latvia
16	Seghir Beddari	France
17th	Karel Nedobitý	Czechoslovakia
18th	Julien Serwy	Belgium
19th	Juichi Nagatani	Japan
20th	Danie Jacobs	South African Union
DNF	Henri Lauvaux	France
	John Romig	United States
	Chavan Singh	British India
	Macauley Smith	United States

Date: July 29, 1928

In this race Paavo Nurmi showed his usual side: fast-paced and extremely strong. Initially, Briton Wally Beavers, who finished ninth, set the pace alone and worked out a smaller lead for himself. But after five laps the three favorites Nurmi, Ville Ritola and Edvin Wide had taken command and increased the distance to the rest of the field lap by lap. With 3,000 meters to go, Wide could not follow either. Ritola was the first to accelerate, Nurmi followed him without any effort, forced himself into the home straight and became Olympic champion with a lead of six tenths of a second and an Olympic record .

Paavo Nurmi won the ninth and final gold medal of his career in this race.
In the fourth Olympic race over 10,000 meters there was the fourth Finnish victory.
The top eight runners included, besides Arthur Muggridge from Britain, only Swedes and Finns.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Paavo Nurmi (FIN)

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  Silver for Ville Ritola (FIN)

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  Bronze for Edvin Wide (SWE)

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 197f

Web links

• SportsReference 10,000 m , accessed September 12, 2017
• Official report pp. 424-426, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 12, 2017

Video

• Amsterdam 1928 osa 2 , range 1:46 min to 5:27 min published on May 26, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed on September 12, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 198
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)