1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	16 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	July 31, 1932
Medalist Janusz Kusociński ( POL )   Volmari Iso-Hollo ( FIN )   Lauri Virtanen ( FIN )

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on July 31, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 16 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Janusz Kusociński from Poland, ahead of Volmari Iso-Hollo and Lauri Virtanen from Finland .

Existing records

• World record : 30: 06.2 min - Paavo Nurmi ( Finland ), Kuopio , August 31, 1924
• Olympic record : 30: 18.8 min - Paavo Nurmi ( Finland ), Amsterdam final , July 29, 1928

Conducting the competition

There were no preliminary runs. The 16 runners competed together for the final.

The race

Olympic champion Janusz Kusociński (POL)

A few days later, Volmari Iso-Hollo (FIN), Olympic champion over 3000 meters , won the silver medal

Date: August 1, 1932

In June of the Olympic year, the Pole Janusz Kusociński had improved Paavo Nurmi's world record over 3000 meters with 8: 18.8 minutes , making himself one of the favorites for the long distances of these games. For many years there had been a great dominance of runners from Finland at these distances, which was now in danger. Pretty soon after the start, the two Finns Volmari Iso-Hollo and Lauri Virtanen, together with Kusociński, pulled away from the rest of the field at high speed. Like later over 5000 meters , Virtanen had to tear down before the actual final phase, but had no problems securing the bronze medal. In the finish curve, Kusociński decided the race for himself with a determined start and improved Nurmi's Olympic record by more than seven seconds with 30: 11.4 minutes . All three US participants had no chance in front of their home crowd and gave up the race.

Janusz Kusociński achieved the first Olympic victory for a Polish man in athletics. After four Finnish victories in the first four Olympic finals, it was also the first victory of a non-Finnish.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Janusz Kusociński	Poland	30: 11.4 min	OR
2	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	30: 12.6 min
3	Lauri Virtanen	Finland	30: 35.0 min
4th	John Savidan	New Zealand	31: 09.0 min
5	Max Syring	German Empire	31: 35.0 min
6th	Jean-Gunnar Lindgren	Sweden	31: 37.0 min
7th	Juan Morales	Mexico	32: 03.3 min
8th	Clifford Bricker	Canada	k. A.
9	Kitamoto Masamichi	Japan
10	Shoichiro Takenaka	Japan
11	José Ribas	Argentina
12	Fernando Cicarelli	Argentina
13	Adalberto Cardoso	Brazil
DNF	Louis Gregory	United States
	Thomas Ottey	United States
	Eino Pentti	United States

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 232

Web links

• SportsReference 10,000m , accessed September 17, 2017
• Official report pp. 425-426, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 17, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 551 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)