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