1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 33 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Helsinki Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 20, 1952 | ||||||||
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The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 20, 1952 in the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki . 33 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Czechoslovak Emil Zátopek ahead of Alain Mimoun from France. Bronze went to Alexander Anufrijew from the Soviet Union.
Existing records
World record | 29: 02.6 min | Emil Zátopek ( Czechoslovakia ) | Turku , Finland | 4th August 1950 |
29: 59.6 min | Olympic record | London finals , Great Britain | July 30, 1948 |
Conducting the competition
There were no preliminary runs. All runners competed together on July 20th.
The race
Date: July 20, 1952, 6:00 p.m.
Emil Zátopek, world record holder, defending champion and European champion, was the top favorite on this route. The first two kilometers were led by the Soviet Russian Alexander Anufrijew. On the sixth lap, Zátopek then took the lead and increased the pace. Only the French Alain Mimoun could go, but then lost contact with the Czechoslovak at 8000 meters. Zátopek won the race by 15 seconds over Mimoun and 31 seconds over Anufrijew. Thus, as in 1948 , gold and silver went to Zátopek and Mimoun. The winning time was more than 40 seconds better than the existing Olympic record that Zátopek himself had set in 1948. For world record , however, were missing about 15 seconds.
Alexander Anufrijew won the first medal for the Soviet Union in athletics in men.
The last-placed Trần Văn Lý was the first athlete from the then Republic of Vietnam to take part in the Olympic Games.
Result
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, SS 80f
Web links
- SportsReference 10,000m , accessed September 26, 2017
- Official report p. 286f, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 26, 2017
- Emil Zátopek Wins 10,000m In Incredible Time For Gold - Helsinki 1952 Olympics , published June 15, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 26, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 551 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Official Report, p. 266
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)