Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place July 20. The final was won by Emil Zátopek of Czechoslovakia.^[1] The winning margin was 15.8 seconds.

Men's 10,000 metres at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 20, 1952 (final)
Competitors	33 from 21 nations
Winning time	29:17.0 OR
Medalists
Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia Alain Mimoun  France Aleksandr Anufriyev  Soviet Union
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Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	29:17.0	OR
	Alain Mimoun	France	29:32.8
	Aleksandr Anufriyev	Soviet Union	29:48.2
4	Hannu Posti	Finland	29:51.4
5	Frank Sando	Great Britain	29:51.8
6	Valter Nyström	Sweden	29:54.8
7	Gordon Pirie	Great Britain	30:04.2
8	Fred Norris	Great Britain	30:09.8
9	Ivan Pozhidayev	Soviet Union	30:13.4
10	Martin Stokken	Norway	30:22.2
11	Nikifor Popov	Soviet Union	30:24.2
12	Bertil Albertsson	Sweden	30:34.6
13	Bertil Karlsson	Sweden	30:35.8
14	Béla Juhász	Hungary	30:39.6
15	Osman Coşgül	Turkey	30:42.4
16	Väinö Koskela	Finland	30:43.0
17	Ould Lamine Abdallah	France	30:53.0
18	Franjo Mihalić	Yugoslavia	30:53.2
19	Hugo Niskanen	Finland	30:59.6
20	Curt Stone	United States	31:02.6
21	Fred Wilt	United States	31:04.0
22	Marcel Vandewattyne	Belgium	31:15.8
23	Raúl Inostroza	Chile	31:28.6
24	Thyge Thøgersen	Denmark	31:47.8
25	Ahmed Ben Labidi	France	31:52.2
26	Kristján Jóhannsson	Iceland	32:00.0
27	Helmuth Perz	Austria	32:13.2
28	Bill Keith	South Africa	32:32.4
29	Alphonse Vandenrydt	Belgium	33:13.4
30	Abdul Rashid	Pakistan	33:50.4
31	Luis Velásquez	Guatemala	35:34.0
32	Trần Văn Lý	Vietnam	37:33.0
	Les Perry	Australia		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record