Olympic Games 5000 meters- 1920
Men's Final (17 Aug 1920)
1 14:55.6 Joseph Guillemot (FRA) 01 Oct 1899
2 15:00.0 Paavo Nurmi (FIN) 13 Jun 1897
3 15:13.0 Eric Backman (SWE) 18 May 1896
4 15:17.0 Fredrik Teodor Koskenniemi (FIN) 05 Nov 1897
5 15:19.0 Charles Edward Blewitt (GBR) 01 Nov 1895
6 15:21.0 William Raymond Seagrove (GBR) 02 Jul 1898
7 n/t Carlo Speroni (ITA) 13 Jul 1895
8 n/t Alfred Hubert Nichols (GBR) 28 Nov 1890
9 n/t Julien VanCampenhout (BEL) 1899
10 n/t Nils W Bergström (SWE) 17 Nov 1898
11 n/t Rudolf Falk (SWE) 07 Jan 1898
12 n/t Herbert Carmichael Irwin (IRL) 26 Jun 1894
13 n/t Emanuel Lundström (SWE) 20 Sep 1896
dnf Horace Hallock Brown (USA) 03 Mar 1898
dnf Ivan Chandler Dresser (USA) 03 Jul 1896
dnf Clifford Cook Furnas (USA) 24 Oct 1900
Note: Irwin competed for GBR
Men's Semi-Final #1 (16 Aug 1920)
1 15:17.8 Rudolk Falk (SWE) 07 Jan 1898 Q
2 15:17.8 Herbert Carmichael Irwin (IRL) 26 Jun 1894 Q
3 15:22.0 Fredrik Teodor Koskenniemi (FIN) 05 Nov 1897 Q
4 15:23.8 Clifford Cook Furnas (USA) 24 Oct 1900 Q
5 16:03.0 Alfred Gaschen (SUI) 1892
6 n/t Augusto Maccario (ITA) 30 Apr 1890
7 16:17.8 Jean Baptiste Manhès (FRA) 04 Feb 1897
dnf Pierre Trullemans (BEL) 28 Mar 1898
dnf Thomas Towns (CAN)
dnf Panagiotis Retellas (GRE)
Men's Semi-Final #2 (16 Aug 1920)
1 15:19.8 Charles Edward Blewitt (GBR) 01 Nov 1895 Q
2 15:22.6 Julien VanCampenhout (BEL) 1899 Q
3 15:31.8 Horace Hallock Brown (USA) 03 Mar 1898 Q
4 15:39.4 Nils W Bergström (SWE) 17 Nov 1898 Q
5 n/t Lucien Léon Duquesnes (FRA) 17 Oct 1900
6 n/t Juan Muguerza Sasieta (ESP) 06 May 1900
7 n/t Konosuke Sano (JPN)
dnf Artur Georg Nielsen (DEN) 13 Jun 1895
dnf Diodoro Pons Dominguez (ESP)
dnf Carlo Martinenghi (ITA) 1894
Men's Semi-Final #3 (16 Aug 1920)
1 15:27.6 Carlo Speroni (ITA) 13 Jul 1895 Q
2 15:33.0 Paavo Nurmi (FIN) 13 Jun 1897 Q
3 15:53.6 William Raymond Seagrove (GBR) 02 Jul 1898 Q
4 16:04.2 Emanuel Lundström (SWE) 20 Sep 1896 Q
5 16:32.0 Charles F Hunter (USA) 21 Feb 1885
6 n/t Alexandros Kranis (GRE) 1897
7 n/t Francois Armand Vyncke (BEL)
8 n/t Karel Pacak (CZE) 19 Apr 1896
9 n/t Abdul Ali Mahgoub (EGY)
dns? Jüri Lossman (EST) 04 Feb 1891
Men's Semi-Final #4 (16 Aug 1920)
1 15:33.0 Joseph Guillemot (FRA) 01 Oct 1899 Q
2 15:34.0 Eric Backman (SWE) 18 May 1896 Q
3 15:41.8 Ivan Chandler Dresser (USA) 03 Jul 1896 Q
4 15:54.0 Alfred Hubert Nichols (GBR) 28 Nov 1890 Q
5 15:54.4 Ilmari Vesamaa (FIN) 04 Dec 1893
6 n/t Tomeichi Ohura (JPN) 20 Mar 1896
7 n/t Jón Kaldal-Jónsen (DEN) 24 Aug 1896
8 n/t Henri Adolphe Smets (BEL) 23 Dec 1896
9 n/t Gerardus Joahnnes vanderWel (NED) 05 Jan 1895
dns? Axel George Jensen (DEN) 17 Sep 1899
Italicized times are estimated
Q => qualified on place
Last Updated on 12 Oct 2001
Contributor: Tomas Magnusson