Olympic Games 5000 meters- 1928
Men's Final (03 Aug 1928)
1 14:38.0 Viljam Ritola (FIN) 18 Jan 1896
2 14:40.0 Paavo Nurmi (FIN) 13 Jun 1897
3 14:41.2 Emil Edvin Wide (SWE) 22 Feb 1896
4 14:50.0 Frances Leo Lermond (USA) 15 Apr 1906
5 14:59.6 Ragnar Magnusson (SWE) 15 Sep 1901
6 15:02.0 Armas Rikkarti Kinnunen (FIN) 07 Feb 1900
7 n/t Stanislavs Petkevics (LAT) 1908
8 n/t Herbert Arthur Johnston (GBR) 16 Apr 1902
9 n/t Brian Cecil Vernon Oddie (GBR) 16 May 1905
10 n/t John Macauley Smith (USA) 11 Apr 1905
dnf Eino Alfred Purhe (FIN) 02 Feb 1900
dnf Nils Eklöf (SWE) 25 Jul 1904
Men's Semi-Final #1 (31 Jul 1928)
1 15:02.6 Frances Leo Lermond (USA) 15 Apr 1906 Q
2 15:03.0 Stanislavs Petkevics (LAT) 1908 Q
3 15:03.6 Eino Alfred Purhe (FIN) 02 Feb 1900 Q
4 15:03.8 Ragnar Magnusson (SWE) 15 Sep 1901 Q
5 n/t Walter James Beavers (GBR) 11 Jul 1903
6 15:13.0 Carl Axel Holger Petersen (DEN) 15 Feb 1902
7 n/t Frederick Light (GBR)
8 n/t Lucien Leon Duquesnes (FRA) 17 Oct 1900
9 n/t Seghir Beddari (FRA) 18 Jul 1901
10 n/t ? William E Kibblewhite (CAN)
11 n/t ? C Chapa (MEX)
12 n/t Charles Haworth (USA) 25 Aug 1906
dnf Arnoldus Antonius Wolf (NED) 07 Aug 1903
dnf Karel Nedobity (CZE) 13 Aug 1905
Note: The order that Kibblewhite and Chapa finished is not known.
Men's Semi-Final #2 (31 Jul 1928) 1 15:07.4 Nils Eklöf (SWE) 25 Jul 1904 Q 2 15:10.8 Viljam Ritola (FIN) 18 Jan 1896 Q 3 15:10.8 Armas Rikkarti Kinnunen (FIN) 07 Feb 1900 Q 4 15:16.0 Brian Cecil Vernon Oddie (GBR) 16 May 1905 Q 5 15:22.0 Jesus Oyarbide Gonzalez (ESP) 02 Feb 1902 6 n/t Roger Pelé (FRA) 29 Aug 1901 7 15:33.0 Willi Boltze (GER) 24 Jul 1904 8 15:42.0 Josef Koscak (CZE) 08 Jul 1903 9 n/t Alexandros Paouris (GRE) 10 n/t Julius Petraitis (LTU) 1905 11 n/t David Abbott (USA) 08 Mar 1902 12 n/t ? George Hyde (AUS) 13 n/t ? Arthur Keay (CAN) 1907 14 n/t ? Pieter Gerbrands (NED) 27 Apr 1909
Note: The order that Hyde, Keay, and Gerbrands finished is not known.
Men's Semi-Final #3 (31 Jul 1928) 1 15:04.0 John Macauley Smith (USA) 11 Apr 1905 Q 2 15:05.0 Emil Edvin Wide (SWE) 22 Feb 1896 Q 3 15:06.3 Herbert Arthur Johnston (GBR) 16 Apr 1902 Q 4 15:08.0 Paavo Nurmi (FIN) 13 Jun 1897 Q 5 n/t Otto Kohn (GER) 17 Jul 1907 6 n/t Adrianus Klaase (NED) 23 Sep 1903 7 15:45.0 Arturo Peña Aznar (ESP) 21 Nov 1903 8 n/t Vincent Callard (CAN) 1895
Italicized times are estimated
Q => qualified on place
Last Updated on 12 Oct 2001
Contributor: Tomas Magnusson