Olympic Games 5000 meters- 1948

Men's Final (02 Aug 1948)
  1   14:17.6   Gaston Reiff (BEL)                24 Feb 1921 
  2   14:17.8   Emil Zatopek (CZE)                19 Sep 1922 
  3   14:20.8   Willem Slykhuis (NED)             13 Jan 1923 
  4   14:28.6   Erik Ahlden (SWE)                 04 Sep 1923
  5   14:39.0   Bertil Albertsson (SWE)           01 Sep 1921 
  6   14:39.4   Curtis Stone (NY/USA)             19 Nov 1922 
  7   14:41.0   Väinö Koskela (FIN)               31 Mar 1921 
  8   14:43.0   Väinö Mäkelä (FIN)                20 Dec 1921
  9     n/t     Marcel VandeWattijne (BEL)        07 Jul 1924
 10     n/t     Martin Stokken (NOR)              16 Jan 1923
 11     n/t     Helge Perälä (FIN)                03 Jun 1915
        dnf     John Evert Nyberg (SWE)           28 Feb 1925

Men's Semi-Final #1  (31 Jul 1948)
  1   14:58.2   John Evert Nyberg (SWE)           28 Feb 1925  Q
  2   14:58.4   Väinö Koskela (FIN)               31 Mar 1921  Q
  3   14:58.6   Curtis Stone (NY/USA)             19 Nov 1922  Q
  4   15:14.0   Marcel VandeWattijne (BEL)        07 Jul 1924  Q
  5   15:28.0   Jacques Vernier (FRA)             21 Jul 1923
  6   15:34.4   Harold Nelson (NZL)               16 Apr 1923
  7     n/t     Aage Poulsen (DEN)                16 Jul 1919
  8     n/t     Josef Lataster (NED)              27 Jul 1922
  9     n/t     Clifford Salmond (CAN)                   1920
 10     n/t     John Braughton (GBR)              22 Feb 1921
 11     n/t     Mannie Ramjohn (TRI)
        dnf     John Joe Barry (IRL)              05 Oct 1925

Men's Semi-Final #2  (31 Jul 1948)
  1   14:34.2   Erik Ahlden (SWE)                 04 Sep 1923  Q
  2   14:34.4   Emil Zatopek (CZE)                19 Sep 1922  Q
  3   14:45.8   Väinö Mäkelä (FIN)                20 Dec 1921  Q
  4   15:04.4   Martin Stokken (NOR)              16 Jan 1923  Q
  5   15:07.8   Maurice Pouzieux (FRA)            31 Oct 1920
  6   15:19.0   Gregorio Rojo Sagredo (ESP)       03 May 1920
  7     n/t     William Ernest Lucas (GBR)        16 Jan 1917
  8     n/t     Wen-gau Liu (CHN)
  9     n/t     Vasilios Mavrapostoulos (GRE)     25 Apr 1916
 10     n/t     Pong-Sik Sim (KOR)
        dnf     Mustafa Ozcan (TUR)                      1926
        dnf     Clarence Robison (USA)            18 Jun 1923

Men's Semi-Final #3  (31 Jul 1948)
  1   15:06.8   Willem Slykhuis (NED)             13 Jan 1923  Q
  2   15:07.0   Gaston Reiff (BEL)                24 Feb 1921  Q
  3   15:07.8   Bertil Albertsson (SWE)           01 Sep 1921  Q
  4   15:07.8   Helge Perälä (FIN)                03 Jun 1915  Q
  5   15:08.4   Jerald Thompson (USA)             15 Aug 1923
  6   15:11.2   Alain Mimoun (FRA)                01 Jan 1921
  7     n/t     Henry Alexander Olney (GBR)       04 Jan 1922
  8     n/t     Martin Alarcon (MEX)
  9     n/t     Ernst Günther (SUI)

Q => qualified on place

Last Updated on 18 Oct 2001

Contributor: Tomas Magnusson