Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres event at the 1936 Olympic Games was on August 4 and August 7.  The final was won by Finn Gunnar Höckert. He beat the Olympic record in Olympic record time.

Results

Heats

The 5 fastest runners in each heat went to the finals.

Heat one
 Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes 1  Umberto Cerati    15:01.0  2  Harry Siefert   15:02.8  3 Don Lash   15:04.4  4Ilmari Salminen  15:06.6  5Aubrey Reeve  15:06.8  6Åke Jansson  15:10.0  7Raymond Lefebvre  15:15.4  8Edmund Stadler  15:17.0  9István Simon  15:25.0  10Scotty Rankine   11Friedrich Fischer   12Ivan Krevs  15:40.0  13Mohamed Ahmed Abu Sobea   14Gottfried Utiger   15Raunaq Singh Gill  

Heat two
 Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes 1  Gunnar Höckert    15:10.2  2  Frank Close   15:10.6  3 Józef Noji   15:11.2  4Bror Hellström  15:12.0  5Rolf Hansen  15:12.6  6René Lécuron  15:14.2  7Henry Nielsen  15:25.0  8Karl-Heinz Becker  15:27.0  9Tom Deckard   10János Kelen  15:35.0  11Hideo Tanaka   12Oscar Van Rumst   13Valentín González  

Heat three
 Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes 1  Henry Jonsson    14:54.0  2  Kohei Murakoso   14:56.6  3 Peter Ward   14:59.0  4Lauri Lehtinen  15:00.0  5Louis Zamperini  15:02.2  6Salvatore Mastroieni  15:02.2  7Roger Rochard  15:12.2  8Cecil Matthews   9Jenő Szilágyi  15:20.6  10Max Syring   11Milton Wallace   12Hernando Navarrete   13Michel Medinger Sr.  

Final

 Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes Gunnar Höckert    14:22.2  OR Lauri Lehtinen    14:25.8     Henry Jonsson    14:29.0  4  Kohei Murakoso    14:30.0  5  Józef Noji    14:33.4    6  Ilmari Salminen    14:39.8  7  Umberto Cerati    14:44.4  8  Louis Zamperini    14:46.8  9  Rolf Hansen    14:48.0  10  Harry Siefert    14:48.4  11  Peter Ward    14:57.2  12  Frank Close      13  Don Lash      14  Bror Hellström          Aubrey Reeve     DNF

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

References

Category:Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Category:Men's events at the 1936 Summer Olympics