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The men's 5000 metres event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Tuesday, July 31, 1928, and Friday, August 3, 1928. Thirty-eight long-distance runners from 19 nations competed.[1]

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record 14:28.2 Finland Paavo Nurmi Helsinki (FIN) June 19, 1924
Olympic Record 14:31.2 Finland Paavo Nurmi Paris (FRA) July 10, 1924

Results

Semifinals

All semifinals were held on Tuesday, July 31, 1928, and started at 5:10 p.m.

The best four finishers of every heat qualified for the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Leo Lermond  United States 15:02.6 Q
2 Staņislavs Petkēvičs  Latvia 15:03.0 Q
3 Eino Purje  Finland 15:03.6 Q
4 Ragnar Magnusson  Sweden 15:03.8 Q
5 Wally Beavers  Great Britain
6 Carl Petersen  Denmark 15:13.0
7 Frederick Light  Great Britain
8 Lucien Duquesne  France
9 Seghir Beddari  France
— Ciro Chapa  Mexico DNF
Charles Haworth  United States
Karel Nedobitý  Czechoslovakia
Billy Kibblewhite  Canada
Nol Wolf  Netherlands
Julien Serwy  Belgium

Semifinal 2

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Nils Eklöf  Sweden 15:07.4 Q
2 Ville Ritola  Finland 15:10.8 Q
3 Armas Kinnunen  Finland 15:10.8 Q
4 Brian Oddie  Great Britain 15:16.0 Q
5 Jesús Oyarbide  Spain 15:22.0
6 Roger Pelé  France
7 Willi Boltze  Germany 15:33.0
8 Jozef Koščak  Czechoslovakia 15:42.0
9 Andreas Paouris  Greece
10 Julius Petraitis  Lithuania
11 David Abbott  United States
— Art Keay  Canada DNF
George Hyde  Australia
Pieter Gerbrands  Netherlands

Semifinal 3

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Macauley Smith  United States 15:04.0 Q
2 Edvin Wide  Sweden 15:05.0 Q
3 Herbert Johnston  Great Britain 15:06.3 Q
4 Paavo Nurmi  Finland 15:08.0 Q
5 Otto Kohn  Germany
6 Arie Klaase  Netherlands
7 Arturo Peña  Spain 15:45.0
8 Vincent Callard  Canada
— Gurbachan Singh  India DNF

Final

The final was held on Friday, August 3, 1928, and started at 2:30 p.m.

The same three runners finished on the podium as four years earlier in the 5000 metre event at the 1924 Games. But this time Ritola won the gold medal and Nurmi silver, Wide won the bronze medal again.

Rank Athlete Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ville Ritola  Finland 14:38.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Paavo Nurmi  Finland 14:40.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Edvin Wide  Sweden 14:41.2
4 Leo Lermond  United States 14:50.0
5 Ragnar Magnusson  Sweden 14:59.6
6 Armas Kinnunen  Finland 15:02.0
7 Staņislavs Petkēvičs  Latvia
8 Herbert Johnston  Great Britain
9 Brian Oddie  Great Britain
10 Macauley Smith  United States
— Nils Eklöf  Sweden DNF
Eino Purje  Finland

References

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Games: Men's 5000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1928_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_5000_metres
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