1934 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

Events at the 1934 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
4×100 m relay		men
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men
Javelin throw		men
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 5000 metres at the 1934 European Athletics Championships was held in Turin, Italy, at the Stadio Benito Mussolini on 9 September 1934.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Roger Rochard  France
Silver	Janusz Kusociński  Poland
Bronze	Ilmari Salminen  Finland

Results

Final

9 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Roger Rochard	France	14:36.8	CR
	Janusz Kusociński	Poland	14:41.2
	Ilmari Salminen	Finland	14:43.6
4	Lauri Virtanen	Finland	14:47.6
5	Salvatore Mastroieni	Italy	15:00.6
6	Janos Kelen	Hungary	15:06.6
7	Nello Bartolini	Italy	15:26.0
8	Eduard Prööm	Estonia	15:35.0
9	Jenõ Szilágyi	Hungary	15:43.0
10	Valdemars Vitols	Latvia	15:52.0
11	Emil Muller	Switzerland	NT
12	Christiaan Petit	Netherlands	NT
13	Jozef Koscák	Czechoslovakia	16:10.0

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 13 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

Czechoslovakia (1)  Estonia (1)  Finland (2)

France (1)  Hungary (2)  Italy (2)

Latvia (1)  Netherlands (1)

Poland (1)   Switzerland (1)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 360–362, retrieved 13 August 2014