1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

Events at the 1946 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
10,000 m track walk		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 5000 metres at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held in Oslo, Norway, at Bislett Stadion on 23 August 1946.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Sydney Wooderson  United Kingdom
Silver	Wim Slijkhuis  Netherlands
Bronze	Evert Nyberg  Sweden

Results

Final

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sydney Wooderson	United Kingdom	14:08.6	CR NR
	Wim Slijkhuis	Netherlands	14:14.0	NR
	Evert Nyberg	Sweden	14:23.2
4	Viljo Heino	Finland	14:24.4
5	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	14:25.8	NR
6	Gaston Reiff	Belgium	14:45.8
7	Rikard Greenfort	Denmark	14:46.0
8	Raphaël Pujazon	France	14:46.8
9	René Breistroffer	France	14:50.4
10	Aage Poulsen	Denmark	14:53.6
11	Charles Heirendt	Luxembourg	15:00.6	NR
12	Marcel Vandewattyne	Belgium	15:08.0
13	András Pataki	Hungary	15:33.6
14	Leon Aasbø	Norway	15:33.8
15	Napoleon Dzwonkowski	Poland	DNF
16	Helge Perälä	Finland	DNF
17	Åke Durkfeldt	Sweden	DNF
18	Arnt Rohme	Norway	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

Belgium (2)  Czechoslovakia (1)  Denmark (2)

Finland (2)  France (2)  Hungary (1)

Luxembourg (1)  Netherlands (1)  Norway (2)

Poland (1)  Sweden (2)  United Kingdom (1)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 367–372, retrieved 13 August 2014