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

Men's 5000 metres at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 4 (heats) August 7 (final)
Competitors	41 from 23 nations
Medalists
Gunnar Höckert Finland   Lauri Lehtinen Finland   Henry Jonsson Sweden

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
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 steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

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

Results

Heats

The fastest five runners in each of the three heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Umberto Cerati	Italy	15:01.0
2	Harry Siefert	Denmark	15:02.8
3	Don Lash	United States	15:04.4
4	Ilmari Salminen	Finland	15:06.6
5	Aubrey Reeve	Great Britain	15:06.8
6	Åke Jansson	Sweden	15:10.0
7	Raymond Lefebvre	France	15:15.4
8	Edmund Stadler	Germany	15:17.0
9	István Simon	Hungary	15:25.0
10	Scotty Rankine	Canada
11	Friedrich Fischer	Austria
12	Ivan Krevs	Yugoslavia	15:40.0
13	Mohamed Ahmed Abu Sobea	Egypt
14	Gottfried Utiger	Switzerland
15	Raunaq Singh Gill	India

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gunnar Höckert	Finland	15:10.2
2	Frank Close	Great Britain	15:10.6
3	Józef Noji	Poland	15:11.2
4	Bror Hellström	Sweden	15:12.0
5	Rolf Hansen	Norway	15:12.6
6	René Lécuron	France	15:14.2
7	Henry Nielsen	Denmark	15:25.0
8	Karl-Heinz Becker	Germany	15:27.0
9	Tom Deckard	United States
10	János Kelen	Hungary	15:35.0
11	Hideo Tanaka	Japan
12	Oscar Van Rumst	Belgium
13	Valentín González	Mexico

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Henry Jonsson	Sweden	14:54.0
2	Kohei Murakoso	Japan	14:56.6
3	Peter Ward	Great Britain	14:59.0
4	Lauri Lehtinen	Finland	15:00.0
5	Louis Zamperini	United States	15:02.2
6	Salvatore Mastroieni	Italy	15:02.2
7	Roger Rochard	France	15:12.2
8	Cecil Matthews	New Zealand
9	Jenő Szilágyi	Hungary	15:20.6
10	Max Syring	Germany
11	Milton Wallace	Canada
12	Hernando Navarrete	Colombia
13	Michel Medinger, Sr.	Luxembourg

Final

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

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

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 5000 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-28.