Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

Men's 10,000 metres at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 2 (final)
Competitors	30 from 18 nations
Medalists
Ilmari Salminen Finland   Arvo Askola Finland   Volmari Iso-Hollo Finland

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 10,000 metres event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place August 2. The final was won by Finn Ilmari Salminen.

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ilmari Salminen	Finland	30:15.4
	Arvo Askola	Finland	30:15.6
	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	30:20.2
4	Kohei Murakoso	Japan	30:25.0
5	Alec Burns	Great Britain	30:58.2
6	Juan Carlos Zabala	Argentina	31:22.0
7	Max Gebhardt	Germany	31:29.6
8	Don Lash	United States	31:39.4
9	Odd Rasdal	Norway	31:40.4
10	Harry Siefert	Denmark	31:52.6
11	Giuseppe Beviacqua	Italy	31:57.0
12	János Kelen	Hungary	32:01.0
13	Henning Sundesson	Sweden	32:11.8
14	Józef Noji	Poland	32:13.0
15	Rudolf Wöber	Austria	32:22.0
16	Eino Pentti	United States	32:23.0
17	Ludvík Bombík	Czechoslovakia	32:24.0
18	Lucien Tostain	France	32:24.2
19	André Sicard	France	32:25.0
20	André Lonlas	France	32:58.0
21	Walter Schönrock	Germany	32:59.0
22	Josef Siegers	Germany
	Pierre Bajart	Belgium
	Scotty Rankine	Canada
	Milton Wallace	Canada
	William Eaton	Great Britain
	Stanley Wudyka	United States
	Fusashige Suzuki	Japan
	Raunaq Singh Gill	India		DNF
	John Potts	Great Britain		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 10000 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-29.