Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	July 31 (heats) August 2 (final)
Medalists
Gaston Reiff Belgium   Emil Zátopek Czechoslovakia   Wim Slijkhuis Netherlands

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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 5000 metres event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place July 31 and August 2. The final was won by Belgian Gaston Reiff.

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Gaston Reiff	Belgium	14:17.6	OR
	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	14:17.8
	Wim Slijkhuis	Netherlands	14:26.8
4	Erik Ahldén	Sweden	14:28.6
5	Bertil Albertsson	Sweden	14:39.0
6	Curt Stone	United States	14:39.4
7	Väinö Koskela	Finland	14:41.0
8	Väinö Mäkelä	Finland	14:43.0
9	Marcel Vandewattyne	Belgium
10	Martin Stokken	Norway
11	Helge Perälä	Finland
	Evert Nyberg	Sweden		DNF

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

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's 5000 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-06-05.