Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

Men's 10,000 metres at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	July 30 (final)
Medalists
Emil Zátopek Czechoslovakia   Alain Mimoun France   Bertil Albertsson Sweden

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 10,000 metres event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place July 30. The final was won by Emil Zátopek.

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	29:59.6	OR
	Alain Mimoun	France	30:47.4
	Bertil Albertsson	Sweden	30:53.6
4	Martin Stokken	Norway	30:58.6
5	Severt Dennolf	Sweden	31:05.0
6	Abdullah Ben Saïd	France	31:07.8
7	Stan Cox	Great Britain	31:08.0
8	Jim Peters	Great Britain	31:16.0
9	Salomon Könönen	Finland
10	Eddie O'Toole	United States
11	Fred Wilt	United States
	Ricardo Bralo	Argentina		NP
	Eusebio Guiñez	Argentina		NP
	Jakob Kjersem	Norway		NP
	Jef Lataster	Netherlands		NP
	Luo Wenao	Republic of China		NP
	Steve McCooke	Great Britain		NP
	Constantino Miranda	Spain		NP
	Harry Nelson	New Zealand		NP
	André Paris	France		NP
	Manny Ramjohn	Trinidad and Tobago		NP
	Gregorio Rojo	Spain		NP
	Paddy Fahy	Ireland		DNF
	Viljo Heino	Finland		DNF
	Evert Heinström	Finland		DNF
	Robert Everaert	Belgium		DNF
	Herman Goffberg	United States		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, NP = Not placed, OR = Olympic record

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's 10000 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-06-08.