Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

Men's marathon at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
Dates	July 27
Competitors	66 from 32 nations
Winning time	2:23:03.2
Medalists
Emil Zátopek   Czechoslovakia   Reinaldo Gorno   Argentina   Gustaf Jansson   Sweden

The marathon at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July on a course running from the Helsinki Olympic Stadium to Korso, Vantaa and back. The full length of the road was hard-surfaced.^[1]

Official Video

Athletics at the 1952 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

Results

Rank	Athlete	Country	Result
	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	2:23:03.2
	Reinaldo Gorno	Argentina	2:25:35.0
	Gustaf Jansson	Sweden	2:26:07.0
4	Choi Yun-Chil	South Korea	2:26:36.0
5	Veikko Karvonen	Finland	2:26:41.8
6	Delfo Cabrera	Argentina	2:26:42.4
7	József Dobronyi	Hungary	2:28:04.8
8	Erkki Puolakka	Finland	2:29:35.0
9	Geoffrey Iden	Great Britain	2:30:42.0
10	Wally Hayward	South Africa	2:31:50.2
11	Syd Luyt	South Africa	2:32:41.0
12	Gustaf Östling	Sweden	2:32:48.4
13	Victor Drygall	United States	2:32:52.4
14	Luis Celedón	Chile	2:33:45.8
15	Adrien van de Zande	Netherlands	2:33:50.0
16	Viktor Olsen	Norway	2:33:58.4
17	Mikko Hietanen	Finland	2:34:01.0
18	Charles Dewachtere	Belgium	2:34:32.0
19	William Keith	South Africa	2:34:38.0
20	Yakov Moskachenkov	Soviet Union	2:34:43.8
21	Mihály Esztergomi	Hungary	2:35:10.0
22	Doroteo Flores	Guatemala	2:35:40.0
23	Jean Simonet	Belgium	2:35:43.0
24	Jakob Kjersem	Norway	2:36:14.0
25	Katsuo Nishida	Japan	2:36:19.0
26	Keizo Yamada	Japan	2:38:11.2
27	Feodosiy Vanin	Soviet Union	2:38:22.0
28	Grigory Suchkov	Soviet Union	2:38:28.8
29	Henry Norrström	Sweden	2:38:57.4
30	Dieter Engelhardt	Germany	2:39:37.2
31	Dinu Cristea	Romania	2:39:42.2
32	Jean Leblond	Belgium	2:40:37.0
33	Choi Chung-Sik	South Korea	2:41:23.0
34	John Systad	Norway	2:41:29.8
35	Jaroslav Šourek	Czechoslovakia	2:41:40.4
36	Thomas Jones	United States	2:42:50.0
37	Robert Prentice	Australia	2:43:13.4
38	Muhammad Havlidar Aslam	Pakistan	2:43:38.2
39	Adolf Gruber	Austria	2:45:02.0
40	Paul Collins	Canada	2:45:58.0
41	Vasile Teodosiu	Romania	2:46:00.8
42	Erik Simonsen	Denmark	2:46:41.4
43	Ludwig Warnemünde	Germany	2:50:00.0
44	Ted Corbitt	United States	2:51:09.0
45	Claude Smeal	Australia	2:52:23.0
46	Asfo Bussotti	Italy	2:52:55.0
47	Winand Osiński	Poland	2:54:38.2
48	Svend Sørensen	Denmark	2:55:21.0
49	Joseph West	Ireland	2:56:22.8
50	Rudolf Morgenthaler	Switzerland	2:56:33.0
51	Abdelgani Abdel Fattah	Egypt	2:56:56.0
52	Surat Singh Mathur	India	2:58:09.2
53	Artidoro Berti	Italy	2:58:36.2
–	Ahmet Aytar	Turkey	DNF
–	Franjo Krajčar	Yugoslavia	DNF
–	Hong Jong-O	South Korea	DNF
–	Muhammad Ben Aras	Pakistan	DNF
–	Lionel Billas	France	DNF
–	Constantin Radu Ioniţă	Romania	DNF
–	José Fernández	Argentina	DNF
–	Raúl Inostroza	Chile	DNF
–	Luis Velásquez	Guatemala	DNF
–	Stanley Cox	Great Britain	DNF
–	James Peters	Great Britain	DNF
–	Egilberto Martufi	Italy	DNF
–	Yoshitaka Uchikawa	Japan	DNF

References

1. Kolkka, Sulo, ed. (1952). The Official Report of The Organising Committee For The Games Of The XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952. Helsinki: The Organising Committee For The XV Olympiad.