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


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
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Umberto Cerati15:01.0
2Harry Siefert15:02.8
3Don Lash15:04.4
4Ilmari Salminen15:06.6
5Aubrey Reeve15:06.8
6Åke Jansson15:10.0
7Raymond Lefebvre15:15.4
8Edmund Stadler15:17.0
9István Simon15:25.0
10Scotty Rankine
11Friedrich Fischer
12Ivan Krevs15:40.0
13Mohamed Ahmed Abu Sobea
14Gottfried Utiger
15Raunaq Singh Gill

Heat two
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Gunnar Höckert15:10.2
2Frank Close15:10.6
3Józef Noji15:11.2
4Bror Hellström15:12.0
5Rolf Hansen15:12.6
6René Lécuron15:14.2
7Henry Nielsen15:25.0
8Karl-Heinz Becker15:27.0
9Tom Deckard
10János Kelen15:35.0
11Hideo Tanaka
12Oscar Van Rumst
13Valentín González

Heat three
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Henry Jonsson14:54.0
2Kohei Murakoso14:56.6
3Peter Ward14:59.0
4Lauri Lehtinen15:00.0
5Louis Zamperini15:02.2
6Salvatore Mastroieni15:02.2
7Roger Rochard15:12.2
8Cecil Matthews
9Jenő Szilágyi15:20.6
10Max Syring
11Milton Wallace
12Hernando Navarrete
13Michel Medinger Sr.

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gunnar Höckert14:22.2OR
Lauri Lehtinen14:25.8
Henry Jonsson14:29.0
4Kohei Murakoso14:30.0
5Józef Noji14:33.4
6Ilmari Salminen14:39.8
7Umberto Cerati14:44.4
8Louis Zamperini14:46.8
9Rolf Hansen14:48.0
10Harry Siefert14:48.4
11Peter Ward14:57.2
12Frank Close
13Don Lash
14Bror Hellström
Aubrey ReeveDNF

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