Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres
The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place July 20. The final was won by Emil Zátopek of Czechoslovakia.Results
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| Emil Zátopek | | 29:17.0 | OR |
| Alain Mimoun | | 29:32.8 | |
| Aleksandr Anufriyev | | 29:48.2 | |
| 4 | Hannu Posti | | 29:51.4 | |
| 5 | Frank Sando | | 29:51.8 | |
| 6 | Valter Nyström | | 29:54.8 | |
| 7 | Gordon Pirie | | 30:04.2 | |
| 8 | Fred Norris | | 30:09.8 | |
| 9 | Ivan Pozhidayev | | 30:13.4 | |
| 10 | Martin Stokken | | 30:22.2 | |
| 11 | Nikifor Popov | | 30:24.2 | |
| 12 | Bertil Albertsson | | 30:34.6 | |
| 13 | Bertil Karlsson | | 30:35.8 | |
| 14 | Béla Juhász | | 30:39.6 | |
| 15 | Osman Coşgül | | 30:42.4 | |
| 16 | Väinö Koskela | | 30:43.0 | |
| 17 | Ould Lamine Abdallah | | 30:53.0 | |
| 18 | Franjo Mihalić | | 30:53.2 | |
| 19 | Hugo Niskanen | | 30:59.6 | |
| 20 | Curt Stone | | 31:02.6 | |
| 21 | Fred Wilt | | 31:04.0 | |
| 22 | Marcel Vandewattyne | | 31:15.8 | |
| 23 | Raúl Inostroza | | 31:28.6 | |
| 24 | Thyge Thøgersen | | 31:47.8 | |
| 25 | Ahmed Ben Labidi | | 31:52.2 | |
| 26 | Kristján Jóhannsson | | 32:00.0 | |
| 27 | Helmuth Perz | | 32:13.2 | |
| 28 | Bill Keith | | 32:32.4 | |
| 29 | Alphonse Vandenrydt | | 33:13.4 | |
| 30 | Abdul Rashid | | 33:50.4 | |
| 31 | Luis Velásquez | | 35:34.0 | |
| 32 | Trần Văn Lý | | 37:33.0 | |
| Les Perry | | | DNF |
Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record
