Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
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
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

Official Video

The men's 5000 metres event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Tuesday, July 31, 1928, and on Friday, August 3, 1928.

Thirty-eight long-distance runners from 19 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ville Ritola  Finland	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	Edvin Wide  Sweden

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record	14:28.2	Paavo Nurmi	Helsinki (FIN)	June 19, 1924
Olympic Record	14:31.2	Paavo Nurmi	Paris (FRA)	July 10, 1924

Results

Semifinals

All semi-finals were held on Tuesday, July 31, 1928, and started at 5:10 p.m.

The best four finishers of every heat qualified for the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Leo Lermond (USA)	15:02.6	Q
2	Staņislavs Petkēvičs (LAT)	15:03.0	Q
3	Eino Purje (FIN)	15:03.6	Q
4	Ragnar Magnusson (SWE)	15:03.8	Q
5	Wally Beavers (GBR)
6	Carl Petersen (DEN)	15:13.0
7	Frederick Light (GBR)
8	Lucien Duquesne (FRA)
9	Seghir Beddari (FRA)
—	22x20px Ciro Chapa (MEX)	DNF
	Charles Haworth (USA)	DNF
	Karel Nedobitý (TCH)	DNF
	22x20px Billy Kibblewhite (CAN)	DNF
	Nol Wolf (NED)	DNF
	Julien Serwy (BEL)	DNF

Semifinal 2

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Nils Eklöf (SWE)	15:07.4	Q
2	Ville Ritola (FIN)	15:10.8	Q
3	Armas Kinnunen (FIN)	15:10.8	Q
4	Brian Oddie (GBR)	15:16.0	Q
5	22x20px Jesús Oyarbide (ESP)	15:22.0
6	Roger Pelé (FRA)
7	Willi Boltze (GER)	15:33.0
8	Jozef Koščak (TCH)	15:42.0
9	Andreas Paouris (GRE)
10	Julius Petraitis (LTU)
11	Dave Abbott (USA)
—	22x20px Art Keay (CAN)	DNF
	George Hyde (AUS)	DNF
	Pieter Gerbrands (NED)	DNF

Semifinal 3

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Macauley Smith (USA)	15:04.0	Q
2	Edvin Wide (SWE)	15:05.0	Q
3	Herbert Johnston (GBR)	15:06.3	Q
4	Paavo Nurmi (FIN)	15:08.0	Q
5	Otto Kohn (GER)
6	Arie Klaase (NED)
7	22x20px Arturo Peña (ESP)	15:45.0
8	22x20px Vincent Callard (CAN)
—	Gurbachan Singh (IND)	DNF

Final

The final was held on Friday, August 3, 1928, and started at 2:30 p.m.

The same three runners finished on the podium than four years earlier in the 5000 metre event at the 1924 Games. But this time Ritola won the gold medal and Nurmi silver, Wide won the bronze medal again.

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Ville Ritola (FIN)	14:38.0
2	Paavo Nurmi (FIN)	14:40.0
3	Edvin Wide (SWE)	14:41.2
4	Leo Lermond (USA)	14:50.0
5	Ragnar Magnusson (SWE)	14:59.6
6	Armas Kinnunen (FIN)	15:02.0
7	Staņislavs Petkēvičs (LAT)
8	Herbert Johnston (GBR)
9	Brian Oddie (GBR)
10	Macauley Smith (USA)
—	Nils Eklöf (SWE)	DNF
	Eino Purje (FIN)	DNF

References

• sports-reference.com
• Official Olympic Report