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 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Umberto Cerati 15:01.0 2 Harry Siefert 15:02.8 3 Don Lash 15:04.4 4Ilmari Salminen 15:06.6 5Aubrey Reeve 15:06.8 6Åke Jansson 15:10.0 7Raymond Lefebvre 15:15.4 8Edmund Stadler 15:17.0 9István Simon 15:25.0 10Scotty Rankine 11Friedrich Fischer 12Ivan Krevs 15:40.0 13Mohamed Ahmed Abu Sobea 14Gottfried Utiger 15Raunaq Singh Gill
Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Gunnar Höckert 15:10.2 2 Frank Close 15:10.6 3 Józef Noji 15:11.2 4Bror Hellström 15:12.0 5Rolf Hansen 15:12.6 6René Lécuron 15:14.2 7Henry Nielsen 15:25.0 8Karl-Heinz Becker 15:27.0 9Tom Deckard 10János Kelen 15:35.0 11Hideo Tanaka 12Oscar Van Rumst 13Valentín González
Heat three Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Henry Jonsson 14:54.0 2 Kohei Murakoso 14:56.6 3 Peter Ward 14:59.0 4Lauri Lehtinen 15:00.0 5Louis Zamperini 15:02.2 6Salvatore Mastroieni 15:02.2 7Roger Rochard 15:12.2 8Cecil Matthews 9Jenő Szilágyi 15:20.6 10Max Syring 11Milton Wallace 12Hernando Navarrete 13Michel Medinger Sr.
Final
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Gunnar Höckert 14:22.2 OR Lauri Lehtinen 14:25.8 Henry Jonsson 14:29.0 4 Kohei Murakoso 14:30.0 5 Józef Noji 14:33.4 6 Ilmari Salminen 14:39.8 7 Umberto Cerati 14:44.4 8 Louis Zamperini 14:46.8 9 Rolf Hansen 14:48.0 10 Harry Siefert 14:48.4 11 Peter Ward 14:57.2 12 Frank Close 13 Don Lash 14 Bror Hellström Aubrey Reeve DNF
Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record
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