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. The winning margin was 15.8 seconds.
Results
Final
Rank Name Nationality Time (hand) Notes Emil Zátopek 29:17.0 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 Rikard Greenfort Antonio Amorós José Coll Jan Szwargot Milan Švajgr Domeniko Cetinić Delfo Cabrera Corsino Fernández Reinaldo Gorno Herbert Schade Vasilis Mavrapostolos Doroteo Flores József Kovács Osamu Inoue Paul Frieden Syd Luyt Hans Frischknecht Horace Ashenfelter
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