Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 31 (heats) September 2 (final)
Medalists
Murray Halberg New Zealand   Hans Grodotzki United Team of Germany   Kazimierz Zimny Poland

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
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
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 5000 metres long distance event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 2.

Results

Heats

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans Grodotzki	United Team of Germany	14:01.29
2	Luigi Conti	Italy	14:01.55
3	Nyandika Maiyoro	Kenya	14:06.29
4	Yury Zakharov	Soviet Union	14:10.41
5	Reijo Höykinpuro	Finland	14:21.92
6	Hedwig Leenaert	Belgium	14:25.81
7	Frank Salvat	Great Britain	14:33.64
8	Gabrou Merawi	Ethiopia	14:41.22
9	Jim Beatty	United States	14:44.40
10	Michael Hoey	Ireland	15:00.52
11	Kassim Mukhtar	Iraq	15:00.97
-	José Aceituno	Chile		DNF
-	Béla Székeres	Hungary		DNF

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Horst Flosbach	United Team of Germany	14:09.25
2	Sándor Iharos	Hungary	14:09.38
3	Aleksandr Artynyuk	Soviet Union	14:09.92
4	Allan Lawrence	Australia	14:10.71
5	Hamoud Ameur	France	14:14.17
6	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	14:16.14
7	Doug Kyle	Canada	14:25.36
8	Marian Jochman	Poland	14:31.29
9	José Molíns	Spain	14:31.30
10	Mohamed Saïd	Morocco	14:53.6
11	Ranjit Bhatia	India	15:06.6

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Friedrich Janke	United Team of Germany	14:02.58
2	Michel Bernard	France	14:04.82
3	Albie Thomas	Australia	14:06.27
4	Bill Dellinger	United States	14:08.72
5	Boris Yefimov	Soviet Union	14:14.68
6	Simo Saloranta	Finland	14:15.35
7	Jaroslav Bohatý	Czechoslovakia	14:30.34
8	Gordon Pirie	Great Britain	14:43.6
9	Khristos Khiotis	Greece	15:01.2
10	Cyprian Tseriwa	Rhodesia	15:02.8
11	Somnuek Srisombati	Thailand	15:32.6

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dave Power	Australia	14:03.31
2	Murray Halberg	New Zealand	14:04.28
3	Kazimierz Zimny	Poland	14:07.75
4	Bruce Tulloh	Great Britain	14:17.30
5	Miroslav Jurek	Czechoslovakia	14:31.53
6	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	14:37.20
7	Bob Soth	United States	14:40.85
8	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	14:51.99
9	Andrei Barabaş	Romania	15:11.2
10	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	15:13.6
11	Jean Aniset	Luxembourg	15:17.0
12	Mubarak Shah	Pakistan	15:43.0
13	George De Peana	British Guiana	15:54.2

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Murray Halberg	New Zealand	13:43.76
	Hans Grodotzki	United Team of Germany	13:45.01
	Kazimierz Zimny	Poland	13:45.09
4	Friedrich Janke	United Team of Germany	13:47.14
5	Dave Power	Australia	13:52.38
6	Nyandika Maiyoro	Kenya	13:53.25
7	Michel Bernard	France	14:04.68
8	Horst Flosbach	United Team of Germany	14:07.03
9	Aleksandr Artynyuk	Soviet Union	14:08.45
10	Sándor Iharos	Hungary	14:11.91
11	Albie Thomas	Australia	14:20.88
12	Luigi Conti	Italy	14:34.45

Key: DNF = did not finish

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's 5000 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-07.