Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

	Men's 5000 metres; at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	July 31 (heats); August 2 (final)
Medalists
	Gaston Reiff; Belgium
	Emil Zátopek; Czechoslovakia
	Wim Slijkhuis; Netherlands
«1936	1952»

Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
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
10 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 event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place July 31 and August 2. The final was won by Belgian Gaston Reiff.

Results [edit]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1 !	Gaston Reiff	Belgium	14:17.6	OR
2 !	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	14:17.8
3 !	Wim Slijkhuis	Netherlands	14:26.8
4	Erik Ahldén	Sweden	14:28.6
5	Bertil Albertsson	Sweden	14:39.0
6	Curt Stone	United States	14:39.4
7	Väinö Koskela	Finland	14:41.0
8	Väinö Mäkelä	Finland	14:43.0
9	Marcel Vandewattyne	Belgium
10	Martin Stokken	Norway
11	Helge Perälä	Finland
	Evert Nyberg	Sweden		DNF