Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

Men's 10,000 metres at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	July 31, 1932
Medalists
Janusz Kusociński Poland   Volmari Iso-Hollo Finland   Lasse Virtanen Finland

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
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 steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		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		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 10,000 metres long distance event at the 1932 Summer Olympics took place on July 31 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Results

The race was contested in a final only format, no heats.

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Janusz Kusociński	Poland	30:11.4	OR
02 !	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	30:12.6
03 !	Lasse Virtanen	Finland	30:35.0
4	Billy Savidan	New Zealand	31:09.0
5	Max Syring	Germany	31:35.0
6	Jean-Gunnar Lindgren	Sweden	31:37.0
7	Juan Morales	Mexico	32:03.0
8	Cliff Bricker	Canada
9	Masamichi Kitamoto	Japan
10	Shoichiro Takenaka	Japan
11	José Ribas	Argentina
12	Fernando Cicarelli	Argentina
13	Adalberto Cardoso	Brazil
-	Eino Pentti	United States		DNF
-	Tom Ottey	United States		DNF
-	Lou Gregory	United States		DNF

Key: OR = Olympic record; DNF = did not finish

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Men's 10000 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; Retrieved 07-16-2010