Race profile

Olympic Games
Melbourne AUS
23 Nov 1956
Outdoor Track
10 km
Men: -12.68 sec (-1.26 sec/km)
Olympic Games

Results (men)

Finished Time Flags Given name Surname Alternate name Citizenship Birth date Prize money Actions
1 28:45.49 Vladimir Kuts UKR 05 Feb 1927
2 28:52.36 Jozsef Kovacs HUN 03 Mar 1926
3 28:53.59 Allan Lawrence AUS 09 Jul 1930
4 29:05.41 Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak POL 03 Aug 1929
5 29:21.6 Kenneth Norris ENG 11 Jul 1931
6 29:31.6 Ivan Chernyavskiy UKR 04 May 1930
7 29:49.2 David Power AUS 14 Jul 1928
8 29:49.6 Gordon Pirie ENG 10 Feb 1931
9 30:00.6 Herbert Schade GER 26 May 1922
10 30:05.0 Frank Sando ENG 14 Mar 1931
11 30:06.0 Pavel Kantorek CZE 08 Feb 1930
12 30:18.0 Alain Mimoun FRA 01 Jan 1921
13 30:30.0 Walter Konrad AUT 04 Jul 1928
14 Frans Herman BEL 06 Feb 1927
15 Thyge Thørgersen Peterson DEN 04 Nov 1926
16 Pyotr Bolotnikov RUS 08 Mar 1930
18 30:34.4 Gordon McKenzie USA 27 Jun 1927
20 David Stephens AUS 11 Nov 1928
22 31:10.6 Ilmari Taipale FIN 18 May 1928
23 31:21.0 Douglas Kyle CAN 22 Jul 1932
DNF DNF Max Truex USA 04 Nov 1935
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