5,000-Meter Run
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| 1912 | Hannes Kolehmainen, Finland | 14:36.60 |
| 1920 | Joseph Guillemot, France | 14:55.60 |
| 1924 | Paavo Nurmi, Finland | 14:31.20 |
| 1928 | Willie Ritola, Finland | 14:38.00 |
| 1932 | Lauri Lehtinen, Finland | 14:30.00 |
| 1936 | Gunnar Hockert, Finland | 14:22.20 |
| 1948 | Gaston Reiff, Belgium | 14:17.60 |
| 1952 | Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakia | 14:06.60 |
| 1956 | Vladimir Kuts, USSR | 13:39.60 |
| 1960 | Murray Halberg, New Zealand | 13:43.40 |
| 1964 | Bob Schul, United States | 13:48.80 |
| 1968 | Mohamed Gammoudi, Tunisia | 14:05.00 |
| 1972 | Lasse Viren, Finland | 13:26.40 |
| 1976 | Lasse Viren, Finland | 13:24.76 |
| 1980 | Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia | 13:21.00 |
| 1984 | Saud Aouita, Morocco | 13:05.59 |
| 1988 | John Ngugi, Kenya | 13:11.70 |
| 1992 | Dieter Baumann, Germany | 13:12.52 |
| 1996 | Venuste Niyongabo, Burundi | 13:07.96 |
| 2000 | Millon Wolde, Ethiopia | 13:35.49 |
| 2004 | Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco | 13:14.39 |
| 2008 | Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopia | 12:57.82* |
*Olympic record
