Olympic Games 1956 - Melbourne

MEN MARATHON - 2:25:00 Alain MIMOUN (fra)

The marathon was held on Saturday December 1, 1956. It started at 3:15 p.m. local time. There were a total number of 46 participants from 23 nations, with 13 runners not completing the race.

Results
1°	Alain	Mimoun	France	2:25:00
2°	Franjo	Mihalic	Yugoslavia	2:26:32
3°	Veikko	Karvonen	Finland	2:27:47
4°	Lee	Chang-Hoon	Korea	2:28:45
5°	Yoshiaki	Kawashima	Japan	2:29:19
6°	Emil	Zatopek	Czechoslovakia	2:29:34
7°	Ivan	Filin	Soviet Union	2:30:37
8°	Jvert	Nyberg	Sweden	2:31:12
9°	Thomas	Nilsson	Sweden	2:33:33
10°	Eino	Oksanen	Finland	2:36:10
11°	Arnold	Waide	Sweden	2:36:21
12°	Choi	Chung-Sik	Korea	2:36:53
13°	Paavo	Kotila	Finland	2:38:59
14°	Mercer	Davis	South African Republic	2:39:48
15°	Harry	Hicks	Great Britain	2:39:55
16°	Hideo	Hamamura	Japan	2:40:53
17°	Albert	Richards	New Zealand	2:41:34
18°	John	Russell	Australia	2:41:44
19°	Lothar	Beckert	United team of Germany	2:42:10
20°	Nick	Costes	United States of America	2:42:20
21°	Johnny	Kelley	United States of America	2:43:40
22°	Muhamad	Havlidar Aslam	Pakistan	2:44:33
23°	Adolf	Gruber	Austria	2:46:20
24°	Aurèle	van den Driessche	Belgium	2:47:18
25°	Keith	Ollerenshaw	Australia	2:48:12
26°	Naw	Myitung	Burma	2:49:32
27°	Pavel	Kantorek	Czechoslovakia	2:52:05
28°	Kurt	Hartung	United team of Germany	2:52:14
29°	Bashay	Feleke	Ethiopia	2:53:37
30°	Abdul	Rashid	Pakistan	2:57:47
31°	Arap Sum	Kanuti	Kenya	2:58:42
32°	Gebre	Birkay	Ethiopia	2:58:49
33°	Kurao	Hiroshima	Japan	3:04:17
Did not finish
DNF	Les	Perry	Australia
DNF	Eduardo	Fontecilla	Chile
DNF	Eduardo	Silva	Chile
DNF	Ron	Clark	Great Britain
DNF	Fred	Norris	Great Britain
DNF	Ali	Baghbanbashi	Iran
DNF	Giuseppe	Lavelli	Italy
DNF	Wha	Dong-Lim	Korea
DNF	Jan	Barnard	South African Republic
DNF	Boris	Grichaev	Soviet Union
DNF	Albert	Ivanov	Soviet Union
DNF	Dean	Thackwray	United States of America
DNF	Klaus	Portadnik	United team of Germany
Did not start
Disqualified