Zatopek Wins 5,000 Metres - And Sets Up New Games Record -- E. Zatopek, of Czechoslovakia, winning the 5,000 metres event at the European Games here. With a new Games championship time of 14 minutes, 3seconds, he was about a hundred yards ahead of A. Mimoun (France), who came second. Third was the Belgian Gaston Reiff, who defeated the Czech at Wembley in the 1948 Olympic Games. August 27, 1950.
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