A Breathtaking finish between Emil Zátopek and Gaston Reiff in the 5,000m - London 1948 Olympics

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    Classic highlights as of the incredible finish between Emil Zátopek and Gaston Reiff in the men's 5,000m at the London 1948 Olympic Games.
    In the final of the 5,000m. Trailing by 50m at the start of the final lap, he closed the gap with a stunning sprint finish. But he had to settle for silver finishing just 1.5 metres behind the victor, Gaston Etienne Reiff of Belgium.
    Zátopek had a distinctive running style. He would pant and wheeze and would look visibly shattered during a race. This led to him being nicknamed "The Locomotive". When asked about his rather inelegant looking style, he replied: "This isn't gymnastics or ice skating, you know."
    Emil Zátopek is the only runner to win the 5,000m, the 10,000m and the marathon at the same Olympic Games at Helsinki 1952. He went undefeated in his first 38 races over 10,000m from 1948 through to 1954, and is recognised as one the greatest runners of all time.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 99

  • @blackdog6055
    @blackdog6055 8 років тому +162

    Colour footage from 1948, very impressive. Can you imagine todays athletes running 5K in mud for an Olympic title. Zat-o-pek, Zat-o-pek, Zat-o-pek.

    • @comeacross9
      @comeacross9 7 років тому +11

      I recall reading years ago that Zatopek's fans would chant his name in time with his pace. They would step up the chant to aid his finishing kick.
      It might be legend but it is interesting.

    • @tundetheepic8631
      @tundetheepic8631 4 роки тому

      comeacross9 Agreeing with you

  • @johncampbell463
    @johncampbell463 3 роки тому +29

    God opened up a door that spend 6 hrs with Emil at his house in Prague in 1990. Such a gracious man who shared freely with me. Took many pictures of him one even running. I praise God!

  • @kingwilson06ad
    @kingwilson06ad 9 років тому +63

    Kudos to whoever edited this clip to make it look so crisp. Thanks!

  • @izabelaurbanova9193
    @izabelaurbanova9193 5 років тому +25

    Our czech hero we miss you bro💘🇨🇿náš český hrdina chybíš nám brácho

  • @mtgne5351
    @mtgne5351 3 роки тому +14

    Emil Zátopek is a hero of my country Czech Republic.

  • @babiskornezos4866
    @babiskornezos4866 4 роки тому +27

    Results:
    1. Gaston Reiff (BEL) 14'.17''.6 Olympic Record
    2. Emil Zatopek (TCH) 14'.17''.8
    3. Willem Slijkhuis (NED) 14'.26''.8
    4. Erik Ahlden (SWE) 14'.28''.6
    5. Bertil Albertsson (SWE) 14'.39''.0
    6. Curtis Stone (USA) 14'.39''.4
    7. Vaino Koskela (FIN) 14'.41''.0
    8. Vaino Makela (FIN) 14'.43''.0

  • @gopher3737
    @gopher3737 12 років тому +33

    Great to see Zatopek run, one of the greatest distance runners of all time.

  • @raphaelledeutsch6159
    @raphaelledeutsch6159 8 років тому +14

    Gaston Reiff (and not gaston reiff, please, respect the capital letters), a legend of the Belgian athletics !

  • @opusdei1545
    @opusdei1545 10 років тому +21

    Little did they know 4 years later.

  • @gakaface
    @gakaface 12 років тому +11

    Incredible resolution film and digitisation. If only all great archive footage could be done to this standard.
    Great piece featuring Zatopek.

  • @jimmmy1941
    @jimmmy1941 11 років тому +11

    My hero, the great Zatopek.

  • @muddu-awuliraedwardbernard4936
    @muddu-awuliraedwardbernard4936 Місяць тому +2

    Watching this in 2024 after witnessing S. Hassan exhibit greatness.

  • @venedig893
    @venedig893 7 років тому +5

    thanks for these. I am inspired to show these to my students!

  • @rebbulldesertduke
    @rebbulldesertduke 2 роки тому +2

    Hands down the most extraordinary runner of all time.

  • @runner2008
    @runner2008 2 місяці тому

    When the announcer said `nineteen hundred and twelve` it gave me goosebumps. That is like an announcer today saying the record still holds from 1988.

  • @lease2coach1
    @lease2coach1 11 років тому +5

    Thanks, thanks! Outstanding quality.

  • @gastonlopez8547
    @gastonlopez8547 4 роки тому +4

    ÙNICO!!!
    Correr con llúvia es maravilloso!!

  • @leomurillo9381
    @leomurillo9381 3 роки тому +19

    Zapotek was not very talented but for sure the most determined and psychological strong runner in history. What he developed (modern day training-e.g. 50 X 400's in approximately 65-70 each with resting 15 to 20 seconds in army boots-runs in the forest every single day) and did during those training sessions (for years) made him accomplish things that were unthinkable then and even today.

    • @jonglewongle3438
      @jonglewongle3438 3 роки тому

      He had that bit of starch. I don't that that he ever did, but he was quite well capable of, run the 16 miles to the next village in time for the fete, and someone goes, " What ? Nah. Give us five and we'll run over you there by auto. ", and he replies, " Nah, I'll do it anyway. I'll be there in well under 2 short hours. ".

    • @СашаСимшов
      @СашаСимшов Рік тому

      Добиваться успехов позволяют природные данные
      Тренировки позволяют набирать соревновательный тонус и не более того
      Не понятно как он не угробил свое здоровье таким числом повторений
      Если это не дезинформация

  • @lease2coach170
    @lease2coach170 10 років тому +39

    *This is badly MISTITLED. This is about the **_5,000_** meters and not about the **_10,000_**, which Zatopek had won in commanding fashion earlier in these 1948 London Olympic Games.*

    • @lease2coach170
      @lease2coach170 7 років тому +5

      Thanks for having corrected the title!

  • @bachmannstudios860
    @bachmannstudios860 7 років тому +22

    my favorite Czech olympiad!

  • @gabrielfriedel4754
    @gabrielfriedel4754 3 роки тому +3

    What a footage!

  • @mnottri1041
    @mnottri1041 4 роки тому +2

    »Vogel fliegt, Fisch schwimmt, Mensch läuft«
    Emil Zátopek
    "Bird flies, fish swims, Human runs"

  • @dooshunv.7429
    @dooshunv.7429 4 роки тому +4

    Just amazing !

  • @International1ify
    @International1ify 10 років тому +11

    No no the title is correct. This occurred in an alternate universe where Gaston Reiff and Zatopek switched places.

  • @raphaelledeutsch6159
    @raphaelledeutsch6159 8 років тому +8

    And this was the 5.000 m race. Zatopek won the 10.000 m, indeed.

  • @linglingjr
    @linglingjr 12 років тому +6

    Is thid super edited and remastered? It looks amazing.

  • @pyrrusoverwinning
    @pyrrusoverwinning 7 років тому +1

    まさかこんな映像が見られるなんて。感激!

  • @oneputtsteven
    @oneputtsteven 8 років тому +20

    The Title is completely messed up. Zatopek's amazing triple was in 1952, not 1948 and this is the 5000M from 1948 not the 10,000M in 1952

    • @englishman1960
      @englishman1960 8 років тому +1

      it does say the 10000m from 1948 though even though the clip is from the 5000m of that year

    • @ronaldparker6726
      @ronaldparker6726 8 років тому

      💀Madame butterfly

  • @andreagaribaldi1966
    @andreagaribaldi1966 11 місяців тому

    Ho conosciuto personalmente Wim Slijkhuis a metà anni '90; veniva in vacanza nel campeggio dove ho lavorato per alcuni anni, a Cervo Ligure; una persona semplice e modesta.

  • @ObscureAuteur
    @ObscureAuteur 10 років тому +2

    Great footage and in colour! (as they write in London). Good clear compression on the upload video, not pixelated and grainy beyond recognition like so many. Unfortunately, it is Gaston Rieff (also balding to confuse matters) winning the race barely holding off Zatopek's late charge as they lap what appears to be a Finn. probably Helge Perälä.

  • @222mozart
    @222mozart 4 роки тому +1

    Sunday, August, 2nd
    1 Gaston Reiff BEL 14:17,6 OR
    2 Emil Zátopek TCH 14:17,8
    3 Willem Slijkhuis NED 14:26,8
    4 Erik Ahldén SWE 14:28,6
    5 Bertil Albertsson SWE 14:39,0
    6 Curtis Stone USA 14:39,4
    7 Väinö Koskela FIN 14:41,0
    8 Väinö Mäkelä FIN 14:43,0

  • @facundozuniga
    @facundozuniga 12 років тому +2

    Un genio Zatopek

  • @ObscureAuteur
    @ObscureAuteur 10 років тому +16

    The uploader should edit his title to reflect the actual outcome of the race.

  • @skiddo1243
    @skiddo1243 5 років тому

    What a guy.

  • @silvanofraga6476
    @silvanofraga6476 Рік тому

    Melhor de todos os tempos

  • @ivansanders8459
    @ivansanders8459 8 років тому +2

    Cinder tracks were rarely that messy. I've never before seen track runners with such filthy uniforms.

  • @stephanweaver1960
    @stephanweaver1960 4 роки тому +1

    Love running in the mud usually, but not when I'm in the Olympics (-:

  • @AlexCheng42
    @AlexCheng42 12 років тому +3

    now that, fellas, is how and why you finish strong.

  • @stephanweaver1960
    @stephanweaver1960 7 років тому +1

    Color!

  • @mariowildner5874
    @mariowildner5874 3 роки тому

    In Krasna Lipa is a brewery that named a fine tasting light beer after Emil Zatopek. Falkenštejn Brewery🍺🇨🇿

  • @turniptod12
    @turniptod12 11 років тому +2

    It is almost hard to believe that this video is from the 1950's!

    • @KF-cx8bm
      @KF-cx8bm 4 роки тому

      It clearly says in the title 1948, so not the 50,s

  • @222mozart
    @222mozart 10 років тому +4

    great
    old testamenticly

  • @raffaojeda
    @raffaojeda 9 років тому +5

    This video is not from the title!!

  • @jamesball5743
    @jamesball5743 6 років тому +1

    Zatopek is a legend wow. This footage is stunning. But sad to see an Olympics without black athletes.

    • @TheLutrien
      @TheLutrien 6 місяців тому +1

      There were black athletes in other disciplines. They won gold medals in the 100m, 400m, 800m and long jump. In the long distances, Ethiopia and Kenya had not yet emerged.

  • @stevelafler
    @stevelafler 11 років тому +1

    Zatopek finishes 2nd in this1948 Olympic 5000 meter race for the silver medal. That is Gaston Reiff of Belgium taking the gold. Emil later took the 5000 gold in Helsinki in 1952.

    • @doposud
      @doposud 3 роки тому

      actualy 3 gold medals in 1952 -one from marathon which he ran for the first time ,
      and his wife Dana won gold in Javelin throw at same olympic games

  • @Watkinsstudio
    @Watkinsstudio 2 роки тому +1

    Showing a running event in slow-motion is a bad idea. Smh.

  • @lakycz2435
    @lakycz2435 Рік тому

    Yes I'm from Czechia

  • @CowCommander1
    @CowCommander1 12 років тому +5

    It looks way newer! This camera must of been expensive!!!

    • @roblee1909
      @roblee1909 4 роки тому

      ...must HAVE been.....

    • @CowCommander1
      @CowCommander1 3 роки тому +1

      @@roblee1909 Dude this comment is literally almost a decade old what the heck? lol

    • @simonhindley65
      @simonhindley65 2 роки тому +1

      I bet Rob Lee us fun at parties.

  • @alevit3442
    @alevit3442 7 років тому +1

    Nejrychlejší čech😀

  • @thomhill7540
    @thomhill7540 4 роки тому

    0:27 nice hat

  • @avdreader1
    @avdreader1 11 років тому +8

    Zatopek discribed his strategy in this race as "very very stupid."

    • @green_harp
      @green_harp 4 роки тому +1

      but latter in 1952 he got 3 Gold medals (besides the gold medal in 10 000 m in London 1948) and made Greater achievement than Gaston Reiff who still got just this gold medal in all life

  • @jby8768
    @jby8768 5 років тому

    Reiff 14mn 17 s 6 Zatopek 14mn 17s 8 Slijkhuis 14mn 26 s 8....... Zatopek "Le terrassier de Prague". Quelle course.

  • @zsuzsapfeffernevolgyi9169
    @zsuzsapfeffernevolgyi9169 4 роки тому

    Igen, volt ilyen is.Mindenért küzdeni kellett, nem is kicsit.

  • @ДмитрийС-з4з
    @ДмитрийС-з4з 5 років тому +1

    Бег в грязи. Неужели в 1948 году нельзя было технологичней дорожку сделать?

  • @avdreader1
    @avdreader1 11 років тому

    Mine too.

  • @reinismartinsons
    @reinismartinsons 6 років тому +1

    Zatopek looks like an upgraded version of Danny DeVito

    • @saminieminen4871
      @saminieminen4871 9 місяців тому

      It´s not Zatopek, it´s Gaston Reiff who wins the race.

  • @qq331002556
    @qq331002556 12 років тому

    i like

  • @jeanmariebasset2544
    @jeanmariebasset2544 4 роки тому

    >Zatopek,un nom qui sonne bien et que l'on retiens

  • @geneclemetson4779
    @geneclemetson4779 Місяць тому

    A muddy cinder track, rain soaked leather spikes, heavy soaked cotton uniforms . . . . . The runners today have no clue how BAD they've got it!! LOL

  • @matthewcrook4663
    @matthewcrook4663 9 років тому +5

    Ummm...Zatopek didn't win!!

  • @tundetheepic8631
    @tundetheepic8631 4 роки тому

    Zaropek!

  • @athleticscoach2012
    @athleticscoach2012 11 років тому +2

    The uploader of this know nothing about athletics history and has not even bothered watch their own video and see or listen to who actually won the race.

  • @carloseduardovalim
    @carloseduardovalim 10 років тому +2

    I believe it is the European Championship, before the Olympic Games.... maybe 1946

  • @jakubjanik5901
    @jakubjanik5901 4 роки тому +1

    Czech forest gump

  • @eddie4324
    @eddie4324 3 роки тому

    Probably the last steroid free Olympics. By 52 the Soviet weightlifters were using gear, with the USA soon following.

  • @zeroceiling
    @zeroceiling 9 років тому +3

    My father went to athletic trainer school and his teacher was non other then..Emil..
    After 1968...whet the Prague Spring was crushed and Zatopek ..having signed a Charter of human rights,
    The communist government created a new job for him....he became a garbage collector for a number of years.

  • @javiervegaluna5217
    @javiervegaluna5217 4 роки тому

    ¿Que chocho le abran puesto?

  • @willtheprodigy3819
    @willtheprodigy3819 11 років тому

    Why is some black and white and some color?

  • @nickbamber268
    @nickbamber268 Рік тому

    hopeless editing

  • @fanuelafela8152
    @fanuelafela8152 Рік тому

    Cross country in stadium

  • @reinismartinsons
    @reinismartinsons 6 років тому

    Why is Danny Devito here

  • @bazs6472
    @bazs6472 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing, however, all the runners are white - where are the Africans?

    • @simonhindley65
      @simonhindley65 2 роки тому +1

      Yet to achieve independence.

    • @saminieminen4871
      @saminieminen4871 2 роки тому +2

      Black athletes won many gold medals in those games. Arthur Wint, JAM 400m, Harrison Dillard, USA 100m, Mal Whitfield, USA 800m, Willie Steele, USA long jump.

  • @jacure123
    @jacure123 9 років тому +1

    At least we know a white guy will win.lol

  • @roustabout4fun
    @roustabout4fun Рік тому

    I am grateful for the spirit that moves US! An extremely amazing competitor. 🤎😸