| Event: | Men's 3000 metres team race |
| Games: | 1920 Summer |
| Venue: | Olympisch Stadion |
| Dates: | August 21–22 |
| Competitors: | 31 |
| Nations: | 6 |
| Longnames: | yes |
| Gold: | Hal Brown, Arlie Schardt, Ivan Dresser, Lawrence Shields, Michael Devaney |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Joe Blewitt, Albert Hill, William Seagrove, Percy Hodge, Duncan McPhee, James Hatton |
| Silvernoc: | GBR |
| Bronze: | Eric Backman, Sven Lundgren, Edvin Wide, John Zander, Josef Holsner |
| Bronzenoc: | SWE |
| Prev: | 1912 |
| Next: | 1924 |
The men's 3000 metres team event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics.[1] It was the second appearance of a 3000-metre team race event after the debut in 1912, but the fifth time that a team contest was arranged at the Olympics. The competition was held on Saturday, August 21, 1920, and on Sunday, August 22, 1920. 31 runners from six nations competed.
The world record in the individual 3000 metres was 8:33.2 by John Zander. Zander's multiple world records in the event eclipsed the 8:36.8 mark from the 1912 Olympic team race, which at the time was a world record.
In the second heat, Edmond Brossard set a new Olympic record of 8:35.6.
Both semi-finals were held on Saturday, August 21, 1920.
Semifinal 1
Team result
| width=20 rowspan=2 | Place | width=180 rowspan=2 | Team | Scores | width=50 rowspan=2 | Qual. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=30 | 1 | width=30 | 2 | width=30 | 3 | Total | |||
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | Q | ||||
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | Q | ||||
| 3 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 25 | Q | ||||
| 4 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 30 | |||||
| width=20 | Place | width=220 | Athlete | width=50 | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | 7 | ||||
| 8 | 8 | ||||
| 9 | 9 | ||||
| 10 | 10 | ||||
| 11 | — | ||||
| 12 | — | ||||
| 13 | — | ||||
| 14 | 11 | ||||
| 15 | — | ||||
| 16 | 12 | ||||
| 17 | — | ||||
| 18 | — | ||||
| 19 | — | ||||
| 20 | — |
Semifinal 2
Team result:
| width=20 rowspan=2 | Place | width=180 rowspan=2 | Team | Scores | width=50 rowspan=2 | Qual. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=30 | 1 | width=30 | 2 | width=30 | 3 | Total | |||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | Q | ||||
| 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | Q | ||||
| width=20 | Place | width=220 | Athlete | width=50 | Score | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 8:35.6[2] | ||||
| 2 | 2 | 8:36.4e | ||||
| 3 | 3 | |||||
| 4 | 4 | |||||
| 5 | 5 | |||||
| 6 | 6 | |||||
| 7 | — | |||||
| 8 | — | |||||
| 9 | — | |||||
| 10 | — |
The final was held on Sunday, August 22, 1920.
Team result:
| width=20 rowspan=2 | Place | width=180 rowspan=2 | Team | Scores | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=30 | 1 | width=30 | 2 | width=30 | 3 | Total | |
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | |||
| 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 20 | |||
| 3 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 24 | |||
| 4 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 30 | |||
| 5 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 36 | |||
Individual race result:
| width=20 | Place | width=220 | Athlete | width=50 | Score | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 8:45.4[3] | ||||
| 2 | 2 | 8:45.5e | ||||
| 3 | 3 | 8:46.4e | ||||
| 4 | 4 | 8:47.3e | ||||
| 5 | 5 | |||||
| 6 | 6 | |||||
| 7 | 7 | |||||
| 8 | — | |||||
| 9 | 8 | |||||
| 10 | — | |||||
| 11 | 9 | |||||
| 12 | — | |||||
| 13 | 10 | |||||
| 14 | 11 | |||||
| 15 | 12 | |||||
| 16 | 13 | |||||
| 17 | 14 | |||||
| 18 | 15 | |||||
| 19 | — | |||||
| 20 | — | |||||
| 21 | — | |||||
| — | DNF | |||||
| DNF |