European Athletics Championships 1958/5000 m men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 5000 meter run
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	25 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 21 (preliminary) August 23 (final)
Medalist
gold	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak ( POL )
silver	Kazimierz Zimny ( POL )
bronze	Gordon Pirie ( GBR )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 5000-meter run at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 21 and 23, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

There was a double victory for Poland in this discipline. European champion was Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak , who won his second gold medal at these championships four days earlier after winning the 10,000 meter title . Kazimierz Zimny came in second . Bronze went to the Briton Gordon Pirie .

Records

Existing records

World record	13: 35.0 min	Vladimir Kuz	Rome , Italy	October 13, 1957
European record
Championship record	13: 56.6 min		EM Bern , Switzerland	August 29, 1954

Record improvement

European champion Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak improved the European Championship record by 3.2 seconds to 13: 53.4 minutes in the final on 23 August .  

Preliminary round

Hein Cujé was eliminated as eighth of his run

For Joep Delnoye - here as the leader in a forest run - it was not enough to take part in the final after finishing tenth in the second preliminary run

Eugène Allonsius was eleventh in his heat and was eliminated

August 21, 1958, 5 p.m.

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first six athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final, which was held two days later.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sándor Iharos	Hungary	14: 05.6 SB
2	Michel Bernard	France	14: 05.8 SB
3	Kazimierz Zimny	Poland	14: 08.0
4th	Gordon Pirie	Great Britain	14: 08.4
5	Ludwig Muller	Germany	14: 08.8 PB
6th	Hubert Pärnäkiwi	Soviet Union	14: 09.0
7th	Eero Tuomaala	Finland	14: 10.8 PB
8th	Hein Cujé	Netherlands	14: 12.8 PB
9	Albert Messitt	Ireland	14: 14.8 PB
10	Marcel Vandewattyne	Belgium	14: 18.2 PB
11	Sven Lundgren	Sweden	14: 27.6
12	Thyge Thøgersen	Denmark	14: 29.0 SB
13	Christos Chiotis	Greece	14: 33.6 PB
14th	José Molina	Spain	14: 57.8 PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Alexander Artynyuk	Soviet Union	14: 06.8
2	Peter Clark	Great Britain	14: 09.6
3	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	14: 12.2 SB
4th	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak	Poland	14: 12.4
5	Miroslav Jurek	Czechoslovakia	14: 12.4
6th	Friedrich Janke	Germany	14: 12.4 SB
7th	Jorma Kakko	Finland	14: 16.4 PB
8th	Maurice Chiclet	France	14: 17.0 PB
9	Manuel Alonso	Spain	14: 18.0 PB
10	Joep Delnoye	Netherlands	14: 18.4 PB
11	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	14: 24.2 SB

final

Vice European Champion Kazimierz Zimny ​​in a photo from 2013 

August 23, 1958, 6:20 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak	Poland	13: 53.4 CR
2	Kazimierz Zimny	Poland	13: 55.2 SB
3	Gordon Pirie	Great Britain	14: 01.6 SB
4th	Peter Clark	Great Britain	14: 03.8 PB
5	Alexander Artynyuk	Soviet Union	14: 05.6 PB
6th	Sándor Iharos	Hungary	14: 07.2
7th	Miroslav Jurek	Czechoslovakia	14: 12.0 SB
8th	Friedrich Janke	Germany	14: 17.0
9	Michel Bernard	France	14: 18.4
10	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	14: 29.4
11	Hubert Pärnäkiwi	Soviet Union	14: 34.8
12	Ludwig Muller	Germany	14: 34.8

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  The 1956 Olympic runner- up Gordon Pirie won the bronze medal

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  Friedrich Janke - here in an obstacle race - came in eighth place

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  Michel Bernard finished ninth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 25, 2019
• Men 5000m European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed April 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 5000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 25, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on April 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed April 24, 2019