European Athletics Championships 1969/5000 m men
9th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's 5000 meter run |
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Stadion | Karaiskakis Stadium |
Attendees | 13 athletes from 9 countries |
Competition phase | September 19th |
Medalist | |
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Ian Stewart ( GBR )
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Raschid Sharafetdinov ( URS )
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Alan Blinston ( GBR )
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The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009
The men's 5000 meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 19, 1969 in Athens' Karaiskakis Stadium .
In this competition, Great Britain won two medals with gold and bronze. European champion was Ian Stewart . He won ahead of the Soviet runner Raschid Sharafetdinov. Bronze went to Alan Blinston.
Existing records
World record | 13: 16.6 min |
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Stockholm , Sweden | 5th July 1966 |
European record | 13: 24.8 min |
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Cologne , then FR Germany (now Germany ) | 7 September 1966 |
EM record | 13: 42.8 min |
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EM Budapest , Hungary | 4th September 1966 |
The existing championship record was not set and not improved at these European championships.
Preliminary round
Actually, preliminary runs had been scheduled for September 17th at 7:00 p.m. However, due to the number of only thirteen participants, these were omitted, and all runners competed together for the final two days later.
final
September 19, 1969, 6:55 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Ian Stewart |
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13: 44.8 SB |
2 | Raschid Sharafetdinov |
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13: 45.8 SB |
3 | Alan Blinston |
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13: 47.6 SB |
4th | Bernd Dießner |
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13: 50.4 SB |
5 | Danijel Korica |
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13: 51.4 SB |
6th | Giuseppe Ardizzone |
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13: 51.8 SB |
7th | Emiel Puttemans |
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13: 52.2 SB |
8th | Bengt Nåjde |
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13: 55.8 SB |
9 | Noël Tijou |
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13: 56.8 SB |
10 | René Jourdan |
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13: 58.5 |
11 | Ivan Shopsha |
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14: 01.8 |
12 | Stanislav Petr |
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14: 12.8 SB |
13 | Michael Baxter |
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14: 19.0 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 7, 2019
- Men 5000m European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 7, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 7, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 5000m European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 406 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 7, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 5000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
- 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
Video
- Ian Stewart - European 5000m Champion, Athens 1969 , published June 21, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed June 7, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed June 7
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 5000 m Men , p. 13 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 7, 2019 (French / English)