European Athletics Championships 1974/5000 m men
11th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's 5000 meter run |
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Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Attendees | 26 athletes from 18 countries |
Competition phase | September 6th (preliminary) September 8th (final) |
Medalist | |
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Brendan Foster ( GBR )
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Manfred Kuschmann ( GDR )
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Lasse Virén ( FIN )
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The men's 5000-meter run at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6th and 8th, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .
European champion was the British Championship -Third of 1971 over 1500 meters Brendan Foster . Second place went to Manfred Kuschmann from the GDR, who had won the 10,000 meter run six days earlier . Bronze went to the Finnish double Olympic champion in 1972 over 5000 and 10,000 meters Lasse Virén .
Records
Existing records
World record | 13: 12.0 min |
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Brussels , Belgium | 20th September 1972 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 13: 32.58 min |
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EM Helsinki , Finland | 15th August 1971 |
Record improvement
European champion Brendan Foster improved the existing EM record in the final on September 8th by 15.37 seconds to 13: 17.21 minutes.
Preliminary round
September 6, 1974, 7:10 p.m.
The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the three fastest runners - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Willy Polleunis |
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13: 38.6 SB |
2 | Knut Børø |
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13: 38.6 SB |
3 | Pavel Pěnkava |
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13: 38.8 |
4th | Manfred Kuschmann |
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13: 39.2 |
5 | Dave Black |
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13: 41.8 |
6th | Fernando Cerrada |
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13: 56.8 SB |
7th | Werner Meier |
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14: 05.4 SB |
8th | Mihaíl Koúsis |
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14: 07.0 SB |
DNF | Aniceto Simões |
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Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Pekka Päivärinta |
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13: 56.6 |
2 | Arne Kvalheim |
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13: 56.8 |
3 | Stanislav Hoffman |
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13: 59.4 |
4th | Vladimir Satonsky |
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14: 01.4 |
5 | Henryk Nogala |
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14: 07.0 |
6th | Chris Stewart |
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14: 17.2 |
7th | Eamonn Coghlan |
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14: 29.6 SB |
DNF | Léon Schots |
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Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Brendan Foster |
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13: 37.0 |
2 | Jos Hermens |
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13: 37.4 |
3 | Knut Kvalheim |
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13: 37.8 |
4th | Let Virén |
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13: 38.2 |
5 | Ilie Floroiu |
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13: 39.0 |
6th | Petar Svet |
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13: 40.8 |
7th | Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand |
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13: 41.4 |
8th | Christian Cairoche |
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13: 59.6 SB |
DNF | Eddy Van Mullem |
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final
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September 8, 1974
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Brendan Foster |
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13: 17.21 CR |
2 | Manfred Kuschmann |
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13: 23.93 NO |
3 | Let Virén |
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13: 24.57 SB |
4th | Jos Hermens |
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13: 25.51 NO |
5 | Ilie Floroiu |
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13: 27.12 NO |
6th | Arne Kvalheim |
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13: 27.23 |
7th | Stanislav Hoffman |
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13: 29.03 |
8th | Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand |
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13: 31.93 SB |
9 | Vladimir Satonsky |
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13: 39.6 SB |
10 | Petar Svet |
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13: 41.6 |
11 | Knut Børø |
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13: 45.8 |
12 | Pavel Pěnkava |
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14: 00.6 |
13 | Pekka Päivärinta |
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14: 14.2 |
14th | Knut Kvalheim |
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14: 19.0 |
15th | Willy Polleunis |
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14: 23.2 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 8, 2019
- Men 5000m European Championship 1974 Rome on todor66.com, accessed July 8, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 8, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 5000m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 421 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 8, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 5000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 8, 2019
- 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 8, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed July 9