European Athletics Championships 1974/5000 m men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 5000 meter run
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	26 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (preliminary) September 8th (final)
Medalist
gold	Brendan Foster ( GBR )
silver	Manfred Kuschmann ( GDR )
bronze	Lasse Virén ( FIN )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

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	Emiel Puttemans	Brussels , Belgium	20th September 1972
European record
EM record	13: 32.58 min	Juha Väätäinen	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)
1	Willy Polleunis	Belgium	13: 38.6 SB
2	Knut Børø	Norway	13: 38.6 SB
3	Pavel Pěnkava	Czechoslovakia	13: 38.8
4th	Manfred Kuschmann	GDR	13: 39.2
5	Dave Black	Great Britain	13: 41.8
6th	Fernando Cerrada	Spain	13: 56.8 SB
7th	Werner Meier	Switzerland	14: 05.4 SB
8th	Mihaíl Koúsis	Greece	14: 07.0 SB
DNF	Aniceto Simões	Portugal

Forward 2

Eamonn Coghlan (here in 2008) was eliminated as seventh in his preliminary run

Léon Schots could not finish his advance

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	13: 56.6
2	Arne Kvalheim	Norway	13: 56.8
3	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	13: 59.4
4th	Vladimir Satonsky	Soviet Union	14: 01.4
5	Henryk Nogala	Poland	14: 07.0
6th	Chris Stewart	Great Britain	14: 17.2
7th	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	14: 29.6 SB
DNF	Léon Schots	Belgium

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	13: 37.0
2	Jos Hermens	Netherlands	13: 37.4
3	Knut Kvalheim	Norway	13: 37.8
4th	Let Virén	Finland	13: 38.2
5	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	13: 39.0
6th	Petar Svet	Yugoslavia	13: 40.8
7th	Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand	BR Germany	13: 41.4
8th	Christian Cairoche	France	13: 59.6 SB
DNF	Eddy Van Mullem	Belgium

final

The double Olympic champion in 1972 over 5000 and 10,000 meters Lasse Virén won bronze, in 1976 he repeated his Olympic double success

September 8, 1974

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	13: 17.21 CR
2	Manfred Kuschmann	GDR	13: 23.93 NO
3	Let Virén	Finland	13: 24.57 SB
4th	Jos Hermens	Netherlands	13: 25.51 NO
5	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	13: 27.12 NO
6th	Arne Kvalheim	Norway	13: 27.23
7th	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	13: 29.03
8th	Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand	BR Germany	13: 31.93 SB
9	Vladimir Satonsky	Soviet Union	13: 39.6 SB
10	Petar Svet	Yugoslavia	13: 41.6
11	Knut Børø	Norway	13: 45.8
12	Pavel Pěnkava	Czechoslovakia	14: 00.6
13	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	14: 14.2
14th	Knut Kvalheim	Norway	14: 19.0
15th	Willy Polleunis	Belgium	14: 23.2

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  Jos Hermens came in fourth

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  Willy Polleunis was fifteenth in this final

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed July 9