European Athletics Championships 1982/5000 m men

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 5000 meter run
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	26 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	September 8th (preliminary) September 11th (final)
Medalist
gold	Thomas Wessinghage ( FRG )
silver	Werner Schildhauer ( GDR )
bronze	David Moorcroft ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The men's 5000 meter run at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 8 and 11, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

European champion was the German runner Thomas Wessinghage , who was third in the European Championship in 1974 over 1500 meters . Werner Schildhauer from the GDR won silver , five days earlier also over 10,000 meters in second place. Bronze went to the British world record holder David Moorcroft .

Existing records

World record	13:00, 41 min	David Moorcroft	Oslo , Norway	July 7, 1982
European record
Championship record	13: 17.21 min	Brendan Foster	EM Rome , Italy	September 8, 1974

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

September 8, 1982

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first six athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the three fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

After finishing tenth over 10,000 meters , Alex Hagelsteens (here in a half-mafrathon) did not reach the final as twelfth of his preliminary run

Henrik Jørgensen finished fourteen in his preliminary run and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	David Moorcroft	Great Britain	13: 30.28
2	Werner Schildhauer	GDR	13: 30.49
3	Dietmar Millonig	Austria	13: 30.61
4th	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	13: 30.75 SB
5	Valery Abramov	Soviet Union	13: 30.98 SB
6th	Christoph Herle	BR Germany	13: 31.06 SB
7th	António Leitão	Portugal	13: 31.89
8th	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	13: 34.43 SB
9	Viktor Chumakov	Soviet Union	13: 34.50 SB
10	Knut Kvalheim	Norway	13: 41.85 SB
11	Hans Segerfeldt	Sweden	13: 44.07
12	Alex Hagelsteens	Belgium	13: 50.03 SB
13	Philippe Legrand	France	13: 55.04
14th	Henrik Jørgensen	Denmark	14: 14.05 SB
DNF	Par Wallin	Sweden

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Thomas Wessinghage	BR Germany	13: 26.48
2	Hansjörg Kunze	GDR	13: 27.45 SB
3	Tim Hutchings	Great Britain	13: 27.58 SB
4th	Alberto Cova	Italy	13: 27.65
5	Evgeni Ignatov	Bulgaria	13: 27.78 SB
6th	Mats Erixon	Sweden	13: 28.08 SB
7th	Dmitri Dmitriev	Soviet Union	13: 28.45 SB
8th	Martti Vainio	Finland	13: 29.20
9	Mike McLeod	Great Britain	13: 29.90 SB
10	Fotios Kourtis	Greece	14: 22.18 SB
DNF	Francis Gonzalez	Spain

final

The 1500 meter - EC third from 1974 Thomas Wessinghage now successfully focused on the 5000 meter run and became European champion

September 11, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Thomas Wessinghage	BR Germany	13: 28.90
2	Werner Schildhauer	GDR	13: 30.03
3	David Moorcroft	Great Britain	13: 30.42
4th	Evgeni Ignatov	Bulgaria	13: 30.95
5	Dietmar Millonig	Austria	13: 31.03
6th	Valery Abramov	Soviet Union	13: 31.26
7th	Tim Hutchings	Great Britain	13: 31.83
8th	Martti Vainio	Finland	13: 33.69
9	Hansjörg Kunze	GDR	13: 35.71
10	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	13: 36.11
11	Dmitri Dmitriev	Soviet Union	13: 37.91
12	Mike McLeod	Great Britain	13: 38.99
13	Christoph Herle	BR Germany	13: 45.54
14th	Mats Erixon	Sweden	13: 52.39
DSQ	Alberto Cova	Italy

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  Silver medalist Werner Schildhauer had also won silver over 10,000 meters five days earlier - at the 1983 World Championships he was second in the 5000 and 10,000 meters

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  David Moorcroft had recently brought the world record into his possession and won the bronze medal here

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  Hansjörg Kunze came in ninth - in 1988 he became Olympic Knight

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  Mike McLeod (left) finished twelfth in that final - in 1984 he won the Olympic silver medal

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  The 10,000-meter European champion Alberto Cova, a year later world champion and two years later Olympic champion , gave up the race

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 18, 2019
• Men 5000m European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed August 18, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 5000m European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 437 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 18, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 5000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 18, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 18, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed August 18, 2019