European Athletics Championships 1986/5000 m men

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 5000 meter run
city	Stuttgart
Stadion	Neckar Stadium
Attendees	28 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 28th (preliminary) August 31st (final)
Medalist
gold	Jack Buckner ( GBR )
silver	Stefano Mei ( ITA )
bronze	Tim Hutchings ( GBR )

The Stuttgart stadium - today the Mercedes-Benz Arena in 2011

The men's 5000 meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held on August 28 and 31, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

There were two medals for the British runners in this competition: gold and bronze. Jack Buckner became European champion . Second place went to Italian Stefano Mei , five days earlier European champion over 10,000 meters . Bronze went to Tim Hutchings .

Records

Existing records

World record	13:00, 40 min	Said Aouita	Oslo , Norway	July 27, 1985
European record	13:00, 41 min	David Moorcroft	Oslo , Norway	July 7, 1982
Championship record	13: 17.21 min	Brendan Foster	EM Rome , Italy	September 8, 1974

Record improvement

European champion Jack Buckner improved the existing EM record in the final on August 31 by 7.06 s to 13: 10.15 min.  

Preliminary round

The defending champion Thomas Wessinghage was no longer in the form of earlier years and was eliminated in the run-up

August 28, 1982, 9:20 pm

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

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	13: 30.22
2	Tim Hutchings	Great Britain	13: 30.40
3	Stefano Mei	Italy	13: 30.63
4th	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	13: 30.83
5	Alberto Cova	Italy	13: 31.18
6th	Steve Ovett	Great Britain	13: 31.24
7th	Martti Vainio	Finland	13: 31.51
8th	Thomas Wessinghage	BR Germany	13: 33.98
9	Eirik Hansen	Norway	13: 39.01
10	Lubomír Tesáček	Czechoslovakia	13: 39.70
11	José Manuel Albentosa	Spain	13: 49.86
12	Lars-Erik Nilsson	Sweden	13: 52.76
13	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey	14: 02.08
DNF	José Regalo	Portugal
	Filippos Filippou	Cyprus

Forward 2

Dieter Baumann did not reach the final of his first international championship

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Pierre Délèze	Switzerland	13: 28.61
2	Evgeni Ignatov	Bulgaria	13: 28.84
3	Jack Buckner	Great Britain	13: 28.92
4th	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	13: 29.03
5	António Leitão	Portugal	13: 29.10
6th	Uwe Mönkemeyer	BR Germany	13: 29.39
7th	Fernando Couto	Portugal	13: 29.63
8th	Ivan Uvízl	Czechoslovakia	13: 31.92
9	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 32.61
10	Paul Donovan	Ireland	13: 37.56
11	Jonny Danielson	Sweden	13: 38.00
12	Dieter Baumann	BR Germany	13: 44.22
13	Bruno Lafranchi	Switzerland	13: 51.46

final

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  The European champion 1982 , world champion 1983 and Olympic champion 1984 over 10,000 meters each Alberto Cova finished eighth in this race after winning silver over 10,000 meters five days earlier

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  The European champion from 1978 over 800 meters and Olympic champion from 1980 over 1500 meters Steve Ovett did not finish here

August 31, 1982, 5:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jack Buckner	Great Britain	13: 10.15 CR
2	Stefano Mei	Italy	13: 11.57
3	Tim Hutchings	Great Britain	13: 12.88
4th	Evgeni Ignatov	Bulgaria	13: 13.15 NO
5	António Leitão	Portugal	13: 17.67
6th	Martti Vainio	Finland	13: 22.67
7th	Pierre Délèze	Switzerland	13: 28.80
8th	Alberto Cova	Italy	13: 35.86
9	Ivan Uvízl	Czechoslovakia	13: 37.26
10	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	13: 38.25
11	Uwe Mönkemeyer	BR Germany	13: 40.52
12	Fernando Couto	Portugal	13: 42.39
13	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	13: 51.69
DNF	Steve Ovett	Great Britain
	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 29, 2019
• Men 5000m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart on todor66.com, accessed on August 29, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 29, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 5000m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 444 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 29, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, 5000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 29, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on August 29, 2019

Video

• Jack Buckner - European Athletics Championships 5,000m Final, Stuttgart 1986 , published on January 24, 2012 on youtube.com (English), accessed on August 31, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed on August 28, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 5000 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 13 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on August 28, 2019