European Athletics Championships 1990/5000 m men

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (preliminary) 1; September (final)
Medalist Salvatore Antibo ( ITA )   Gary Staines ( GBR )   Sławomir Majusiak ( POL )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men's 5000-meter run at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 30 and September 1, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

European champion was the Italian Salvatore Antibo , who had won the 10,000 meter title here five days earlier . He was on this longer distance 1986 EM -Dritter and in 1988 became Olympic silver medalist. British rider Gary Staines took second place . Bronze went to the Pole Sławomir Majusiak .

Existing records

World record	12: 58.39 min	Said Aouita	Rome , Italy	July 22, 1987
European record	13:00, 41 min	David Moorcroft	Oslo , Norway	July 7, 1982
Championship record	13: 10.15 min	Jack Buckner	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 31, 1986

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

Preliminary round

August 30, 1990

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the five fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. The second run was significantly faster than the first, which meant that all participants who reached the finals over time came from this second run.

Forward 1

Martín Fiz did not reach the finish line in his lead - later he was v. a. successful as a marathon runner , u. a. European champion in 1994 and world champion in 1995

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sławomir Majusiak	Poland	13: 40.12
2	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	13: 40.14
3	Risto Ulmala	Finland	13: 41.81
4th	lan Hamer	Great Britain	13: 42.46
5	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	13: 45.74
6th	Mikhail Dasko	Soviet Union	13: 47.04
7th	Thierry Pantel	France	13: 48.80
8th	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	13: 53.90
9	António Leitão	Portugal	13: 54.38
10	Renato Gotti	Italy	14: 05.30
11	Pascal Thiébaut	France	14: 07.13
12	Steffen Brand	BR Germany	14: 12.84
13	Marcel Versteeg	Netherlands	14: 22.42
14th	Gerald De Gaetano	Malta	14: 39.00
15th	Are Nakkim	Norway	14: 42.16
DNF	Martín Fiz	Spain
	Romeo Živko	Yugoslavia

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gary Staines	Great Britain	13: 29.00
2	Dionísio Castro	Portugal	13: 29.03
3	Arnold Mächler	Switzerland	13: 29.09
4th	Carlos Monteiro	Portugal	13: 29.16
5	Stefano Mei	Italy	13: 29.49
6th	Cyrille Laventure	France	13: 29.58
7th	Eamonn Martin	Great Britain	13: 29.62
8th	Jonny Danielson	Sweden	13: 29.65
9	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 29.81
10	Harri Hänninen	Finland	13: 30.05
11	John Halvorsen	Norway	13: 35.58
12	Evgeni Ignatov	Bulgaria	13: 37.51
13	Antonio Serrano	Spain	13: 42.03
14th	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	13: 44.55
15th	Frank O'Hara	Ireland	13: 59.44

final

Abel Antón (here in 2008) finished eleventh - in 1994 he became European champion over 10,000 meters , 1997 and 1999 world champion in marathon running

September 1, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	13: 22.00
2	Gary Staines	Great Britain	13: 22.45
3	Sławomir Majusiak	Poland	13: 22.92
4th	Dionísio Castro	Portugal	13: 23.99
5	Jonny Danielson	Sweden	13: 24.16
6th	Risto Ulmala	Finland	13: 25.08
7th	Stefano Mei	Italy	13: 27.13
8th	Harri Hänninen	Finland	13: 24.16
9	Cyrille Laventure	France	13: 28.25
10	Carlos Monteiro	Portugal	13: 30.19
11	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 31.27
12	lan Hamer	Great Britain	13: 32.61
13	Eamonn Martin	Great Britain	13: 34.62
14th	Arnold Mächler	Switzerland	13: 35.01
DNF	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 11, 2019
• Men 5000m European Championship 1990 Split on todor66.com, accessed September 11, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 11, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 800m European Championship 1990 Split, p. 452f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, 5000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 11, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 11, 2019

Video

• Men's 5000m Final European Champs in Split 1990 , published on September 9, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 11, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed September 11, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 5000 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 13 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 11, 2019