European Athletics Championships 1994/5000 m men

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	23 athletes from 12 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 11th (preliminary) August 14th (final)
Medalist Dieter Baumann ( GER )   Robert Denmark ( GBR )   Abel Antón ( ESP )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 5000-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 12 and 14, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

The German Olympic runner-up in 1988 and Olympic champion in 1992, Dieter Baumann, was European champion . He won ahead of the Briton Robert Denmark . Bronze went to Abel Antón , the Spanish winner of the 10,000-meter run last week.

Existing records

World record	12: 52.23 min	William Sigei	Oslo , Norway	July 22, 1994
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 11, 1994

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the five fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals. All athletes who qualified for the final over their time came from the second faster run-in.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Abdellah Béhar	France	13: 39.77
2	Dieter Baumann	Germany	13: 39.97
3	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 40.10
4th	Anacleto Jiménez	Spain	13: 40.25
5	José Carlos Adán	Spain	13: 40.39
6th	João Junqueira	Portugal	13: 40.59
7th	Umberto Pusterla	Italy	13: 41.64
8th	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	13: 45.70
9	Noel Berkeley	Ireland	13: 54.35
DNS	Jan Pešava	Czech Republic
	Róbert Štefko	Slovakia

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	José Ramos	Portugal	13: 30.33
2	Domingos Castro	Portugal	13: 30.68
3	John Nuttall	Great Britain	13: 30.78
4th	Risto Ulmala	Finland	13: 30.94
5	Mohamed Ezzher	France	13: 31.93
6th	Wen Kaschayev	Russia	13: 31.13
7th	Frank O'Mara	Ireland	13: 33.13
8th	Stéphane Franke	Germany	13: 33.63
9	Paolo Donati	Italy	13: 34.54
10	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 34.62
11	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	13: 45.62
12	Slawomir Kapinski	Poland	14: 13.90

final

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  European champion Dieter Baumann (here in 2017) , in 1988 he was Olympic silver medalist and 1992 Olympic champion

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  Bronze medalist Abel Antón had previously seven days the title over 10,000 meters won - later, he joined the marathon and was twice world champion ( 1997 / 1999 )

August 14, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Dieter Baumann	Germany	13: 36.93
2	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 37.50
3	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 38.04
4th	Abdellah Béhar	France	13: 38.36
5	John Nuttall	Great Britain	13: 38.65
6th	José Carlos Adán	Spain	13: 39.16
7th	Risto Ulmala	Finland	13: 40.84
8th	Anacleto Jiménez	Spain	13: 41.60
9	Domingos Castro	Portugal	13: 42.09
10	Stéphane Franke	Germany	13: 45.67
11	Paolo Donati	Italy	13: 47.34
12	Wen Kaschayev	Russia	13: 53.66
13	Frank O'Mara	Ireland	13: 58.75
14th	José Ramos	Portugal	04/14/33
15th	Mohamed Ezzher	France	14.14.73

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 September 2019
• Men 5000m European Championship 1994 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed September 23, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 23, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 5000m European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 461 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 September 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, 5000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 23, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on September 23, 2019

Video

• Men's 5000m Final European Champs Helsinki 1994 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 23, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed on September 23, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 5000 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 13 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 23, 2019