European Athletics Championships 2012/5000 m men

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 27th (preliminary)
Medalist Mohamed Farah ( GBR )   Arne Gabius ( GER )   Polat Kemboi Arıkan ( TUR )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 5000-meter race at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held on June 27, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was the British double European champion from 2010 ( 5000 / 10,000 meters ), world champion from 2011 over 5000 meters and runner-up world champion from 2011 over 10,000 meters Mohamed Farah . The German Arne Gabius won the silver medal. Bronze went to the native Kenyan Polat Kemboi Arıkan , who started for Turkey , who had won the 10,000 meter race here three days earlier.

Existing records

World record	12: 37.35 min	Kenenisa Bekele	Hengelo , Netherlands	May 31, 2004
European record	12: 49.71 min	Mohammed Mourhit	Brussels , Belgium	August 25, 2000
Championship record	13: 10.15 min	Jack Buckner	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 31, 1986

The since 1986 existing EM -record had continued to exist even after these European Championships.

execution

In the case of a field of 25 runners, a preliminary round was waived, all athletes went to a joint final.

final

The top group approached the goal here in the 5000 m final

Clear favorite win for defending champion Mo Farah, including 2011 world champion 

June 27, 2012, 7:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Mohamed Farah	Great Britain	13: 29.91
2	Arne Gabius	Germany	13: 31.63
3	Polat Kemboi Arıkan	Turkey	13: 32.63
4th	Yohan Durand	France	13: 32.65
5	Daniele Meucci	Italy	13: 32.69
6th	Hayle Ibrahimov	Azerbaijan	13: 36.05
7th	Dennis light	Netherlands	13: 37.99
8th	Bashir Abdi	Belgium	13: 39.01
9	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine	13: 40.07
10	Manuel Ángel Penas	Spain	13: 41.40
11	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	13: 41.99
12	Francisco Javier Alves	Spain	13: 42.46
13	Adil Bouafif	Sweden	13: 50.13
14th	Rory Fraser	Great Britain	13: 51.23
15th	Philipp Pflieger	Germany	13: 51.23
16	Tiidrek Nurme	Estonia	13: 51.29
17th	Brenton Rowe	Austria	13: 51.58
18th	Sindre Buraas	Norway	13: 51.64
19th	Anatoly Rybakov	Russia	13: 52.79
20th	Jesús España	Spain	13: 55.98
21st	Mats Lunders	Belgium	14: 06.55
22nd	Philipp Bandi	Switzerland	14: 07.48
23	Mitch Goose	Great Britain	14: 21.91
DNF	Jesper van der Wielen	Netherlands
DSQ	Maksym Cerrone Obrubanskyy	Italy	IAAF Rule 163.3b - Crossing the lane boundary

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  Vice European Champion Arne Gabius

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  Polat Kemboi Arıkan, European champion over 10,000 meters three days earlier , won the bronze medal

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  Yohan Durand finished fourth

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  Fifth place for Daniele Meucci, the vice European champion over 10,000 meters three days earlier

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  Hayle İbrahimov reached sixth place

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  Dennis Licht came in seventh place

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  The 10,000 meter fourth Bashir Abdi finished eighth

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  Serhiy Lebid - ninth place

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  Stefano La Rosa (here in a leading position in a race in 2014) - eleventh place

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  Adil Bouafif - rank thirteen

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  Philipp Pflieger - 15th place

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  Sindre Buraas - rank eighteen

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  Jesús España - 20th place

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  Mats Lunders - Rank 21

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  Mitch Goose (second from the left at the start of the 5000 m race) - 23rd place

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  Jesper van der Wielen did not finish the race

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed January 10, 2020
• Men 5000m European Championship 2012 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed January 10, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 10, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 5000m European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 511 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 10, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, 5000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on January 10, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 10, 2020

Video

• MO FARAH 5000m final EURO champs 2012 Helsinki on youtube.com, accessed on January 10, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed January 10, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 5000 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 13 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on January 10, 2020
3. ↑ Changes to the International Competition Rules 2013, page 21 on blv-sport.de (PDF, 874KB), accessed on January 10, 2020