World Athletics Championships 1987/5000 m men
2. World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 5000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 34 athletes from 25 countries | ||||||||
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Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 4th (preliminary) September 6th (final) |
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The men's 5000-meter race at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 4 and 6, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .
World champion was the Moroccan Olympic champion from 1984 and world record holder Saïd Aouita , who had also won the bronze medal over 1500 meters in 1983 . He won ahead of the Portuguese Domingos Castro . Bronze went to the reigning European champion Jack Buckner from Great Britain .
Records
Existing records
World record | 12: 58.39 min |
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Rome , Italy | July 22, 1987 |
World championship record | 13: 28.53 min |
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1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland | August 14, 1983 |
Record improvement
The Kenyan John Ngugi , who was twelfth in the later finals, improved the existing World Championship record in the second run on September 4 by 5.85 seconds to 13: 22.68 minutes.
Preliminary round
4th September 1987
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.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Said Aouita |
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13: 28.63 |
2 | Domingos Castro |
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13: 28.78 |
3 | Frank O'Mara |
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13: 28.79 |
4th | Sydney Maree |
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13: 28.86 |
5 | Abel Antón |
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13: 28.92 |
6th | Timothy Hutchings |
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13: 29.06 |
7th | Vincent Rousseau |
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13: 29.74 |
8th | Doug Padilla |
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13: 30.16 |
9 | Markus Ryffel |
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13: 33.07 |
10 | Jonny Danielson |
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13: 35.69 |
11 | Zhang Guowei |
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13: 40.46 |
12 | Juma Mnyampanda |
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13: 42.57 |
13 | Kozo Akutsu |
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13: 46.29 |
14th | Omar Aguilar |
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13: 52.59 |
15th | Hugo Allan García |
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14: 08.72 |
16 | Miguel Vargas |
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14: 59.32 |
DNS | Wodajo Bulti |
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Salvatore Antibo |
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Forward 2
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space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | John Ngugi |
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13: 22.68 CR |
2 | Dionísio Castro |
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13: 23.12 |
3 | Pierre Délèze |
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13: 24.07 |
4th | Evgeni Ignatov |
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13: 24.42 |
5 | Jack Buckner |
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13: 24.56 |
6th | Steve Ovett |
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13: 28.68 |
7th | John Treacy |
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13: 28.89 |
8th | Carey Nelson |
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13: 29.20 |
9 | Haji Bulbula |
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13: 31.06 |
10 | Brahim Boutayeb |
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13: 32.37 |
11 | Herbert Stephan |
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13: 34.68 |
12 | Pascal Thiébaut |
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13: 38.97 |
13 | José Manuel Abascal |
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13: 59.68 |
14th | John Gregorek sr. |
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14: 01.02 |
15th | Thabiso Paul Moqhali |
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14: 39.68 |
16 | Situ Kubanza |
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14: 50.39 |
17th | Abdalla Washali |
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15: 42.10 |
18th | Outcha Amewouho |
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16: 16.41 |
final
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Said_Aouita.jpg)
September 6, 1987
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Said Aouita |
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13: 26.44 |
2 | Domingos Castro |
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13: 27.59 |
3 | Jack Buckner |
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13: 27.74 |
4th | Pierre Délèze |
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13: 28.06 |
5 | Vincent Rousseau |
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13: 28.56 |
6th | Evgeni Ignatov |
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13: 29.68 |
7th | Timothy Hutchings |
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13: 30.01 |
8th | Dionísio Castro |
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13: 30.94 |
9 | Frank O'Mara |
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13: 32.04 |
10 | Steve Ovett |
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13: 33.49 |
11 | Sydney Maree |
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13: 33.78 |
12 | John Ngugi |
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13: 34.07 |
13 | John Treacy |
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13: 41.03 |
14th | Abel Antón |
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13: 43.58 |
15th | Carey Nelson |
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13: 43.81 |
Steve Ovett, who was highly decorated as a middle-distance runner in recent years, had to be content with twelfth place here
Abel Antón, later two-time world champion, among others, in the marathon ( 1997 / 1999 ) and 10,000 feet ( 1,994 fourteen) was ranked
Web links
- IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 21, 2020
- Men 5000m Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 21, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 5000 m, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 124f), English, accessed on March 21, 2020
Video
- World Athletics Championships 1987 in Rome. 5000m men on youtube.com, accessed March 21, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 18, 2020