World Athletics Championships 1987/5000 m men

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 4th (preliminary) September 6th (final)
Medalist Saïd Aouita ( MAR )   Domingos Castro ( POR )   Jack Buckner ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

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	Said Aouita	Rome , Italy	July 22, 1987
World championship record	13: 28.53 min	Eamonn Coghlan	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)
1	Said Aouita	Morocco	13: 28.63
2	Domingos Castro	Portugal	13: 28.78
3	Frank O'Mara	Ireland	13: 28.79
4th	Sydney Maree	United States	13: 28.86
5	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 28.92
6th	Timothy Hutchings	Great Britain	13: 29.06
7th	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	13: 29.74
8th	Doug Padilla	United States	13: 30.16
9	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	13: 33.07
10	Jonny Danielson	Sweden	13: 35.69
11	Zhang Guowei	People's Republic of China	13: 40.46
12	Juma Mnyampanda	Tanzania	13: 42.57
13	Kozo Akutsu	Japan	13: 46.29
14th	Omar Aguilar	Chile	13: 52.59
15th	Hugo Allan García	Guatemala	14: 08.72
16	Miguel Vargas	Costa Rica	14: 59.32
DNS	Wodajo Bulti	Ethiopia
	Salvatore Antibo	Italy

Forward 2

Brahim Boutayeb (here in 2012) was eliminated as tenth in his preliminary run - a year later he became Olympic champion over 10,000 meters

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	John Ngugi	Kenya	13: 22.68 CR
2	Dionísio Castro	Portugal	13: 23.12
3	Pierre Délèze	Switzerland	13: 24.07
4th	Evgeni Ignatov	Bulgaria	13: 24.42
5	Jack Buckner	Great Britain	13: 24.56
6th	Steve Ovett	Great Britain	13: 28.68
7th	John Treacy	Ireland	13: 28.89
8th	Carey Nelson	Canada	13: 29.20
9	Haji Bulbula	Ethiopia	13: 31.06
10	Brahim Boutayeb	Morocco	13: 32.37
11	Herbert Stephan	BR Germany	13: 34.68
12	Pascal Thiébaut	France	13: 38.97
13	José Manuel Abascal	Spain	13: 59.68
14th	John Gregorek sr.	United States	14: 01.02
15th	Thabiso Paul Moqhali	Lesotho	14: 39.68
16	Situ Kubanza	People's Republic of the Congo	14: 50.39
17th	Abdalla Washali	North Yemen	15: 42.10
18th	Outcha Amewouho	Togo	16: 16.41

final

Saïd Aouita, 1984 Olympic champion, 1983 World Cup third over 1500 meters and world record holder, has now also become world champion

September 6, 1987

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Said Aouita	Morocco	13: 26.44
2	Domingos Castro	Portugal	13: 27.59
3	Jack Buckner	Great Britain	13: 27.74
4th	Pierre Délèze	Switzerland	13: 28.06
5	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	13: 28.56
6th	Evgeni Ignatov	Bulgaria	13: 29.68
7th	Timothy Hutchings	Great Britain	13: 30.01
8th	Dionísio Castro	Portugal	13: 30.94
9	Frank O'Mara	Ireland	13: 32.04
10	Steve Ovett	Great Britain	13: 33.49
11	Sydney Maree	United States	13: 33.78
12	John Ngugi	Kenya	13: 34.07
13	John Treacy	Ireland	13: 41.03
14th	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 43.58
15th	Carey Nelson	Canada	13: 43.81

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  Steve Ovett, who was highly decorated as a middle-distance runner in recent years, had to be content with twelfth place here

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  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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 18, 2020