World Athletics Championships 1991/5000 m men

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 30 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (preliminary) September 1st (final)
Medalist Yobes Ondieki ( KEN )   Fita Bayisa ( ETH )   Brahim Boutayeb ( MAR )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's 5000-meter race at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 30 and September 1, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The three medals were won by three runners from Africa . The other participants followed with a gap of almost six seconds. World champion was the Kenyan Yobes Ondieki . He won ahead of the Ethiopian Fita Bayisa . The Moroccan Olympic champion from 1988 over 10,000 meters Brahim Boutayeb won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	12: 58.39 min	Said Aouita	Rome , Italy	July 22, 1987
World championship record	13: 22.68 min	John Ngugi	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	4th September 1987

Record improvement

The Kenyan world champion Yobes Ondieki improved the existing world championship record in the final on September 1st by 8.23 ​​seconds to 13: 14.45 minutes.

Preliminary round

August 30, 1991, 6:15 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the three fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. The three participants who qualified for the final over their time were all recruited from the third preliminary run.

Forward 1

Martin ten Kate was sixth in his heat and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ibrahim Kinuthia	Kenya	13: 57.65
2	Khalid Skah	Morocco	13: 58.45
3	Gary Staines	Great Britain	13: 58.68
4th	Doug Padilla	United States	13: 58.83
5	Andrea Sambu Sipe	Tanzania	13: 59.01
6th	Martin ten Kate	Netherlands	13: 59.51
7th	Mikhail Dasko	Soviet Union	13: 59.71
8th	Antonio Serrano	Spain	13: 59.75
9	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	14: 06.20
10	Jonny Danielson	Sweden	14: 07.03
11	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil	14: 35.00
12	Chuluunbaatar Ariunsaikhan	Mongolia	15: 26.62
DNF	Mauricio González	Mexico
	Dieudonné Lamothe	Haiti
DNS	Davendra Singh	Fiji

Forward 2

Martín Fiz, later very successful over longer distances, did not reach the final in ninth place

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Brahim Boutayeb	Morocco	13: 53.75
2	Dieter Baumann	Germany	13: 54.07
3	Stefano Mei	Italy	13: 54.35
4th	Dionísio Castro	Portugal	13: 54.39
5	Ondoro Osoro	Kenya	13: 54.41
6th	Ian Hamer	Great Britain	13: 54.49
7th	Sawomir Majusiak	Poland	13: 57.98
8th	Reuben Reina	United States	13: 59.19
9	Martín Fiz	Spain	13: 59.52
10	John Halvorsen	Norway	14: 14.85
11	Katsuhito Kumagai	Japan	14: 20.84
12	Gerard DeGaetano	Malta	15: 31.08
DNS	Daoude Kassougue	Mauritania
	Lucas Elonga	Equatorial Guinea
	Addis Abebe	Ethiopia

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 41.59
2	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 46.25
3	Yobes Ondieki	Kenya	13: 47.05
4th	Domingos Castro	Portugal	13: 47.61
5	Risto Ulmala	Finland	13: 48.86
6th	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 53.56
7th	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 53.60
8th	Mohamed Issangar	Morocco	13: 55.49
9	Andrew Lloyd	Australia	13: 59.71
10	Frank O'Mara	Ireland	14: 03.19
11	Kerry Rodger	New Zealand	14: 03.81
12	Yahia Azaidj	Algeria	14: 43.49
13	Souley Oumarou	Niger	14: 52.89
14th	Obva Elengha	Republic of the Congo	15: 37.13
15th	Charbi Tayeh	Lebanon	16: 13.21

final

Bronze medalist Brahim Boutayeb (here in 2012) , 1988 Olympic champion over 10,000 meters

September 1, 1991, 5:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yobes Ondieki	Kenya	13: 14.45 CR
2	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 16.64
3	Brahim Boutayeb	Morocco	13: 22.70
4th	Dieter Baumann	Germany	13: 28.67
5	Domingos Castro	Portugal	13: 28.88
6th	Khalid Skah	Morocco	13: 32.90
7th	Risto Ulmala	Finland	13: 33.46
8th	Dionísio Castro	Portugal	13: 35.39
9	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 36.24
10	Ibrahim Kinuthia	Kenya	13: 38.94
11	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 39.00
12	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 54.47
13	Gary Staines	Great Britain	13: 58.26
14th	Doug Padilla	United States	14: 36.18
DNF	Stefano Mei	Italy

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  Dieter Baumann (here in 2017) took fourth place - the following year, Olympic champion at this distance

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  Khalid Skah (in the photo in 2012) came in sixth after winning the 10,000 meter bronze medal six days earlier - in 1992 he became an Olympic 10,000 meter champion

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  Eleventh place for Abel Antón (in 2008) - very successful in the following years v. a. as a marathon runner, etc. a. twice world champion ( 1997 / 1999 )

Video

• 3705 World Track & Field 1991 5000m Men , video posted February 23, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed April 18, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 18, 2020
• Men 5000m Athletics III World Championship Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed April 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 5000 m, Tokyo 1991, p. 125 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 18, 2020

References and comments

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