World Athletics Championships 1991/5000 m men
3rd World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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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) |
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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
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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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
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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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) |
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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
September 1, 1991, 5:10 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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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 |
Dieter Baumann (here in 2017) took fourth place - the following year, Olympic champion at this distance
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
- ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 18, 2020