World Athletics Championships 1993/5000 m men

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 32 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 14th (preliminary) August 16th (final)
Medalist Ismael Kirui ( KEN )   Haile Gebrselassie ( ETH )   Fita Bayisa ( ETH )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's 5000 meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 14 and 16, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

The runners from Ethiopia won two medals in this competition, silver and bronze. The Kenyan Ismael Kirui became world champion . He won ahead of Haile Gebrselassie , who celebrated his first world-class successes here at the start of a great sports career. Less than a week later, Gebrselassie won over 10,000 meters . In June of this year he had already won silver over 5000 and bronze over 10,000 meters at the African Championships . Third place went to the vice world champion from 1991 , Olympic third from 1992 and African vice champion from 1993 over 10,000 meters Fita Bayisa . The race was dominated by the Africans . The best runner who did not come from Africa was the Brit Robert Denmark in ninth place.

Records

Existing records

World record	12: 58.39 min	Said Aouita	Rome , Italy	July 22, 1987
World championship record	13: 14.45 min	Yobes Ondieki	1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	September 1, 1991

Record improvement

The Kenyan world champion Ismael Kirui improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 16 by 11.70 seconds to 13: 02.75 minutes.

Preliminary round

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.

Forward 1

His seventh place in the first heat was not enough for Rainer Wachenbrunner (here in a leading position) to take part in the final

August 14, 1993, 8:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 41.55
2	Paul Bitok	Kenya	13: 41.57
3	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 41.61
4th	Khalid Skah	Morocco	13: 41.72
5	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 42.17
6th	Carlos Monteiro	Portugal	13: 44.96
7th	Rainer Wachenbrunner	Germany	13: 46.43
8th	Toshinari Takaoka	Japan	13: 46.86
9	Andrei Tikhonov	Russia	13: 53.25
10	Alyan Al-Qahtani	Saudi Arabia	13: 56.59
11	Phillip Clode	New Zealand	13: 56.94
12	Ramachandran Murusamy	Malaysia	14: 33.22
13	Keiruan Tawai	Vanuatu	15: 43.73
DNF	James Lynch	Netherlands Antilles

Forward 2

Brahim Boutayeb (here in 2012) , third in the 1991 World Cup and Olympic champion in the 10,000 meters in 1988 , was eliminated in sixth place in his heat

August 14, 1993, 8:23 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Worku Bikila	Ethiopia	13: 27.14
2	Ismael Kirui	Kenya	13: 27.15
3	Aloÿs Nizigama	Burundi	13: 35.72
4th	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda	13: 36.66
5	Mustapha Essaïd	France	13: 40.21
6th	Brahim Boutayeb	Morocco	13: 42.30
7th	Jon Brown	Great Britain	13: 46.20
8th	Micha Bartoszak	Poland	13: 52.95
9	Bahadur Prasad	India	13: 53.59
10	Peter O'Donoghue	Australia	14: 12.99
11	Gopal Thein Win	Myanmar	14: 14.62
12	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil	14: 39.29
13	Davendra Singh	Fiji	15: 01.72
DNF	Ovidiu Olteanu	Romania

Forward 3

August 14, 1993, 8:41 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	13: 25.27
2	Brahim Jabbour	Morocco	13: 26.06
3	Michael Chesire	Kenya	13: 26.13
4th	Aissa Belaout	Algeria	13: 29.12
5	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 30.32
6th	Jonny Danielson	Sweden	13: 34.05
7th	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	13: 37.20
8th	Philimon Hanneck	Zimbabwe	13: 49.42
9	Jan Pešava	Czech Republic	14:02.00
10	John Nuttall	Great Britain	14: 11.30
11	Greg Whiteley	United States	14: 11.48
12	Ahmad Zarekar	Iran	14: 48.07
13	Souley Oumarou	Niger	15: 29.14
DNS	Mohamed Moosa Ahmed	Palestine

final

Vice world champion Haile Gebrselassie (here at a marathon in 2009) won his first world-class medal, six days later the world championship title over 10,000 meters was  added

August 16, 1993, 8:20 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ismael Kirui	Kenya	13: 02.75 CR
2	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	13: 03.17
3	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 05.40
4th	Worku Bikila	Ethiopia	13: 06.64
5	Khalid Skah	Morocco	13: 07.18
6th	Brahim Jabbour	Morocco	13: 18.87
7th	Aloÿs Nizigama	Burundi	13: 20.59
8th	Paul Bitok	Kenya	13: 23.41
9	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 27.09
10	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda	13: 28.58
11	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 40.21
12	Jonny Danielson	Sweden	13: 40.59
13	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	13: 44.02
14th	Michael Chesire	Kenya	13: 44.11
DNF	Aissa Belaout	Algeria

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  Khalid Skah, Olympic champion over 10,000 meters in 1992 and third in 1991 World Cup , finished fifth

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  Eleventh for Abel Antón (Photo: 2008) , among others twice world champion in the coming years marathon  was

Video

• 1993 World Championships 5000m Men's Final, Stuttgart, Germany from youtube.com, accessed on May 9, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 9, 2020
• Men 5000m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 9, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 5000 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 125 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 9, 2020