World Athletics Championships 1995/5000 m men

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	44 athletes from 29 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 11th (preliminary) August 13th (final)
Medalist Ismael Kirui ( KEN )   Khalid Boulami ( MAR )   Shem Kororia ( KEN )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The men's 5000-meter run at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 11 and 13, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

In this competition, the long-distance runners from Kenya won two medals, gold and bronze. World champion was defending champion Ismael Kirui . Second place went to the Moroccan Khalid Boulami . Bronze went to Shem Kororia .

Existing records

World record	12: 55.30 min	Moses Kiptanui	Rome , Italy	June 8, 1995
World championship record	13: 02.75 min	Ismael Kirui	World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany	August 16, 1993

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Preliminary round

August 15, 1995, 7:55 pm

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 quarter-finals.

Forward 1

August 11, 1995, 8:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Dieter Baumann	Germany	13: 30.59
2	Brahim Lahlafi	Morocco	13: 31.21
3	Philemon Hanneck	Zimbabwe	13: 31.93
4th	Worku Bikila	Ethiopia	13: 32.47
5	Enrique Molina	Spain	13: 32.87
6th	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 37.14
7th	Simon Chemoiywo	Kenya	13: 39.04
8th	Réda petrol	Algeria	13: 45.39
9	Hamid Sadjadi	Iran	13: 53.40
10	Jan Pešava	Czech Republic	13: 53.86
11	Panayiótis Papoúlias	Greece	14: 00.93
12	Atiq Naaji	France	14: 06.28
13	Bahadur Prasad	India	14: 09.51
14th	Jim Spivey	United States	14: 25.39
15th	Mahmoud-Hasini Sreiss	Jordan	14: 38.15
DNS	Paulo Guerra	Portugal

Forward 2

August 11, 1995, 8:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	13: 23.87
2	Khalid Boulami	Morocco	13: 24.05
3	Mark Carroll	Ireland	13: 24.19
4th	Ismael Kirui	Kenya	13: 24.30
5	Anacleto Jiménez	Spain	13: 24.83
6th	John Nuttall	Great Britain	13: 25.18
7th	Abdellah Béhar	France	13: 26.70
8th	Róbert Štefko	Slovakia	13: 30.70
9	Mark Coogan	United States	13: 36.86
10	Aurélio Handanga	Angola	13: 40.12
11	Wen Kaschayev	Russia	13: 45.35
12	Silvio Guerra	Ecuador	13: 45.81
DNF	Abdel Kareem Moti	Palestine
	José Ramos	Portugal
DNS	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia
	Charles Mulinga	Zambia

Forward 3

August 11, 1995, 8:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ismaïl Sghyr	Morocco	13: 24.56
2	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 25.19
3	Shem Kororia	Kenya	13: 25.27
4th	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 26.72
5	Shaun Creighton	Australia	13: 29.43
6th	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	13: 33.74
7th	Ricardo Herrera	Mexico	13: 35.90
8th	Cormac Finnerty	Ireland	13: 36.01
9	Mohamed Ezzher	France	13: 37.05
10	Yahia Azaïdj	Algeria	13: 47.63
11	Ruddy Walem	Belgium	13: 59.87
12	Adrian Passey	Great Britain	14: 08.06
13	Sipho Dlamini	Swaziland	14: 34.99
14th	Ali Awad	Lebanon	14: 46.80
15th	Said Gomez	Panama	15: 07.13
DNS	Alyan Sultan Al Qahtani	Saudi Arabia

final

Dieter Baumann, Olympic champion in 1992 , second in 1988 and European champion in 1994 , had to be content with ninth place

August 13, 1995, 5:15 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ismael Kirui	Kenya	13: 16.77
2	Khalid Boulami	Morocco	13: 17.15
3	Shem Kororia	Kenya	13: 17.59
4th	Ismaïl Sghyr	Morocco	13: 17.86
5	Brahim Lahlafi	Morocco	13: 18.89
6th	Worku Bikila	Ethiopia	13: 20.12
7th	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 32.10
8th	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 34.52
9	Dieter Baumann	Germany	13: 39.98
10	Philemon Hanneck	Zimbabwe	13: 41.28
11	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	13: 46.51
12	Mark Carroll	Ireland	13: 46.80
13	Anacleto Jiménez	Spain	13: 48.53
14th	John Nuttall	Great Britain	13: 49.25
15th	Abdellah Béhar	France	14: 19.04

Video

• Men's 5000m Final - 1995 IAAF World Athletics Championships on youtube.com, accessed May 25, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 25, 2020
• Men 5000m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed May 25, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 5000 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 125f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 25, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 25, 2020