World Athletics Championships 1997/5000 m men

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 8th (preliminary) August 9th (final)
Medalist Daniel Komen ( KEN )   Khalid Boulami ( MAR )   Tom Nyariki ( KEN )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The men's 5000 meter race at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 8 and 9, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

With gold and bronze, the long-distance runners from Kenya won two medals in this competition. Daniel Komen became world champion . He won ahead of the Moroccan vice world champion in 1995 and Olympic third in 1996, Khalid Boulami . Bronze went to Tom Nyariki .

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.

The Libyan Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi set a new national record in the first run with 13: 58.26 minutes.

Preliminary round

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

Alan Culpepper (here at the Boston Marathon 2005 ) was eliminated as eighth of his heat

Jonathan Wyatt did not finish in the first heat

August 8, 1997, 8:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ismaïl Sghyr	Morocco	13: 19.69
2	Dieter Baumann	Germany	13: 19.81
3	Daniel Komen	Kenya	13: 19.87
4th	Enrique Molina	Spain	13: 22.74
5	Paul Bitok	Kenya	13: 24.85
6th	Abdellah Béhar	France	13: 26.50
7th	Worku Bikila	Ethiopia	13: 31.18
8th	Alan Culpepper	United States	13: 34.74
9	Anacleto Jiménez	Spain	13: 36.55
10	Keith Cullen	Great Britain	13: 49.55
11	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama	Qatar	13: 55.56
12	Sergei Drygin	Russia	13: 57.31
13	Jeff Schiebler	Canada	13: 57.88
14th	Mark Carroll	Ireland	13: 58.08
15th	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 58.26
16	Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi	Libya	13: 58.26 NO
17th	Néstor García	Uruguay	14: 12.15
18th	Francis Munthali	Malawi	14: 14.80
DNF	Jonathan Wyatt	New Zealand
DNS	Marco Antonio Condori	Bolivia

Forward 2

August 8, 1997, 9:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 23.07
2	Khalid Boulami	Morocco	13: 23.46
3	Tom Nyariki	Kenya	13: 23.55
4th	El Hassan Lahssini	Morocco	13: 23.75
5	Dionísio Castro	Portugal	13: 24.51
6th	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	13: 25.71
7th	Pablo Olmedo	Mexico	13: 27.65
8th	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 28.54
9	Ismael Kirui	Kenya	13: 34.52
10	Ayele Mezgebu	Ethiopia	13: 38.96
11	Mustapha Essaïd	France	13: 39.11
12	Panayiótis Papoúlias	Greece	13: 58.27
13	Brian Baker	United States	14: 02.95
14th	Adrian Passey	Great Britain	14: 07.49
15th	Samuli Vasala	Finland	14: 10.92
16	Ghirmay Yohannes	Eritrea	14: 59.47
17th	Anatole Lekade	Togo	15: 00.21
18th	Yeli Moussa	Niger	15: 00.61

final

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  Dieter Baumann (Photo: 2017) , 1992 Olympic champion, 1988 Olympic second and reigning European champion , came in fifth

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  El Hassan Lahssini (here at an obstacle course in 2003) came in seventh

August 10, 1997, 7:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Daniel Komen	Kenya	13: 07.38
2	Khalid Boulami	Morocco	13: 09.34
3	Tom Nyariki	Kenya	13: 11.09
4th	Ismaïl Sghyr	Morocco	13: 17.45
5	Dieter Baumann	Germany	13: 17.64
6th	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 19.45
7th	El Hassan Lahssini	Morocco	13: 20.52
8th	Enrique Molina	Spain	13: 24.54
9	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	13: 25.78
10	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 25.98
11	Abdellah Béhar	France	13: 29.10
12	Worku Bikila	Ethiopia	13: 30.02
13	Paul Bitok	Kenya	13: 30.25
14th	Dionísio Castro	Portugal	13: 31.74
15th	Pablo Olmedo	Mexico	14: 05.59

Video

• Daniel Komen 5000m, World Champ 1997, Athens , Video posted June 20, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 17, 2020
• Men 5000m Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 17, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 5000 m, Athens 1997, p. 126 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 17, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 17, 2020