World Athletics Championships 1999/5000 m men
7th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 5000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 35 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
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Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 25th (preliminary) August 28th (final) |
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The men's 5000-meter race at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 25 and 28, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city of Seville .
The world champion was the Moroccan Salah Hissou , who won bronze over 10,000 meters at the 1996 Olympic Games and 1997 World Championships . Silver went to the Kenyan Benjamin Limo . Third place went to the to 1997 for Morocco and now for Belgium -starting Mohammed Mourhit .
Records
Existing records
World record | 12: 39.36 min |
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Rome , Italy | June 13, 1998 |
World Cup record | 13: 02.75 min |
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World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany | August 16, 1993 |
Record improvement
The Moroccan world champion Salah Hissou improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 28th by 4.62 seconds to 12: 58.13 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
August 25, 1999, 10:15 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Brahim Lahlafi |
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13: 34.26 |
2 | Fita Bayisa |
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13: 35.33 |
3 | Salah Hissou |
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13: 36.60 |
4th | Benjamin soda |
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13: 36.79 |
5 | Million wolde |
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13: 36.89 |
6th | Bob Kennedy |
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13: 37.51 |
7th | Mustapha Essaïd |
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13: 37.87 |
8th | Alberto García |
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13: 39.45 |
9 | Mizan Mehari |
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13: 48.43 |
10 | Serhiy Lebid |
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13: 52.10 |
11 | Philip Mosima |
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13: 52.56 |
12 | Marius Bakken |
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13: 53.07 |
13 | Keith Cullen |
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13: 53.92 |
14th | David Galvan |
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13: 54.29 |
15th | Joseph Nsengiyumva |
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14: 10.16 |
16 | Samuli Vasala |
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14: 11.20 |
17th | Mustapha Hassan Doukal |
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14: 33.74 |
18th | Moussa Yelli |
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14: 57.22 |
DNS | Karl Keska |
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Runners eliminated in the first heat:
Forward 2
Yonas Kifle (here at the London Marathon 2012 ) retired in 13: 46.82 minutes in 13th of his prelim
August 25, 1999, 10:40 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Mohammed Mourhit |
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13: 28.96 |
2 | Hailu Mekonnen |
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13: 29.00 |
3 | Daniel Komen |
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13: 29.39 |
4th | Brahim Jabbour |
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13: 29.42 |
5 | Adam Goucher |
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13: 29.49 |
6th | Pablo Olmedo |
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13: 29.95 |
7th | Isaac Viciosa |
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13: 31.27 |
8th | Manuel Pancorbo |
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13: 32.61 |
9 | Mark Carroll |
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13: 34.98 |
10 | Halez Taguelmint |
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13: 40.57 |
11 | Robert Denmark |
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13: 41.28 |
12 | Lee Troop |
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13: 42.96 |
13 | Yonas Kifle |
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13: 46.82 |
14th | Toshinari Takaoka |
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13: 47.44 |
15th | Salvatore Vincenti |
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14: 03.36 |
16 | Eric Quiros |
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14: 04.64 |
17th | Dan Browne |
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14: 18.51 |
DNS | Antonio Pinto |
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final
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/LA_Marathon_2009_-_Benjamin_Limo.jpg/310px-LA_Marathon_2009_-_Benjamin_Limo.jpg)
August 28, 1999, 9:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Salah Hissou |
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12: 58.13 CR |
2 | Benjamin soda |
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12: 58.72 |
3 | Mohammed Mourhit |
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12: 58.80 |
4th | Brahim Lahlafi |
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12: 59.09 |
5 | Daniel Komen |
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13: 04.71 |
6th | Fita Bayisa |
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13: 13.86 |
7th | Hailu Mekonnen |
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13: 18.97 |
8th | Million wolde |
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13: 20.81 |
9 | Bob Kennedy |
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13: 23.52 |
10 | Pablo Olmedo |
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13: 24.74 |
11 | Manuel Pancorbo |
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13: 32.12 |
12 | Adam Goucher |
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13: 39.24 |
13 | Isaac Viciosa |
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13: 49.59 |
14th | Mark Carroll |
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13: 52.23 |
DNF | Brahim Jabbour |
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The defending champion and Africa champion from 1998 Daniel Komen came in fifth here
Video
- Men 5000m FINAL 1999 IAAF World Athletics Championships Seville on youtube.com, accessed July 13, 2020
Web links
- 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 13, 2020
- Men 5000m Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed on July 13, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 5000 m, Seville 1999, p. 126 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 13, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 13, 2020