World Athletics Championships 1999/5000 m men

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	35 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 25th (preliminary) August 28th (final)
Medalist Salah Hissou ( MAR )   Benjamin Limo ( KEN )   Mohammed Mourhit ( BEL )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

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	Haile Gebrselassie	Rome , Italy	June 13, 1998
World Cup record	13: 02.75 min	Ismael Kirui	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)
1	Brahim Lahlafi	Morocco	13: 34.26
2	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 35.33
3	Salah Hissou	Morocco	13: 36.60
4th	Benjamin soda	Kenya	13: 36.79
5	Million wolde	Ethiopia	13: 36.89
6th	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 37.51
7th	Mustapha Essaïd	France	13: 37.87
8th	Alberto García	Spain	13: 39.45
9	Mizan Mehari	Australia	13: 48.43
10	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine	13: 52.10
11	Philip Mosima	Kenya	13: 52.56
12	Marius Bakken	Norway	13: 53.07
13	Keith Cullen	Great Britain	13: 53.92
14th	David Galvan	Mexico	13: 54.29
15th	Joseph Nsengiyumva	Rwanda	14: 10.16
16	Samuli Vasala	Finland	14: 11.20
17th	Mustapha Hassan Doukal	Djibouti	14: 33.74
18th	Moussa Yelli	Niger	14: 57.22
DNS	Karl Keska	Great Britain

Runners eliminated in the first heat:

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  Alberto García - eighth place
  in 13: 39.45 min

• 

  Serhij Lebid - tenth place
  in 13: 52.10 min

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  Marius Bakken - twelfth place
  in 13: 53.07 min

• 

  David Galván - fourth place
  in 13: 54.29 min

Forward 2

• 

  Yonas Kifle (here at the London Marathon 2012 ) retired in 13: 46.82 minutes in 13th of his prelim

• 

  Dan Browne had no chance of advancing as seventeenth of the second heat in 14: 18.51 min

August 25, 1999, 10:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium	13: 28.96
2	Hailu Mekonnen	Ethiopia	13: 29.00
3	Daniel Komen	Kenya	13: 29.39
4th	Brahim Jabbour	Morocco	13: 29.42
5	Adam Goucher	United States	13: 29.49
6th	Pablo Olmedo	Mexico	13: 29.95
7th	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	13: 31.27
8th	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	13: 32.61
9	Mark Carroll	Ireland	13: 34.98
10	Halez Taguelmint	France	13: 40.57
11	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 41.28
12	Lee Troop	Australia	13: 42.96
13	Yonas Kifle	Eritrea	13: 46.82
14th	Toshinari Takaoka	Japan	13: 47.44
15th	Salvatore Vincenti	Italy	14: 03.36
16	Eric Quiros	Costa Rica	14: 04.64
17th	Dan Browne	United States	14: 18.51
DNS	Antonio Pinto	Portugal

final

Vice world champion Benjamin Limo (right, at the Los Angeles Marathon  2009)

August 28, 1999, 9:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Salah Hissou	Morocco	12: 58.13 CR
2	Benjamin soda	Kenya	12: 58.72
3	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium	12: 58.80
4th	Brahim Lahlafi	Morocco	12: 59.09
5	Daniel Komen	Kenya	13: 04.71
6th	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 13.86
7th	Hailu Mekonnen	Ethiopia	13: 18.97
8th	Million wolde	Ethiopia	13: 20.81
9	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 23.52
10	Pablo Olmedo	Mexico	13: 24.74
11	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	13: 32.12
12	Adam Goucher	United States	13: 39.24
13	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	13: 49.59
14th	Mark Carroll	Ireland	13: 52.23
DNF	Brahim Jabbour	Morocco

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  The defending champion and Africa champion from 1998 Daniel Komen came in fifth here

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  Seventh place for Hailu Mekonnen (Photo: 2011)

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 13, 2020