1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 5000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	48 athletes from 29 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 16, 1964 (heats) October 18, 1964 (finals)
Medalist Bob Schul ( USA )   Harald Norpoth ( GER )   Bill Dellinger ( USA )

The men's 5000 meter run at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held on October 16 and 18, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 48 athletes took part.

The American Bob Schul became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the German Harald Norpoth and Bill Dellinger from the USA.

Runners from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part. In addition to silver medalist Norpoth, two other Germans competed. However, Lutz Philipp and Manfred Letzerich failed in their preliminary stages.

Existing records

World record	13: 35.0 min	Volodymyr Kuz ( Soviet Union )	Rome , Italy	October 13, 1957
Olympic record	13: 39.6 min		Melbourne finals , Australia	November 28, 1956

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a total of four heats on October 16. The three best starters qualified for the final on October 18th.

Time schedule

October 16, 3 p.m .: preliminary runs

October 18, 4:05 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

The athletes qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

The Frenchman Michel Jazy (No. 2), here at a competition in Enschede in 1963 , finished fourth in the final. In the background with the number 6 of the silver medalist Harald Norpoth

The Belgian Eugène Allonsius was eliminated in the preliminary run

Date: October 16, 1964, from 3 p.m.

Weather conditions: clear, approx. 20 ° C, humidity 43–48%

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michel Jazy	France	13: 55.4 min
2	Bill Baillie	New Zealand	13: 55.4 min
3	Stepan Baidjuk	Soviet Union	14: 00.2 min
4th	Andrei Barabaș	Romania	14: 00.2 min
5	Tony Cook	Australia	14:02.4 min
6th	John Herring	Great Britain	14: 07.2 min
7th	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	14: 12.0 min
8th	Lutz Philipp	Germany	14: 15.2 min
9	Bruce Kidd	Canada	14: 21.8 min
10	Janós Pintér	Hungary	14: 41.0 min
11	Jean Randrianjatovo	Madagascar	15: 50.4 min

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Mike Wiggs	Great Britain	13: 51.0 min
2	Bill Dellinger	United States	13: 52.2 min
3	Thor Helland	Norway	13: 52.4 min
4th	Lech Boguszewicz	Poland	13: 52.8 min
5	Kęstutis Orentas	Soviet Union	13: 54.0 min
6th	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	13: 55.0 min
7th	Jean Vaillant	France	14: 05.8 min
8th	Manfred Letzerich	Germany	14: 06.2 min
9	Thomas O'Riordan	Ireland	14: 08.8 min
10	Jørgen Dam	Denmark	14: 20.4 min
11	Albie Thomas	Australia	14: 27.8 min
12	Fernando Aguilar	Spain	14: 29.2 min
13	Álvaro Mejía	Colombia	14: 41.4 min

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Mohammed Gammoudi	Tunisia	14: 10.2 min
2	Bob Schul	United States	14: 11.4 min
3	Harald Norpoth	Germany	14: 11.6 min
4th	Murray Halberg	New Zealand	14: 12.0 min
5	Josef Tomáš	Czechoslovakia	14: 12.6 min
6th	Bengt Nåjde	Sweden	14:13.4 min
7th	Franc Červan	Yugoslavia	14: 16.6 min
8th	Simo Saloranta	Finland	14: 24.6 min
9	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	14: 35.4 min
10	Jean Fayolle	France	14: 44.6 min
11	Somsak Keaokanta	Thailand	16: 08.8 min
12	Ranatunge Karunananda	Ceylon	16: 22.2 min
13	Nguyễn Văn Lý	South Vietnam	17: 28.0 min

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ron Clarke	Australia	13: 48.4 min
2	Kipchoge Keino	Kenya	13: 49.6 min
3	Nikolai Dutow	Soviet Union	13: 50.6 min
4th	Francisco Aritmendi	Spain	14: 05.0 min
5	Sven-Olov Larsson	Sweden	14: 10.2 min
6th	Satsuo Iwashita	Japan	14: 18.4 min
7th	Derek Graham	Great Britain	14: 21.6 min
8th	Oscar Moore	United States	14: 24.0 min
9	Simo Važić	Yugoslavia	14: 33.8 min
10	Henri Clerckx	Belgium	14: 40.0 min
11	Neville Scott	New Zealand	15:01.0 min

final

The award ceremony: Gold for Schul (center), silver for Norpoth (left), bronze for Dellinger (right)

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Bob Schul	United States	13: 48.8 min
2	Harald Norpoth	Germany	13: 49.6 min
3	Bill Dellinger	United States	13: 49.8 min
4th	Michel Jazy	France	13: 49.8 min
5	Kipchoge Keino	Kenya	13: 50.4 min
6th	Bill Baillie	New Zealand	13: 51.0 min
7th	Nikolai Dutow	Soviet Union	13: 53.8 min
8th	Thor Helland	Norway	13: 57.0 min
9	Ron Clarke	Australia	13: 58.0 min
10	Stepan Baidjuk	Soviet Union	14: 11.2 min
11	Mike Wiggs	Great Britain	14: 20.8 min

Date: October 18, 1964, 4:05 p.m.
Weather conditions: very rainy, approx. 13 ° C, humidity approx. 97%

Three runners in particular were seen as favorites over 5000 meters : the Frenchman Michel Jazy, who had decided not to take part in the 1500 meter run in order to concentrate entirely on the longer distance, the Australian world record holder over 10,000 meters , Ron Clarke, who, however, lacked sprinting power, and the Tunisian Mohammed Gammoudi after his brilliant performance over 10,000 meters when he won the silver medal. In addition, the race was expected to be quite open, there were numerous other runners who experts believed in, including the US American Bob Schul and the British Mike Wiggs. Gammoudi ultimately had to forego the final due to an injury after a convincing preliminary win. He should appear very successfully at the next two Olympic Games in Mexico City and Munich .

The final race took place in continuous rain. At the beginning Clarke was leading, but the split times showed a rather slow pace, the 1000 meters were covered in 2: 50.2 minutes. Experts had expected a speed race from the Australian who was weak in spurts in order to break away or to weaken the sprint force of his opponents. The lead changed constantly, the race remained slow. Then Clarke did an intermediate sprint, but he didn't pull through, the field remained completely together. the intermediate times at 2000 and 3000 meters were 5: 39.4 min and 8: 22.2 min, respectively. Even the 10,000-meter runners were faster. In the last 1000 meters there was a considerable increase in speed. First, the US American Bill Dellinger stormed forward, but was soon put back. However, the field was now far apart. The British Mike Wiggs lost the connection due to a fall. On the back straight of the final round, Jazy took the initiative, there was a large gap to the pursuers. But the race was not yet decided. From behind, the German Harald Norpoth was the first to follow, in the target corner he and Schul came closer and closer to the leading French. On the home straight, Jazy's steps got shorter and shorter, Schul pulled past him to win the Olympic gold. Norpoth also played out his sprint power and won the silver medal. With the last step Jazy even lost bronze, Dellinger ran past him into third place.

Bob Schul achieved the first US Olympic victory on this route.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 259–261

Video

• Legendary Bob Schul- Last 3 laps in 1964 Tokyo Olympic 5km Final , published March 12, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed October 26, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 5000 m , accessed October 26, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 31f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 551 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 26 October 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 31f (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017 
4. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 32 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 26, 2017 
5. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 259f