1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 5000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	56 athletes from 42 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 8, 1984 (preliminary round) August 9, 1984 (semi-finals) August 11, 1984 (final)
Medalist Saïd Aouita ( MAR )   Markus Ryffel ( SUI )   António Leitão ( POR )

The men's 5000 meter run at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 8, 9 and 11, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 56 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Moroccan Saïd Aouita . He won ahead of the Swiss Markus Ryffel and the Portuguese António Leitão .

The Federal Republic of Germany was represented by Christoph Herle and Uwe Mönkemeyer , who both broke off their semi-finals.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1980	Miruts Yifter ( Ethiopia )	13: 21.0 min	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Eamonn Coghlan ( Ireland )	13: 28.53 min	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982	Thomas Wessinghage ( BR Germany )	13: 28.90 min	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Eduardo Castro ( Mexico )	13: 54.11 min	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	Gerardo Alcala ( Mexico )	14: 11.91 min	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Omar Aguilar ( Chile )	14: 00.9 min	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Zhang Guowei ( People's Republic of China )	14: 07.72 min	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Wodaju Bulti ( Ethiopia )	13: 45.34 min	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	13:00, 41 min	David Moorcroft ( Great Britain )	Oslo , Norway	July 7, 1982
Olympic record	13: 20.34 min	Brendan Foster ( Great Britain )	Advance from Montreal , Canada	July 28, 1976

Preliminary round

Date: August 8, 1984

The 56 participants were drawn in four runs in one of the preliminary round. The first six athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. Furthermore, the six fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it to the semi-finals. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

The Portuguese Ezequiel Canário achieved the fastest lead time with 13: 43.28 minutes in run 1. The slowest directly qualified athlete was Doug Padilla from the USA in run 1 with 13: 52.56 min. The fastest athlete who could not qualify was the Italian Antonio Selvaggio, who retired in the fourth run with 13: 55.73 minutes. Antonio is the twin brother of Piero Selvaggio, who also retired in the run-up (run 2).

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ezequiel Canario	Portugal	13: 43.28 min
2	Martti Vainio	Finland	13: 45.16 min
3	Timothy Hutchings	Great Britain	13: 46.01 min
4th	Raymond Patrick Flynn	Ireland	13: 46.84 min
5	Wilson Waigwa	Kenya	13: 48.84 min
6th	Doug Padilla	United States	13: 52.56 min
7th	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	13: 57.96 min
8th	José João da Silva	Brazil	14: 03.44 min
9	Jorge García	Spain	14: 12.15 min
10	Mohamed Rutitingwa	Tanzania	14: 27.78 min
11	Julio Gomez	Argentina	14: 28.48 min
12	George Mambosasa	Malawi	14: 48.08 min
13	Basil Kilani	Jordan	15: 20.58 min
14th	Nimley Twegbe	Liberia	17: 36.69 min
DNF	Ali Mohamed Hufane	Somalia

Forward 2

The 1500 meter Olympic champion from 1976 John Walker from New Zealand reached the final and finished eighth

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Mats Erixon	Sweden	13: 44.45 min
2	John Walker	New Zealand	13: 44.75 min
3	Donald Clary	United States	13: 44.97 min
4th	Said Aouita	Morocco	13: 45.66 min
5	Bob Verbeeck	Belgium	13: 46.27 min
6th	Christoph Herle	BR Germany	13: 46.35 min
7th	Paul Williams	Canada	13: 47.56 min
8th	Augustine Jaspers	Netherlands	13: 58.51 min
9	Ahmed Musa Jouda	Sudan	13: 59.41 min
10	Piero Selvaggio	Italy	14: 04.74 min
11	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey	14: 36.89 min
12	Eugène Muslar	Belize	15: 05.78 min
13	Tau John Tokwepota	Papua New Guinea	15: 24.68 min
14th	Ruddy Cornielle	Dominican Republic	17: 16.77 min
DNF	Fethi Baccouche	Tunisia

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Charles Cheruiyot	Kenya	13: 45.99 min
2	Steve Lacy	United States	13: 46.16 min
	Eamonn Martin	Great Britain
	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland
5	João Campos	Portugal	13: 46.27 min
6th	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	13: 46.32 min
7th	Zephaniah Ncube	Zimbabwe	13: 46.33 min
8th	Uwe Mönkemeyer	BR Germany	13: 48.66 min
9	Gerardo Alcala	Mexico	13: 50.60 min
10	Aria Gamliel	Israel	14: 02.98 min
11	Alphonse Swai	Tanzania	14: 22.20 min
12	Luis Tipan	Ecuador	14: 52.43 min
13	Ramón López	Paraguay	15: 15.64 min
DNS	Gregory Duhaime	Canada

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	António Leitão	Portugal	13: 51.33 min
2	David Moorcroft	Great Britain	13: 51.40 min
3	Eduardo Castro	Mexico	13: 51.46 min
4th	Antti Loikkanen	Finland	13: 51.47 min
5	Abdel Razzak Bounour	Algeria	13: 51.52 min
6th	Omar Aguilar	Chile	13: 51.53 min
7th	Paul Kipkoech	Kenya	13: 51.54 min
8th	Zakariah Barie	Tanzania	13: 53.00 min
9	Antonio Selvaggio	Italy	13: 55.73 min
10	Roger Soler	Peru	14: 28.26 min
11	Orlando Mora	Costa Rica	14: 33.49 min
12	Masini Situ-Kumbanga	Zaire	15: 02.52 min
13	Ali Al-Ghadi	United Arab Emirates	16:06:58 min
DNS	Antonio Prieto	Spain

Semifinals

Date: August 9, 1984

In the two semi-finals, the first six athletes qualified for each run. In addition, the three fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Saïd Aouita achieved the best time in the semifinals with 13: 28.39 minutes in run 2.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Wilson Waigwa	Kenya	13: 38.59 min
2	António Leitão	Portugal	13: 39.76 min
3	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	13: 40.08 min
4th	Raymond Patrick Flynn	Ireland	13: 40.74 min
5	Eamonn Martin	Great Britain	13: 41.70 min
6th	Doug Padilla	United States	13: 41.73 min
7th	Zakariah Barie	Tanzania	13: 43.49 min
8th	Gerardo Alcala	Mexico	13: 45.98 min
9	Paul Williams	Canada	13: 46.34 min
10	Steve Lacy	United States	13: 46.65 min
11	Omar Aguilar	Chile	13: 51.13 min
12	Zephania Ncube	Zimbabwe	13: 53.25 min
13	Abdel Razzak Bounour	Algeria	13: 57.43 min
14th	Antti Loikkanen	Finland	13: 58.74 min
DNF	Uwe Mönkemeyer	BR Germany

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Said Aouita	Morocco	13: 28.39 min
2	David Moorcroft	Great Britain	13: 28.44 min
3	John Walker	New Zealand	13: 28.48 min
4th	Charles Cheruiyot	Kenya	13: 28.56 min
5	Timothy Hutchings	Great Britain	13: 28.60 min
6th	Paul Kipkoech	Kenya	13: 29.08 min
7th	Mats Erixon	Sweden	13: 29.77 min
8th	Martti Vainio	Finland	13: 30.48 min
9	Ezequiel Canario	Portugal	13: 32.64 min
10	João Campos	Portugal	13: 34.46 min
11	Eduardo Castro	Mexico	13: 42.04 min
12	Donald Clary	United States	13: 46.02 min
13	Bob Verbeeck	Belgium	13: 46.03 min
14th	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	13: 47.53 min
DNF	Christoph Herle	BR Germany

final

Olympic champion Saïd Aouita from Morocco, here at the 1987 World Championships

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Said Aouita	Morocco	13:05:59 min	OR
2	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	13:07:54 min
3	António Leitão	Portugal	13:09.20 min
4th	Timothy Hutchings	Great Britain	13: 11.50 min
5	Paul Kipkoech	Kenya	13: 14.40 min
6th	Charles Cheruiyot	Kenya	13: 18.41 min
7th	Doug Padilla	United States	13: 23.56 min
8th	John Walker	New Zealand	13: 24.46 min
9	Ezequiel Canario	Portugal	13: 26.50 min
10	Wilson Waigwa	Kenya	13: 27.34 min
11	Raymond Patrick Flynn	Ireland	13: 34.50 min
12	Mats Erixon	Sweden	13: 41.64 min
13	Eamonn Martin	Great Britain	13: 53.34 min
14th	David Moorcroft	Great Britain	14: 16.61 min
DOP	Martti Vainio	Finland

Date: August 11, 1984

All three Kenyans as well as the three British had qualified for the final. There were also two Portuguese and one runner each from the USA, Morocco, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden and Ireland. The qualified Finn Martti Vainio was suspended because of a positive doping test after the 10,000 meter final and was therefore not allowed to take part in this final.

The Irish world champion Eamonn Coghlan did not appear in Los Angeles due to an injury. The British world record holder David Moorcroft was injured and not in full power, but still looked for his chance here. The favorite role fell to the Moroccan Saïd Aouita .

The field stayed together for a long time in the final race, although the pace was high with Ezequiel Canário in the lead. Behind Canário, his compatriot António Leitão ran in second place ahead of Aouita. US runner Doug Padilla , who was third in the first lap, fell back. In the next lap Leitão and Aouita then passed Canário. At the end of the field was Moorcroft, apparently having problems.

With three laps to go, a group of six had formed. Leitão led ahead of Aouita, the British Timothy Hutchings, the Kenyan Paul Kipkoech , the Swiss Markus Ryffel and the second Kenyan Charles Cheruiyot . Cheruiyot was now losing ground more and more. Shortly before the final lap, Leitão, Aouita and Ryffel increased the pace, Hutchings and Kipkoech could not keep up. Aouitas attacked on the back straight. With Ryffel behind him, he passed Leitão. Seventy meters to go, Aouita was even able to wave into the crowd, the victory could no longer be taken from him. He won with a new Olympic record ahead of Ryffel and Leitão. Hutchings was fourth ahead of Kipkoech.

With his victory, Saïd Aouita was the first male Olympic champion in Morocco.

Markus Ryffel won Switzerland's first medal over 5000 meters , António Leitão the first medal for Portugal.

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , pp. 20f

Web links

• SportsReference 5000m , accessed January 7, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 278, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018

Video

• OLYMPIC GAMES 1984 5000M FINAL LOS ANGELES Mats Erixon Mölndals AIK , published January 29, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed January 7, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 672 , accessed on January 7, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 278, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018
3. ↑ SportsReference 5000 m , accessed January 7, 2018