1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 5000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	56 athletes from 41 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 6, 1992 (preliminary round) August 8, 1992 (final)
Medalist Dieter Baumann ( GER )   Paul Bitok ( KEN )   Fita Bayisa ( ETH )

The men's 5000 meter race at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on August 6th and 8th, 1992 in two rounds in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 56 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the German Dieter Baumann . He won ahead of the Kenyan Paul Bitok and the Ethiopian Fita Bayisa .

Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	John Ngugi ( Kenya )	13: 11.70 min	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Yobes Ondieki ( Kenya )	13: 14.45 min	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	Salvatore Antibo ( Italy )	13: 22.00 min	Split 1990
Pan American champion 1991	Arturo Barrios ( Mexico )	13: 34.67 min	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	Armando Quintanilla ( Mexico )	14: 17.00 min	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Valdenor dos Santos ( Brazil )	14:09.03 min	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Mohamed Suleiman ( Qatar )	14: 03.35 min	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African Champion 1992	James Songok ( Kenya )	13: 24.63 min	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Duane Humphreys ( New Zealand )	15: 09.87 min	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	12: 58.39 min	Saïd Aouita ( Morocco )	Rome , Italy	July 22, 1987
Olympic record	13:05:59 min		Los Angeles final , USA	August 11, 1984

Preliminary round

The Spaniard Martín Fiz was eliminated as seventh in his prelude.

Date: August 6, 1992

The participants competed in a total of four preliminary runs. The first three athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pascal Thiébaut	France	13: 31.16 min
2	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 31.24 min
3	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 31.48 min
4th	Yobes Ondieki	Kenya	13: 31.88 min
5	Jack Buckner	Great Britain	13: 37.14 min
6th	John Doherty	Ireland	13: 41.27 min
7th	Risto Ulmala	Finland	13: 52.52 min
8th	Mahmoud El-Kalboussi	Tunisia	13: 55.01 min
9	Robert Ian Johnston	New Zealand	13: 57.87 min
10	Brendan Matthias	Canada	14: 01.57 min
11	Godfrey Siamusiye	Zambia	14: 08.83 min
12	Aïssa Belaout	Algeria	15: 02.76 min
13	Tawai Keiruan	Vanuatu	15: 27.46 min
14th	Yussuf Moli Yesky	Chad	15: 29.25 min
DNS	Polish woman Belisle	Honduras

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Worku Bikila	Ethiopia	13: 32.93 min
2	Paul Bitok	Kenya	13: 36.81 min
3	Brahim Boutayeb	Morocco	13: 37.27 min
4th	Frank O'Mara	Ireland	13: 38.97 min
5	Reuben Reina	United States	13: 40.50 min
6th	Jonny Danielsson	Sweden	13: 48.06 min
7th	Hamid Sajjadi	Iran	14: 04.54 min
8th	Herder Vázquez	Colombia	14: 6.80 min
9	José Luis Molina Núñez	Costa Rica	14: 09.22 min
10	Leo Garnes	Barbados	15: 21.95 min
11	Marlon Williams	American Virgin Islands	15: 26.49 min
DNF	Evgeni Ignatov	Bulgaria
DNS	Saleh Joaim	Yemen
	Antonio Fabián Silio	Argentina

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dieter Baumann	Germany	13: 20.82 min
2	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 22.41 min
3	Mohamed Issangar	Morocco	13: 22.98 min
4th	Dominic Kirui	Kenya	13: 24.21 min
5	Domingos Castro	Portugal	13:24; 57 min
6th	Antonio Serrano	Spain	13: 42.94 min
7th	Tendai Chimusasa	Zimbabwe	13: 50.16 min
8th	Bahadur Prasad	India	13: 50.71 min
9	Isaac Simelane	Swaziland	14: 00.44 min
10	Paul Donovan	Ireland	14: 03.79 min
11	Ignacio Fragoso	Mexico	14: 16.14 min
12	Abdullah Al-Dosari	Bahrain	14: 23.07 min
13	Moussa Souleiman	Djibouti	14: 28.77 min
14th	Tello Namane	Lesotho	14: 33.04 min
DNF	John Trautmann	United States
DNS	Willy Kalombo	Zaire

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	13: 33.71 min
2	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 35.76 min
3	Marcel Versteeg	Netherlands	13: 35.95 min
4th	Andrew Sambu	Tanzania	13: 36.99 min
5	Ian Hamer	Great Britain	13: 40.20 min
6th	Addis Abebe	Ethiopia	13: 40.76 min
7th	Martín Fiz	Spain	13: 42.20 min
8th	Andrei Tikhonov	EUN	13: 44.67 min
9	Zachariah Ditetso	Botswana	13: 54.88 min
10	Carlos Monteiro	Portugal	14: 00.53 min
11	Seraphin Mugabo	Rwanda	14: 25.97 min
12	Ernest Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	14: 40.12 min
13	Awad Al-Hasini	Jordan	14: 55.58 min
14th	Policarpio Calizaya	Bolivia	15:02.02 min
DNS	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium
	Davendra Prakash Singh	Fiji

final

Date: August 8, 1992

Sixteen athletes contested the final: three Kenyans, two Ethiopians, two Moroccans and one runner each from Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Tanzania, the USA and Great Britain.

The initial situation suggested a fight between the German Dieter Baumann, Olympic runner-up in 1988, and the top runners from Africa. These included the Kenyan world champion Yobes Ondieki, vice world champion Fita Bayisa from Ethiopia and the Moroccan Brahim Boutayeb. In the races of the Olympic season before these games, Baumann had defeated several of the top African athletes. However, these were not speed runs, Baumann had been able to use his enormous sprint force and the question was whether he would still be able to do this in a fast race that the Africans would force on him, because the best times of the Africans were up to ten Seconds under Baumann's best performance.

In the final everything went differently than expected. First the Kenyan Dominic Kirui started the leadership work, but was replaced after a good two kilometers. Surprisingly, the Africans did not unconditionally bet on the tempo card from the start. It was run very quickly, but that was entirely within Baumann's ability. At 3000 meters, a six-man top group formed consisting of five Africans - Bayisa, Worku Bikila from Ethiopia, Paul Bitok from Kenya, Boutayeb and Ondieki - and Baumann as the only European. On the last lap, for which Baumann had actually announced a long sprint from the front, he got into trouble on the back straight. He was in the middle of the crowd, the way to the front would only have been possible with a lot of effort, past the runners in front of him. Bitok led ahead of Bayisa, Boutayeb, Baumann and Ondieki. In the last corner the race got faster and faster, Boutayeb attacked the two leaders on the outside but couldn't get past. Behind it Baumann was walking on the inside lane and was pretty stuck when it came to the home straight. There was hardly any space to get to the very front. Bitok even settled a bit. But then Bayisa cleared the inside lane and Baumann decided to take this chance. He stormed past Boutayeb and Bayisa and had enough reserves to catch Bitok as well. Dieter Baumann was Olympic champion ahead of Paul Bitok and Fita Bayisa. He ran the last 100 meters in 11.9 seconds. Brahim Boutayeb remained fourth. Yobes Ondieki and Worku Bikila were well behind in fifth and sixth.

Dieter Baumann won the first German Olympic victory over 5000 meters for men.

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	2: 36.35 min	Dominic Kirui	2: 36.35 min
2000 m	5: 16.48 min	Dominic Kirui	2: 40.13 min
3000 m	7: 55.03 min	Yobes Ondieki	2: 38.55 min
4000 m	10: 38.35 min	Worku Bikila	2: 43.32 min
5000 m	13: 12.52 min	Dieter Baumann	2: 34.17 min

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dieter Baumann	Germany	13: 12.52 min
2	Paul Bitok	Kenya	13: 12.71 min
3	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	13: 13.03 min
4th	Brahim Boutayeb	Morocco	13: 13.27 min
5	Yobes Ondieki	Kenya	13: 17.50 min
6th	Worku Bikila	Ethiopia	13: 23.52 min
7th	Robert Denmark	Great Britain	13: 27.76 min
8th	Abel Antón	Spain	13: 27.80 min
9	Mohamed Issangar	Morocco	13: 28.97 min
10	Andrew Sambu	Tanzania	13: 37.20 min
11	Domingos Castro	Portugal	13: 38.08 min
12	Bob Kennedy	United States	13: 39.72 min
13	Pascal Thiébaut	France	13: 43.39 min
14th	Dominic Kirui	Kenya	13: 45.16 min
15th	Marcel Versteeg	Netherlands	13: 48.32 min
16	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	14: 02.47 min

Web links

• SportsReference 5000 m , accessed February 7, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 44, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 7, 2018

Video

• Men's 5000m at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics , published November 28, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed February 7, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 672
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 44, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 7, 2018