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) |
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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
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |||
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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 |
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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
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 672
- ↑ 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