1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 5000 m (men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 5000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 37 athletes from 23 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 31, 1996 (preliminary round) August 1, 1996 (semi-finals) August 3, 1996 (final) |
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The men's 5000-meter run at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 31 and August 1 and 3, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 37 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Vénuste Niyongabo from Burundi. He won ahead of the Kenyan Paul Bitok and the Moroccan Khalid Boulami .
Dieter Baumann and Stéphane Franke started for Germany . Both qualified for the final. Baumann was fourth, Franke fourteenth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1992 |
Dieter Baumann ( Germany )
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13: 12.52 min | Barcelona 1992 |
World Champion 1995 |
Ismael Kirui ( Kenya )
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13: 16.77 min | Gothenburg 1995 |
European Champion 1994 |
Dieter Baumann ( Germany )
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13: 36.93 min | Helsinki 1994 |
Pan American champion 1995 |
Armando Quintanilla ( Mexico )
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13: 30.35 min | Mar del Plata 1995 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995 | Sergio Jiménez ( Mexico )
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14: 32.68 min | Guatemala City 1995 |
South American Champion 1995 |
Ronaldo da Costa ( Brazil )
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13: 51.66 min | Manaus 1995 |
Asian champion 1995 |
Saad Shaddad Al-Asmari ( Saudi Arabia )
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14: 01.43 min | Jakarta 1995 |
African champion 1996 |
Paul Koech ( Kenya )
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13: 35.13 min | Yaoundé 1996 |
Oceania Champion 1994 | Jason Cameron ( New Zealand )
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14: 44.62 min | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
World record | 12: 44.39 min |
Haile Gebrselassie ( Ethiopia )
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Zurich , Switzerland | August 16, 1995 |
Olympic record | 13:05:59 min |
Saïd Aouita ( Morocco )
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Los Angeles final , USA | August 11, 1984 |
Note: All times are Atlanta local time ( UTC − 5 ).
Preliminary round
July 31, 1996, from 9:40 p.m.
The athletes competed in a total of three heats. The first eight long distance runners qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the six fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Ismaïl Sghyr |
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14: 02.71 | |
2 | Shem Kororia |
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14: 02.75 | |
3 | Réda petrol |
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14: 03.06 | |
4th | Gennaro Di Napoli |
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14: 03.56 | |
5 | Shaun Creighton |
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14: 04.08 | |
6th | Shadrack Hoff |
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14: 05.97 | |
7th | Anacleto Jiménez |
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14: 16.57 | |
8th | José Ramos |
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14: 17.26 | |
9 | Matt Giusto |
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14: 30.76 | |
10 | William Roldan |
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14: 39.50 | |
11 | Sid'Ahmed Ould Mohamedou |
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15: 29.16 | |
DNS | Haile Gebrselassie |
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Armando Quintanilla |
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Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Fita Bayisa |
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13: 50.61 | |
2 | Brahim Lahlafi |
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13: 51.25 | |
3 | Tom Nyariki |
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13: 51.47 | |
4th | Enrique Molina |
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13: 51.55 | |
5 | Aïssa Belaout |
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13: 51.96 | |
6th | Dieter Baumann |
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13: 52.00 | |
7th | John Nuttall |
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13: 52.16 | |
8th | Jonathan Wyatt |
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13: 52.56 | |
9 | Jim Spivey |
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13: 53.16 | |
10 | Cormac Finnerty |
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13: 54.01 | |
11 | Julian Paynter |
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14: 00.25 | |
12 | Adalberto García |
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14: 28.64 | |
13 | Henry Moyo |
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14: 30.53 | |
DNS | Aloÿs Nizigama |
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Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | John Morapedi |
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13: 54.30 | |
2 | Paul Bitok |
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13: 54.45 | |
3 | Venuste Niyongabo |
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13: 54.53 | |
4th | Bob Kennedy |
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13: 54.57 | |
5 | Khalid Boulami |
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13: 54.72 | |
6th | Miroslav Vanko |
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13: 54.88 | |
7th | Assefa Mezgebu |
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13: 54.89 | |
8th | Stefano Baldini |
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13: 55.41 | |
9 | Manuel Pancorbo |
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13: 57.42 | |
10 | Stéphane Franke |
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14: 06.34 | |
11 | Luís Jesus |
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14: 08.87 | |
12 | Khamis Abdullah Seifeddine |
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14: 15.21 | |
13 | Aboukar Hassan Adani |
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15: 19.80 | |
DNS | Alyan Al-Qahtani |
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Semifinals
August 1, 1996, from 9:15 p.m.
From the two semi-finals, the first six athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the three fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified participants are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Shem Kororia |
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13: 27.50 | |
2 | Paul Bitok |
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13: 27.61 | |
3 | Brahim Lahlafi |
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13: 27.73 | |
4th | Bob Kennedy |
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13: 27.90 | |
5 | Gennaro Di Napoli |
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13: 28.80 | |
6th | Khalid Boulami |
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13: 29.72 | |
7th | Fita Bayisa |
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13: 30.88 | |
8th | Réda petrol |
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13: 37.52 | |
9 | Stéphane Franke |
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13: 40.94 | |
10 | Jonathan Wyatt |
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13: 47.81 | |
11 | Anacleto Jiménez |
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13: 50.90 | |
12 | Miroslav Vanko |
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13: 51.45 | |
13 | John Morapedi |
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13: 54.43 | |
14th | Shaun Creighton |
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13: 55.23 | |
15th | José Ramos |
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14: 24.81 |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Tom Nyariki |
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14: 03.21 | |
2 | Venuste Niyongabo |
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14: 03.58 | |
3 | Dieter Baumann |
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14: 03.75 | |
4th | Enrique Molina |
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14: 04.08 | |
5 | Ismaïl Sghyr |
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14: 04.23 | |
6th | Aïssa Belaout |
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14: 04.56 | |
7th | Assefa Mezgebu |
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14: 05.48 | |
8th | Stefano Baldini |
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14: 06.45 | |
9 | John Nuttall |
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14: 08.39 | |
10 | Cormac Finnerty |
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14: 08.88 | |
11 | Shadrack Hoff |
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14: 16.14 | |
12 | Julian Paynter |
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14: 23.60 | |
13 | Jim Spivey |
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14: 27.72 | |
14th | Manuel Pancorbo |
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14: 39.64 | |
DNS | Luís Jesus |
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final
August 3, 1996
All three Kenyans and all three Moroccans had qualified for the final. They ran against two Germans and two Algerians as well as one participant each from Ethiopia, Burundi, Italy, Spain and the USA.
The reigning world champion , Ismael Kirui from Kenya, was not there. The world record holder Haile Gebrselassie from Ethiopia was also absent. Because of the track that was too hard for long distance runners, his feet were so sore during his Olympic victory over 10,000 meters that a start was not possible just a few days later. The group of favorites mainly included the athletes who had been ahead at the previous year's World Championships. These were the three Moroccans Khalid Boulami, Vice World Champion, Ismaïl Sghyr, World Cup fourth, and Brahim Lahlafi, World Cup fifth, the Kenyan World Cup third Shem Kororia and the US World Cup seventh Bob Kennedy. There were also the 1992 Olympic champion and 1994 European champion Dieter Baumann from Germany and the silver medalist from Barcelona Paul Bitok. Another highly regarded medal candidate was Vénuste Niyongabo from Burundi, who was more of a 1500-meter runner and had only completed two 5000-meter races before Atlanta.
A brisk pace was run in the finale, which began to accelerate from the second kilometer onwards. However, there were no world record intermediate times. The field stayed together for a long time and was led by the Kenyans. Time and again there was a small gap between the leaders Kororia or Nyariki and their pursuers. With two laps to go, Kennedy took the initiative and now accelerated the pace. So the field spread more and more. The first pursuers were Niyongabo and Bitok. Shortly before the start of the last lap, Niyongabo passed Kennedy and it got even faster. The runner from Burundi now set himself apart from his competitors. Behind him there was a group of three with Bitok, Boulami and Baumann. So it went to the home straight. Vénuste Niyongabo brought his lead across the finish line without endangering himself. Like four years ago, Paul Bitok won the silver medal. Baumann tried everything again to get past Boulami, but did not succeed. Bronze went to Khalid Boulami, Dieter Baumann came fourth ahead of Tom Nyariki and Bob Kennedy.
Vénuste Niyongabo was the first medalist and also the first ever Olympic champion from Burundi.
Split times | |||
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Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 1000 m time |
1000 m | 2: 45.40 min | Tom Nyariki in front of the closed field | 2: 45.40 min |
2000 m | 5: 20.87 min | Shem Kororia in front of the closed field | 2: 35.47 min |
3000 m | 8:00:05 min | Shem Kororia in front of the closed field | 2: 39.18 min |
4000 m | 10: 40.42 min | Tom Nyariki in front of the closed field | 2: 40.37 min |
5000 m | 13: 07.96 min | Venuste Niyongabo | 2: 27.54 min |
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Venuste Niyongabo |
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13: 07.96 | |
2 | Paul Bitok |
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13: 08.16 | |
3 | Khalid Boulami |
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13: 08.37 | |
4th | Dieter Baumann |
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13: 08.81 | |
5 | Tom Nyariki |
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13: 12.29 | |
6th | Bob Kennedy |
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13: 12.35 | |
7th | Enrique Molina |
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13: 12.91 | |
8th | Brahim Lahlafi |
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13: 13.26 | |
9 | Shem Kororia |
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13: 14.63 | |
10 | Fita Bayisa |
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13: 18.30 | |
11 | Ismaïl Sghyr |
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13: 22.89 | |
12 | Gennaro Di Napoli |
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13: 28.36 | |
13 | Réda petrol |
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13: 42.34 | |
14th | Stéphane Franke |
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13: 44.64 | |
15th | Aïssa Belaout |
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14: 06.52 |
literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 33f
Web links
- SportsReference 5000 m , accessed February 27, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , Athletics Results: p. 78, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on February 27, 2018
Video
- Men's 5000m Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 22, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed February 27, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 672 , accessed on February 27, 2018
- ↑ a b c Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Results athletics: p. 78, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on February 27, 2018