2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 5000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	38 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 27, 2000 (preliminary round) September 30, 2000 (final)
Medalist Million Wolde ( ETH )   Ali Saïdi-Sief ( ALG )   Brahim Lahlafi ( MAR )

The men's 5000-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 27 and 30, 2000 at the Australia Stadium. 38 athletes took part.

The Ethiopian Million Wolde became the Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Algerian Ali Saïdi-Sief and the Moroccan Brahim Lahlafi .

The German Jirka Arndt reached the final and finished eighth. Because of a positive doping result , Dieter Baumann , Olympic champion in 1992 , was banned and was not allowed to participate.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1996	Vénuste Niyongabo ( Burundi )	13: 07.96 min	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Salah Hissou ( Morocco )	12: 58.13 min	Seville 1999
European champion 1998	Isaac Viciosa ( Spain )	13: 37.46 min	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	David Galván ( Mexico )	13: 42.04 min	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999	Fidencio Torres ( Mexico )	14: 20.19 min	Bridgetown 1999
South American Champion 1999	Silvio Guerra ( Ecuador )	14: 20.35 min	Bogotá 1999
Asian champion 2000	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama ( Qatar )	13: 53.10 min	Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000	Ali Saïdi-Sief ( Algeria )	13: 26.86 min	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Brent Butler ( Guam )	15: 36.83 min	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	12: 39.36 min	Haile Gebrselassie ( Ethiopia )	Helsinki , Finland	June 13, 1998
Olympic record	13:05:59 min	Saïd Aouita ( Morocco )	Los Angeles final , USA	August 11, 1984

Note: All times are local Sydney time ( UTC + 10 ).

Preliminary round

A total of two preliminary runs were completed. 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 runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

The Spaniard Alberto García was eliminated in sixteenth of his preliminary run

September 27, 2000, 10:05 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Brahim Lahlafi	Morocco	13: 22.70
2	Million wolde	Ethiopia	13: 22.75
3	Fita Bayissa	Ethiopia	13: 22.92
4th	Réda petrol	Algeria	13: 23.10
5	Julius Gitahi	Kenya	13: 23.12
6th	Richard Limo	Kenya	13: 23.17
7th	Adam Goucher	United States	13: 24.34
8th	Mizan Mehari	Australia	13: 24.56
9	Jirka Arndt	Germany	13: 26.18
10	Katsuhiko Hanada	Japan	13: 41.31
11	Marius Bakken	Norway	13: 44.80
12	Nicholas Rogers	United States	13: 46.18
13	Michael Power	Australia	13: 51.00
14th	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama	Qatar	14: 00.30
15th	Kris Bowditch	Great Britain	14: 08.92
16	Alberto García	Spain	14: 11.65
17th	Hélder Ornelas	Portugal	14: 29.01
DNS	David Galvan	Mexico

Forward 2

The Australian Craig Mottram was eliminated as eighth in his forerunner

September 27, 2000, 10:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Ali Saïdi-Sief	Algeria	13: 29.34
2	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine	13: 29.69
3	Dagne Alemu	Ethiopia	13: 29.93
4th	David Chelule	Kenya	13: 29.98
5	Toshinari Takaoka	Japan	13: 29.99
6th	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	13: 30.12
7th	Mark Carroll	Ireland	13: 30.60
8th	Craig Mottram	Australia	13: 31.06
9	Yousef El Nasri	Spain	13: 34.49
10	Mohamed Saïd El Wardi	Morocco	13: 35.18
11	Bradley Hauser	United States	13: 39.41
12	Pablo Olmedo	Mexico	13: 40.34
13	Mustapha Essaïd	France	13: 40.82
14th	Sam Mfula Mwape	Zambia	13: 41.72
15th	Venuste Niyongabo	Burundi	13: 49.57
16	Bolota Asmerom	Eritrea	14: 15.26
17th	Gyan Bahadur Bohara	Nepal	14: 34.15	NO
18th	Shihab Houna Murad	Iraq	14: 49.40
19th	Maung Nge Maung	Myanmar	15: 12.93
DNS	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium

final

The Ukrainian Serhij Lebid finished seventh in the final

The Olympic tenth Richard Limo from Kenya

September 30, 2000, 8:50 pm

Three Ethiopians, three Kenyans and two Algerians qualified for the final. The starting field was completed by one participant each from Australia, Germany, Japan, Qatar, Morocco, Ukraine and the USA.

After various top runners, such as E.g. the Ethiopian world record holder Haile Gebrselassie , who concentrated on the 10,000 meter run , the reigning world champion Salah Hissou from Morocco, the two Kenyans Benjamin Limo as vice world champion and Daniel Komen as ex- world record holder and World Cup fifth or the Belgian European record holder and World Cup - Third Mohammed Mourhit found it difficult to pick a favorite. It was clear that one would certainly have to reckon with the extremely strong Africans in recent years. First and foremost, these were the Moroccan World Cup fourth here in Sydney, Brahim Lahlafi, and the Ethiopian Fita Bayisa, who had already won bronze in Barcelona in 1992 and was sixth at the last world championships. It was quite an open affair overall.

The final was approached relatively slowly, the field remained closed and the leadership role changed constantly. The first four 1000 meter sections were covered in times between 2: 42.25 and 2: 54.18 minutes. That would have resulted in an end time of just under fourteen minutes. But the last thousand meters were completed in 2: 25.65 minutes, it was really fast now. In the penultimate lap, the Algerian Ali Saïdi-Sief took the initiative and pulled away from the field together with the Ethiopian Million Wolde. The two Africans were now almost fighting between themselves, although it got very close in the end because the pursuers came very close again. On the home straight, Million Wolde overtook his competitor with a final step up to secure the gold medal. Ali Saïdi-Sief won silver with just 27 hundredths of a second ahead of Brahim Lahlafi. They were followed by Fita Bayissa, the Kenyan David Chelule and the third Ethiopian Dagne Alemu. In seventh place, the Ukrainian Serhij Lebid was the first non-African to cross the finish line. The German Jirka Arndt came in eighth.

Ali Saïdi-Sief was Algeria's first medalist in this discipline.

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	2: 45.36 min	Jirka Arndt in front of the closed field	2: 45.36 min
2000 m	5: 39.54 min	Dagne Alemu in front of the closed field	2: 54.18 min
3000 m	8: 21.79 min	Brahim Lahlafi in front of the closed field	2: 42.25 min
4000 m	11: 09.84 min	Brahim Lahlafi in front of the closed field	2: 48.05 min
5000 m	13: 35.49 min	Million wolde	2: 25.65 min

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Million wolde	Ethiopia	13: 35.49
2	Ali Saïdi-Sief	Algeria	13: 36.20
3	Brahim Lahlafi	Morocco	13: 36.47
4th	Fita Bayissa	Ethiopia	13: 37.03
5	David Chelule	Kenya	13: 37.13
6th	Dagne Alemu	Ethiopia	13: 37.17
7th	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine	13: 37.80
8th	Jirka Arndt	Germany	13: 38.57
9	Julius Gitahi	Kenya	13: 39.11
10	Richard Limo	Kenya	13: 39.43
11	Réda petrol	Algeria	13: 40.95
12	Mizan Mehari	Australia	13: 42.03
13	Adam Goucher	United States	13: 43.20
14th	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	13: 45.10
15th	Toshinari Takaoka	Japan	13: 46.90

Web links

• SportsReference 5000m , accessed March 20, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed March 20, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 20, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ doping? - The Dieter Baumann case on sportunterricht.de, accessed on March 20, 2018
2. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 672 , accessed on March 20, 2018