Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 5000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 8, 2012 (preliminary round) ; August 11, 2012 (final)
	Medalist
	Mo Farah ( GBR )
	Dejen Gebremeskel ( ETH )
	Thomas Longosiwa ( KEN )

The men's 5000 meter run at the 2012 London Olympics was held on August 8th and 11th, 2012 in the London Olympic Stadium. 43 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Mo Farah from Great Britain, who won in front of the Ethiopian Dejen Gebremeskel . The bronze medal went to the Kenyan Thomas Longosiwa .

Arne Gabius started for Germany , who was eliminated in the run-up.

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

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia	12: 57.82 min	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Mo Farah ( Great Britain ) United Kingdom	13: 23.36 min	Daegu 2011
European champion	Mo Farah ( Great Britain ) United Kingdom	13: 29.91 min	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions	José Uribe ( Mexico ) Mexico	14:08.10 min	Mayagüez 2011
South America champion	Javier Carriqueo ( Argentina ) Argentina	13: 58.27 min	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Dejenee Mootumaa ( Bahrain ) Bahrain	13: 39.71 min	Kobe 2011
African champions	Mark Kiptoo ( Kenya ) Kenya	13: 22.38 min	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion	Nordine Benfodda ( New Caledonia ) New Caledonia	15: 57.90 min	Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia	12: 37.35 min	Hengelo , Netherlands	May 31, 2004
Olympic record	Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia	12: 57.82 min	Beijing Final , People's Republic of China	August 23, 2008

Note:
All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

doping

In this competition there were two athletes who were disqualified for violating the doping rules.

Frenchman Hassan Hirt tested positive for EPO . The doping test was taken on August 3rd in Rouen before the Olympic competition. The result was only available after the race. Hirt was banned from the French federation and subsequently disqualified.
Hussain Jamaan Alhamdah from Saudi Arabia was also subsequently disqualified for manipulating his biological passport .

Prelims

Two preliminary runs were carried out. The first five athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the five 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.

Forward 1

Hussain Jamaan Alhamdah from Saudi Arabia has been disqualified for violating the doping rules

August 8, 2012, 10:45 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
0 1	Hayle Ibrahimov	Azerbaijan Azerbaijan	13: 25.23
0 2	Isiah Koech	Kenya Kenya	13: 25.64
0 3	Mo Farah	United Kingdom Great Britain	13: 26.00
0 4th	Lopez Lomong	United States United States	13: 26.16
0 5	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia Ethiopia	13: 26.16
0 6th	Edwin Soi	Kenya Kenya	13: 27.06
0 7th	Arne Gabius	Germany Germany	13: 28.01
0 8th	Daniele Meucci	Italy Italy	13: 28.71
0 9	Moukheld Al-Outaibi	Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia	13: 31.47
10	Bilisuma Shugi	Bahrain Bahrain	13: 31.84
11	Yūki Satō	Japan Japan	13: 38.22
12	David McNeill	Australia Australia	13: 45.88
13	Olivier Iraburata	Burundi Burundi	13: 46.25
14th	Aziz Lahbabi	Morocco Morocco	13: 47.57
15th	Amanuel Mesel	Eritrea Eritrea	13: 48.13
16	Collis Birmingham	Australia Australia	13: 50.39
17th	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine Ukraine	13: 53.15
18th	Geofrey Kusuro	Uganda Uganda	13: 59.74
19th	Rene Herrera	Philippines Philippines	14: 44.11
DOP	Hassan Hirt	France France
DOP	Hussain Jamaan Alhamdah	Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
DNS	Teklemariam Medhin	Ethiopia Ethiopia

Forward 2

August 8, 2012, 11:06 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
0 1	Dejen Gebremeskel	Ethiopia Ethiopia	13: 15.15
0 2	Yenew Alamirew	Ethiopia Ethiopia	13: 15.39
0 3	Thomas Longosiwa	Kenya Kenya	13: 15.41
0 4th	Bernard Lagat	United States United States	13: 15.45
0 5	Abdalaati Iguider	Morocco Morocco	13: 15.49
0 6th	Galen Rupp	United States United States	13: 17.56
0 7th	Moses Ndiema Kipsiro	Uganda Uganda	13: 17.68
0 8th	Cameron Levins	Canada Canada	13: 18.29
0 9	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico Mexico	13: 21.01
10	Moomin Gala	Djibouti Djibouti	13: 21.21
11	Abrar Osman	Eritrea Eritrea	13: 24.40
12	Nick McCormick	United Kingdom Great Britain	13: 25.70
13	Polat Kemboi Arıkan	Turkey Turkey	13: 27.21
14th	Rabah Aboud	Algeria Algeria	13: 28.38
15th	Abraham Kiplimo	Uganda Uganda	13: 31.57
16	Craig Mottram	Australia Australia	13: 40.24
17th	Alistair Ian Cragg	Ireland Ireland	13: 47.01
18th	Soufiane Bouqantar	Morocco Morocco	13: 47.63
19th	Javier Carriqueo	Argentina Argentina	13: 57.07
20th	Abdullah Abdulaziz Aljoud	Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia	14: 11.12
21st	Ruben Sança	Cape Verde Cape Verde	14: 35.19

final

Scene from the final: in
front Alamirew and Gebremeskel followed by Longosiwa (hidden), Koech, Ibrahimov and Farah, behind them Rupp, Kipsiro and Lagat

August 11, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

All three Ethiopians qualified for the final. There were also two Kenyans and two Americans as well as one starter each from Azerbaijan, Djibouti, Great Britain, Canada, Morocco, Mexico and Uganda.

The favorite was the reigning world champion Mo Farah from Great Britain. His two top challengers were the two US runners Galen Rupp and Bernard Lagat.

The first two kilometers of this final were pretty wasted with 1000 meter sections of just under or just over three minutes. Then the pace increased significantly with the Ethiopian Yenew Alamirew, the third kilometer was covered in 2: 46.25 minutes. With 2: 33.52 minutes for the fourth kilometer, it got really fast. Dejen Gebremeskel still led the entire field. At the beginning of the last lap, ten of the fifteen athletes who had started were lying together in one group, the gap to the five other runners was very small. Farah and Rupp now took the lead. Rupp fell back, but was able to work his way back to the British. Farah was always able to repel all attacks by his opponents, nobody could follow his final spurt, so that Mo Farah safely ran to the gold medal. Silver went to the Ethiopian Dejen Gebremeskel, who came close but had no chance of victory. The Kenyan Thomas Longosiwa won bronze ahead of Lagat. Rupp came in seventh. The Olympic champion had covered the last 1000 meters in an extremely fast 2: 25.19 minutes, but after the slow first half of the race, a strong finish time was no longer possible.

Mo Farah was the first British Olympic champion at this distance and the first non-African medalist since 1992 . It was Farah's second gold medal at these games after winning the 10,000 meter race on August 3.

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	2: 55.40 min	Isiah Koech in front of the closed field	2: 55.40 min
2000 m	5: 56.70 min	Lopez Lomong in front of the closed field	3: 1.30 min
3000 m	8: 42.95 min	Yenew Alamirew in front of the closed field	2: 46.25 min
4000 m	11: 16.47 min	Dejen Gebremeskel in front of the closed field	2: 33.52 min
5000 m	13: 41.66 min	Mo Farah	2: 25.19 min

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
0 1	Mo Farah	United Kingdom Great Britain	13: 41.66
0 2	Dejen Gebremeskel	Ethiopia Ethiopia	13: 41.98
0 3	Thomas Longosiwa	Kenya Kenya	13: 42.36
0 4th	Bernard Lagat	United States United States	13: 42.99
0 5	Isiah Koech	Kenya Kenya	13: 43.83
0 6th	Abdalaati Iguider	Morocco Morocco	13: 44.19
0 7th	Galen Rupp	United States United States	13: 45.04
0 8th	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico Mexico	13: 45.30
0 9	Hayle Ibrahimov	Azerbaijan Azerbaijan	13: 45.37
10	Lopez Lomong	United States United States	13: 48.19
11	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia Ethiopia	13: 49.59
12	Yenew Alamirew	Ethiopia Ethiopia	13: 49.68
13	Moomin Gala	Djibouti Djibouti	13: 50.26
14th	Cameron Levins	Canada Canada	13: 51.87
15th	Moses Ndiema Kipsiro	Uganda Uganda	13: 52.25