2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 5000 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 5000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 51 athletes from 28 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estádio Nilton Santos | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 17th, 2016 (preliminary) August 20th, 2016 (final) |
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The men's 5000 meter run at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 17 and 20, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 51 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Mo Farah from Great Britain. He won ahead of the American Paul Chelimo and the Ethiopian Hagos Gebrhiwet .
Florian Orth and Richard Ringer started for Germany, both of whom were eliminated in the preliminary stages.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion | Mo Farah ( Great Britain ) | 13: 41.66 min | London 2012 |
World Champion | 13: 50.38 min | Beijing 2015 | |
European champion | Ilias Fifa ( Spain ) | 13: 40.85 min | Amsterdam 2016 |
North / Central America / Caribbean champions | Lopez Lomong ( USA ) | 13: 57.53 min | San José 2015 |
South America champion | Víctor Aravena ( Chile ) | 14:06:14 min | Lima 2015 |
Asian champion | Mohamad Al-Garni ( Qatar ) | 13; 34.47 min | Wuhan 2015 |
African champions | Douglas Kipserem ( Kenya ) | 13: 13.35 min | Durban 2016 |
Oceania Champion | Joshua Torley ( Australia ) | 15: 34.31 min | Cairns 2015 |
Existing records
World record | Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) | 12: 37.35 min | Hengelo , Netherlands | May 31, 2004 |
Olympic record | 12: 57.82 min | Beijing Final , People's Republic of China | August 23, 2008 |
Note: All times are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).
Preliminary round
The athletes competed in a total of two preliminary runs. The first five runners per run qualified for the final. 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
August 17, 2016, 10:05 am
During the race, there was a last lap incident in which US runner Hassan Mead and Brit Mo Farah stumbled after contact. Farah managed to hold on while Mead fell to the ground. Both continued the race. After a protest by the US representatives, Mead was admitted to the final because of the disadvantage that had arisen.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Hagos Gebrhiwet | Ethiopia | 13: 24.65 | |
2 | Albert Rop | Bahrain | 13: 24.95 | |
3 | Mo Farah | Great Britain | 13: 25.25 | |
4th | Joshua Cheptegei | Uganda | 13: 25.70 | |
5 | Bernard Lagat | United States | 13: 26.02 | |
6th | Caleb Ndiku | Kenya | 13: 26.63 | |
7th | Hayle Ibrahimov | Azerbaijan | 13: 27.11 | |
8th | Aron Kifle | Eritrea | 13: 29.45 | |
9 | Iliad Fifa | Spain | 13: 30.23 | |
10 | Kemoy Campbell | Jamaica | 13: 30.32 | |
11 | Jacob Kiplimo | Uganda | 13: 30.40 | |
12 | Charles Muneria | Kenya | 13: 30.95 | |
13 | Hassan Mead | United States | 13: 34.27 | admitted to the finals |
14th | Younès Essalhi | Morocco | 13: 41.41 | |
15th | Namakoe Nkhasi | Lesotho | 13: 41.92 | |
16 | Bashir Abdi | Belgium | 13: 42.83 | |
17th | Olivier Irabaruta | Burundi | 13: 44.08 | |
18th | Sam McEntee | Australia | 13: 50.55 | |
19th | Lucas Bruchet | Canada | 14: 02.02 | |
20th | Richard Ringer | Germany | 14: 05.01 | |
21st | Mukhlid Al-Otaibi | Saudi Arabia | 14: 18.48 | |
22nd | Kota Murayama | Japan | 14: 26.72 | |
23 | Hari Kumar Rimal | Nepal | 14: 54.42 | |
24 | Mohamed Daud Mohamed | Somalia | 14: 57.84 | |
25th | Rosefelo Siosi | Solomon Islands | 15: 47.76 |
Forward 2
August 17, 2016, 10:27 am
final
August 20, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
All three Americans and Ethiopians each qualified. There were also two participants each from Great Britain and Bahrain. The final field was completed by one athlete each from Australia, Eritrea, Canada, Peru, South Africa and Uganda.
The 2012 British Olympic Champion Mo Farah was the favorite. The reigning world champion , double Olympic champion in 2012 over 5000 and 10,000 meters , here in Rio already Olympic champion over 10,000 meters, had the chance to imitate Finn Lasse Virén and repeat his double victory in 1972 in Munich and 1976 in Montreal . Farah had strong opponents in the Ethiopians, especially the 2012 silver medalist Dejen Gebremeskel. For the first time since 1980 , Kenya was not represented in the finals. However, three native Kenyans took part, who started for other nations: Paul Chelimo and Bernard Lagat for the USA and Albert Rop for Bahrain.
In the final race, Gebremeskel and Hagos Gebrhiwet, another Ethiopian, took the lead, while Farah stayed in the back of the field as usual. The pace was high right from the start, the first two 1000 meter sections were each covered well under 2:40 minutes. The field of runners had expanded accordingly, but a larger group of leaders remained together for a long time. The third and fourth kilometers were not quite as fast with times of just over 2:40 minutes each. With five and a half laps to go, Chelimo took the lead and tried to break up the group. Gebrhiwet fell back, Farah replaced the American at the top. With Farah, Chelimo, the Canadian Mohammed Ahmed, Gebrhiwet, the American Bernard Lagat, Joshua Cheptegei from Uganda and Albert Rop from Bahrain, seven runners were still together in the penultimate lap. The Ethiopian Muktar Edris sat behind them.
With a lap and a half to go, Cheptegei launched an attack and the race was now really fast. In the leading group there was a collision between the Ethiopians Edris and Gebrhiwet shortly before the start of the last lap, without anyone falling. Gebrhiwet kept up with the group while Edris had to let go. Gebrhiwet went into the last lap as the leader, Farah ran right next to him. Chelimo and Cheptegei were close behind, but now they were in trouble. On the back straight Gebrhiwet attacked the British and tried to pull past him on the outside. But Farah countered and went into the home straight as the leader and broke away from his rivals. Gebrhiwet now also had to let Chelimo pass. As is so often the case, Mohamed Farah was the runner with the best final sprint and made his second double success over the two long-distance tracks perfect after 2012. Paul Chelimo won the silver medal ahead of Hagos Gebrhiwet. Behind them were Mohammed Ahmed, Bernard Lagat and the Briton Andrew Butchart. Muktar Edris crossed the finish line in fourth, but was later disqualified for crossing the inside edge of the track.
Split times | |||
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Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leader | 1000 m time |
1000 m | 2: 37.40 min | Dejen Gebremeskel | 2: 37.40 min |
2000 m | 5: 15.96 min | Hagos Gebrhiwet | 2: 38.56 min |
3000 m | 7: 57.15 min | Dejen Gebremeskel | 2: 41.19 min |
4000 m | 10: 39.38 min | Mo Farah | 2: 42.23 min |
5000 m | 13: 03.30 min | Mo Farah | 2: 23.92 min |
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Mo Farah | Great Britain | 13: 03.30 | |
2 | Paul Chelimo | United States | 13: 03.90 | |
3 | Hagos Gebrhiwet | Ethiopia | 13: 04.35 | |
4th | Mohammed Ahmed | Canada | 13: 05.94 | |
5 | Bernard Lagat | United States | 13: 06.78 | |
6th | Andrew Butchart | Great Britain | 13: 08.61 | |
7th | Albert Rop | Bahrain | 13: 08.79 | |
8th | Joshua Cheptegei | Uganda | 13: 09.17 | |
9 | Birhanu Balew | Bahrain | 13: 09.26 | |
10 | Abrar Osman | Eritrea | 13: 09.56 | |
11 | Hassan Mead | United States | 13: 09.81 | |
12 | Dejen Gebremeskel | Ethiopia | 13: 15.91 | |
13 | Elroy Gelant | South Africa | 13: 17.47 | |
14th | Brett Robinson | Australia | 13: 32.30 | |
15th | David Torrence | Peru | 13: 43.12 | |
DSQ | Muktar Edris | Ethiopia | IAAF Rule 163.3 b - Crossing the inside edge of the web |
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 1, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English), accessed on October 1, 2018
- Sports-Reference, result 5000 m men (English), accessed on October 1, 2018
Video
- Mo Farah: My Rio Highlights , range 1:10 min to 2:23 min on youtube.com, published on August 6, 2016, accessed on October 1, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 672 , accessed on October 1, 2018
- ↑ TwinCities Pioneer Press, August 17, 2016 (English) , accessed October 1, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 , accessed on October 1, 2018