1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

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Men's 5000 metres
at the European Athletics Championships

These are the official results of the Men's 5,000 metres event at the 1990 European Championships in Split, Yugoslavia, held at Stadion Poljud on 30 August and 1 September 1990. [1]

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Medalists

Gold Salvatore Antibo
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Silver Gary Staines
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Bronze Sławomir Majusiak
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland

Results

Final

1 September Italy's Salvatore Antibo, who was the strongest pre-race favourite to win also this final, having taken the 10,000-metre European title with a solo run, fell at the start, and therefore had to run faster than the other runners for the first 700 metres, in order to catch them. Portugal's Domingos Castro first led the race, but soon thereafter France's Cyrille Laventure took the lead. Laventure was still leading the race at 3,000 metres in 8:09.15, and at 4,000 metres in 10:53.34. Despite the moderate pace, almost all runners were still in the lead group at this point. On the second last back straight, Castro accelerated past Laventure into the lead, and the main group's runners started to string out. Castro was still leading the race at 4,600 metres, in an informal time of 12:26.2 or 12:26.3. Antibo, Britain's Gary Staines, Poland's Slawomir Majusiak, Laventure, and Finland's Risto Ulmala were chasing Castro. On the final back straight, Staines tried to sprint past Antibo, who accelerated into the lead, leaving Castro behind. At the start of the final bend, Staines sprinted past Antibo. In the second half of the bend, however, Antibo furiously kicked past Staines. Some metres behind the leading duo, Majusiak accelerated past the fading Castro. Several metres behind the second pair of runners, Sweden's Jonny Danielsson passed Ulmala. Despite celebrating his victory in the final metres, Antibo defeated Staines by almost half a second, while Majusiak secured the bronze medal. Danielsson ran the home straight several metres faster than the exhausted Castro, but he still lost to the tiny Portuguese runner by under 0.2 seconds. (The Big European Championships Book / Suuri EM-kirja (Finland, c. 1990); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P_fSAPbYgM Salvatore Antibo vince i 5.000 a Spalato 90.)

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Salvatore Antibo Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 13:22.00
Silver medal icon.svg Gary Staines Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 13:22.45
Bronze medal icon.svg Sławomir Majusiak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 13:22.92
4 Dionísio Castro Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 13:23.99
5 Jonny Danielson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 13:24.16
6 Risto Ulmala Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 13:25.08
7 Stefano Mei Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 13:27.13
8 Harri Hänninen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 13:28.22
9 Cyrille Laventure Flag of France.svg  France 13:28.25
10 Carlos Monteiro Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 13:30.19
11 Abel Antón Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 13:31.27
12 Ian Hamer Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 13:32.61
13 Eamonn Martin Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 13:34.62
14 Arnold Mächler Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 13:45.01
Marcus O'Sullivan Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland DNF

Heats

30 August

Heat 1

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Sławomir Majusiak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 13:40.12Q
2 Salvatore Antibo Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 13:40.14Q
3 Risto Ulmala Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 13:41.81Q
4 Ian Hamer Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 13:42.46Q
5 Marcus O'Sullivan Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 13:45.74Q
6 Mikhail Dasko Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 13:47.04
7 Thierry Pantel Flag of France.svg  France 13:48.80
8 Vincent Rousseau Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 13:53.90
9 António Leitão Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 13:54.38
10 Renato Gotti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 14:05.30
11 Pascal Thiébaut Flag of France.svg  France 14:07.13
12 Steffen Brand Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 14:12.84
13 Marcel Versteeg Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 14:22.42
14 Gerald De Gaetano Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 14:39.00
15 Are Nakkim Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 14:42.16
Martín Fiz Flag of Spain.svg  Spain DNF
Romeo Živko Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  Yugoslavia DNF

Heat 2

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Gary Staines Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 13:29.00Q
2 Dionísio Castro Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 13:29.03Q
3 Arnold Mächler Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 13:29.09Q
4 Carlos Monteiro Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 13:29.16Q
5 Stefano Mei Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 13:29.49Q
6 Cyrille Laventure Flag of France.svg  France 13:29.58q
7 Eamonn Martin Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 13:29.62q
8 Jonny Danielson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 13:29.65q
9 Abel Antón Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 13:29.81q
10 Harri Hänninen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 13:30.05q
11 John Halvorsen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 13:35.58
12 Evgeni Ignatov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 13:37.51
13 Antonio Serrano Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 13:42.03
14 Zeki Öztürk Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 13:44.55
15 Frank O'Mara Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 13:59.44

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

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References

  1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 451–460, retrieved 13 August 2014