2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

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Men's 5000 metres
at the 2016 European Athletics Championships
Venue Olympic Stadium
Location Amsterdam
Dates
  • 10 July (final)
Competitors20 from 12 nations
Winning time13:40.85
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
  2014
2018  

The men's 5000 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 10 July. [1]

Contents

Summary

The race European Athletic Championships 2016 in Amsterdam - 10 July (28185033302).jpg
The race

This race had one of the closest finishes in championship distance racing. Coming off the turn, Ethiopian born Azerbaijani Hayle Ibrahimov held the curb and lead position. He held off all challenges to the position until reaching the final straightaway, when the crowd of trailers passed him. Spaniard Adel Mechaal was pressuring in the more common outside shoulder position, so Ibrahimov came off the turn a little wide to force Mechaa to run extra distance, but that opened the door for Frenchman Mourad Amdouni to squeeze through on the inside. Behind them German Richard Ringer went wider into lane 2, followed by Norwegian Henrik Ingebrigtsen on the outside of lane 2. Trailing the group down the backstretch, Moroccan born Spaniard Ilias Fifa had just about made up the gap and was catching the back of the lead group as the sprinting began. Ibrahimov was unable to keep up, overstriding Mechaal held the edge over Amdouni, but Ringer and Ingebrigtsen were closing fast on the outside, still trailed by Fifa. Similar to Ibrahimov earlier, Ringer went wide to force Ingebrigtsen to run wider. That opened up a gap for Fifa to squeeze by on the inside of Ringer, outside of his teammate Mechaal. Fifa, Mechaal, Ringer, Ingebrigtsen and Amdouni hit the finish line as a wall, Amdouni clearly the loser but the other four having to be separated by photo finish. It was ruled that the fast closing Fifa won, Mechaal second and Ringer third, all given the same time 13:40.85 accurate to a hundredth of a second. Ingebrigtsen was the odd man out, given a time of 13:40.86. Fifth place Amdouni was only .09 behind the winner. As comparison at these championships, fifth place in the 100 metres was .12 behind the winner (though the first two places did receive the same time in that race too).

Records

Standing records prior to the 2016 European Athletics Championships
World record Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Kenenisa Bekele  (ETH)12:37.35 Hengelo, Netherlands 31 May 2004
European record Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Mohammed Mourhit  (BEL)12:49.71 Brussels, Belgium 25 August 2000
Championship record Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Jack Buckner  (GBR)13:10.15 Stuttgart, West Germany 31 August 1986
World LeadingFlag of Ethiopia.svg  Muktar Edris  (ETH)12:59.43 Eugene, United States 28 May 2016
European LeadingFlag of Spain.svg  Ilias Fifa  (ESP)13:11.83 Huelva, Spain 3 June 2016

Schedule

DateTimeRound
10 July 201618:10 Final

All times are local times (UTC+2)

Results

Final

[2]

RankNameNationalityTimeNote
Gold medal icon.svg Ilias Fifa Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 13:40.85
Silver medal icon.svg Adel Mechaal Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 13:40.85
Bronze medal icon.svg Richard Ringer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 13:40.85SB
4 Henrik Ingebrigtsen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 13:40.86
5 Mourad Amdouni Flag of France.svg  France 13:40.94
6 Hayle Ibrahimov Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 13:42.20
7 Florian Orth Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 13:45.40
8 Yemaneberhan Crippa Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 13:46.30
9 Aras Kaya Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 13:47.42
10 Martin Sperlich Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 13:48.81
DQ Jamel Chatbi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 13:49.93
11 Dennis Licht Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 13:54.21
12 Jonathan Taylor Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 13:55.20
13 Carlos Mayo Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 13:58.22
14 Brenton Rowe Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 13:58.96
15 Jonny Davies Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 14:04.13
16 Kevin Batt Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 14:20.50
17 Sindre Buraas Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 14:26.05
18 Mykola Nyzhnyk Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 14:28.24
Ali Kaya Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey DNS

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References

  1. "Programme - European Athletics Championships". amsterdam2016.org. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
  2. Results Archived 2016-08-04 at the Wayback Machine