Athletics at the 1977 Summer Universiade – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres event at the 1977 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia on 21 and 23 August. ^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Enn Sellik   Soviet Union	Jerzy Kowol Poland	Leonid Moseyev   Soviet Union

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Duncan MacDonald	United States	14:07.3	Q
2	1	Leonid Moseyev	Soviet Union	14:09.7	Q
3	1	Ray Smedley	Great Britain	14:13.6	Q
4	1	Jerzy Kowol	Poland	14:15.3	Q
5	1	Enrique Aquino	Mexico	14:16.0	Q
6	1	Ricardo Ortega	Spain	14:30.3	[2]
7	1	Rumen Mekhandzhinski	Bulgaria	14:44.1
8	1	Joseph Mareka	Kenya	16:31.4
1	2	Venanzio Ortis	Italy	14:09.9	Q
2	2	Enn Sellik	Soviet Union	14:12.4	Q
3	2	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	14:13.7	Q
4	2	Petko Karpachev	Bulgaria	14:14.8	Q
5	2	Bjarte Sleire	Norway	14:18.0	Q
6	2	Takao Nakamura	Japan	14:20.7	q
6	2	Jim Brown	Great Britain	14:20.7	q
8	2	José Gómez	Mexico	14:24.0	q
9	2	Matti Salonen	Finland	14:29.3
10	2	Abera Asres	Ethiopia	15:16.2
11	2	Badamraa Munkhdalai	Mongolia	15:38.8
12	2	P. Kibinda	Kenya	16:07.6

Final

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Enn Sellik	Soviet Union	13:44.6
	Jerzy Kowol	Poland	13:45.1
	Leonid Moseyev	Soviet Union	13:45.6
4	Venanzio Ortis	Italy	13:45.7
5	Duncan MacDonald	United States	13:46.2
6	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	13:56.0
7	Manfred Schöneberg	West Germany	13:56.5
8	Ray Smedley	Great Britain	13:59.8
9	Jim Brown	Great Britain	14:01.5
10	Takao Nakamura	Japan	14:01.5
11	Erwin Wagger	Austria	14:02.1
12	Enrique Aquino	Mexico	14:11.0
13	Petko Karpachev	Bulgaria	14:22.4
14	José Gómez	Mexico	14:37.9
	Bjarte Sleire	Norway	DNS

References

1. Results at Tilastopaja
2. "Casañas y Juantorena no esperaron a la Copa del Mundo" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 22 August 1977. p. 19.
3. "Final results". Chicago Tribune. 24 August 1977. p. 64. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
4. "Final results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 24 August 1977. p. 52. Retrieved 22 March 2020.