1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

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]

Men's 5000 metres
at the European Athletics Championships

Medalists

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Gold Salvatore Antibo
  Italy
Silver Gary Staines
  United Kingdom
Bronze Sławomir Majusiak
  Poland

Results

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Final

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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.)

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Salvatore Antibo   Italy 13:22.00
  Gary Staines   United Kingdom 13:22.45
  Sławomir Majusiak   Poland 13:22.92
4 Dionísio Castro   Portugal 13:23.99
5 Jonny Danielson   Sweden 13:24.16
6 Risto Ulmala   Finland 13:25.08
7 Stefano Mei   Italy 13:27.13
8 Harri Hänninen   Finland 13:28.22
9 Cyrille Laventure   France 13:28.25
10 Carlos Monteiro   Portugal 13:30.19
11 Abel Antón   Spain 13:31.27
12 Ian Hamer   United Kingdom 13:32.61
13 Eamonn Martin   United Kingdom 13:34.62
14 Arnold Mächler    Switzerland 13:45.01
Marcus O'Sullivan   Ireland DNF

Heats

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30 August

Heat 1

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

Heat 2

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

Participation

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

See also

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References

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