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1984 Olympic Games Los Angeles - Men's 5000 m

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Host City: Los Angeles, United States

Format: Top six in each heat and next six fastest advanced to the semi-finals.

Date Started: August 8, 1984

Date Finished: August 11, 1984

(Competitors: 56; Countries: 40; Finalists: 14)

Venue(s): Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California

Overview by IAAF

Fastest in the two preliminary rounds was Aouita, the favourite, who coasted through a semi-final win in 13:28.39, ahead of world record holder Moorcroft (13:28.44) and converted 1500m champion John Walker (13:28.48). Ezequiel Canario (POR) led through 1000m in 2:37.3, with Leitão taking over as part of a team plan. In the final, Leitão led through kilometre splits of 5:17.8, 7:59.3 and 10:38.8. Only Aouita, Ryffel, Hutchings and the two Kenyans were still in contention. Leitão’s penultimate lap of 60.1 lost all but Aouita and Ryffel, and the Moroccan went past with 250m left, and got clear of Ryffel on the final curve, running his last 400m in 55.0, and his last mile in 4:03.9. Aouita’s time was the third-fastest ever run.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

In 1983 the first World Championship had been won by Ireland's Eamonn Coghlan, but he was injured in 1984 and did not compete. An early favorite was Britain's Dave Moorcroft, who had won the 1982 Commonwealth Games and set the world record in July 1982, challenging the 13-minute barrier with 13:00.41. He competed in Los Angeles, but also with an injury, and although he made the final, he finished 14th and last. Morocco's Saïd Aouita was a favorite, but it was not certain if he would run the 1,500 or 5K, eventually opting for this event. The final was a fast pace, set for 3K by Portugal's António Leitão. Six runners were together at that point, but on the penultimate lap, Leitão ran 60.1 to drop all but Aouita and Markus Ryffel (SUI). Aouita took the lead on the backstretch of the final lap, and dropped Ryffel on the curve, winning the gold medal with Leitão struggling in for the bronze, burned out by his early pace-setting tactics. In 1985 would break Moorcroft's world record, barely, running 13:00.40 at the Bislett Games in Oslo. Then in Roma in 1987, he became the first man to run under 13 minutes with a world record of 12:58.39.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics.

World Record	13:00.41	David Moorcroft	Oslo (NOR)	July 7, 1982
Olympic Record	13:20.34	Brendan Foster	Montreal (CAN)	July 28, 1976

		Results

*5000 m*	Men	Final	11 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.05.59	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	MAR	2 Nov 59
2	13.07.54	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	SUI	5 Feb 55	NR
3	13.09.20	António Leitão	Portugal	POR	22 Jul 60
4	13.11.50	Tim Hutchings	Great Britain	GBR	4 Dec 58
5	13.14.40	Paul Kipkoech	Kenya	KEN	6 Jan 63
6	13.18.41	Charles Cheruiyot	Kenya	KEN	2 Dec 64
7	13.23.56	Doug Padilla	United States	USA	4 Oct 56
8	13.24.46	John Walker	New Zealand	NZL	12 Jan 52
9	13.26.50	Ezequiel Canário	Portugal	POR	10 Apr 60
10	13.27.34	Wilson Waigwa	Kenya	KEN	15 Feb 49
11	13.34.50	Ray Flynn	Ireland	IRL	22 Jan 57
12	13.41.64	Mats Erixon	Sweden	SWE	19 Mar 58
13	13.53.34	Eamonn Martin	Great Britain	GBR	9 Oct 58
14	14.16.61	Dave Moorcroft	Great Britain	GBR	10 Apr 53
*5000 m*	Men	Semifinal 1	9 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.38.59	Wilson Waigwa	Kenya	KEN	15 Feb 49
2	13.39.76	António Leitão	Portugal	POR	22 Jul 60
3	13.40.08	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	SUI	5 Feb 55
4	13.40.74	Ray Flynn	Ireland	IRL	22 Jan 57
5	13.41.70	Eamonn Martin	Great Britain	GBR	9 Oct 58
6	13.41.73	Doug Padilla	United States	USA	4 Oct 56
7	13.43.49	Zakariah Barie	Tanzania	TAN	29 May 53
8	13.45.98	Gerardo Alcala	Mexico	MEX	28 Jun 61
9	13.46.34	Paul Williams	Great Britain	GBR	8 Oct 55
10	13.46.65	Steve Lacy	United States	USA	17 Jan 56
11	13.51.13	Omar Aguilar	Chile	CHI	1 Dec 59
12	13.53.25	Zephaniah Ncube	Zimbabwe	ZIM	10 Jan 57
13	13.57.43	Abderrazak Bounour	Algeria	ALG	11 Jan 57
14	13.58.74	Antti Loikkanen	Finland	FIN	15 Apr 55
	DNF	Uwe Mönkemeyer	West Germany	FRG	22 Sep 59
*5000 m*	Men	Semifinal 2	9 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.28.39	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	MAR	2 Nov 59
2	13.28.44	Dave Moorcroft	Great Britain	GBR	10 Apr 53
3	13.28.48	John Walker	New Zealand	NZL	12 Jan 52
4	13.28.56	Charles Cheruiyot	Kenya	KEN	2 Dec 64
5	13.28.60	Tim Hutchings	Great Britain	GBR	4 Dec 58
6	13.29.08	Paul Kipkoech	Kenya	KEN	6 Jan 63
7	13.29.72	Mats Erixon	Sweden	SWE	19 Mar 58
8	13.32.64	Ezequiel Canário	Portugal	POR	10 Apr 60
9	13.34.46	João Campos	Portugal	POR	22 Sep 58
10	13.42.04	Eduardo Castro	Mexico	MEX	1 May 54
11	13.46.02	Don Clary	United States	USA	29 Jul 57
12	13.46.03	Bob Verbeeck	Belgium	BEL	5 Aug 60
13	13.47.53	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	ITA	7 Feb 62
	DQ	Martti Vainio
	DNF	Christoph Herle	West Germany	FRG	19 Nov 55
*5000 m*	Men	Heat 1	8 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.43.28	Ezequiel Canário	Portugal	POR	10 Apr 60
2	13.46.01	Tim Hutchings	Great Britain	GBR	4 Dec 58
3	13.46.84	Ray Flynn	Ireland	IRL	22 Jan 57
4	13.48.84	Wilson Waigwa	Kenya	KEN	15 Feb 49
5	13.52.56	Doug Padilla	United States	USA	4 Oct 56
6	13.57.96	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	BEL	29 Jul 62
7	14.03.44	José João da Silva	Brazil	BRA	7 Sep 55
8	14.12.15	Jorge García	Spain	ESP	2 May 61
9	14.27.78	Mohamed Rutiginga	Tanzania	TAN	29 Dec 59
10	14.28.48	Julio César Gómez	Argentina	ARG	27 Jan 63
11	14.48.08	George Mambosasa	Malawi	MAW	31 Jan 64
12	15.20.58	Basil Kilani	Jordan	JOR	6 Aug 60
13	17.36.69	Mimely Twegbe	Liberia	LBR	9 Sep 63
	DNF	Ali Hufane	Somalia	SOM	60
	DQ	Martti Vainio	Finland	FIN	30 Dec 50
*5000 m*	Men	Heat 2	8 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.44.45	Mats Erixon	Sweden	SWE	19 Mar 58
2	13.44.75	John Walker	New Zealand	NZL	12 Jan 52
3	13.44.97	Don Clary	United States	USA	29 Jul 57
4	13.45.66	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	MAR	2 Nov 59
5	13.46.27	Bob Verbeeck	Belgium	BEL	5 Aug 60
6	13.46.35	Christoph Herle	West Germany	FRG	19 Nov 55
7	13.47.56	Paul Williams	Great Britain	GBR	8 Oct 55
8	13.58.51	Stijn Jaspers	Netherlands	NED	3 Jun 61
9	13.59.41	Ahmed Musa Jouda	Sudan	SUD	27 Jan 57
10	14.04.74	Piero Selvaggio	Italy	ITA	1 Jan 58
11	14.36.89	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey	TUR	4 Jul 58
12	15.05.78	Eugene Muslar	Belize	BIZ	28 Mar 59
13	15.24.68	Tau John Tokwepota	Papua New Guinea	PNG	25 Jun 56
14	17.16.77	Ruddy Cornielle	Dominican Republic	DOM	14 Jul 60
	DNF	Féthi Baccouche	Tunisia	TUN	16 Nov 60
*5000 m*	Men	Heat 3	8 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.45.99	Charles Cheruiyot	Kenya	KEN	2 Dec 64
2	13.46.16	Eamonn Martin	Great Britain	GBR	9 Oct 58
2	13.46.16	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	SUI	5 Feb 55
2	13.46.16	Steve Lacy	United States	USA	17 Jan 56
5	13.46.27	João Campos	Portugal	POR	22 Sep 58
6	13.46.32	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	ITA	7 Feb 62
7	13.46.33	Zephaniah Ncube	Zimbabwe	ZIM	10 Jan 57
8	13.48.66	Uwe Mönkemeyer	West Germany	FRG	22 Sep 59
9	13.50.60	Gerardo Alcala	Mexico	MEX	28 Jun 61
10	14.02.98	Arie Gamliel	Israel	ISR	21 Nov 57
11	14.22.20	Alphonse Swai	Tanzania	TAN
12	14.52.43	Luis Tipan	Ecuador	ECU	8 Feb 54
13	15.16.64	Ramon Lopez	Paraguay	PAR	6 Jun 63
*5000 m*	Men	Heat 4	8 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.51.33	António Leitão	Portugal	POR	22 Jul 60
2	13.51.40	Dave Moorcroft	Great Britain	GBR	10 Apr 53
3	13.51.46	Eduardo Castro	Mexico	MEX	1 May 54
4	13.51.47	Antti Loikkanen	Finland	FIN	15 Apr 55
5	13.51.52	Abderrazak Bounour	Algeria	ALG	11 Jan 57
6	13.51.53	Omar Aguilar	Chile	CHI	1 Dec 59
7	13.51.54	Paul Kipkoech	Kenya	KEN	6 Jan 63
8	13.53.00	Zakariah Barie	Tanzania	TAN	29 May 53
9	13.55.73	Antonio Selvaggio	Italy	ITA	1 Jan 58
10	14.28.26	Roger Soler	Peru	PER	20 Sep 60
11	14.33.49	Orlando Mora	Costa Rica	CRC	29 Jan 60
12	15.02.52	Masini Situ Kumbanza	DR Congo	COD	25 Dec 55
13	16.06.58	Ali Al-Ghadi	Yemen	YEM	10 Oct 52