2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres
at the 2016 European Athletics Championships
Venue Olympic Stadium
Location Amsterdam
Dates
  • July 10 (final)
Competitors 20 from 12 nations
Winning time 13:40.85
Medalists
 Ilias Fifa   Spain
 Adel Mechaal   Spain
 Richard Ringer   Germany
Events at the
2016 European
Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase		 men women
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Half marathon men women
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

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

Summary

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  Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 12:37.35 Hengelo, Netherlands 31 May 2004
European record  Mohammed Mourhit (BEL) 12:49.71 Brussels, Belgium 25 August 2000
Championship record  Jack Buckner (GBR) 13:10.15 Stuttgart, West Germany 31 August 1986
World Leading  Muktar Edris (ETH) 12:59.43 Eugene, United States 28 May 2016
European Leading  Ilias Fifa (ESP) 13:11.83 Huelva, Spain 3 June 2016

Schedule

Date Time Round
10 July 2016 18:10 Final

All times are local times (UTC+2)

Results

Final

[2]

Rank Name Nationality Time Note
1st, gold medalist(s) Ilias Fifa  Spain 13:40.85
2nd, silver medalist(s) Adel Mechaal  Spain 13:40.85
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Richard Ringer  Germany 13:40.85 SB
4 Henrik Ingebrigtsen  Norway 13:40.86
5 Mourad Amdouni  France 13:40.94
6 Hayle Ibrahimov  Azerbaijan 13:42.20
7 Florian Orth  Germany 13:45.40
8 Yemaneberhan Crippa  Italy 13:46.30
9 Aras Kaya  Turkey 13:47.42
10 Martin Sperlich  Germany 13:48.81
11 Jamel Chatbi  Italy 13:49.93
12 Dennis Licht  Netherlands 13:54.21
13 Jonathan Taylor  Great Britain 13:55.20
14 Carlos Mayo  Spain 13:58.22
15 Brenton Rowe  Austria 13:58.96
16 Jonny Davies  Great Britain 14:04.13
17 Kevin Batt  Ireland 14:20.50
18 Sindre Buraas  Norway 14:26.05
19 Mykola Nyzhnyk  Ukraine 14:28.24
20 Ali Kaya  Turkey DNS

References

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