1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

Events at the 1954 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
10,000 m track walk	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 5000 metres at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 26 and 29 August 1954.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Vladimir Kuts Soviet Union
Silver	Christopher Chataway United Kingdom
Bronze	Emil Zátopek Czechoslovakia

Results

Final

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Vladimir Kuts	Soviet Union	13:56.6	WR
02 !	Christopher Chataway	United Kingdom	14:08.8
03 !	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	14:10.2
4	Vladimir Okorokov	Soviet Union	14:20.0
5	Lucien Hanswijck	Belgium	14:25.6
6	Frans Herman	Belgium	14:31.4
7	Øistein Saksvik	Norway	14:32.2
8	Urho Julin	Finland	14:32.4
9	Sándor Garay	Hungary	14:44.6
10	Alojzy Graj	Poland	14:48.6
11	Rolf Haikkola	Finland	15:22.8
12	Herbert Schade	West Germany	DNF
13	Heinz Laufer	West Germany	DNF
14	József Kovács	Hungary	DNF
15	Fred Green	United Kingdom	DNF

Heats

26 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Frans Herman	Belgium	14:42.8	Q
2	Fred Green	United Kingdom	14:42.8	Q
3	Vladimir Okorokov	Soviet Union	14:43.0	Q
4	Sándor Garay	Hungary	14:43.6	Q
5	Øistein Saksvik	Norway	14:44.0	Q
6	Władysław Płonka	Poland	14:47.0
7	Osman Coşgül	Turkey	14:51.0
8	Rudolf Morgenthaler	Switzerland	14:54.8
9	Dimitar Vachkov	Bulgaria	14:59.4

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vladimir Kuts	Soviet Union	14:18.8	Q
2	Herbert Schade	West Germany	14:23.8	Q
3	Lucien Hanswijck	Belgium	14:29.2	Q
4	Urho Julin	Finland	14:36.2	Q
5	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia	14:36.2	Q
6	Pierre Page	Switzerland	14:37.4	NR
7	Karl Lundh	Sweden	14:42.4
8	Antonio Amorós	Spain	15:28.6
9	Henri Laethier	France	DNF
9	Cahit Önel	Turkey	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alojzy Graj	Poland	14:38.4	Q
2	József Kovács	Hungary	14:38.6	Q
3	Christopher Chataway	United Kingdom	14:40.0	Q
4	Rolf Haikkola	Finland	14:40.0	Q
5	Heinz Laufer	West Germany	14:42.0	Q
6	Kurt Rötzer	Austria	14:46.2
7	Drago Štritof	Yugoslavia	14:48.4
8	Manuel Faria	Portugal	14:55.8	NR
9	Helmut Becker	Saar	15:21.8

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

France (1)
Hungary (2)
Norway (1)
Poland (2)
Portugal (1)

Saar (1)
Soviet Union (2)
Spain (1)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (2)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 377–384, retrieved 13 August 2014

5000 metres at the European Athletics Championships

Men's 5000 m	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014

Women's 3000 m	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994

Women's 5000 m	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014

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