1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

Events at the 1974 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
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	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 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Roma, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 6 and 8 September 1974.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Brendan Foster United Kingdom
Silver	Manfred Kuschmann East Germany
Bronze	Lasse Virén Finland

Results

Final

8 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Brendan Foster	United Kingdom	13:17.21	CR
02 !	Manfred Kuschmann	East Germany	13:23.93	NR
03 !	Lasse Virén	Finland	13:24.57
4	Jos Hermens	Netherlands	13:25.51	NR
5	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	13:27.12	NR
6	Arne Kvalheim	Norway	13:27.23
7	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	13:29.03
8	Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand	West Germany	13:31.93
9	Vladimir Zatonskiy	Soviet Union	13:39.6
10	Petar Svet	Yugoslavia	13:41.6
11	Knut Børø	Norway	13:45.8
12	Pavel Pěnkava	Czechoslovakia	14:00.6
13	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	14:14.2
14	Knut Kvalheim	Norway	14:19.0
15	Willy Polleunis	Belgium	14:23.2

Heats

6 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Willy Polleunis	Belgium	13:38.6	Q
2	Knut Børø	Norway	13:38.6	Q
3	Pavel Pěnkava	Czechoslovakia	13:38.8	Q
4	Manfred Kuschmann	East Germany	13:39.2	Q
5	David Black	United Kingdom	13:41.8
6	Fernando Cerrada	Spain	13:56.8
7	Werner Meier	Switzerland	14:05.4
8	Mihaíl Koúsis	Greece	14:07.0
9	Aniceto Simões	Portugal	DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	13:56.6	Q
2	Knut Kvalheim	Norway	13:56.8	Q
3	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	13:59.4	Q
4	Vladimir Zatonskiy	Soviet Union	14:01.4	Q
5	Henryk Nogala	Poland	14:07.0
6	Chris Stewart	United Kingdom	14:17.2
7	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	14:29.6
8	Léon Schots	Belgium	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Brendan Foster	United Kingdom	13:37.0	Q
2	Jos Hermens	Netherlands	13:37.4	Q
3	Knut Kvalheim	Norway	13:37.8	Q
4	Lasse Virén	Finland	13:38.2	Q
5	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	13:39.0	q
6	Petar Svet	Yugoslavia	13:40.8	q
7	Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand	West Germany	13:41.4	q
8	Christian Cairoche	France	13:59.6
9	Eddy Van Mullem	Belgium	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

Greece (1)
Ireland (1)
Netherlands (1)
Norway (3)
Poland (1)

Portugal (1)
Romania (1)
Soviet Union (1)
Spain (1)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 420–427, 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

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, December 03, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.