1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

Events at the 1978 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	women
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 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 31 August and 2 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Venanzio Ortis Italy
Silver	Markus Ryffel Switzerland
Silver	Aleksandr Fedotkin Soviet Union

Results

Final

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
01 !	Venanzio Ortis	Italy	13:28.52
02 !	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	13:28.60
02 !	Aleksandr Fedotkin	Soviet Union	13:28.60
4	John Treacy	Ireland	13:28.83
5	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	13:29.27
6	Martti Vainio	Finland	13:29.67
7	Nick Rose	United Kingdom	13:32.8
8	Enn Sellik	Soviet Union	13:35.8
9	Boris Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	13:36.5
10	Frank Zimmermann	West Germany	13:39.1
11	Léon Schots	Belgium	13:47.4
12	Jörg Peter	East Germany	13:48.6
13	Karl Fleschen	West Germany	13:50.3
14	Christoph Herle	West Germany	13:55.4
15	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	13:58.2

Heats

31 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Frank Zimmermann	West Germany	13:32.42	Q
2	Martti Vainio	Finland	13:33.6	Q
3	Léon Schots	Belgium	13:34.1	Q
4	Jörg Peter	East Germany	13:34.3	Q
5	Boris Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	13:34.8	q
6	Brendan Foster	United Kingdom	13:38.3
7	Knut Kvalheim	Norway	13:43.6
8	Radhouane Bouster	France	14:09.3
9	John Charvetto	Gibraltar	14:18.4	NR
10	Karel Gaba	Czechoslovakia	DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Karl Fleschen	West Germany	13:34.45	Q
2	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	13:34.8	Q
3	Nick Rose	United Kingdom	13:35.7	Q
4	Enn Sellik	Soviet Union	13:36.2	Q
5	Gerard Tebroke	Netherlands	13:37.0
6	Fernando Cerrada	Spain	13:40.4
7	Pierre Levisse	France	13:44.1
8	Stanislav Tábor	Czechoslovakia	13:45.0
9	Dietmar Millonig	Austria	13:50.4
10	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey	13:55.7
11	Justin Gloden	Luxembourg	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aleksandr Fedotkin	Soviet Union	13:24.10	Q
2	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	13:24.71	Q
3	Venanzio Ortis	Italy	13:26.67	Q
4	John Treacy	Ireland	13:28.85	Q
5	Christoph Herle	West Germany	13:30.59	q
6	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	13:32.5	q
7	Mike McLeod	United Kingdom	13:42.9
8	Jerzy Kowol	Poland	13:49.1
9	Aniceto Simões	Portugal	13:52.1
10	Willy Polleunis	Belgium	14:24.5
11	Klaas Lok	Netherlands	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

Gibraltar (1)
Ireland (1)
Italy (1)
Luxembourg (1)
Netherlands (2)

Norway (1)
Poland (1)
Portugal (2)
Romania (1)
Soviet Union (3)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, 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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