2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

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

Men's 5000 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Location	Amsterdam
Dates	10 July (final)
Competitors	20 from 12 nations
Winning time	13:40.85
Medalists
Ilias Fifa    Spain   Adel Mechaal    Spain   Richard Ringer    Germany

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
	Ilias Fifa	Spain	13:40.85
	Adel Mechaal	Spain	13:40.85
	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
DQ	Jamel Chatbi	Italy	13:49.93
11	Dennis Licht	Netherlands	13:54.21
12	Jonathan Taylor	Great Britain	13:55.20
13	Carlos Mayo	Spain	13:58.22
14	Brenton Rowe	Austria	13:58.96
15	Jonny Davies	Great Britain	14:04.13
16	Kevin Batt	Ireland	14:20.50
17	Sindre Buraas	Norway	14:26.05
18	Mykola Nyzhnyk	Ukraine	14:28.24
	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

External links

• amsterdam2016.org, official championship site.