Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow on 18 and 20 August.[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mikhail Zhelobovskiy  Soviet Union	Glenn Herold  United States	Leonid Moseyev  Soviet Union

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Norman Morrison	Great Britain	13:47.02	Q[2]
2	1	Mikhail Zhelobovskiy	Soviet Union	13:48.0	Q
3	1	Yuval Wischnitzer	Israel	13:48.8	Q
4	1	Carlos Caro	Spain	13:49.0	Q[3]
5	1	Glenn Herold	United States	13:51.0	Q[4]
6	1	Aldo Tomasini	Italy	13:52.0	q[5]
7	1	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	13:56.67	q
8	1	Petko Karpachev	Bulgaria	13:57.0	q
9	1	Mohamed Kacemi	Algeria	14:09.6
10	1	Klingi	Kenya	14:09.6
11	1	Brendan Layh	Australia	14:22.27	[6]
1	2	Julian Goater	Great Britain	13:54.6	Q
2	2	Valentin Zotov	Soviet Union	13:55.4	Q
3	2	Pat Mandera	United States	13:55.8	Q[4]
4	2	Peter Suchán	Czechoslovakia	13:58.2	Q
6	2	Thomas Howard	Canada	14:02.95	[7]
	2	Danijel Korica	Yugoslavia	DNF

Final

[8][9][10]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mikhail Zhelobovskiy	Soviet Union	13:41.25
	Glenn Herold	United States	13:41.87
	Valentin Zotov	Soviet Union	13:43.60
4	Julian Goater	Great Britain	13:45.17
5	Aldo Tomasini	Italy	13:46.18
6	Pat Mandera	United States	13:46.48
7	Norman Morrison	Great Britain	13:50.8
8	Peter Suchán	Czechoslovakia	13:55.6
14	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	14:23.2	[11]
15	Carlos Caro	Spain	14:36.0	[12]

References

1. "Nur ein Finale ohne einheimische Athleten" [Only one final without local athletes]. Leichtathletik (in German). Bartels & Wernitz. 35/1973: 1250–1251. 28 August 1973. ISSN 0343-5369.
2. Year list
3. "La U.R.S.S. copo triunfos en gimnasia" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 19 August 1973. p. 12. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
4. "Heats results". The Sacramento Bee. 19 August 1973. p. 94. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
5. "Le medaglie e gli azzurri" (in Italian). La Stampa. 19 August 1973. p. 14. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
6. Australian results
7. Heats results
8. "Final results". The Central New Jersey Home News. 21 August 1973. p. 18. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
9. "Final results". Chicago Tribune. 21 August 1973. p. 43. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
10. Final results
11. "Maratona fra Italia e Bulgaria con scenimenti e contestazioni" (in Italian). La Stampa. 21 August 1973. p. 9. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
12. "Y con preponderancia USA comenzo la natación" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 22 August 1973. p. 22. Retrieved 20 November 2020.