1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

None Men's 5000 metres European Athletics Championships These are the official results of the Men's 5,000 metres event at the 1990 European Championships in Split, Yugoslavia, held at Stadion Poljud on 30 August and 1 September 1990. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf 451–460 European Athletics Association 13 August 2014 Medalists Gold Salvatore Antibo ITASilver Gary Staines UKBronze Sławomir Majusiak POL Results Final 1 September Italy's Salvatore Antibo, who was the strongest pre-race favourite to win also this final, having taken the 10,000-metre European title with a solo run, fell at the start, and therefore had to run faster than the other runners for the first 700 metres, in order to catch them. Portugal's Domingos Castro first led the race, but soon thereafter France's Cyrille Laventure took the lead. Laventure was still leading the race at 3,000 metres in 8:09.15, and at 4,000 metres in 10:53.34. Despite the moderate pace, almost all runners were still in the lead group at this point. On the second last back straight, Castro accelerated past Laventure into the lead, and the main group's runners started to string out. Castro was still leading the race at 4,600 metres, in an informal time of 12:26.2 or 12:26.3. Antibo, Britain's Gary Staines, Poland's Slawomir Majusiak, Laventure, and Finland's Risto Ulmala were chasing Castro. On the final back straight, Staines tried to sprint past Antibo, who accelerated into the lead, leaving Castro behind. At the start of the final bend, Staines sprinted past Antibo. In the second half of the bend, however, Antibo furiously kicked past Staines. Some metres behind the leading duo, Majusiak accelerated past the fading Castro. Several metres behind the second pair of runners, Sweden's Jonny Danielsson passed Ulmala. Despite celebrating his victory in the final metres, Antibo defeated Staines by almost half a second, while Majusiak secured the bronze medal. Danielsson ran the home straight several metres faster than the exhausted Castro, but he still lost to the tiny Portuguese runner by under 0.2 seconds. (The Big European Championships Book / Suuri EM-kirja (Finland, c. 1990); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P_fSAPbYgM Salvatore Antibo vince i 5.000 a Spalato 90.) Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Salvatore Antibo ITA 13:22.00 Gary Staines UK 13:22.45 Sławomir Majusiak POL 13:22.92 4 Dionísio Castro POR 13:23.99 5 Jonny Danielson SWE 13:24.16 6 Risto Ulmala FIN 13:25.08 7 Stefano Mei ITA 13:27.13 8 Harri Hänninen FIN 13:28.22 9 Cyrille Laventure FRA 13:28.25 10 Carlos Monteiro POR 13:30.19 11 Abel Antón ESP 13:31.27 12 Ian Hamer UK 13:32.61 13 Eamonn Martin UK 13:34.62 14 Arnold Mächler SUI 13:45.01 15 Marcus O'Sullivan IRL DNF Heats 30 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Sławomir Majusiak POL 13:40.12 Q 2 Salvatore Antibo ITA 13:40.14 Q 3 Risto Ulmala FIN 13:41.81 Q 4 Ian Hamer UK 13:42.46 Q 5 Marcus O'Sullivan IRL 13:45.74 Q 6 Mikhail Dasko URS 13:47.04 7 Thierry Pantel FRA 13:48.80 8 Vincent Rousseau BEL 13:53.90 9 António Leitão POR 13:54.38 10 Renato Gotti ITA 14:05.30 11 Pascal Thiébaut FRA 14:07.13 12 Steffen Brand FRG 14:12.84 13 Marcel Versteeg NED 14:22.42 14 Gerald De Gaetano MLT 14:39.00 15 Are Nakkim NOR 14:42.16 16 Martín Fiz ESP DNF 17 Romeo Živko SFR Yugoslavia DNF Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Gary Staines UK 13:29.00 Q 2 Dionísio Castro POR 13:29.03 Q 3 Arnold Mächler SUI 13:29.09 Q 4 Carlos Monteiro POR 13:29.16 Q 5 Stefano Mei ITA 13:29.49 Q 6 Cyrille Laventure FRA 13:29.58 q 7 Eamonn Martin UK 13:29.62 q 8 Jonny Danielson SWE 13:29.65 q 9 Abel Antón ESP 13:29.81 q 10 Harri Hänninen FIN 13:30.05 q 11 John Halvorsen NOR 13:35.58 12 Evgeni Ignatov BUL 1971 13:37.51 13 Antonio Serrano ESP 13:42.03 14 Zeki Öztürk TUR 13:44.55 15 Frank O'Mara IRL 13:59.44 Participation According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event. 22em BEL (1) BUL 1971 (1) FIN (2) FRA (3) IRL (2) ITA (3) MLT (1) NED (1) NOR (2) POL (1) POR (3) URS (1) ESP (3) SWE (1) SUI (1) TUR (1) UK (3) FRG (1) SFR Yugoslavia (1) See also 1988 Men's Olympic 5,000 metres (Seoul) 1991 Men's World Championships 5,000 metres (Tokyo) 1992 Men's Olympic 5,000 metres (Barcelona) References Results Todor Results Category:5000 metres at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1990 European Athletics Championships