1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres

None Men's 5000 metres 1983 World Championships Helsinki Olympic Stadium 10 August (heats)12 August (semi-finals)14 August (final) 39 13:28.53 CR Eamonn Coghlan IRL Werner Schildhauer GDR Martti Vainio FIN 1987 These are the official results of the men's 5000 metres event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total of 39 participating athletes, with three qualifying heats, two semi-finals and the final held on Sunday 14 August 1983.World Athletics Statistics HandBook Oregon 2022. World Athletics (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2022-07-09. Records Existing records at the start of the event. World RecordDavid Moorcroft GBR13:00.41Oslo, NorwayJuly 7, 1982Championship RecordNew event Results Qualifying heats The qualifying heats took place on 10 August, with the 39 athletes involved being split into 3 heats. The first 8 athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next 6 fastest ( q ) qualified for the semifinals. Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1Markus RyffelSUI13:43.36Q, CR World Championships in Athletics2Wodajo BultiETH13:43.53Q3Eamonn MartinGBR13:43.57Q4Thomas WessinghageFRG13:43.66Q5Anatoliy KrokhmalyukURS13:43.78Q6Salvatore AntiboITA13:44.05Q7Charles CheruiyotKEN13:44.43Q8Doug PadillaUSA13:44.71Q9Filippos FilippouGRE13:45.24q10Abderrazak BounourALG13:57.93q11Justin GlodenLUX14:26.02q12Mohamed BakheetPLE14:52.2613Ramón LópezPAR15:10.29 Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1Paul KipkoechKEN14:18.73Q2Fethi BaccoucheTUN14:23.79Q3Julian GoaterGBR14:23.93Q4António LeitãoPOR14:28.63Q5Dmitriy DmitriyevURS14:37.75Q6Ronald LanzoniCRC14:49.20Q7Werner SchildhauerGDR14:49.22Q8Jim HillUSA14:58.21Q9Antoine NivyobiziBDI15:14.6010José Jaime HernándezESA15:29.8611Alden MorrisTCA18:06.3512Christoph HerleFRGDNS13Mohamed KedirETHDNS Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1Valeriy AbramovURS14:12.61Q2Seyoum NigatuETH14:13.22Q3Dietmar MillonigAUT14:13.65Q4Eamonn CoghlanIRL14:13.80Q5Dave ClarkeGBR14:13.97Q6Jorge GarcíaESP14:14.57Q7Paul WilliamsCAN14:15.10Q8Jim SpiveyUSA14:15.70Q9Ricardo VeraURU14:17.26q10Kenji IdeJPN14:18.34q11Martti VainioFIN14:18.74q12Masini Situ-KubanzaZaire Zaire (ZAI)15:02.2613Hansjörg KunzeGDRDNS Semifinals The semifinals took place on 12 August, with the 30 athletes involved being split into 2 heats. The first 5 athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next 5 fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1Markus RyffelSUI13:32.34Q, CR World Championships in Athletics2Thomas WessinghageFRG13:32.37Q3Werner SchildhauerGDR13:32.49Q4Dietmar MillonigAUT13:32.86Q5Doug PadillaUSA13:32.90Q6Paul KipkoechKEN13:33.33q7Julian GoaterGBR13:36.21q8Anatoliy KrokhmalyukURS13:37.24q9Filippos FilippouGRE13:40.8110Paul WilliamsCAN13:50.3011Dave ClarkeGBR13:58.3712Seyoum NigatuETH14:02.2313Kenji IdeJPN14:04.9414Justin GlodenLUX14:12.2515Ronald LanzoniCRC14:47.30 Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1Dmitriy DmitriyevURS13:31.40Q, CR World Championships in Athletics2Eamonn CoghlanIRL13:31.66Q3António LeitãoPOR13:32.33Q4Wodajo BultiETH13:33.03Q5Salvatore AntiboITA13:33.12Q6Valeriy AbramovURS13:33.37q7Martti VainioFIN13:34.18q8Jim HillUSA13:38.569Jim SpiveyUSA13:43.1710Jorge GarcíaESP13:46.3611Eamonn MartinGBR13:48.6012Charles CheruiyotKEN13:52.6113Abderrazak BounourALG14:00.7814Fethi BaccoucheTUN14:19.6415Ricardo VeraURU14:20.20 Final As in most other major international championships, also this 5,000-metre final was mostly slow and tactical. The Soviet Union's Anatoliy Krokhmaliuk led at 1,000 metres in 2:43.30. During the second kilometre, he and his team mate Dmitriy Dmitriyev alternated in the lead, with Dmitriyev clocking 5:34.15 at 2,000 metres. One lap later, Britain's Julian Goater suddenly accelerated, but over 200 metres after the start of his surge, Dmitriyev caught him. Soon thereafter, Dmitriyev again took the lead, and clocked 8:19.52 at 3,000 metres. During the fourth kilometre, Dmitriyev, Ethiopia's Wodajo Bulti, and Switzerland's Markus Ryffel took turns leading the race. With over three laps left, Krokhmaliuk dropped from the lead group. Bulti took the lead for the second and the last time just before 4,000 metres, which he passed in 11:03.27. At the start of the third-last home straight, Dmitriyev accelerated past Bulti. West Germany's Thomas Wessinghage and Ireland's Eamonn Coghlan positioned themselves behind Dmitriyev and Bulti. With two laps left, twelve men were still in the lead group, with Goater and Italy's Salvatore Antibo having dropped from Dmitriyev's pace. On the second-last back straight, the Soviet Union's Valeriy Abramov lost contact with the lead group. Dmitriyev launched his final kick's decisive stage at 4,400 metres. Immediately Ryffel, Portugal's Antonio Leitao, and Austria's Dietmar Millonig dropped from Dmitriyev's pace. At the start of the second-last home straight, Dmitriyev was already sprinting about five metres ahead of Bulti. Later on that home straight, Wessinghage and Coghlan kicked past Bulti, and Coghlan passed Wessinghage. At 4,600 metres, Dmitriyev led in about 12:30. In other words, he had sprinted the second-last lap in about 57 seconds! Coghlan was running about six or seven metres behind this Soviet runner, with Wessinghage, Bulti, Finland's Martti Vainio, the United States' Doug Padilla, East Germany's Werner Schildhauer, and Kenya's Paul Kipkoech still in the lead group. To the surprise of many spectators, Wessinghage dropped from Coghlan's pace on the final lap's front bend. This astonishing event - Wessinghage was a world-class runner at both 1,500 and 5,000 metres - probably inspired Vainio to start his final kick, and to pass Bulti. Further back, Kipkoech dropped from Padilla's and Schildhauer's pace. Early on the final back straight, Coghlan easily caught the tiring Dmitriyev. Vainio kicked past the exhausted Wessinghage. At 4,800 metres, Dmitriyev and Coghlan were running about nine metres ahead of Vainio. On the final bend, Schildhauer passed Padilla and Wessinghage, and dashed after Vainio. Coghlan triumphantly raised his right hand, glanced at the worn out Dmitriyev, and then began his final sprint. By the start of the home straight, Coghlan had already stretched his lead over Dmitriyev to four metres. Vainio was sprinting ten metres behind the Irishman, while Schildhauer was kicking a couple of metres behind the Finn. On the final home straight, without even sprinting as fast as he could, Coghlan moved into a wide lead, crossing the finish line in 13:28.53. In other words, he had run the final 1,000 metres in 2:24.77! Schildhauer passed Vainio with about 25 metres left, and caught Dmitriyev over 10 metres later. The exhausted Soviet runner was no match for the fast-finishing East German. Vainio leaned forward, and lunged across the finish line, crossing it just 0.04 seconds before Dmitriyev. Two of the strongest pre-race favourites, Padilla and Wessinghage, had to settle for the fifth and sixth places, respectively. (The World Track and Field Championships / Yleisurheilun MM-kisat 1983, the Juoksija-lehti / Runner Magazine, Helsinki, Finland, 1983; another book on the IAAF World Championships 1983; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIy0Jpm9moE&t=510s Eamonn Coghlan - World Athletics Championship 5000m Gold, Helsinki 1983.) The final took place on August 14. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Eamonn CoghlanIRL13:28.53CR World Championships in AthleticsWerner SchildhauerGDR13:30.20Martti VainioFIN13:30.344Dmitriy DmitriyevURS13:30.385Doug PadillaUSA13:32.086Thomas WessinghageFRG13:32.467Wodajo BultiETH13:34.038Dietmar MillonigAUT13:36.089Paul KipkoechKEN13:37.4410António LeitãoPOR13:38.5511Valeriy AbramovURS13:39.8012Markus RyffelSUI13:39.9813Salvatore AntiboITA13:40.7614Julian GoaterGBR13:48.1315Anatoliy KrokhmalyukURS14:00.27 References Category:5000 metres at the World Athletics Championships