2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

Olympic stadium Men's 5000 metres 2016 European Athletics Championships Olympic Stadium Amsterdam 10 July (final) 20 12 13:40.85 Ilias Fifa Adel Mechaal Richard Ringer ESP ESP GER 2014 2018 The men's 5000 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 10 July.Programme - European Athletics Championships http://www.amsterdam2016.org/en/programme/ amsterdam2016.org 2016-06-30 Summary thumb|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 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, and 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 was clearly the loser but the other four had 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. In 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 ChampionshipsWorld recordKenenisa Bekele ETH12:37.35Hengelo, Netherlands31 May 2004European recordMohammed Mourhit BEL12:49.71Brussels, Belgium25 August 2000Championship recordJack Buckner GBR13:10.15Stuttgart, West Germany31 August 1986World LeadingMuktar Edris ETH12:59.43Eugene, United States 28 May 2016European LeadingIlias Fifa ESP13:11.83Huelva, Spain3 June 2016 Schedule Date Time Round10 July 2016 18:10 Final All times are local times (UTC+2) Results Final Results https://web.archive.org/web/20160804105011/http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM050101_C73G.pdf 2016-08-04 Rank Name Nationality Time Note Ilias Fifa 13:40.85 Adel Mechaal 13:40.85 Richard Ringer 13:40.85 SB 04 4 Henrik Ingebrigtsen 13:40.86 05 5 Mourad Amdouni 13:40.94 06 6 Hayle Ibrahimov 13:42.20 07 7 Florian Orth 13:45.40 08 8 Yemaneberhan Crippa 13:46.30 09 9 Aras Kaya 13:47.42 10 Martin Sperlich 13:48.81 20 DQ Jamel Chatbi 13:49.93 11 Dennis Licht 13:54.21 12 Jonathan Taylor 13:55.20 13 Carlos Mayo 13:58.22 14 Brenton Rowe 13:58.96 15 Jonny Davies 14:04.13 16 Kevin Batt 14:20.50 17 Sindre Buraas 14:26.05 18 Mykola Nyzhnyk 14:28.24 19 Ali Kaya 99:99.99 DNS References External links amsterdam2016.org, official championship site. Category:5000 metres at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 2016 European Athletics Championships