1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres

None These are the official results of the Men's 5.000 metres event at the 1993 IAAF World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. There were a total number of 42 participating athletes, with three qualifying heats and the final held on Monday 1993-08-16. Final This 5,000-metre final was run at a consistently fast pace from the start, which quickly broke up the 15-man field. The Kenyans and Ethiopians used team tactics and successive surges in order to try to exhaust each other. Kenya's Michael Chesire led at a suicidal pace in 2:31.76 at 1,000 metres. Ismael Kirui passed the tiring Chesire around 1,700 metres. At 2,000 metres, Kirui was leading in 5:11.27. The only non-African runner who was still in contention was Rob Denmark of Britain. Soon after 2,000 metres, however, for example Denmark started to lose contact with the leading group, as Kirui surged away from his opponents. By 2,400 metres (his unofficial split time was 6:11.48), the teenage Kenyan champion had already stretched his lead over the chasing group to 40 metres! Kirui continued his mercilessly quick pace as he passed 3,000 metres in a wide lead in 7:45.62. Only several African runners, including Skah and the three Ethiopians, Haile Gebrselassie, Fita Bayisa, and Worku Bikila, were able to remain in the chasing group. Shortly after 3,000 metres, the chasing group was reduced to four runners: Skah and the Ethiopians. They took turns passing each other, but none of them was able to break away from the other chasers at this point, nor to reduce Kirui's stunning lead to any noticeable extent. Despite slowing down slightly, the young Kenyan led at 4,000 metres in 10:26.85 - with the chasing group still around 35 to 40 metres behind him. At 4,600 metres, Kirui led in 12:03.16. At last the Ethiopians had been able to reduce his lead to between three and four seconds. Their relentless surges finally caused Skah to drop from the chasing group on the final lap's back straight. Also Bikila started to fall behind his team mates Bayisa and Gebrselassie. This Ethiopian duo was still about 20 metres from Kirui at 4,800 metres. By 4,900 metres, they had been able to reduce the Kenyan's lead to 15 metres. On the home straight, Gebrselassie finally broke away from Bayisa, and with a middle-distance runner's speed he began to close in on Kirui. However, the Kenyan teenager was able to defeat the young Ethiopian, because the latter runner began his final sprint too late. (See the following video about the race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoE39BByKpM 1993 World Championships 5000m Men's Final, Stuttgart, Germany (the user: T & F archive).) RANKFINALTIMEFile:Med 1.pngIsmael Kirui KEN13:02.75File:Med 2.pngHaile Gebrselassie ETH 197513:03.17File:Med 3.pngFita Bayisa ETH 197513:05.404.Worku Bikila ETH 197513:06.645.Khalid Skah MAR13:07.186.Brahim Jabbour MAR13:18.877.Aloÿs Nizigama BDI13:20.598.Paul Bitok KEN13:23.419.Robert Denmark GBR13:27.0910.Mathias Ntawulikura RWA 196213:28.5811.Abel Antón ESP13:40.2112.Jonny Danielson SWE13:40.5913.Zoltán Káldy HUN13:43.0214.Michael Chesire KEN13:44.11—Aïssa Belaout ALGDNF Qualifying heats Held on Saturday 1993-08-14 RANKHEAT 1TIME1.Robert Denmark GBR13:41.552.Paul Bitok KEN13:41.573.Fita Bayisa ETH 197513:41.614.Khalid Skah MAR13:41.725.Bob Kennedy USA13:42.176.Carlos Monteiro POR13:44.967.Rainer Wachenbrunner GER13:46.438.Toshinari Takaoka JPN13:46.869.Andrey Tikhonov RUS 199113:53.2510.Alyan Sultan Al-Qahtani KSA13:56.5911.Phil Clode NZL13:56.9412.Murusamy Ramachandran MAS14:33.2213.Keiruan Tawai VAN15:43.73—James Lynch AHODNF RANKHEAT 2TIME1.Worku Bikila ETH 197513:27.142.Ismael Kirui KEN13:27.503.Aloÿs Nizigama BDI13:34.724.Mathias Ntawulikura RWA 196213:36.665.Mustapha Essaid FRA13:40.216.Brahim Boutayeb MAR13:42.307.Jon Brown GBR13:46.208.Michał Bartoszak POL13:52.959.Bahadur Prasad IND13:53.3910.Peter O'Donoghue AUS14:12.9911.Thein Win Gopal MYA 197414:14.6212.Valdenor dos Santos BRA14:39.2913.Prakash Davendra Singh FIJ15:01.72—Ovidiu Olteanu ROMDNF RANKHEAT 3TIME1.Haile Gebrselassie ETH 197513:25.272.Brahim Jabbour MAR13:26.063.Michael Chesire KEN13:26.134.Aïssa Belaout ALG13:29.125.Abel Antón ESP13:30.326.Jonny Danielson SWE13:34.057.Zoltán Káldy HUN13:37.208.Phillimon Hanneck ZIM13:49.429.Jan Pesava CZE14:02.0010.John Nuttall GBR14:11.3011.Greg Whiteley USA14:11.4812.Ahmad Zarekar IRI14:48.0713.Souley Oumarou NIG15:29.14—Mohamed Ahmed Moosa PLEDNS See also 1990 Men's European Championships 5.000 metres (Split) 1991 Men's World Championships 5.000 metres (Tokyo) 1992 Men's Olympic 5.000 metres (Barcelona) 1994 Men's European Championships 5.000 metres (Helsinki) 1995 Men's World Championships 5.000 metres (Gothenburg) External links YouTube References Results Category:5000 metres at the World Athletics Championships