1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres

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Men's 5000 metres
at the 1983 World Championships
VenueHelsinki Olympic Stadium
Dates10 August (heats)
12 August (semi-finals)
14 August (final)
Competitors39
Winning time13:28.53 CR
Medalists
gold medal    Ireland
silver medal    East Germany
bronze medal    Finland
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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.[1]

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record  David Moorcroft (GBR) 13:00.41 Oslo, Norway July 7, 1982
Championship Record New 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
1 Markus Ryffel  Switzerland (SUI) 13:43.36 Q, CR
2 Wodajo Bulti  Ethiopia (ETH) 13:43.53 Q
3 Eamonn Martin  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 13:43.57 Q
4 Thomas Wessinghage  West Germany (FRG) 13:43.66 Q
5 Anatoliy Krokhmalyuk  Soviet Union (URS) 13:43.78 Q
6 Salvatore Antibo  Italy (ITA) 13:44.05 Q
7 Charles Cheruiyot  Kenya (KEN) 13:44.43 Q
8 Doug Padilla  United States (USA) 13:44.71 Q
9 Filippos Filippou  Greece (GRE) 13:45.24 q
10 Abderrazak Bounour  Algeria (ALG) 13:57.93 q
11 Justin Gloden  Luxembourg (LUX) 14:26.02 q
12 Mohamed Bakheet  Palestine (PLE) 14:52.26
13 Ramón López  Paraguay (PAR) 15:10.29
Heat 2
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Paul Kipkoech  Kenya (KEN) 14:18.73 Q
2 Fethi Baccouche  Tunisia (TUN) 14:23.79 Q
3 Julian Goater  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 14:23.93 Q
4 António Leitão  Portugal (POR) 14:28.63 Q
5 Dmitriy Dmitriyev  Soviet Union (URS) 14:37.75 Q
6 Ronald Lanzoni  Costa Rica (CRC) 14:49.20 Q
7 Werner Schildhauer  East Germany (GDR) 14:49.22 Q
8 Jim Hill  United States (USA) 14:58.21 Q
9 Antoine Nivyobizi  Burundi (BDI) 15:14.60
10 José Jaime Hernández  El Salvador (ESA) 15:29.86
11 Alden Morris  Turks and Caicos Islands (TKS) 18:06.35
Christoph Herle  West Germany (FRG) DNS
Mohamed Kedir  Ethiopia (ETH) DNS
Heat 3
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Valeriy Abramov  Soviet Union (URS) 14:12.61 Q
2 Seyoum Nigatu  Ethiopia (ETH) 14:13.22 Q
3 Dietmar Millonig  Austria (AUT) 14:13.65 Q
4 Eamonn Coghlan  Ireland (IRL) 14:13.80 Q
5 Dave Clarke  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 14:13.97 Q
6 Jorge García  Spain (ESP) 14:14.57 Q
7 Paul Williams  Canada (CAN) 14:15.10 Q
8 Jim Spivey  United States (USA) 14:15.70 Q
9 Ricardo Vera  Uruguay (URU) 14:17.26 q
10 Kenji Ide  Japan (JPN) 14:18.34 q
11 Martti Vainio  Finland (FIN) 14:18.74 q
12 Masini Situ-Kubanza Zaire Zaire (ZAI) 15:02.26
Hansjörg Kunze  East Germany (GDR) DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals took place on 12 August, with the 30 athletes involved being splitted 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
1 Markus Ryffel  Switzerland (SUI) 13:32.34 Q, CR
2 Thomas Wessinghage  West Germany (FRG) 13:32.37 Q
3 Werner Schildhauer  East Germany (GDR) 13:32.49 Q
4 Dietmar Millonig  Austria (AUT) 13:32.86 Q
5 Doug Padilla  United States (USA) 13:32.90 Q
6 Paul Kipkoech  Kenya (KEN) 13:33.33 q
7 Julian Goater  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 13:36.21 q
8 Anatoliy Krokhmalyuk  Soviet Union (URS) 13:37.24 q
9 Filippos Filippou  Greece (GRE) 13:40.81
10 Paul Williams  Canada (CAN) 13:50.30
11 Dave Clarke  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 13:58.37
12 Seyoum Nigatu  Ethiopia (ETH) 14:02.23
13 Kenji Ide  Japan (JPN) 14:04.94
14 Justin Gloden  Luxembourg (LUX) 14:12.25
15 Ronald Lanzoni  Costa Rica (CRC) 14:47.30
Heat 2
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Dmitriy Dmitriyev  Soviet Union (URS) 13:31.40 Q, CR
2 Eamonn Coghlan  Ireland (IRL) 13:31.66 Q
3 António Leitão  Portugal (POR) 13:32.33 Q
4 Wodajo Bulti  Ethiopia (ETH) 13:33.03 Q
5 Salvatore Antibo  Italy (ITA) 13:33.12 Q
6 Valeriy Abramov  Soviet Union (URS) 13:33.37 q
7 Martti Vainio  Finland (FIN) 13:34.18 q
8 Jim Hill  United States (USA) 13:38.56
9 Jim Spivey  United States (USA) 13:43.17
10 Jorge García  Spain (ESP) 13:46.36
11 Eamonn Martin  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 13:48.60
12 Charles Cheruiyot  Kenya (KEN) 13:52.61
13 Abderrazak Bounour  Algeria (ALG) 14:00.78
14 Fethi Baccouche  Tunisia (TUN) 14:19.64
15 Ricardo Vera  Uruguay (URU) 14:20.20

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Eamonn Coghlan  Ireland (IRL) 13:28.53 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Werner Schildhauer  East Germany (GDR) 13:30.20
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Martti Vainio  Finland (FIN) 13:30.34
4 Dmitriy Dmitriyev  Soviet Union (URS) 13:30.38
5 Doug Padilla  United States (USA) 13:32.08
6 Thomas Wessinghage  West Germany (FRG) 13:32.46
7 Wodajo Bulti  Ethiopia (ETH) 13:34.03
8 Dietmar Millonig  Austria (AUT) 13:36.08
9 Paul Kipkoech  Kenya (KEN) 13:37.44
10 António Leitão  Portugal (POR) 13:38.55
11 Valeriy Abramov  Soviet Union (URS) 13:39.80
12 Markus Ryffel  Switzerland (SUI) 13:39.98
13 Salvatore Antibo  Italy (ITA) 13:40.76
14 Julian Goater  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 13:48.13
15 Anatoliy Krokhmalyuk  Soviet Union (URS) 14:00.27

References

  1. ^ World Athletics Statistics HandBook Oregon 2022. World Athletics (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2022-07-09.