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.[1]

Medalists

GoldSalvatore Antibo
 Italy
SilverGary Staines
 United Kingdom
BronzeSławomir Majusiak
 Poland

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.)

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Salvatore Antibo Italy13:22.00
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Gary Staines United Kingdom13:22.45
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Sławomir Majusiak Poland13:22.92
4Dionísio Castro Portugal13:23.99
5Jonny Danielson Sweden13:24.16
6Risto Ulmala Finland13:25.08
7Stefano Mei Italy13:27.13
8Harri Hänninen Finland13:28.22
9Cyrille Laventure France13:28.25
10Carlos Monteiro Portugal13:30.19
11Abel Antón Spain13:31.27
12Ian Hamer United Kingdom13:32.61
13Eamonn Martin United Kingdom13:34.62
14Arnold Mächler  Switzerland13:45.01
Marcus O'Sullivan IrelandDNF

Heats

30 August

Heat 1

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Sławomir Majusiak Poland13:40.12Q
2Salvatore Antibo Italy13:40.14Q
3Risto Ulmala Finland13:41.81Q
4Ian Hamer United Kingdom13:42.46Q
5Marcus O'Sullivan Ireland13:45.74Q
6Mikhail Dasko Soviet Union13:47.04
7Thierry Pantel France13:48.80
8Vincent Rousseau Belgium13:53.90
9António Leitão Portugal13:54.38
10Renato Gotti Italy14:05.30
11Pascal Thiébaut France14:07.13
12Steffen Brand West Germany14:12.84
13Marcel Versteeg Netherlands14:22.42
14Gerald De Gaetano Malta14:39.00
15Are Nakkim Norway14:42.16
Martín Fiz SpainDNF
Romeo Živko YugoslaviaDNF

Heat 2

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Gary Staines United Kingdom13:29.00Q
2Dionísio Castro Portugal13:29.03Q
3Arnold Mächler  Switzerland13:29.09Q
4Carlos Monteiro Portugal13:29.16Q
5Stefano Mei Italy13:29.49Q
6Cyrille Laventure France13:29.58q
7Eamonn Martin United Kingdom13:29.62q
8Jonny Danielson Sweden13:29.65q
9Abel Antón Spain13:29.81q
10Harri Hänninen Finland13:30.05q
11John Halvorsen Norway13:35.58
12Evgeni Ignatov Bulgaria13:37.51
13Antonio Serrano Spain13:42.03
14Zeki Öztürk Turkey13:44.55
15Frank O'Mara Ireland13:59.44

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

See also

References

  1. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 451–460, retrieved 13 August 2014



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