Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

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Men's 5000 metres
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Athens Olympic Stadium
Dates 25–28 August
Competitors 36 from 22 nations
Winning time 13:14.39
Medalists
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1st Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco
2nd Kenenisa Bekele 23x15px Ethiopia
3rd Eliud Kipchoge  Kenya
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The men's 5,000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium on August 25 and 28.

The final witnessed an epic clash between two track greats from different generations: in his final competitive international race, 1500m champion and track legend Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco and 10,000 meter Olympic champion, world record holder at the distance and rising star 21-year-old Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia.

Despite finding himself boxed in with only 200 metres remaining and trailing Bekele by several metres, El Guerrouj ran down and overhauled the Ethiopian in the final stride to win by just two tenths of a second. With this, El Guerrouj set a historic milestone as the first ever athlete to strike a distance double (1500–5000) since Paavo Nurmi did so in 1924, denying Bekele a chance to do the Olympic 5000 and 10000 m double – which he would ultimately win four years later in Beijing.[1][2]

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Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 12:37.35 Hengelo, Netherlands 31 May 2004
Olympic record  Saïd Aouita (MAR) 13:05.59 Los Angeles, United States 11 August 1984

No new records were set during the competition.

Qualification

The qualification period for athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the men's 1500 metres, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run the race in 13:21.50 or faster during the qualification period. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run the race in 13:25.40 or faster could be entered.

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date Time Round
Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:50 Round 1
Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:05 Final

Results

Round 1

Qualification rule: The first five finishers in each heat (Q) plus the next five fastest overall runners (q) advanced to the final.[3]

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1 Kenenisa Bekele 23x15px Ethiopia 13:21.16 Q
2 Gebregziabher Gebremariam 23x15px Ethiopia 13:21.20 Q
3 Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco 13:21.87 Q
4 Craig Mottram  Australia 13:21.88 Q
5 Abraham Chebii  Kenya 13:22.30 Q
6 Hicham Bellani  Morocco 13:22.64 q
7 Alistair Ian Cragg  Ireland 13:23.01 q
8 Samir Moussaoui  Algeria 13:24.98 q
9 Sultan Khamis Zaman  Qatar 13:26.52
10 John Mayock  Great Britain 13:26.81
11 Günther Weidlinger  Austria 13:29.32
12 Christian Belz  Switzerland 13:29.59
13 Alejandro Suárez  Mexico 13:35.32
14 Jonathon Riley  United States 13:38.79
15 Mohammed Abdelhak Zakaria  Bahrain 13:42.04
16 Monder Rizki  Belgium 14:03.58
17 Serhiy Lebid  Ukraine 14:10.23
Carlos García  Spain DNF

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1 Ali Saidi Sief  Algeria 13:18.94 Q
2 Eliud Kipchoge  Kenya 13:19.01 Q
3 Dejene Berhanu 23x15px Ethiopia 13:19.42 Q
4 John Kibowen  Kenya 13:19.65 Q
5 Abderrahim Goumri  Morocco 13:20.03 Q
6 Tim Broe  United States 13:20.29 q
7 Zersenay Tadese  Eritrea 13:22.17 q
8 Samson Kiflemariam  Eritrea 13:26.97
9 Roberto García  Spain 13:27.71
10 Khoudir Aggoune  Algeria 13:29.37
11 Fabiano Joseph Naasi  Tanzania 13:31.89
12 Marius Bakken  Norway 13:36.38
13 Freddy González 23x15px Venezuela 13:42.44
14 Tom Compernolle  Belgium 13:43.44
15 Mark Carroll  Ireland 13:46.81
16 Carles Castillejo  Spain 13:49.16
17 Michael Aish  New Zealand 13:50.00
18 Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari  Nepal 14:04.89 NR

Final

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Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco 13:14.39
2nd Kenenisa Bekele 23x15px Ethiopia 13:14.59
3rd Eliud Kipchoge  Kenya 13:15.10
4 Gebregziabher Gebremariam 23x15px Ethiopia 13:15.35
5 Dejene Berhanu 23x15px Ethiopia 13:16.92
6 John Kibowen  Kenya 13:18.24
7 Zersenay Tadese  Eritrea 13:24.31
8 Craig Mottram  Australia 13:25.70
9 Hicham Bellani  Morocco 13:31.81
10 Ali Saidi Sief  Algeria 13:32.57
11 Tim Broe  United States 13:33.06
12 Alistair Ian Cragg  Ireland 13:43.06
13 Abderrahim Goumri  Morocco 13:47.27
14 Samir Moussaoui  Algeria 14:02.01
Abraham Chebii  Kenya DNF

References

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