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5000m Men
OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION 5000m Men
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
TIME
[minutes:seconds, 1/100 of a second]
1900
Charles BENNETT
15:20
Paris 1900
16 JULY
GBR
1912
Jean BOUIN
15:05
Stockholm 1912
09 JULY
FRA
Hannes KOLEHMAINEN
14:36.60
Stockholm 1912
10 JULY
FIN
1924
Paavo NURMI
14:31.20
Paris 1924
10 JULY
FIN
1932
Hill Ralph
14:30
Los Angeles 1932
05 AUGUST
Lehtinen Lauri
14:30
Los Angeles 1932
05 AUGUST
1936
Gunnar HÖCKERT
14:22.20
Berlin 1936
07 AUGUST
FIN
1948
Reiff Gaston
14:17.60
London 1948
02 AUGUST
1952
Herbert SCHADE
14:15.40
Helsinki 1952
22 JULY
EUA
Emil ZATOPEK
14:06.60
Helsinki 1952
24 JULY
TCH
1956
Vladimir KUTS
13:39.60
Melbourne / Stockholm 1956
28 NOVEMBER
URS
1972
Emiel PUTTEMANS
13:31.65
Munich 1972
07 SEPTEMBER
BEL
Lasse VIREN
13:26.42
Munich 1972
10 SEPTEMBER
FIN
1976
Brendan FOSTER
13:20.34
Montreal 1976
28 JULY
GBR
1984
Said AOUITA
13:05.59
Los Angeles 1984
11 AUGUST
MAR
2008
Kenenisa BEKELE
12:57.82
Beijing 2008
23 AUGUST
ETH
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20km walk men
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5000m men
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800m men
decathlon men
discus throw men
hammer throw men
high jump men
javelin throw men
long jump men
marathon men
pole vault men
shot put men
triple jump men
WOMEN'S EVENTS
10000m women
100m women
100m hurdles women
1500m women
200m women
20km race walk women
3000m steeplechase women
400m women
400m hurdles women
4x100m relay women
4x400m relay women
5000m women
800m women
discus throw women
hammer throw women
heptathlon women
high jump women
javelin throw women
long jump women
marathon women
pole vault women
shot put women
triple jump women
New Olympic Record
12’57.82’’
More about :
Kenenisa BEKELE
,
Beijing 2008
,
Ethiopia
Equipment and History
International Association of Athletics Federations
Olympic medallists
Gold medals
Mohamed FARAH
Kenenisa BEKELE
Hicham EL GUERROUJ
Millon WOLDE
Venuste NIYONGABO
Dieter BAUMANN
John NGUGI
Said AOUITA
Miruts YIFTER
Lasse VIREN
Mohamed GAMMOUDI
Robert Keyser SCHUL
Murray Gordon HALBERG
Vladimir KUTS
Emil ZATOPEK
Gaston Etienne REIFF
Gunnar HÖCKERT
Lauri Aleksanteri LEHTINEN
Ville RITOLA
Paavo NURMI
Joseph GUILLEMOT
Hannes KOLEHMAINEN
Silver medals
Dejen GEBREMESKEL
Eliud KIPCHOGE
Kenenisa BEKELE
Ali SAIDI-SIEF
Paul BITOK
Dieter BAUMANN
Markus RYFFEL
Suleiman NYAMBUI
Dick Theodorus QUAX
Mohamed GAMMOUDI
Kipchoge KEINO
Harald NORPOTH
Hans GRODOTZKI
Douglas A.Gordon PIRIE
Alain MIMOUN
Emil ZATOPEK
Lauri Aleksanteri LEHTINEN
Ralph Anthony HILL
Paavo NURMI
Ville RITOLA
Jean BOUIN
Bronze medals
Thomas Pkemei LONGOSIWA
Edwin Cheruiyot SOI
Eliud KIPCHOGE
Brahim LAHLAFI
Khalid BOULAMI
Fita BAYISA
Hansjörg KUNZE
Antonio LEITAO
Kaarlo MAANINKA
Klaus-Peter HILDENBRAND
Ian STEWART
Nabiba Naftali TEMU
William Solon DELLINGER
Kazimierz ZIMNY
George Derek IBBOTSON
Herbert SCHADE
Willem SLIJKHUIS
Henry JONSSON-KÄLARNE
Lauri VIRTANEN
Edvin WIDE
Erik BACKMAN
George William HUTSON