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

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Template:Sidebar games events 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.<ref name="SR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The winning margin was 0.20 seconds.

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 10,000m Olympic champion, world record holder at the distance and rising star 21-year-old Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia. The race had a preview at the World Championships a year earlier. There the medalists were barely separated, but the young World Junior record holder Eliud Kipchoge upset the stars by taking gold after El Guerrouj had tried to break away on the final lap.

Here Bekele took an early lead, but instead chose not to push the pace. That duty fell onto Kipchoge, who had watched from behind the year before. Here, El Guerrouj spent most of the race watching from several places behind the lead. As the last lap began, El Guerrouj moved toward the front. Bekele challenged Kipchoge with 200 metres to go. It was a shoulder to shoulder all out sprint battle as Kipchoge refused to let Bekele by, but he couldn't hold him off. Bekele broke out at a lead of several metres. El Guerrouj first ran down Kipchoge, then overhauled the Ethiopian in the final strides 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 5000m and 10,000m double – which he would ultimately win four years later in Beijing.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Template:TOC limit

Records

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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 5000 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 Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Kenenisa Bekele	Template:FlagIOC	13:21.16	Q
2	Gebregziabher Gebremariam	Template:FlagIOC	13:21.20	Q
3	Hicham El Guerrouj	Template:FlagIOC	13:21.87	Q
4	Craig Mottram	Template:FlagIOC	13:21.88	Q
5	Abraham Chebii	Template:FlagIOC	13:22.30	Q
6	Hicham Bellani	Template:FlagIOC	13:22.64	q
7	Alistair Ian Cragg	Template:FlagIOC	13:23.01	q
8	Samir Moussaoui	Template:FlagIOC	13:24.98	q
9	Sultan Khamis Zaman	Template:FlagIOC	13:26.52
10	John Mayock	Template:FlagIOC	13:26.81
11	Günther Weidlinger	Template:FlagIOC	13:29.32
12	Christian Belz	Template:FlagIOC	13:29.59
13	Alejandro Suárez	Template:FlagIOC	13:35.32
14	Jonathon Riley	Template:FlagIOC	13:38.79
15	Mohammed Abdelhak Zakaria	Template:FlagIOC	13:42.04
16	Monder Rizki	Template:FlagIOC	14:03.58
17	Serhiy Lebid	Template:FlagIOC	14:10.23
Template:Hs	Carlos García	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Abbr

Heat 2

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

Final

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
Template:Gold1	Hicham El Guerrouj	Template:FlagIOC	13:14.39
Template:Silver2	Kenenisa Bekele	Template:FlagIOC	13:14.59
Template:Bronze3	Eliud Kipchoge	Template:FlagIOC	13:15.10
4	Gebregziabher Gebremariam	Template:FlagIOC	13:15.35
5	Dejene Berhanu	Template:FlagIOC	13:16.92
6	John Kibowen	Template:FlagIOC	13:18.24
7	Zersenay Tadese	Template:FlagIOC	13:24.31
8	Craig Mottram	Template:FlagIOC	13:25.70
9	Hicham Bellani	Template:FlagIOC	13:31.81
10	Ali Saidi Sief	Template:FlagIOC	13:32.57
11	Tim Broe	Template:FlagIOC	13:33.06
12	Alistair Ian Cragg	Template:FlagIOC	13:43.06
13	Abderrahim Goumri	Template:FlagIOC	13:47.27
14	Samir Moussaoui	Template:FlagIOC	14:02.01
Template:Hs	Abraham Chebii	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Abbr

External links

• IAAF Athens 2004 Olympic Coverage

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