Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Date	October 15–17
Competitors	39 from 25 nations
Winning time	14:05.0
Medalists
Mohammed Gammoudi 23x15px Tunisia Kipchoge Keino  Kenya Naftali Temu  Kenya

Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Men's 5000 metres competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. The event was held at the University Olympic Stadium on October 15–17.

Competition format

The Men's 5000m competition consisted of three heats (Round 1) and a Final. The top five runners from each heat advanced to the final.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Ron Clarke (AUS)	13:16.6	Stockholm, Sweden	July 5, 1966
Olympic record	Vladimir Kuts (URS)	13:39.6	Melbourne, Australia	November 26, 1956

Results

Round 1

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Kipchoge Keino	Kenya	14:28.4	Q
2	Mohammed Gammoudi	23x15px Tunisia	14:29.0	Q
3	Mamo Wolde	23x15px Ethiopia	14:29.8	Q
4	Bob Finlay	Canada	14:31.8	Q
5	Emiel Puttemans	Belgium	14:34.6	Q
6	Bernd Dießner	East Germany	14:41.0
7	Rashid Sharafetdinov	Soviet Union	14:44.0
8	Dick Taylor	Great Britain	14:46.6
9	Keisuke Sawaki	Japan	15:00.8
10	György Kiss	Hungary	15:13.0
11	Lou Scott	United States	15:13.6
12	Esau Adenji	Cameroon	15:46.2
13	Gabriel M'Boa	Central African Republic	17:33.0
14	Juan Valladares	23x15px Honduras	18:21.6

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Naftali Temu	Kenya	14:20.4	Q
2	Ron Clarke	Australia	14:20.8	Q
3	Wohib Masresha	23x15px Ethiopia	14:27.0	Q
4	Jack Bacheler	United States	14:31.0	Q
5	Nikolay Sviridov	Soviet Union	14:38.8	Q
6	Ahmed Zammel	23x15px Tunisia	14:54.0
7	Alan Blinston	Great Britain	15:06.2
8	Werner Schneiter	Switzerland	15:08.2
9	Mustafa Musa	Uganda	15:10.2
10	Edward Stawiarz	Poland	15:13.8
11	Werner Girke	West Germany	15:20.8
12	Rafael Pérez	Costa Rica	15:41.4
13	Benjamin Silva-Netto	23x15px Philippines	17:10.2
14	Clovis Morales	23x15px Honduras	18:40.2

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Jean Wadoux	France	14:19.8	Q
2	Juan Máximo Martínez	Mexico	14:20.0	Q
3	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	14:20.6	Q
4	Rex Maddaford	New Zealand	14:20.8	Q
5	Fikru Deguefu	23x15px Ethiopia	14:21.6	Q
6	Bob Day	United States	14:23.2
7	Leonid Mykytenko	Soviet Union	14:44.0
8	Alan Rushmer	Great Britain	15:05.2
9	Julio Quevedo	Guatemala	15:23.0
N/A	Dave Ellis	Canada	DNF
N/A	Roland Brehmer	Poland	DNF

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Mohammed Gammoudi	23x15px Tunisia	14:05.0
	Kipchoge Keino	Kenya	14:05.2
	Naftali Temu	Kenya	14:06.4
4	Juan Máximo Martínez	Mexico	14:10.8
5	Ron Clarke	Australia	14:12.4
6	Wohib Masresha	23x15px Ethiopia	14:17.6
7	Nikolay Sviridov	Soviet Union	14:18.4
8	Fikru Deguefu	23x15px Ethiopia	14:19.0
9	Jean Wadoux	France	14:20.8
10	Rex Maddaford	New Zealand	14:39.8
11	Bob Finlay	Canada	14:45.0
12	Emiel Puttemans	Belgium	14:59.6
N/A	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	DNF

Notes: Q- Qualified by place
DNF - Did Not Finish

References

• Official Olympic Report, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 13, 2012.