2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Location	Amsterdam
Dates	10 July (final)
Competitors	20 from 12 nations
Winning time	13:40.85
Medalists
Ilias Fifa    Spain   Adel Mechaal    Spain   Richard Ringer    Germany
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2016 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Half marathon	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 5000 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 10 July.^[1]

This race had one of the closest finishes in championship distance racing. Coming off the turn, Ethiopian born Azerbaijani Hayle Ibrahimov held the curb and lead position. He held off all challenges to the position until the final straightaway, when the crowd of trailers passed him. Spaniard Adel Mechaal was pressuring in the more common outside shoulder position, so Ibrahimov came off the turn a little wide to force Mechaa to run extra distance, but that opened the door for Frenchman Mourad Amdouni to squeeze through on the inside. Behind them German Richard Ringer went wider into lane 2, followed by Norwegian Henrik Ingebrigtsen on the outside of lane 2. Trailing the group down the backstretch, Moroccan born Spaniard Ilias Fifa had just about made up the gap and was catching the back of the lead group as the sprinting began. Ibrahimov was unable to keep up, overstriding Mechaal, and held the edge over Amdouni, but Ringer and Ingebrigtsen were closing fast on the outside, still trailed by Fifa. Similar to Ibrahimov earlier, Ringer went wide to force Ingebrigtsen to run wider. That opened up a gap for Fifa to squeeze by on the inside of Ringer, outside of his teammate Mechaal. Fifa, Mechaal, Ringer, Ingebrigtsen and Amdouni hit the finish line as a wall, Amdouni was clearly the loser but the other four had to be separated by photo finish. It was ruled that the fast closing Fifa won, Mechaal second and Ringer third, all given the same time 13:40.85 accurate to a hundredth of a second. Ingebrigtsen was the odd man out, given a time of 13:40.86. Fifth place Amdouni was only .09 behind the winner. In comparison at these championships, fifth place in the 100 metres was .12 behind the winner (though the first two places did receive the same time in that race too).

Standing records prior to the 2016 European Athletics Championships
World record	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	12:37.35	Hengelo, Netherlands	31 May 2004
European record	Mohammed Mourhit (BEL)	12:49.71	Brussels, Belgium	25 August 2000
Championship record	Jack Buckner (GBR)	13:10.15	Stuttgart, West Germany	31 August 1986
World Leading	Muktar Edris (ETH)	12:59.43	Eugene, United States	28 May 2016
European Leading	Ilias Fifa (ESP)	13:11.83	Huelva, Spain	3 June 2016

All times are local times (UTC+2)

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Ilias Fifa	Spain	13:40.85
	Adel Mechaal	Spain	13:40.85
	Richard Ringer	Germany	13:40.85	SB
4	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	13:40.86
5	Mourad Amdouni	France	13:40.94
6	Hayle Ibrahimov	Azerbaijan	13:42.20
7	Florian Orth	Germany	13:45.40
8	Yemaneberhan Crippa	Italy	13:46.30
9	Aras Kaya	Turkey	13:47.42
10	Martin Sperlich	Germany	13:48.81
DQ	Jamel Chatbi	Italy	13:49.93
11	Dennis Licht	Netherlands	13:54.21
12	Jonathan Taylor	Great Britain	13:55.20
13	Carlos Mayo	Spain	13:58.22
14	Brenton Rowe	Austria	13:58.96
15	Jonny Davies	Great Britain	14:04.13
16	Kevin Batt	Ireland	14:20.50
17	Sindre Buraas	Norway	14:26.05
18	Mykola Nyzhnyk	Ukraine	14:28.24
	Ali Kaya	Turkey	DNS

• amsterdam2016.org, official championship site.