1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

1962 European Athletics Championships
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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 5000 metres at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 13 and 15 September 1962.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Bruce Tulloh  Great Britain
Silver	Kazimierz Zimny  Poland
Bronze	Pyotr Bolotnikov  Soviet Union

Results

Final

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bruce Tulloh	Great Britain	14:00.6
	Kazimierz Zimny	Poland	14:01.8
	Pyotr Bolotnikov	Soviet Union	14:02.6
4	Lech Boguszewicz	Poland	14:03.4
5	Michel Bernard	France	14:03.8
6	John Anderson	Great Britain	14:04.2
7	Siegfried Herrmann	East Germany	14:05.0
8	Robert Bogey	France	14:06.8
9	Peter Kubicki	West Germany	14:11.4
10	Valentin Samoilov	Soviet Union	14:11.8
11	Yuriy Nikitin	Soviet Union	14:14.6
12	Miroslav Jurek	Czechoslovakia	14:19.2

Heats

13 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bruce Tulloh	Great Britain	14:14.4	Q
2	Lech Boguszewicz	Poland	14:19.2	Q
3	Siegfried Herrmann	East Germany	14:20.0	Q
4	Yuriy Nikitin	Soviet Union	14:20.2	Q
5	Sven-Olov Larsson	Sweden	14:21.2
6	Jean Vaillant	France	14:36.8
7	Béla Szekeres	Hungary	14:38.4
8	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	14:44.4
9	Fevzi Pakel	Turkey	14:47.6
10	Jean Aniset	Luxembourg	14:48.2

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Anderson	Great Britain	14:15.0	Q
2	Michel Bernard	France	14:15.6	Q
3	Valentin Samoilov	Soviet Union	14:15.8	Q
4	Kazimierz Zimny	Poland	14:15.8	Q
5	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	14:16.2
6	István Kiss [de]	Hungary	14:28.8
7	Josef Tomáš	Czechoslovakia	14:39.4
8	Friedrich Janke	East Germany	14:41.4

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Peter Kubicki	West Germany	13:53.4	CR Q
2	Pyotr Bolotnikov	Soviet Union	13:53.4	CR Q
3	Robert Bogey	France	13:53.6	Q
4	Miroslav Jurek	Czechoslovakia	13:53.8	Q
5	Eddie Strong	Great Britain	13:56.4
6	Andrei Barabaș	Romania	14:14.2
7	Sándor Iharos	Hungary	14:41.0
8	Johann Hiestand	Switzerland	15:10.2
	Jim Hogan	Ireland	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

References