Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	16–18 October
Competitors	54 from 35 nations
Medalists
Bob Schul   United States   Harald Norpoth   Germany   Bill Dellinger   United States

Athletics at the 1964 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 was the second-longest of the seven men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 16 October and 18 October 1964. 54 athletes from 35 nations entered, with 6 not starting the first round. The first round was held on 16 October and the final on 18 October.

Results

First round

The top three runners in each of the 4 heats advanced.

First round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Michel Jazy	France	13:55.4
2	Bill Baillie	New Zealand	13:55.4
3	Stepan Baidiuk	Soviet Union	14:00.2
4	Andrei Barabas	Romania	14:00.2
5	Anthony Cook	Australia	14:02.4
6	John Bryan Herring	Great Britain	14:07.2
7	Muharrem Dalkilic	Turkey	14:12.0
8	Lutz Philipp	Germany	14:15.2
9	Bruce Kidd	Canada	14:21.8
10	Janos Pinter	Hungary	14:41.0
11	Jean Randrianjatovo	Madagascar	15:50.4
—	Paschal Mfyomi	Tanganyika	DNS
	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	DNS

First round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Michael Edwin Wiggs	Great Britain	13:51.0
2	Bill Dellinger	United States	13:52.2
3	Thor Helland	Norway	13:52.4
4	Lech Boguszewicz	Poland	13:52.8
5	Kestutis Orentas	Soviet Union	13:54.0
6	Eugene Allonsius	Belgium	13:55.0
7	Jean Vaillant	France	14:05.8
8	Manfred Letzerich	Germany	14:06.2
9	Thomas O'Riordan	Ireland	14:08.8
10	Jorgen Nielsen Dam	Denmark	14:20.4
11	Albert George Thomas	Australia	14:27.8
12	Fernando Aguila	Spain	14:29.2
13	Alvaro Mejia Florez	Colombia	14:41.4
—	Ebrahim Yazdanpanah	Iran	DNS

First round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Mohammed Gammoudi	Tunisia	14:10.2
2	Bob Schul	United States	14:11.4
3	Harald Norpoth	Germany	14:11.6
4	Murray Halberg	New Zealand	14:12.0
5	Josef Tomas	Czechoslovakia	14:12.6
6	Bengt Najde	Sweden	14:13.4
7	Franc Cervan	Yugoslavia	14:16.6
8	Simo Sakari Saloranta	Finland	14:24.6
9	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	14:35.4
10	Jean Fayolle	France	14:44.6
11	Sermsak Keocanta	Thailand	16:08.8
12	Ranatunge Karunananda	Ceylon	16:22.2
13	Nguyen Van Ly	Vietnam	17:28.0

First round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Ron Clarke	Australia	13:48.4
2	Kipchoge Keino	Kenya	13:49.6
3	Nikolay Dutov	Soviet Union	13:50.6
4	Francisco Aritmendi	Spain	14:05.0
5	Sven-Olv Larsson	Sweden	14:10.2
6	Iwashita Satsuo	Japan	14:18.4
7	Derek Austin Graham	Great Britain	14:21.6
8	Oscar W. Moore	United States	14:24.0
9	Simo Vazic	Yugoslavia	14:33.8
10	Henri Clerckx	Belgium	14:40.0
11	Neville Ian Scott	Netherlands	15:01.0
—	Ben Assou El Ghazi	Morocco	DNS
	Manuel Oliveira	Portugal	DNS
	Mamo Wolde	Ethiopia	DNS

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time		1000	2000	3000	4000
1	Bob Schul	United States	13:48.8		2:51.4	5:40.0	8:25.0	11:16.2
2	Harald Norpoth	Germany	13:49.6		2:51.0	5:39.8	8:22.8	11:15.8
3	Bill Dellinger	United States	13:49.8		2:51.8	5:40.6	8:25.8	11:16.4
4	Michel Jazy	France	13:49.8		2:50.4	5:39.6	8:22.4	11:15.6
5	Kipchoge Keino	Kenya	13:50.4		2:50.8	5:40.4	8:25.6	11:16.0
6	Bill Baillie	New Zealand	13:51.0		2:50.6	5:39.8	8:24.2	11:16.0
7	Nikolay Dutov	Soviet Union	13:53.8		2:51.6	5:40.4	8:23.2	11:15.8
8	Thor Helland	Norway	13:57.0		2:51.6	5:40.2	8:26.0	11:16.6
9	Ron Clarke	Australia	13:58.0		2:50.2	5:39.4	8:22.2	11:15.8
10	Stepan Baidiuk	Soviet Union	14:11.2		2:51.0	5:40.0	8:25.6	11:19.2
11	Michael Edwin Wiggs	Great Britain	14:20.8		2:52.8	5:40.8	8:28.6	11:28.6
—	Mohammed Gammoudi	Tunisia	Did not start		-

References

• Official Report