1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres
The men's 5000 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 19 September 1969.[1]
Medalists
| Gold | Ian Stewart United Kingdom
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| Silver | Rashid Sharafetdinov Soviet Union
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| Bronze | Alan Blinston United Kingdom
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Results
Final
19 September
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Ian Stewart | United Kingdom |
13:44.8 | |
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Rashid Sharafetdinov | Soviet Union |
13:45.8 | |
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Alan Blinston | United Kingdom |
13:47.6 | |
| 4 | Bernd Dießner |  East Germany |
13:50.4 | |
| 5 | Danijel Korica |  Yugoslavia |
13:51.4 | |
| 6 | Giuseppe Ardizzone |  Italy |
13:51.8 | |
| 7 | Émile Puttemans |  Belgium |
13:53.2 | |
| 8 | Bengt Nåjde |  Sweden |
13:55.8 | |
| 9 | Noël Tijou |  France |
13:56.8 | |
| 10 | René Jourdan | France |
13:58.4 | |
| 11 | Ivan Shopsha | Soviet Union |
14:01.8 | |
| 12 | Stanislav Petr |  Czechoslovakia |
14:12.8 | |
| 13 | Michael Baxter | United Kingdom |
14:19.0 |
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 13 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.
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References
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 405–412, retrieved 13 August 2014