Athletics At The 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 Metres
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Athletics At The 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 Metres
The Men's 5000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 56 competitors, with three qualifying heats (56) and two semifinals (30) before the final (15) took place on Saturday October 1, 1988. The race started off tactically, with Stefano Mei Stefano Mei (born 3 February 1963 in La Spezia) is an Italian long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 and 10000 metres. European champion on 10000 m in 1986. From 31 January 2021 he is the new president of Italian Athletics Federati ... taking the point for a slow first lap, then Evgeni Ignatov accelerating for a faster second lap. 900 metres into the race, John Ngugi went all in, coming from the back of the pack, passing the field and dropping a sub-60 lap. The field scrambled and strung out in chase but soon he had a 15-metre gap. Another 61 second lap and he had 30 metres. Ngugi slowed to a more rational pace, but still have a 40-metre breakaway on the peloton, led by John Doher ...
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The Seoul Olympic Stadium (), a.k.a. Jamsil Olympic Stadium (formerly romanised as ''Chamshil''), is a multi-purpose stadium in Seoul, South Korea. It is the main stadium built for the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1986 Asian Games, 10th Asian Games in 1986. It is the centrepiece of the Seoul Sports Complex in the Songpa District, in the southeast of the city south of the Han River (Korea), Han River. It is the largest stadium in South Korea. Design and construction This multi-purpose stadium was designed by Kim Swoo-geun. The lines of the stadium's profile imitate the elegant curves of a Joseon white porcelain. Spectator seats are distributed on two tiers, half-covered; seating capacity is 69,950. Before its construction, Seoul's largest venues were Dongdaemun Stadium and Hyochang Stadium. Seating 30,000 and 20,000 respectively, they were too small to attract world-class sporting events. Construction on the new stadium began in 1977 with the aim of staging the Asian Games in 198 ...
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Salvatore Antibo
Salvatore Antibo (born 7 February 1962) is a former long-distance runner from Italy. He won nine medals at the International athletics competitions. but he never won a national championship (neither outdoor nor indoor). Biography Antibo was born on 7 February 1962 in Altofonte, within the province of Palermo (Sicily). He revealed as a consistent middle-distance runner in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, when he arrived fourth in the 10,000 m final. His national popularity was however overshadowed by his compatriot Alberto Cova, who won the gold medal. After a bronze medal at the 1986 European Championships, behind Stefano Mei and again Cova, he gained the status of Italian number one, winning the silver medal over 10,000 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. At the 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split he was victorious over both 10,000 m and 5000 m, becoming one of the most popular sportsmen in his country. He was famous for his u ...
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José Regalo
José Alberto Teixeira Regalo (born 22 November 1963) is a Portuguese long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 5000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe .... References 1963 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Portuguese male long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Portugal Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Portuguese sportsmen {{Portugal-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Paul Arpin
Paul Arpin (born 20 February 1960 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice) is a retired long-distance runner from France, who represented his native country in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe ..., finishing in seventh place. Paul Arpin also finished third at the 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships behind Kenyans John Ngugi and Paul Kipkoech. He was also part of the bronze medal-winning French team at the 1988 edition behind Kenya and Ethiopia (Paul Arpin finished 11th individually) Achievements References 1988 Year Ranking 1960 births Living people French male long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for France Sportspeople from Bourg-Saint-Maurice Athletes ...
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Gary Staines
Gary Martin Staines (born 3 July 1963) is a male British former long-distance runner who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Biography At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, he represented Great Britain in the 5,000 metres. He was the silver medallist in the 5000 metres at the 1990 European Athletics Championships. He was also a team silver medallist with Tim Hutchings at the 1989 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. He represented England in the 10,000 metres event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. Staines was on the podium five times in the 5,000 metres at the AAA Championships from 1987 to 1993. Staines was successful on the British road racing circuit and was a winner at the Reading Half Marathon (1996), won three-times at the Great South Run The Great South Run is an annual 10 mile (16.09 km) road running race which takes place in Portsmouth, United Kingdom providing an intermediate distance between the ten kilometre and the half ma ...
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Yobes Ondieki
Yobes Ondieki (born February 21, 1961, in Kisii, Nyanza) is a Kenyan former 5000 m runner, who won the World Championships' gold medal in Tokyo 1991. In the same year he set a temporary Kenyan 5000 m record of 13:01.82 in Zurich. He participated in the Olympic finals of 1988 and 1992 but did not win a medal. He was the first person to break 27:00 in the 10,000 m in 1993, with a then world record time of 26:58.38. Biography Ondieki attended Iowa State University, where he captured four Big Eight conference titles, three of them in cross-country. Ondieki received All-America accolades six times at Iowa State. Although he never won an NCAA individual championship, he came close on several occasions, earning NCAA runner-up honours three times and third-place status three times. Except for the NCAA championship, he won every cross-country meet he competed in during the 1983 and 1984 seasons. Ondieki was known for his demanding training sessions and his ability to run constantly ...
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Bror Jonny Danielson (born 4 September 1964) is a retired Swedish 5000m runner who has also competed at the 1988 as well as in the 1992 Summer Olympics representing Sweden. See also * Sweden at the 1988 Summer Olympics Sweden competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 185 competitors, 148 men and 37 women, took part in 113 events in 23 sports. For the first time since the 1900 Summer Olympics, Sweden failed to win a gold medal. Medalists Com ... * Sweden at the 1992 Summer Olympics References External links Sports reference 1964 births Living people Swedish male long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub ...
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