1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

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 edit

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

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	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

13 September

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

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

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

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