Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy on 26 and 28 August.^[1]

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Simone Zanon Italy	Thorsten Naumann Germany	Dan Browne United States

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Tamás Kliszek	Hungary	13:57.49	Q
2	2	Gabino Apolonio	Mexico	13:58.13	Q
3	2	Stephen Isbel	Australia	13:58.89	Q^[2]
4	2	Stathis Stasi	Cyprus	13:59.50	Q
5	2	Thorsten Naumann	Germany	14:01.40	Q
6	2	John Maitai Mboroth	Kenya	14:03.87	q
7	2	Naoki Mishiro	Japan	??:??.??	q
8	2	Richie Boulet	United States	14:09.70	q
9	2	Marílson Gomes dos Santos	Brazil	14:09.87	q
10	1	Dan Browne	United States	14:12.16	Q
11	1	Karl Keska	Great Britain	14:12.60	Q
12	1	Simone Zanon	Italy	14:12.66	Q
13	2	Øyvind Fretheim	Norway	14:17.17	q
14	1	Alexei Scutaru	Moldova	14:18.63	Q
15	1	Abderrahim Maarouf	Morocco	14:19.60	Q
16	2	Adamou Aboubakar	Cameroon	14:20.45
17	1	Trent Harlow	Australia	14:24.61	^[2]
18	2	Şükrü Onat	Turkey	14:30.73
19	1	Raúl Ramírez	Mexico	14:31.46
20	1	Wataru Kobayashi	Japan	14:33.93
21	2	Dragoslav Prpa	Yugoslavia	14:35.28
22	1	Jan Erik Christiansen	Norway	14:41.45
23	2	Juma Nkuwi	Tanzania	14:47.33
24	1	Mathew Koskei	Kenya	14:49.37
25	2	Anwalu Baray	Nigeria	14:50.90
26	1	Iván Sánchez	Spain	14:53.60	^[3]
27	2	Fidele Baregensabe	Burundi	14:55.82
28	2	Ian Grime	Great Britain	15:01.57
29	1	Mehmet Kara	Turkey	15:11.06
30	1	Bruno Gumyubumwe	Burundi	15:36.91
31	1	Kelekae Poloko	Botswana	15:40.22
32	1	Alfadio Traoré	Guinea	16:34.53

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Simone Zanon	Italy	13:57.54
	Thorsten Naumann	Germany	13:58.35
	Dan Browne	United States	14:00.94
4	Naoki Mishiro	Japan	14:01.90
5	John Maitai Mboroth	Kenya	14:04.57
6	Gabino Apolonio	Mexico	14:05.64
7	Stephen Isbel	Australia	14:06.71
8	Karl Keska	Great Britain	14:09.40
9	Tamás Kliszek	Hungary	14:11.68
10	Stathis Stasi	Cyprus	14:14.30
11	Alexei Scutaru	Moldova	14:15.72
12	Marílson Gomes dos Santos	Brazil	14:16.48
13	Øyvind Fretheim	Norway	14:27.40
14	Richie Boulet	United States	14:31.43
15	Abderrahim Maarouf	Morocco	14:39.91

^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b "Australian 1997 Almanac" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
^ Spanish results (p304)
^ "Results". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2014-10-02.