Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics - Men's 5000 metres

The Men's 5.000 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany took place on September 10, 1972.

Final

RANK	ATHLETE	TIME
	Lasse Virén (FIN)	13:26.4
	Mohamed Gammoudi (TUN)	13:27.4
	Ian Stewart (GBR)	13:27.76
4.	Steve Prefontaine (USA)	13:28.4
5.	Emiel Puttemans (BEL)	13:30.8
6.	Harald Norpoth (FRG)	13:32.6
7.	Per Halle (NOR)	13:34.4
8.	Nikola Sviridov (URS)	13:39.4
9.	Frank Eisenberg (GDR)	13:40.8
10.	Javier Alvarez (ESP)	13:41.8
11.	lan McCafferty (GBR)	13:43.2
12.	David Bedford (GBR)	13:43.2
13.	Juha Väätäinen (FIN)	13:53.8
–	Mariano Haro (ESP)	DNS

See also

• Women's 3000 metres

References

• Results

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