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Events at the 1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

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These are the official results of the Men's 5,000 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 36 participating athletes, with two qualifying heats and the final held on Sunday 1987-09-06.

[edit] Medalists

Gold	Saïd Aouita Morocco (MAR)
Silver	Domingos Castro Portugal (POR)
Bronze	Jack Buckner Great Britain (GBR)

[edit] Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	Saïd Aouita (MAR)	12:58.39	Rome, Italy	July 27, 1987
Championship Record	Eamonn Coghlan (IRL)	13:28.53	Helsinki, Finland	August 14, 1983

[edit] Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Saïd Aouita (MAR)	13:26.44
	Domingos Castro (POR)	13:27.59
	Jack Buckner (GBR)	13:27.74
4.	Pierre Délèze (SUI)	13:28.06
5.	Vincent Rousseau (BEL)	13:28.56
6.	Evgueni Ignatov (BUL)	13:29.68
7.	Tim Hutchings (GBR)	13:30.01
8.	Dionisio Castro (POR)	13:30.94
9.	Frank O'Mara (IRL)	13:32.04
10.	Steve Ovett (GBR)	13:33.49
11.	Sydney Maree (USA)	13:33.78
12.	John Ngugi (KEN)	13:34.04
13.	John Treacy (IRL)	13:41.03
14.	Abel Anton (ESP)	13:43.58
15.	Carey Nelson (CAN)	13:43.81

[edit] Qualifying heats

Held on Friday 1987-09-04

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Saïd Aouita (MAR)	13:28.63
2.	Domingos Castro (POR)	13:28.68
3.	Frank O'Mara (IRL)	13:28.79
4.	Sydney Maree (USA)	13:28.86
5.	Abel Anton (ESP)	13:28.92
6.	Tim Hutchings (GBR)	13:29.06
7.	Vincent Rousseau (BEL)	13:29.74
8.	Doug Padilla (USA)	13:30.16
9.	Markus Ryffel (SUI)	13:33.07
10.	Jonny Danielson (SWE)	13:35.69
11.	Zhang Guowei (CHN)	13:40.46
12.	Juma Mnyampanda (TAN)	13:42.57
13.	Kozo Akutsu (JPN)	13:46.29
14.	Omar Aguilar (CHI)	13:52.59
15.	Hugo García (GUA)	14:08.72
16.	Miguel Angel Vargas (CRC)	14:59.32
—	Salvatore Antibo (ITA)	DNS
—	Wodajo Bulti (ETH)	DNS

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	John Ngugi (KEN)	13:22.68 CR
2.	Dionisio Castro (POR)	13:23.12
3.	Pierre Délèze (SUI)	13:24.07
4.	Evgueni Ignatov (BUL)	13:24.42
5.	Jack Buckner (GBR)	13:24.56
6.	Steve Ovett (GBR)	13:28.68
7.	John Treacy (IRL)	13:28.89
8.	Carey Nelson (CAN)	13:29.20
9.	Haji Bulbula (ETH)	13:31.06
10.	Brahim Boutayeb (MAR)	13:32.73
11.	Herbert Stephan (FRG)	13:34.68
12.	Pascal Thiebaut (FRA)	13:38.97
13.	José Manuel Abascal (ESP)	13:59.68
14.	John Gregorek (USA)	14:01.02
15.	Thabiso Paul Moqhali (LES)	14:39.68
16.	Masini Situ-Kubanza (ZAI)	14:50.39
17.	Abdalla Washali (YEM)	15:42.10
18.	Atsou Amewouho (TOG)	16:16.41

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