1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

Events at the 1969 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 5000 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 19 September 1969.

Medalists

Gold	Ian Stewart United Kingdom
Silver	Rashid Sharafetdinov Soviet Union
Bronze	Alan Blinston United Kingdom

Results

Final

19 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ian Stewart	United Kingdom	13:44.8
	Rashid Sharafetdinov	Soviet Union	13:45.8
	Alan Blinston	United Kingdom	13:47.6
4	Bernd Dießner	East Germany	13:50.4
5	Danijel Korica	Yugoslavia	13:51.4
6	Giuseppe Ardizzone	Italy	13:51.8
7	Émile Puttemans	Belgium	13:53.2
8	Bengt Nåjde	Sweden	13:55.8
9	Noël Tijou	France	13:56.8
10	René Jourdan	France	13:58.4
11	Ivan Shopsha	Soviet Union	14:01.8
12	Stanislav Petr	Czechoslovakia	14:12.8
13	Michael Baxter	United Kingdom	14:19.0

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 13 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.

• Belgium (1)
• Czechoslovakia (1)
• East Germany (1)

• France (2)
• Italy (1)

• Soviet Union (2)
• Sweden (1)

• United Kingdom (3)
• Yugoslavia (1)