1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 17 and 19 July.

Medalists

Gold	Peter Chumba Kenya
Silver	Alejandro Gómez Spain
Bronze	Melese Feissa Ethiopia

Results

Final

19 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Peter Chumba	Kenya	13:55.25
	Alejandro Gómez	Spain	13:55.94
	Melese Feissa	Ethiopia	13:56.45
4	Brahim Boutayeb	Morocco	13:57.48
5	Juma Mnyampanda	Tanzania	13:57.49
6	Debebe Demisse	Ethiopia	13:59.51
7	Anacleto Jiménez	Spain	14:00.36
8	Aboukar Adani	Somalia	14:00.46
9	Eric Mastalir	United States	14:01.40
10	John Nuttall	United Kingdom	14:08.68
11	Greg Andersen	Canada	14:09.51
12	Darren Mead	United Kingdom	14:12.35
13	Giuliano Baccani	Italy	14:15.84
14	Peter Rono	Kenya	14:20.03
15	Harry Green	United States	14:28.08
16	Anthony Ford	Australia	14:34.09
17	Kazumi Ikeda	Japan	14:34.28
18	Christoph Blum	West Germany	14:34.50

Heats

17 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Debebe Demisse	Ethiopia	13:59.52	Q
2	Brahim Boutayeb	Morocco	14:01.44	Q
3	Eric Mastalir	United States	14:02.05	Q
4	Peter Rono	Kenya	14:06.42	Q
5	Anacleto Jiménez	Spain	14:06.58	Q
6	John Nuttall	United Kingdom	14:09.79	Q
7	Greg Andersen	Canada	14:15.38	q
8	Christoph Blum	West Germany	14:20.12	q
9	Keita Fujino	Japan	14:22.31
10	Athanásios Zalavras	Greece	14:35.27
11	Edward Nabunone	Indonesia	14:41.84
12	Ignacio Fragoso	Mexico	14:53.01
13	Ibrahim Kabir	Nigeria	14:58.14
14	Jan Jonsson	Sweden	15:06.14
15	Isaac Simelane	Swaziland	15:16.39
16	Gofetamang Rabasoto	Botswana	15:49.00
17	Jamal Ali Al-Hakim	North Yemen	15:54.89
18	Ndaona Musuma	Malawi	16:04.79

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Peter Chumba	Kenya	14:11.30	Q
2	Melese Feissa	Ethiopia	14:11.83	Q
3	Juma Mnyampanda	Tanzania	14:12.42	Q
4	Aboukar Adani	Somalia	14:13.18	Q
5	Giuliano Baccani	Italy	14:15.43	Q
6	Alejandro Gómez	Spain	14:15.99	Q
7	Kazumi Ikeda	Japan	14:17.34	q
8	Harry Green	United States	14:17.88	q
9	Darren Mead	United Kingdom	14:18.62	q
10	Anthony Ford	Australia	14:19.25	q
11	Nourredine Kamoun	Tunisia	14:24.49
12	Kamal Bouhaloufa	France	14:27.61
13	Thabiso Moqhali	Lesotho	14:27.62
14	Herder Vázquez	Colombia	15:00.35
15	Guy Schultz	Canada	15:12.99
16	Joaquim Figueirêdo	Portugal	15:17.85
17	Houssein Djama	Djibouti	15:20.31
18	Fady Khoury	Lebanon	16:14.17
19	Neville Walcott	Guyana	16:40.60

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 37 athletes from 30 countries participated in the event.

• Australia (1)
• Botswana (1)
• Canada (2)
• Colombia (1)
• Djibouti (1)
• Ethiopia (2)
• France (1)
• Greece (1)
• Guyana (1)
• Indonesia (1)
• Italy (1)
• Japan (2)
• Kenya (2)
• Lebanon (1)
• Lesotho (1)
• Malawi (1)
• Mexico (1)
• Morocco (1)
• Nigeria (1)
• North Yemen (1)
• Portugal (1)
• Somalia (1)
• Spain (2)
• Swaziland (1)
• Sweden (1)
• Tanzania (1)
• Tunisia (1)
• United Kingdom (2)
• United States (2)
• West Germany (1)