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Athletics at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games:

Men's 5,000 metres Round One

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Host City: Montréal, Canada
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Montréal, Québec
Date Started: July 28, 1976
Date Finished: July 28, 1976
Format: Top four in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the final.

Gold: FIN Lasse Virén
Silver: NZL Dick Quax
Bronze: FRG Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand

Round One Heat One

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(A)
1 Dick Quax 28 New Zealand NZL 13:30.85 QU
2 Paul Geis 23 United States USA 13:32.36 QU
3 Boris Kuznetsov 29 Soviet Union URS 13:32.78 QU
4 Lasse Virén 26 Finland FIN 13:33.39 QU
5 Jean Conrath 24 France FRA 13:34.39
6 Luis Hernández 21 Mexico MEX 13:36.42
7 Ilie Floroiu 23 Romania ROU 13:37.09
8 Toshiaki Kamata 24 Japan JPN 13:38.22
9 Dave Black 23 Great Britain GBR 13:39.37
10 Edmundo Warnke 25 Chile CHI 13:39.69
11 Eddie Leddy 24 Ireland IRL 13:40.54
12 Fernando Cerrada 21 Spain ESP 13:43.89
13 Dieudonné Lamothe 21 Haiti HAI 18:50.07
AC Miel Puttemans 28 Belgium BEL DNF

Round One Heat Two

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(A)
1 Willy Polleunis 28 Belgium BEL 13:45.24 QU
2 Pekka Päivärinta 27 Finland FIN 13:45.77 QU
3 Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand 23 West Germany FRG 13:45.85 QU
4 Ian Stewart 27 Great Britain GBR 13:45.94 QU
5 Rodolfo Gómez 25 Mexico MEX 13:46.23
6 Grant McLaren 27 Canada CAN 13:46.40
7 Duncan MacDonald 27 United States USA 13:47.14
8 Domingo Tibaduiza 25 Colombia COL 13:49.49
9 Venanzio Ortis 21 Italy ITA 13:52.40
10 Hossein Rabbi 29 Iran IRI 14:47.12
11 John Kokinai 25 Papua New Guinea PNG 14:58.33

Round One Heat Three

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(A)
1 Brendan Foster 28 Great Britain GBR 13:20.34 QU/OR
2 Rod Dixon 26 New Zealand NZL 13:20.48 QU
3 Knut Kvalheim 26 Norway NOR 13:20.60 QU
4 Enn Sellik 21 Soviet Union URS 13:20.81 QU
5 Detlef Uhlemann 26 West Germany FRG 13:21.08 QC
6 Aniceto Simões 30 Portugal POR 13:21.93 QC
7 Lasse Orimus 26 Finland FIN 13:23.43
8 Marc Smet 25 Belgium BEL 13:23.76
9 Dick Buerkle 28 United States USA 13:29.01
10 Jacky Boxberger 27 France FRA 13:36.94
11 Markus Ryffel 21 Switzerland SUI 13:46.07