1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres event at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 9 and 11 August.

Medalists

Gold	Fita Bayissa Ethiopia
Silver	Abraham Assefa Ethiopia
Bronze	Francesco Bennici Italy

Results

Final

11 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Fita Bayissa	Ethiopia	13:42.59
	Abraham Assefa	Ethiopia	13:44.63
	Francesco Bennici	Italy	13:47.10
4	Meta Petro	Tanzania	13:48.91
5	Paul Patrick	Australia	13:51.52
6	Stefano Baldini	Italy	13:54.38
7	Jan Pešava	Czechoslovakia	13:55.02
8	Juma Ninga	Tanzania	13:55.52
9	Ryuji Takei	Japan	13:55.78
10	Muchapiwa Mazano	Zimbabwe	13:56.97
11	Ion Avramescu	Romania	13:59.34
12	Dmitriy Drozdov	Soviet Union	14:01.60
13	Jon Brown	United Kingdom	14:03.09
14	Richard Potts	New Zealand	14:15.80
15	Mohamed Riad	Morocco	14:17.56

Heats

9 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Juma Ninga	Tanzania	14:06.60	Q
2	Abraham Assefa	Ethiopia	14:08.54	Q
3	Stefano Baldini	Italy	14:11.09	Q
4	Ryuji Takei	Japan	14:11.22	Q
5	Ion Avramescu	Romania	14:11.52	Q
6	Jon Brown	United Kingdom	14:11.61	q
7	Mohamed Riad	Morocco	14:12.56	q
8	Dmitriy Drozdov	Soviet Union	14:15.12	q
9	Jason Bunston	Canada	14:22.20
10	Claes Nyberg	Sweden	14:26.11
11	Anthony Kiprono	Kenya	14:28.26
12	Elias Couto	Portugal	14:33.54
13	Abdel Krim Benzai	Algeria	14:34.57
14	Piotr Gladki	Poland	14:37.48
15	Javier Cortés	Spain	14:40.19
16	Mugah Al-Maslemany	North Yemen	16:10.76

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Fita Bayissa	Ethiopia	13:53.80	Q
2	Meta Petro	Tanzania	14:02.08	Q
3	Francesco Bennici	Italy	14:02.49	Q
4	Jan Pešava	Czechoslovakia	14:02.81	Q
5	Richard Potts	New Zealand	14:09.74	Q
6	Paul Patrick	Australia	14:16.42	q
7	Muchapiwa Mazano	Zimbabwe	14:17.52	q
8	William Kalya	Kenya	14:17.77
9	Luis Suárez	Spain	14:36.33
10	Germano Neves	Portugal	14:38.98
11	Stanislav Yordanov	Soviet Union	14:42.00
12	Jarosław Cichocki	Poland	14:50.01
13	Abdullah Yousef Abdullah	Qatar	15:00.11
14	Christophe Van Der Meersch	Belgium	15:00.98
15	Bryan Conway	Ireland	15:18.18
16	Khalid Al-Estashi	North Yemen	15:59.66
	Salah Hissou	Morocco	DNF
	Yasuyuki Watanabe	Japan	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 34 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event.

• Algeria (1)
• Australia (1)
• Belgium (1)
• Canada (1)
• Czechoslovakia (1)
• Ethiopia (2)
• Ireland (1)
• Italy (2)
• Japan (2)
• Kenya (2)
• Morocco (2)
• New Zealand (1)
• North Yemen (2)
• Poland (2)
• Portugal (2)
• Qatar (1)
• Romania (1)
• Soviet Union (2)
• Spain (2)
• Sweden (1)
• Tanzania (2)
• United Kingdom (1)
• Zimbabwe (1)