| Final 19:30 | | time | | | 1. Bruce Tulloh |  GBR | 14:00.6 | | | 2. Kazimierz Zimny |  POL | 14:01.8 | | | 3. Pyotr Bolotnikov |  URS | 14:02.6 | | | 4. Lech Boguszewicz | POL | 14:03.4 | | | 5. Michel Bernard |  FRA | 14:03.8 | | | 6. John Anderson | GBR | 14:04.2 | | | 7. Siegfried Herrmann |  GDR | 14:05.0 | | | 8. Robert Bogey | FRA | 14:06.8 | | | 9. Peter Kubicki |  FRG | 14:11.4 | | | 10.Valentin Samoilov | URS | 14:11.8 | | | 11.Yuriy Nikitin | URS | 14:14.6 | | | 12.Miroslav Jurek |  TCH | 14:19.2 | |
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| History Men 5000m | | World and European Record: Kuts (URS) 13:35.0 |
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Heats - Thursday 13.09 | | First 4 progress to Final. |
| Heat 1 | | time | | | 1. Bruce Tulloh | GBR | 14:14.4 | Q | | 2. Lech Boguszewicz | POL | 14:19.2 | Q | | 3. Siegfried Herrmann | GDR | 14:20.0 | Q | | 4. Yuriy Nikitin | URS | 14:20.2 | Q | | 5. Sven-Olov Larsson |  SWE | 14:21.2 | | | 6. Jean Vaillant | FRA | 14:36.8 | | | 7. Béla Szekeres |  HUN | 14:38.4 | | | 8. Eugène Allonsius |  BEL | 14:44.4 | | | 9. Fevzi Pakel |  TUR | 14:47.6 | | | 10.Jean Aniset |  LUX | 14:48.2 | |
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| Heat 2 | | time | | | 1. John Anderson | GBR | 14:15.0s | Q | | 2. Michel Bernard | FRA | 14:15.6s | Q | | 3. Valentin Samoilov | URS | 14:15.8s | Q | | 4. Kazimierz Zimny | POL | 14:15.8s | Q | | 5. Manuel de Oliveira |  POR | 14:16.2s | | | 6. István Kiss | HUN | 14:28.8s | | | 7. Josef Tomáš | TCH | 14:39.4s | | | 8. Friedrich Janke | GDR | 14:41.4s | | | -. Ambu |  ITA | DNS | |
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| Heat 3 | | time | | | 1. Peter Kubicki | FRG | 13:53.4 | CR Q | | 2. Pyotr Bolotnikov | URS | 13:53.4 | CR Q | | 3. Robert Bogey | FRA | 13:53.6 | Q | | 4. Miroslav Jurek | TCH | 13:53.8 | Q | | 5. Edward Strong | GBR | 13:56.4 | | | 6. Andrei Barabaş |  ROU | 14:14.2 | | | 7. Sándor Iharos | HUN | 14:41.0 | | | 8. Johann Hiestand |  SUI | 15:10.2 | | | -. Jim Hogan |  IRL | DNF | |
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