5,000 metres, Men

Participants

Nr.	Athlete	NOC
1	Boualem Rahoui	ALG
2	Tony Benson	AUS
3	René Goris	BEL
4	Willy Polleunis	BEL
5	Miel Puttemans	BEL
6	Bob Finlay	CAN
7	Grant McLaren	CAN
8	Edmundo Warnke	CHI
9	Esau Adenji	CMR
10	Gert Kærlin	DEN
11	Jørn Lauenborg	DEN
12	Javier Álvarez	ESP
13	Mariano Haro	ESP
14	Tekle Fetinsa	ETH
15	Tolossa Kotu	ETH
16	Usaia Sotutu	FIJ
17	Tapio Kantanen	FIN
18	Juha Väätäinen	FIN
19	Lasse Virén	FIN
20	Raymond Zembri	FRA
21	Jürgen May	FRG
22	Harald Norpoth	FRG
23	Wolfgang Riesinger	FRG
24	Dave Bedford	GBR
25	Ian McCafferty	GBR
26	Ian Stewart	GBR
27	Frank Eisenberg	GDR
28	Carlos Cuque	GUA
29	Eddie Sequeira	IND
30	John Hartnett	IRL
31	Mike Keogh	IRL
32	Takaharu Koyama	JPN
33	Keisuke Sawaki	JPN
34	Ben Jipcho	KEN
35	Evans Mogaka	KEN
36	Paul Mose	KEN
37	Abdullah Al-Mabrouk	KSA
38	Pedro Miranda	MEX
39	Mario Pérez	MEX
40	Knut Børø	NOR
41	Per Halle	NOR
42	Arne Risa	NOR
43	Dick Quax	NZL
44	Dick Tayler	NZL
45	Gavin Thorley	NZL
46	Bronisław Malinowski	POL
47	Carlos Lopes	POR
48	P. C. Suppiah	SGP
49	Fritz Rüegsegger	SUI
50	Anders Gärderud	SWE
51	Josef Jánský	TCH
52	Dušan Moravčík	TCH
53	Mohamad Gammoudi	TUN
54	Hikmet Şen	TUR
55	Vladimir Afonin	URS
56	Nikolay Puklakov	URS
57	Nikolay Sviridov	URS
58	Len Hilton	USA
59	Steve Prefontaine	USA
60	George Young	USA
61	Damiano Musonda	ZAM

Non-starters

Nr.	Athlete	NOC
1	Kerry O'Brien	AUS
2	Crispin Quispe	BOL
3	Mihail Zhelev	BUL
4	Rafael Pérez	CRC
5	Abdel Hamid Khamis	EGY
6	Miruts Yifter	ETH
7	Hamadi Haddou	MAR
8	Jos Hermens	NED
9	Siatka Badji	SEN
10	Dane Korica	YUG