1969 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 5000 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 19 September 1969.^[1]

Gold	Ian Stewart  Great Britain
Silver	Rashid Sharafetdinov  Soviet Union
Bronze	Alan Blinston  Great Britain

19 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ian Stewart	Great Britain	13:44.8
	Rashid Sharafetdinov	Soviet Union	13:45.8
	Alan Blinston	Great Britain	13:47.6
4	Bernd Dießner	East Germany	13:50.4
5	Danijel Korica	Yugoslavia	13:51.4
6	Giuseppe Ardizzone	Italy	13:51.8
7	Émile Puttemans	Belgium	13:53.2
8	Bengt Nåjde	Sweden	13:55.8
9	Noël Tijou	France	13:56.8
10	René Jourdan	France	13:58.4
11	Ivan Shopsha	Soviet Union	14:01.8
12	Stanislav Petr	Czechoslovakia	14:12.8
13	Mike Baxter	Great Britain	14:19.0

According to an unofficial count, 13 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.