1988 Olympic 5k Final

Shorter was un-officially disqualified of his Silver medal, due to high level of Caffiene in 1976 Montreal Olympic. gold medal winner was un-officially stripped of the gold due to banned chemicals. Hence its possible 1976 Montreal Medals are: Lismont of Belguim, Kardon of USA and Viren of Finland.

Frank Shorter won the gold medal in1972 Munich olympics marathon and a bronze medal in 1976 Edmonton olympics marathon!

Ngugi ran his 59 to 60-second laps early
enough to make the other runners feel that
he would fade later. Either they lacked the
fitness or the courage needed to win.
I'm sorry for Castro who lost his "certain"
silver medal in the final 10 to 20 metres
and even lost the bronze medal. Baumann showed his fierce final kick
that helped him to win this distance in
1992. Kunze rarely ran well after this race.
Maree and Buckner ran mediocrely.

Ya know Maree sorta reminds me of a bernard lagat!aha. just to point that out there!

poor castro, i really feel for the little guy. he showed so much guts in trying to go with ngugi, he tried so hard. it seems almost an injustice that he got no medal. the great Ron Clarke said when commentatinf "They shouldnt allow that, castro at least deserved a bronze." something like that is the stuff that happens in nightmares. really feel for him, he deserved much better.

I wonder what would have happened if Aouita was in this final... But it's Ngugi's victory, so congrats to him.

Hhaahhaa, Castro got owned!

John Ngugi raced one of the most perfect tactical Olympic finals of all time.Right up there with the memorable victory of Kip Keino in the 1500m in 1968.These guys are not robots.They can think on their feet and adapt to the situation at hand.Pure racing.Wow.Memories for life.Thank you. P.s. He also won 5 World Cross Country Chamionships over 12km.

that wasnt pretty but ok

Kenya! Kenya! ngugi u did us proud.