2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres
at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
Men's 5000 metres ; at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
Venue	National Stadium
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	19 September (heats); 21 September (final)
Winning time	12:58.30
Medalists
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The men's 5000 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 19 and 21 September 2025.^[1]

LocationTokyo, Japan

Dates19 September (heats)
21 September (final)

Winningtime12:58.30

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Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Joshua Cheptegei (UGA)	12:35.36	Fontvieille, Monaco	14 August 2020
Championship record	Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)	12:52.79	Saint-Denis, France	31 August 2003
World Leading	Andreas Almgren (SWE)	12:44.27	Sweden, Stockholm	15 June 2025
African Record	Joshua Cheptegei (UGA)	12:35.36	Fontvieille, Monaco	14 August 2020
Asian Record	Birhanu Balew (BHR)	12:48.67	Paris, France	20 June 2025
European Record	Andreas Almgren (SWE)	12:44.27	Stockholm, Sweden	15 June 2025
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Nico Young (USA)	12:45.27	Oslo, Norway	12 June 2025
Oceanian record	Craig Mottram (AUS)	12:55.76	London, United Kingdom	30 July 2004
South American Record	Santiago Catrofe (URU)	12:59.26	Paris, France	20 June 2025

Date	Time	Round
19 September	20:00	Heats
21 September	19:47	Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Isaac Kimeli	Belgium	13:13.06	Q
2	Mathew Kipsang	Kenya	13:13.33	Q
3	Cole Hocker	United States	13:13.41	Q
4	Nico Young	United States	13:13.51	Q
5	Ky Robinson	Australia	13:13.60	Q
6	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia	13:13.73	Q
7	Mike Foppen	Netherlands	13:13.97	Q
8	Etienne Daguinos	France	13:14.87	Q
9	Andreas Almgren	Sweden	13:16.38
10	Santiago Catrofe	Uruguay	13:17.26
11	Dominic Lobalu	Switzerland	13:19.57
12	Narve Gilje Nordås	Norway	13:25.00
13	Keneth Kiprop	Uganda	13:25.15
14	Jacob Krop	Kenya	13:28.73
15	Nagiya Mori [de]	Japan	13:29.44
16	Florian Bremm	Germany	13:31.09
17	Brian Fay	Ireland	13:31.12
18	Seth O'Donnell	Australia	13:34.52
19	Zhusup Sulaiman Uulu	Kyrgyzstan	14:47.40
	Kuma Girma	Ethiopia	DNF
	Soufiane El Bakkali	Morocco	DNS
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Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Biniam Mehary	Ethiopia	13:41.52	Q
2	Jimmy Gressier	France	13:41.64	Q
3	Birhanu Balew	Bahrain	13:41.75	Q
4	George Mills	Great Britain & N.I.	13:41.76	Q
5	Valentín Soca	Uruguay	13:41.80	Q
6	Grant Fisher	United States	13:41.83	Q
7	Yann Schrub	France	13:42.00	Q
8	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	13:42.15	Q, SB
9	Gulveer Singh	India	13:42.34
10	Darragh McElhinney	Ireland	13:42.56
11	Mohamed Abdilaahi	Germany	13:44.68
12	Cornelius Kemboi	Kenya	13:45.79
13	John Heymans	Belgium	13:47.37
14	Thierry Ndikumwenayo	Spain	13:47.72
15	Saymon Amanuel	Eritrea	13:49.43
16	Jack Rayner	Australia	13:49.46
17	Eduardo Herrera	Mexico	13:51.29
18	Harbert Kibet	Uganda	13:52.36
19	Andrew Coscoran	Ireland	13:56.95
20	Jamal Abdelmaji	Athlete Refugee Team	13:58.90
	Niels Laros	Netherlands	DNF
	Luis Grijalva	Guatemala	DNS
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Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Cole Hocker	United States	12:58.30
	Isaac Kimeli	Belgium	12:58.78	SB
	Jimmy Gressier	France	12:59.33
4	Ky Robinson	Australia	12:59.61
5	Biniam Mehary	Ethiopia	12:59.95
6	Nico Young	United States	13:00.07
7	Birhanu Balew	Bahrain	13:00.55
8	Grant Fisher	United States	13:00.79
9	Yann Schrub	France	13:01.34
10	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	13:02.00	SB
11	Mathew Kipsang	Kenya	13:03.67
12	Mike Foppen	Netherlands	13:05.94
13	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia	13:07.02
14	Etienne Daguinos	France	13:11.72
15	Valentín Soca	Uruguay	13:34.35
16	George Mills	Great Britain & N.I.	13:44.88
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