2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Nagai Stadium on 30 August and 2 September.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bernard Lagat United States	Eliud Kipchoge Kenya	Moses Kipsiro Uganda

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World record	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	12:37.35	Hengelo, Netherlands	31 May 2004
Championship record	Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)	12:52.79	Paris, France	31 August 2003
World leading	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	12:49.53	Zaragoza, Spain	28 July 2007

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 30, 2007	20:45	Heats
September 2, 2007	19:30	Final

Results

KEY:

q

Qualified on time

Q

Qualified

WR

World record

AR

Area record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya	13:33.37	Q
2	2	Abreham Cherkos	Ethiopia	13:33.62	Q
3	2	Matt Tegenkamp	United States	13:35.05	Q
4	2	Craig Mottram	Australia	13:36.18	Q
5	2	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	13:37.12	Q
6	2	Mo Farah	United Kingdom	13:39.13	q, SB
7	2	Benjamin Limo	Kenya	13:41.47	q
8	2	Adam Goucher	United States	13:41.65	q
9	2	Ali Abdalla	Eritrea	13:42.00	q
10	2	Felix Kikwai Kibore	Qatar	13:46.23	q
11	1	Tariku Bekele	Ethiopia	13:46.42	Q
12	1	Jesús España	Spain	13:46.45	Q
13	1	Bernard Lagat	United States	13:46.57	Q
14	1	Hicham Bellani	Morocco	13:46.64	Q
15	1	Moses Ndiema Kipsiro	Uganda	13:46.86	Q
16	2	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda	13:47.30	SB
17	1	Khoudir Aggoune	Algeria	13:47.36
18	1	Isaac Kiprono Songok	Kenya	13:47.42
19	1	Ahmed Baday	Morocco	13:47.83
20	1	Joseph Ebuya	Kenya	13:48.21
21	2	Jan Fitschen	Germany	13:48.39
22	2	Aadam Ismaeel Khamis	Bahrain	13:50.30
23	1	Tonny Wamulwa	Zambia	13:50.95	SB
24	1	Bekana Daba	Ethiopia	13:53.16
25	1	Charles Bett Koech	Qatar	13:53.36
26	2	Mourad Marofit	Morocco	13:54.65
27	2	Takayuki Matsumiya	Japan	13:54.95
28	1	Alistair Cragg	Ireland	13:59.45
29	2	Stephen Kiprotich	Uganda	14:04.22
30	1	Erik Sjöqvist	Sweden	14:05.69
31	1	Yu Mitsuya	Japan	14:07.38
32	2	Cleveland Forde	Guyana	15:25.12
33	2	Thura Aung	Myanmar	15:41.08
	1	Kabirou Dan Mallam	Niger		DNF
	1	Nader al-Masri	Palestine		DNS
	1	David Galván	Mexico		DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bernard Lagat	United States	13:45.87
	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya	13:46.00
	Moses Ndiema Kipsiro	Uganda	13:46.75
4	Matt Tegenkamp	United States	13:46.78
5	Tariku Bekele	Ethiopia	13:47.33
6	Mo Farah	United Kingdom	13:47.54
7	Jesús España	Spain	13:50.55
8	Abreham Cherkos	Ethiopia	13:51.01
9	Felix Kikwai Kibore	Qatar	13:51.18
10	Ali Abdalla	Eritrea	13:52.69
11	Adam Goucher	United States	13:53.17
12	Hicham Bellani	Morocco	13:55.44
13	Craig Mottram	Australia	13:56.24
14	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	13:59.86
15	Benjamin Limo	Kenya	14:01.25

References

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