Athletics at the 2021 Summer World University Games – Men's 5000 metres

Athletics at the 2021 Summer World University Games
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	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Half marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 5000 metres event at the 2021 Summer World University Games was held on 4 and 6 August 2023 at the Shuangliu Sports Centre Stadium in Chengdu, China.

The winning margin was 0.05 seconds which as of 2024 remains the narrowest winning margin for the men's 5,000 metres at these games.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Simon Bédard  France	Taiyo Yasuhara  Japan	Nursultan Keneshbekov  Kyrgyzstan

Qualification: First 8 in each heat (Q) advance to final.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Nursultan Keneshbekov	Kyrgyzstan	14:30.88	Q
2	2	Shotaro Ishihara	Japan	14:31.91	Q
3	2	Dismas Yeko	Uganda	14:33.10	Q
4	2	Sebastian Frey	Austria	14:34.65	Q
5	2	Omar Seraiche	Algeria	14:35.33	Q
6	2	Abdurrahman Gediklioglu	Turkey	14:37.84	Q
7	2	Julien Rebeck	France	14:38.16	Q
8	2	Guillaume Cachelin	Switzerland	14:38.54	Q
9	1	Simon Bédard	France	14:39.26	Q
10	1	Said Ameri	Algeria	14:39.64	Q
11	1	Eemil Helander	Finland	14:42.00	Q
12	1	Matthew Forrester	South Africa	14:42.20	Q
13	1	Taiyo Yasuhara	Japan	14:42.91	Q
14	1	Robi Syianturi	Indonesia	14:46.44	Q
15	2	Yang Kegu	China	14:46.82
16	1	Chen Zhongping	China	14:53.44	Q
17	1	Patrick James	Tanzania	14:59.94	Q
18	2	Henrik Laukli	Norway	15:02.63
19	2	Ravi Ravi	India	15:28.38
20	1	Anurag Yadav	India	15:29.21
21	2	Tse Chun Yin	Hong Kong	15:32.40
22	2	Jonathan Musunga	Zambia	16:33.08
23	1	Yankuba Jahateh	The Gambia	16:39.79
–	1	Mushota Lengwe	Zambia	DNF
–	1	William Amponsah	Ghana	DNS
–	1	Abdullah Tuğluk	Turkey	DNS
–	1	Léandre Hamenyimana	Burundi	DNS

^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Simon Bédard	France	14:14.10
	Taiyo Yasuhara	Japan	14:14.15
	Nursultan Keneshbekov	Kyrgyzstan	14:15.33	SB
4	Shotaro Ishihara	Japan	14:16.43
5	Said Ameri	Algeria	14:20.01
6	Omar Seraiche	Algeria	14:21.13	PB
7	Eemil Helander	Finland	14:21.80
8	Julien Rebeck	France	14:22.33
9	Dismas Yeko	Uganda	14:23.14
10	Guillaume Cachelin	Switzerland	14:24.69
11	Abdurrahman Gediklioglu	Turkey	14:26.13
12	Matthew Forrester	South Africa	14:26.30
13	Sebastian Frey	Austria	14:29.48
14	Robi Syianturi	Indonesia	14:38.45
15	Chen Zhongping	China	15:07.41
16	Patrick James	Tanzania	15:19.30