Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres
| Men's 5000 metres at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Bernard Lagat, Mo Farah, Muktar Edris, Paul Chelimo, Joshua Cheptegei, Andrew Butchart after finish
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 17 August 2016 (heats) 20 August 2016 (final) |
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| Winning time | 13:03.30 | ||||||||||||
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Mo Farah |
 Great Britain
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Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo |
 United States
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Hagos Gebrhiwet |
 Ethiopia
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The men's 5000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 16–20 August at the Olympic Stadium.
Mo Farah entered as the favourite for the race, having won the 2012 Olympic title as well as the last two World Championships 5000 m. He also held the fastest time of the year at 12:59:29 minutes and won the Olympic 10,000 m earlier in Rio. His primary challengers included 2015 World medallists Caleb Ndiku of Kenya and Ethiopia's Hagos Gebrhiwet (with the latter having shown the best form that year). Another Ethiopian, Dejen Gebremeskel (the 2012 Olympic runner-up) was also in the race, as was three-time 5000 m world medallist Bernard Lagat.
The preliminaries delivered a shock as distance running power Kenya placed no athletes in the final. However, three Kenyan born athletes ran in the final, wearing the uniform of other countries; Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo and 41-year-old Bernard Lagat ran for the United States and Albert Kibichii Rop for Bahrain. The East African representation was strong with three Ethiopians in the final (plus Birhanu Balew running for Bahrain). Uganda qualified two athletes. Mohammed Ahmed running for Canada and the defending champion Mo Farah running for Great Britain were born in Somalia. Andrew Butchart was a second British finalist, and David Torrence, an American-born athlete, ran for Peru. During the first preliminary heat, Hassan Mead front foot met Farah's back foot, both runners stumbling, Mead crashing to the track. Farah righted himself and continued on to the finish, qualifying third. After the race a protest was filed by the United States and Mead was advanced to the final.
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