Events at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships
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
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

The men's 5000 metres event at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Guangdong Olympic Stadium on November 10.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	James Kwalia	Qatar	14:02.90
	Ali Hasan Mahboob	Bahrain	14:03.44
	Essa Ismail Rashed	Qatar	14:04.52
4	Kensuke Takezawa	Japan	14:08.38
5	Tian Mengxu	China	14:09.70
6	Alemu Bekele Gebre	Bahrain	14:11.61
7	Yang Dinghong	China	14:18.00
8	Lee Du-haeng	South Korea	14:18.83
9	Baek Seung-ho	South Korea	14:28.65
10	Ho Chin-ping	Chinese Taipei	14:37.83
11	Hari Kumar Rimal	Nepal	14:38.13
12	Ser-Od Bat-Ochir	Mongolia	14:47.01
13	Tserenpil Dembee	Mongolia	15:27.42	PB
	Ajmal Amirov	Tajikistan	DNF

• Final results