Events at the 2000 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
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
10,000 m walk		women
20 km walk	men
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 2000 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 31 August.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama	Qatar	13:53.10
	Gong Ke	China	14:04.61
	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	14:10.79
4	Wu Wen-Chien	Chinese Taipei	14:12.26
5	Jaafar Babakhani	Iran	14:18.51
6	Abdullah Essam Abdin	Bahrain	14:18.93
7	Gulab Chand	India	14:25.69
8	Gojen Singh	India	14:27.77
9	Michitane Noda	Japan	14:28.22
10	Eduardo Buenavista	Philippines	14:34.53
11	Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari	Nepal	14:48.72
12	Cho Keun-Hyung	South Korea	14:53.43
13	Gede Karang Asem	Indonesia	14:54.69
14	Muhamad Abu Jamus	Palestine	14:59.80
15	Ahmed Said Al-Rawahi	Oman	15:00.52
16	Nader Abed Allah	Palestine	15:46.30
17	Mok Bun Thoeun	Cambodia	17:07.16
18	Han Samnang	Cambodia	17:58.26