Men's 5000 metres at the 2013 World Championships
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Dates	13 August (heats) 16 August (final)
Competitors	29 from 18 nations
Winning time	13:26.98
Medalists
Mo Farah  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)   Hagos Gebrhiwet  Ethiopia (ETH)   Isiah Koech  Kenya (KEN)
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Events at the 2013 World 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
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 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 at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 13 and 16 August.^[1]

Fifteen qualified for the final. Of the ten automatic qualifiers, three each were from Kenya, Ethiopia and the United States. But all eyes were on the one from England, the defending champion, Olympic champion and 10000 winner from these championships all rolled up into one Mo Farah.

The first lap of the final started off at a jog for these world class competitors. On the second lap, the Kenyans as a group pushed the pace, but it didn't last long and the pack reformed. At such a leisurely pace, nobody was at risk of getting dropped. Instead confusion. Hagos Gebrhiwet literally a step behind Farah near the back of the pack, watching his every step. At 2000 meters, Farah decided to take a chance at the lead, but it was not to advance the pace but to slow it down. With Farah at the front the pace slowed to 68 seconds, then almost 70 seconds and the rest of the field obediently crowded up behind him, not willing to go out alone against the king. With 5 laps to go, Isiah Koech decided to make the break and took off. The race accelerated to 62-second laps with all the players covering each other's move and jockeying for position. For a lap Yenew Alamirew held the lead, accelerating as anyone looked to try to pass. With 650 to go, Farah made his move, successfully passing Alamirew he only gained a step on the field but that was enough, now he wouldn't let anybody pass him, the field stinging out behind him, the suitors dwindling. Through the final lap in 53 seconds, Koech made repeated attempts to get past Farah but each time Farah was able to go that much faster. Two steps behind at the beginning of the straight, Gebrhiwet weaved his way around the other two Kenyans and came flying down the outside as Koech let up in defeat, Gebrhiwet taking silver by one thousandth of a second after 5000 meters.

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:^[2]

World record	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	12:37.35	Hengelo, Netherlands	31 May 2004
Championship record	Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)	12:52.79	Saint-Denis, France	31 August 2003
World Leading	Edwin Cheruiyot Soi (KEN)	12:51.34	Monaco	19 July 2013
African Record	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	12:37.35	Hengelo, Netherlands	31 May 2004
Asian Record	Saif Saaeed Shaheen (QAT)	12:51.98	Rome, Italy	14 July 2006
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Bernard Lagat (USA)	12:53.60	Monaco	22 July 2011
South American Record	Marilson dos Santos (BRA)	13:19.43	Kassel, Germany	8 June 2006
European Record	Mohammed Mourhit (BEL)	12:49.71	Brussels, Belgium	25 August 2000
Oceanian record	Craig Mottram (AUS)	12:55.76	London, Great Britain	30 July 2004

All times are local times (UTC+4)

Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) advanced to the final.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Muktar Edris	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:20.82	Q
2	2	Edwin Soi	Kenya (KEN)	13:21.44	Q
3	2	Isaiah Koech	Kenya (KEN)	13:22.19	Q
4	1	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:23.22	Q
5	1	Yenew Alamirew	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:23.48	Q
6	1	Bernard Lagat	United States (USA)	13:23.59	Q
7	2	Galen Rupp	United States (USA)	13:23.91	Q
8	2	Mo Farah	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13:23.93	Q
9	1	Thomas Longosiwa	Kenya (KEN)	13:23.94	Q
10	1	Ryan Hill	United States (USA)	13:24.19	Q
11	1	Elroy Gelant	South Africa (RSA)	13:25.07	q
12	2	Dejenee Regassa	Bahrain (BHR)	13:25.21	q
13	1	Brett Robinson	Australia (AUS)	13:25.38	q
14	1	Sindre Buraas	Norway (NOR)	13:26.69	q
15	1	Zane Robertson	New Zealand (NZL)	13:27.89	q
16	2	Othmane El Goumri	Morocco (MAR)	13:31.08
17	1	John Kipkoech	Kenya (KEN)	13:31.21
18	2	Ben St Lawrence	Australia (AUS)	13:33.64
19	1	Phillip Kipyeko	Uganda (UGA)	13:33.68
20	1	Arne Gabius	Germany (GER)	13:34.26
21	2	Alemayehu Bezabeh	Spain (ESP)	13:34.68
22	2	Byron Piedra	Ecuador (ECU)	13:35.38
23	2	Yuki Sato	Japan (JPN)	13:37.07
24	1	Aziz Lahbabi	Morocco (MAR)	13:37.75
25	2	Diego Estrada	Mexico (MEX)	13:48.38
26	1	Sergio Sánchez	Spain (ESP)	13:52.05
27	2	Rinas Akhmadeev	Russia (RUS)	13:58.38
28	2	Jake Robertson	New Zealand (NZL)	14:09.50
29	1	Grevazio Mpani	Malawi (MAW)	14:15.65
	1	Abdoulaye Abdelkarim	Chad (CHA)	DNS
	2	Moses Ndiema Kipsiro	Uganda (UGA)	DNS

The final was started at 20:45.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mo Farah	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13:26.98
	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:27.26
	Isiah Koech	Kenya (KEN)	13:27.26
4	Thomas Longosiwa	Kenya (KEN)	13:27.67
5	Edwin Soi	Kenya (KEN)	13:29.01
6	Bernard Lagat	United States (USA)	13:29.24
7	Muktar Edris	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:29.56
8	Galen Rupp	United States (USA)	13:29.87
9	Yenew Alamirew	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:31.27
10	Ryan Hill	United States (USA)	13:32.69
11	Dejenee Regassa	Bahrain (BHR)	13:34.54
12	Elroy Gelant	South Africa (RSA)	13:43.68
13	Sindre Buraas	Norway (NOR)	13:45.67
14	Zane Robertson	New Zealand (NZL)	13:46.55
15	Brett Robinson	Australia (AUS)	14:03.77

• 5000 metres results at IAAF website