Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 5000 metres

Athletics – Men's 5000 metres at the XVI Paralympic Games
Dates	27 – 28 August 2024
Competitors	38
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The Men's 5000m athletics events for the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place at the Tokyo National Stadium from August 27 to August 28, 2021. A total of 3 events were contested over this distance.

Schedule

R	Round 1	½	Semifinals	F	Final

Date [1]	Fri 27		Sat 28
Event	M	E	M	E
T11 5000m	F
T13 5000m			F
T54 5000m		R		F

Medal summary

The following is a summary of the medals awarded across all 5000 metres events.

Classification	Gold		Silver		Bronze
T11 details	Yeltsin Jacques   Brazil	15:13.62 AR	Kenya Karasawa   Japan	15:18.12	Shinya Wada   Japan	15:21.03
T13 details	Yassine Ouhdadi El Ataby   Spain	14:34.13 AR	Jaryd Clifford   Australia	14:35.52 AR	Aleksandr Kostin   RPC	14:37.42 PB
T54 details	Marcel Hug   Switzerland	10:29.90	Brent Lakatos   Canada	10:30.19	Putharet Khongrak   Thailand	10:30.37

Results

The following were the results of the finals only of each of the Men's 5000 metres events in each of the classifications. Further details of each event, including where appropriate heats and semi finals results, are available on that event's dedicated page.

T11

Main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 5000 metres T11

The T11 category is for athletes with a visual impairment. A T11 athlete may be entirely without sight, or be able to perceive light, but have no ability to see the shape of a hand at any distance. T11 athletes commonly run with guides.

The final in this classification took place on 27 August 2021, at 9:35: ^[2]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Yeltsin Jacques	Brazil	15:13.62	AR
	Kenya Karasawa	Japan	15:18.12
	Shinya Wada	Japan	15:21.03
4	Rodgers Kiprop	Kenya	15:27.06	PB
5	Rosbil Guillen	Peru	15:35.82	PB
6	Fedor Rudakovo	RPC	15:48.53
7	Darwin Castro	Ecuador	15:49.60	SB
8	Júlio César Agripino	Brazil	16:26.31
9	Cristian Valenzuela	Chile	17:15.14
10	Wilson Bii	Kenya	17:31.73

T13

Main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 5000 metres T13

The T13 category is for athletes with a moderate visual impairment. Athletes in this category have a variety of visual impairments, but can typically recognize contours from a distance of 2 to 6 metres. Athletes in this category do not typically require a guide.

The final in this classification took place on 28 August 2021, at 9:40: ^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yassine Ouhdadi El Ataby	Spain	14:34.13	AR
	Jaryd Clifford	Australia	14:35.52	AR
	Aleksandr Kostin	RPC	14:37.42	PB
4	David Devine	Great Britain	14:38.00	SB
5	Guillaume Ouellet	Canada	14:47.47
6	Wajdi Boukhili	Tunisia	16:00.15
DNF	El Amin Chentouf	Morocco
DNS	Hatem Nasrallah	Tunisia

T54

Main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 5000 metres T54

The T54 category is for wheelchair athletes with no leg function, but near full arm function and reasonable to normal trunk function. Typically this may be caused by a lower spinal cord injury or spinal cord birth defect.

The final in this classification took place on 28 August 2021, at 20:24: ^[4]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Marcel Hug	Switzerland	10:29.90
	Brent Lakatos	Canada	10:30.19
	Putharet Khongrak	Thailand	10:30.37
4	Daniel Romanchuk	United States	10:30.50
5	Alexey Bychenok	RPC	10:30.59
6	Prawat Wahoram	Thailand	10:30.59
7	Zhang Yong	China	10:30.82
8	Masayuki Higuchi	Japan	10:31.28
9	Dai Yunqiang	China	10:33.25
	Julien Casoli	France	DNF

References

1. "Athletics Competition Schedule". Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
2. "T11 final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
3. "T13 Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
4. "T54 results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.