Athletics at the 2025 Summer World University Games – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the 2025 Summer World University Games
Venue	Lohrheidestadion
Location	Bochum, Germany
Dates	24 July (heats) 26 July (final)
Competitors	34 from 28 nations
Winning time	15:02.00
Medalists
Arthur Gervais  [ fr ]    France   David Mullarkey    Great Britain   Collins Kiprotich    Kenya
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The men's 5000 metres event at the 2025 Summer World University Games was held in Bochum, Germany, at Lohrheidestadion on 24 and 26 July. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
Games record	Hayle Ibrahimov  (AZE)	13:35.89	Kazan, Russia	12 July 2013

Results

Heats

First 8 in each heat (Q) qualified for the final. ^[3]

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Arthur Gervais  [ fr ]	France	14:07.99	Q
2	Thomas Laviolette	Canada	14:08.34	Q
3	Toby Gualter	New Zealand	14:08.95	Q
4	Marcel Tobler  [ de ]	Austria	14:09.24	Q
5	Collins Kiprotich	Kenya	14:09.66	Q
6	Jonathan Harris	Australia	14:10.49	Q
7	Oliver Smart	Great Britain	14:10.93	Q
8	Adrian de la Orden	Spain	14:12.65	Q
9	Olefile Kooagile	Botswana	14:15.72	PB
10	Jesper Sandberg	Sweden	14:15.82	PB
11	Gagan Singh	India	14:22.20
12	Lucas Martín Jiménez	Ecuador	14:34.99	PB
13	Szymon Skalski	Poland	14:40.17
14	Francisco Zufiaurre	Argentina	14:50.90	PB
15	Matija Rizmal	Slovenia	15:14.58
16	Mark Mahinay	Philippines	15:17.53	PB
17	Mushota Lengwe	Zambia	15:39.12
—	Maxim Frolowskij  [ de ]	Kazakhstan	DNF
[4]

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Andrii Atamaniuk  [ de ]	Ukraine	14:41.26	Q
2	Matre Kiran	India	14:41.49	Q
3	David Mullarkey	Great Britain	14:42.01	Q
4	Vid Botolin  [ de; sl ]	Slovenia	14:42.20	Q
5	Kobe Hermans	Belgium	14:42.42	Q
6	Kidus Begashaw	United States	14:42.66	Q
7	Christopher May	Mexico	14:42.79	Q
8	Thomas Termote	France	14:43.36	Q
9	Liam Back	New Zealand	14:46.05
10	Vetle Farbu-Solbakken	Norway	14:48.41
11	Nathan Houwaard  [ de ]	Netherlands	14:56.43
12	Jakob Vase	Denmark	14:59.27
13	Daniel Stiven Herrera	Colombia	15:02.12
14	William Boyle	Canada	15:07.23
15	Oliver Annus	Estonia	15:16.96
16	Juan Pablo Gelmi	Chile	15:52.27
[5]

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Arthur Gervais  [ fr ]	France	15:02.00
	David Mullarkey	Great Britain	15:02.39
	Collins Kiprotich	Kenya	15:02.47
4	Andrii Atamaniuk  [ de ]	Ukraine	15:02.48
5	Marcel Tobler  [ de ]	Austria	15:02.79
6	Kobe Hermans	Belgium	15:02.93
7	Thomas Termote	France	15:03.79
8	Adrian de la Orden	Spain	15:04.29
9	Thomas Laviolette	Canada	15:04.32
10	Vid Botolin  [ de; sl ]	Slovenia	15:04.48
11	Kidus Begashaw	United States	15:04.84
12	Jonathan Harris	Australia	15:04.91
13	Toby Gualter	New Zealand	15:05.00
14	Oliver Smart	Great Britain	15:06.37
15	Christopher May	Mexico	15:14.58
16	Matre Kiran	India	15:16.57
[6]

References

1. "2025 Summer World University Games - Athletics schedule" (PDF). 20 July 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
2. "2025 FISU World University Games Rhine-Ruhr: All final results and medallists - Full list". Olympics. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
3. "Men's 5000 metres - Round 1 - Start list" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 23 July 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
4. "Men's 5000 metres - Round 1 - Heat 1/2 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 24 July 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
5. "Men's 5000 metres - Round 1 - Heat 2/2 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 24 July 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
6. "Men's 5000 metres - Final results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 26 July 2025. Retrieved 27 July 2025.