2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 14 July.^[1][2][3]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Muktar Edris  Ethiopia	Abrar Osman Adem  Eritrea	Wiliam Malel Sitonik  Kenya

Records

Prior to the competition^[update], the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)	12:52.61	Oslo, Norway	27 June 2003
Championship Record	Abreham Cherkos (ETH)	13:08.57	Bydgoszcz, Poland	13 July 2008
World Junior Leading	Isiah Kiplangat Koech (KEN)	12:57.63	Eugene, United States	2 June 2012

Results

The start of the 5000 metres

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Muktar Edris	Ethiopia	13:38.95
	Abrar Osman Adem	Eritrea	13:40.52
	Wiliam Malel Sitonik	Kenya	13:40.52
4	Younés Essalhi	Morocco	13:41.69	PB
5	Tsegaye Mekonnen	Ethiopia	13:44.43	PB
6	Phillip Kipyeko	Uganda	13:45.52	PB
7	Moses Martin Kurong	Uganda	13:52.96
8	Moses Mukono Letoyie	Kenya	13:56.60
9	Dino Bošnjak	Croatia	14:13.48	NJ
10	François Barrer	France	14:16.46
11	Kota Murayama	Japan	14:18.24
12	Krubhli Shiferaw Erassa	United States	14:19.28
13	Kyle King	United States	14:19.97
14	Kazuma Taira	Japan	14:22.95
15	Lorenzo Dini	Italy	14:22.97	PB
16	Aaron Hendrikx	Canada	14:29.32
17	Abdelmunaim Yahya Adam	Sudan	14:35.70	PB
18	Samuele Dini	Italy	14:43.43	PB
19	Souleiman Robleh	Djibouti	14:48.17	PB
20	Rethabile Molefi	Lesotho	14:50.60	PB
21	Myeongjun Son	South Korea	15:03.10
22	Orye Lendoye	Gabon	19:03.89	PB
–	Soufiyan Bouqantar	Morocco	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

•  Canada (1)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Djibouti (1)
•  Eritrea (1)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  France (1)
•  Gabon (1)
•  Italy (2)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Lesotho (1)
•  Morocco (2)
•  South Korea (1)
•  Sudan (1)
•  Uganda (2)
•  United States (2)