2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
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
10,000 m walk	men	women
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
v t e

The men's 5000 metres event at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Beijing, China, at Chaoyang Sports Centre on 20 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Tariku Bekele  Ethiopia
Silver	Abreham Cherkos  Ethiopia
Bronze	Joseph Ebuya  Kenya

20 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tariku Bekele	Ethiopia	13:31.34
	Abreham Cherkos	Ethiopia	13:35.95
	Joseph Ebuya	Kenya	13:42.93
4	Mang'ata Ndiwa	Kenya	13:44.03
5	Aadam Ismaeel Khamis	Bahrain	13:51.44
6	Kidane Tadese	Eritrea	13:51.60
7	Tony Wamulwa	Zambia	14:00.95
8	Noureddine Smaïl	France	14:06.86
9	Geoffrey Kusuro	Uganda	14:12.69
10	Naser Jamal Naser	Qatar	14:15.10
11	Diego Borrego	Mexico	14:15.54
12	Teklemariam Medhin	Eritrea	14:18.57
13	Zhao Bing	China	14:19.33
14	Mohamed Bouifalloussene	Morocco	14:22.38
15	Saleh Bakheet	Bahrain	14:23.50
16	Simon Ayeko	Uganda	14:26.23
17	Mohamed Elbendir	Spain	14:28.27
18	Takahiro Mori	Japan	14:29.00
19	Huang Dali	China	14:30.83
20	Kodai Matsumoto	Japan	14:35.55
21	Jeon Eunhoi	South Korea	14:35.64
22	Yosef Abo Saman	Palestine	16:02.18
	Mouhssine Cherkaoui	Morocco	DQ

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.