Men's 5000 metres at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships
Venue	Kasarani Stadium
Dates	19 August
Competitors	10 from 6 nations
Winning time	13:20.37
Medalists
Benson Kiplangat    Kenya   Tadese Worku    Ethiopia   Levy Kibet    Kenya
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Events at the 2021 World U20 Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
5000 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
	mixed
10000 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 at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships was held at the Kasarani Stadium on 19 August.^[1]

Standing records prior to the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships
World U20 Record	Selemon Barega (ETH)	12:43.02	Brussels, Belgium	31 August 2018
Championship Record	Abreham Cherkos (ETH)	13:08.57	Bydgoszcz, Poland	13 July 2008
World U20 Leading	Addisu Yihune (ETH)	12:58.99	Hengelo, Netherlands	8 June 2021

The final was held on 19 August at 17:10.^[2][3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Benson Kiplangat	Kenya	13:20.37	PB
	Tadese Worku	Ethiopia	13:20.65
	Levy Kibet	Kenya	13:26.01	PB
4	Addisu Yihune	Ethiopia	13:32.76
5	Merhawi Mebrahtu	Eritrea	13:40.63	PB
6	Habtom Samuel	Eritrea	13:45.65
7	Rodgers Kibet	Uganda	13:57.97
8	Ajan Jacob Chol	South Sudan	14:14.37
9	Martin Magengo Kiprotich	Uganda	14:15.62
10	Jean Marie Bukuru	Burundi	14:28.55