Men's 5000 metres at the 2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships
Venue	Thialf
Location	Heerenveen, Netherlands
Date	11 February
Competitors	20 from 12 nations
Winning time	6:08.395
Medalists
Nils van der Poel    Sweden   Patrick Roest    Netherlands   Sergey Trofimov
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2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships
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1500 m	men	women
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The Men's 5000 metres competition at the 2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 11 February 2021.^[1][2]

The race was started at 16:01.^[3]

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Diff
	9	o	Nils van der Poel	Sweden	6:08.395 NR
	8	i	Patrick Roest	Netherlands	6:10.050	+1.65
	10	o	Sergey Trofimov	Russian Skating Union	6:13.020	+4.62
4	7	o	Danila Semerikov	Russian Skating Union	6:16.029	+7.63
5	6	i	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	6:16.923	+8.52
6	3	i	Daniil Aldoshkin	Russian Skating Union	6:17.545	+9.15
7	8	o	Davide Ghiotto	Italy	6:17.693	+9.29
8	5	i	Bart Swings	Belgium	6:19.616	+11.22
9	2	i	Patrick Beckert	Germany	6:21.460	+13.06
10	7	i	Jordan Belchos	Canada	6:21.990	+13.59
11	3	o	Michele Malfatti	Italy	6:23.068	+14.67
12	9	i	Hallgeir Engebråten	Norway	6:26.539	+18.14
13	4	o	Peter Michael	New Zealand	6:26.637	+18.24
14	5	o	Andrea Giovannini	Italy	6:27.330	+18.93
15	2	o	Ethan Cepuran	United States	6:28.447	+20.05
16	1	o	Vitaliy Chshigolev	Kazakhstan	6:29.487	+21.09
17	6	o	Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	6:31.400	+23.00
18	4	i	Peder Kongshaug	Norway	6:33.280	+24.88
19	10	i	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:35.527	+27.13
20	1	i	Timothy Loubineaud	France	6:38.064	+29.66