The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	OR	WR
23 August	Final	Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who holds the world record and Olympic record in both the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres events...		12:57.82	OR

Heat 1

Qualification: First 4 in each heat(Q) and the next 3 fastest(q) advance to the Final.

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Matthew Tegenkamp		13:37.36	Q
2	Eliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long distance runner who has won medals at Olympic and World level....		13:37.50	Q
3	Tariku Bekele Tariku Bekele Tariku Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who specializes in the 5000 metres. He is the younger brother of Kenenisa Bekele. He is the fourth fastest Ethiopian ever over 5000 m and 3000 metres...		13:37.63	Q
4	Kidane Tadasse Kidane Tadasse Kidane Tadesse Habtesilase is an Eritrean long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres....		13:37.72	Q
5	Alemayehu Bezabeh Alemayehu Bezabeh Alemayehu Bezabeh Desta is an Ethiopian-born athlete who represents Spain internationally. He competes in middle- and long-distance running on the track, and also in cross country...		13:37.88	q
6	Alistair Ian Cragg Alistair Ian Cragg Alistair Ian Cragg is an international track and field athlete, who was born in Johannesburg on 13 June 1980, and brought up in South Africa and has since lived in England and Fayetteville, Arkansas where he attended the University of Arkansas. He races for Ireland and competes most often over 3000...		13:38.57	q
7	Juan Luis Barrios Juan Luis Barrios Juan Luis Barrios Nieves is a Mexican athlete. He is 173 cm tall and weighs 65 kg . He participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics and finished seventh in the men's 5000 metres...		13:42.39	q
8	Anis Selmouni Anis Selmouni Anis Selmouni is a Moroccan middle distance runner.At the 2007 World Cross Country Championships he finished thirteenth in the senior race, while the Moroccan team of which he was a part won the silver medal in the team competition....		13:43.70
9	Aadam Ismaeel Khamis Aadam Ismaeel Khamis Aadam Ismaeel Khamis is a long-distance runner now representing Bahrain after his switch from Kenya.According to Bahraini officials, he was born Hosea Kosgei on 12 February 1989 in Kenya. Like fellow Bahraini runners Belal Mansoor Ali and Tareq Mubarak Taher, his age is surrounded by controversy...		13:44.76
10	Collis Birmingham Collis Birmingham Collis Birmingham is an Australian long distance and cross-country runner. He participated in the 2008 Olympic Games in the 5000 metres event but failed to qualify for the final...		13:44.90
11	Geofrey Kusuro		13:50.50
12	Sultan Khamis Zaman Sultan Khamis Zaman Onèsphore Nkunzimana is a male long distance runnerHis first major competition was the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics, where he finished ninth in the 5000 metres...		13:53.38
13	Takayuki Matsumiya Takayuki Matsumiya Takayuki Matsumiya is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in marathon races. He holds the Asian record and Japanese record over 25 km and 30 km. He has a twin brother, Yuko, who is also a top-level marathon runner....		14:20.24
14	Soe Min Thu		15:50.56

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Edwin Cheruiyot Soi		13:46.41	Q
2	Moses Ndiema Kipsiro		13:46.58	Q
3	Abreham Cherkos		13:47.60	Q
4	Jesús España Jesús España Jesús España Cobo is a Spanish runner who mostly concentrates on the 3000 and 5000 metres....		13:48.88	Q
5	Ali Abdalla		13:49.68
6	Mohammed Farah Mohammed Farah Mohammed "Mo" Farah is a Somalia-born British international track and field athlete. On the track, he generally competes over 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, but also runs the 3000 metres and occasionally the 1500 metres...		13:50.95
7	Adrian Blincoe Adrian Blincoe Adrian Blincoe is a New Zealand middle distance runner who specializes mainly in the 5000 metres. He also competes in the 1500 metres and in the 3000 metres. In July 2008, Adrian set the New Zealand record in the 5000m, running 13:10.19...		13:55.27
8	Mourad Marofit		14:00.76
9	Ian Dobson Ian Dobson Ian Dobson is a former Australian football player who has won the Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Award twice...		14:05.47
10	Tonny Wamulwa Tonny Wamulwa Tonny Wamulwa is a Zambian long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres.As a junior athlete finished tenth at the 2005 World Youth Championships, tenth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, seventh at the 2006 World Junior Championships and fifth at the 2008 World Junior Championships...		14:06.96
11	Kevin Sullivan		14:09.16
12	Ali Saïdi-Sief Ali Saidi-Sief Ali Saidi-Sief is an Algerian Olympic runner. His speciality is the 1500 m race, but he took a silver medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics for the 5000 m, losing the gold to Ethiopian athlete Million Wolde....		14:15.00
13	Nader Almassri		14:41.10

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Rashid Ramzi

Rashid Ramzi is a Moroccan-Bahraini track and field athlete competing internationally for Bahrain in the 800 metres and 1500 metres. Ramzi was investigated by the IAAF after the 2008 Summer Games and was stripped of his gold medal for doping.Ramzi was born in Asfi, Morocco...

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Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bernard Lagat Bernard Lagat Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat is an American middle and long distance champion athlete.Lagat was born in Kapsabet, Kenya...		13:39.70	Q
2	James Kwalia C'Kurui		13:39.96	Q
3	Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who holds the world record and Olympic record in both the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres events...		13:40.13	Q
4	Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa		13:41.30	Q
5	Craig Mottram Craig Mottram Craig Mottram is an Australian long distance and middle distance runner.-Biography:Born on 18 June 1980 in Frankston, Victoria, Mottram specialises in the 5000 m event. He attended the prestigious Geelong Grammar School. At 6 feet 2 inches he is unusually tall for a distance runner.Amongst...		13:44.39
6	Moukheld Al-Outaibi Moukheld Al-Outaibi Moukheld Al-Outaibi is a Saudi Arabian long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*1500 metres - 3:38.12 min *3000 metres - 7:46.31 min *5000 metres - 12:58.58 min...		13:47.00
7	Kensuke Takezawa Kensuke Takezawa is a Japanese long-distance runner. He attended Waseda University in Tokyo.His international debut came at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Fukuoka, where he was 49th in the men's long race...		13:49.42	SB
8	Monder Rizki Monder Rizki Monder Rizki is a Belgian long-distance runner.At the 2006 European Athletics Championships Rizki finished eleventh in the 5000 metres and seventeenth in the 10,000 metres.-Personal bests:*3000 metres - 7:42.84 min...		13:54.41
9	Alberto García Alberto García Alberto García is a Spanish long-distance and cross-country runner.-Career:Garcia's top-level athletic career took off when he was already approaching his thirties. He first came to prominence with a gold medal in the 5000 metres at the Mediterranean Games at Bari in 1997...		13:58.20
10	Philippe Bandi		13:59.68
11	Abdelaziz Ennaji El Idrissi		14:05.30
12	Abdinasir Said Ibrahim Abdinasir Said Ibrahim Abdinasir Said Ibrahim is a track and field athlete from Somalia.-Career:In preparation for competitive meets in 2008, Ibrahim and fellow athlete Samiya Yusuf Omar trained under difficult circumstances, facing harassment from local militants who interpreted his participation in official track...		14:21.58

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Selim Bayrak

Mert Girmalegesse, formerly Shimelis Girma , then Selim Bayrak , is an Ethiopian born Turkish middle and long distance track and field athlete, running in the disciplines of 3000 m, 5000 m and also 10000 m.-Personal life:Born and raised in Ethiopia, he transferred to Turkey for an amount of US$1...

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Hasan Mahboob

Ali Hasan Mahboob is a Bahraini long-distance runner. He became naturalized in Bahrain and switched from his birth country Kenya ahead of the 2006 season to participate....

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David Galván

José David Galván Martínez is a Mexican long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 and 10,000 metres...

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Final

23 August 2008 - 20:10

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who holds the world record and Olympic record in both the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres events...		12:52.82
	Eliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long distance runner who has won medals at Olympic and World level....		12:57.80
	Edwin Cheruiyot Soi		13:01.22	SB
4	Moses Ndiema Kipsiro		13:10.56
5	Abreham Cherkos		13:16.46
6	Tariku Bekele Tariku Bekele Tariku Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who specializes in the 5000 metres. He is the younger brother of Kenenisa Bekele. He is the fourth fastest Ethiopian ever over 5000 m and 3000 metres...		13:19.06
7	Juan Luis Barrios Juan Luis Barrios Juan Luis Barrios Nieves is a Mexican athlete. He is 173 cm tall and weighs 65 kg . He participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics and finished seventh in the men's 5000 metres...		13:19.79	SB
8	James Kwalia C'Kurui		13:23.48
9	Bernard Lagat Bernard Lagat Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat is an American middle and long distance champion athlete.Lagat was born in Kapsabet, Kenya...		13:26.89
10	Kidane Tadasse Kidane Tadasse Kidane Tadesse Habtesilase is an Eritrean long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres....		13:28.40
11	Alemayehu Bezabeh Alemayehu Bezabeh Alemayehu Bezabeh Desta is an Ethiopian-born athlete who represents Spain internationally. He competes in middle- and long-distance running on the track, and also in cross country...		13:30.48
12	Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa		13:31.34
13	Matthew Tegenkamp		13:33.13
14	Jesús España Jesús España Jesús España Cobo is a Spanish runner who mostly concentrates on the 3000 and 5000 metres....		13:55.94

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Splits

Intermediate	Athlete	Country	Mark
1000m	Tariku Bekele Tariku Bekele Tariku Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who specializes in the 5000 metres. He is the younger brother of Kenenisa Bekele. He is the fourth fastest Ethiopian ever over 5000 m and 3000 metres...		2:45.49
2000m	Tariku Bekele Tariku Bekele Tariku Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who specializes in the 5000 metres. He is the younger brother of Kenenisa Bekele. He is the fourth fastest Ethiopian ever over 5000 m and 3000 metres...		5:22.29
3000m	Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who holds the world record and Olympic record in both the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres events...		8:00.85
4000m	Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who holds the world record and Olympic record in both the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres events...		10:32.52