AthleticsAthletics world record
5 km (road), men
12 min 49.00 s
- Holder
- Berihu Aregawi
- Date
- Place
- Barcelona
- Standing since
- 2021 (4 years)
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What to remember
Five kilometres on the road at an average of 23.41 km/h (14.54 mph): Ethiopia's Berihu Aregawi ran the 5 km road race in 12 min 49.00 s in Barcelona on New Year's Eve 2021, at the Cursa dels Nassos.
The road 5K is on the programme of neither the Olympics nor the World Championships. It is the shortest of the common road distances, the one novice and occasional runners often pick.
A long-distance runner, Aregawi placed fourth in the 10,000 m at the Tokyo Olympics before his silver in Paris in 2024. He also won silver at the 2023 World Cross Country Championships and in the 3000 m at the 2025 World Indoor Championships. Earlier, he had taken bronze in the 10,000 m at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world records in athletics” (revision used 1378411308). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Chabe01, Photo licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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