2021 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 5000 metres
# 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Tallinn, Estonia, at Kadriorg Stadium on 10 July. The race was controversially split into A and B races based on season's best performances. The athletes were not informed of this until the week of the competition, giving no opportunity to improve their season's best and ensure their place in the A race.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

| European U23 record | Ali Kaya (TUR) | 13:00.31 | Rome, Italy | 4 June 2015 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Championship U23 record | Ali Kaya (TUR) | 13:20.16 | Tallinn, Estonia | 11 July 2015 |

## Results

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | A | Mohamed Mohumed | Germany | 13:38.69 | |
| | A | Aarón Las Heras | Spain | 13:43.14 | |
| | A | Baldvin Magnússon [de] | Iceland | 13:45.00 | NR |
| 4 | A | Thomas Mortimer | Great Britain | 13:48.67 | |
| 5 | A | Florian Le Pallec | France | 13:56.74 | |
| 6 | A | Magnus Tuv Myhre | Norway | 13:59.56 | |
| 7 | A | Simen Halle | Norway | 13:59.99 | |
| 8 | B | Francesco Guerra | Italy | 14:02.63 | PB |
| 9 | B | Alain Cavagna | Italy | 14:02.83 | |
| 10 | A | Valentin Gondouin | France | 14:03.46 | |
| 11 | A | Guillaume Grimard | Belgium | 14:04.37 | |
| 12 | B | Marios Anagnostou | Greece | 14:06.94 | PB |
| 13 | A | Isaac Akers | Great Britain | 14:07.07 | |
| 14 | A | Micheal Power | Ireland | 14:10.04 | |
| 15 | A | Tim Verbaandert | Netherlands | 14:13.61 | |
| 16 | B | Dereje Chekole | Israel | 14:14.10 | |
| 17 | B | Aleksander Wiącek | Poland | 14:22.09 | |
| 18 | B | Ömer Amaçtan | Turkey | 14:22.90 | |
| 19 | B | Rogério Amaral | Portugal | 14:23.29 | |
| 20 | B | Omar Ismail | Sweden | 14:25.05 | |
| 21 | B | Darragh McElhinney | Ireland | 14:25.38 | |
| 22 | B | Rúben Amaral | Portugal | 14:27.96 | |
| 23 | B | Mathias Flak | Norway | 14:29.61 | |
| 24 | A | Antonio López | Spain | 14:42.07 | |
| 25 | B | Alexandre Figueiredo | Portugal | 14:45.09 | |
| 26 | B | Elias Schreml | Germany | 14:53.59 | |
| 27 | A | Diego Bravo | Spain | 15:04.66 | |
| 28 | B | Jonatan Gustafsson | Sweden | 15:12.72 | |
| 29 | B | Andry Soo | Estonia | 15:51.89 | |
| | A | Rory Leonard | Great Britain | DNF | DNF |
