5000 m Athletics Rio 2016

Men's 5000 m

Athletics

1. Gold medal 

Mohamed Muktar Jama "Mo" Farah, CBE (born 23 March 1983) is a British distance runner. On the track, he mostly competes over 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, but has run competitively from 1500 metres to the marathon. He was the winner of the gold medal in the 5000 metres event at the 2016 summer Olympics, running a personal best time 13:03.30.

The most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history, he is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist in both the 5000 m and 10,000 m. He is the second athlete in modern Olympic Games history, after Lasse Viren, to successfully defend the 5000 m and 10,000 m titles. Farah also completed the double at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships in Athletics. He was the second man in history to win long-distance doubles at successive Olympics and World Championships, and the first in history to do the quadruple-double. 

2.Silver medal

Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo  (born October 27, 1990) is a Kenyan-born American track and field athlete. He is the 2016 Olympic silver medalist at 5000 meters. He represented the United States in the 3000 meters at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships held in Portland, Oregon. He qualified to the World Championships by taking second place at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships on the same track a week earlier, setting a personal record of 7:39.00. He was the winner of the silver medal in the 5000 metres event at the 2016 summer Olympics, running a personal best time 13:03.90.

Chelimo ran a personal best 13:19.54 in the prelim of the 5000 metres at the 2016 summer Olympics. During the final he stayed near the lead the entire race, withstanding every attack the Ethiopian teammates were trying to throw against eventual winner Mo Farah. 

3. Bronze medal

Hagos Gebrhiwet Berhe, born 11 May 1994, is an Ethiopian long-distance runner and current World Junior Record in the 5000 meters  (12:47:53). He was the winner of the bronze medal in the 5000 metres event at the 2016 summer Olympics, running a personal best time 13:04.35.

He took up running seriously in 2010. He came sixth in the 5000 metres at the 2011 Ethiopian National Championships and was selected to run the 3000 metres at that year's World Youth Championships, where he finished fifth with a time of 7:45.11 minutes. Hagos noted that his first national selection had helped him develop his running and he went on to win the junior title at the Ethiopian Club's Cross Country, competing for Mesfin Engineering.