title: Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games – Men's 5000 metres
text: # Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games – Men's 5000 metres
  
  The men's 5000 metres event at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was held on 7 October at the QE II Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.
  
  ## Results
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | David Moorcroft | England | 13:33.00 |
  | | Nick Rose | England | 13:35.97 |
  | | Peter Koech | Kenya | 13:36.95 |
  | 4 | Zacharia Barie | Tanzania | 13:39.03 |
  | 5 | Filippos Filippou | Cyprus | 13:39.13 |
  | 6 | Nat Muir | Scotland | 13:40.84 |
  | 7 | John Andrews | Australia | 13:42.62 |
  | 8 | Peter Renner | New Zealand | 13:45.00 |
  | 9 | Neil Lowsley | New Zealand | 13:45.70 |
  | 10 | Raj Kumar | India | 13:46.40 |
  | 11 | Roger Hackney | Wales | 13:51.20 |
  | 12 | Zephaniah Ncube | Zimbabwe | 13:51.90 |
  | 13 | Wilson Waigwa | Kenya | 14:05.02 |
  | 14 | Tim Hutchings | England | 14:11.59 |
  | 15 | Umar Mukhtar | Nigeria | 14:43.73 |
  | 16 | Bineshwar Prasad | Fiji | 16:40.49 |
  | | Robert de Castella | Australia | DNS |
  | | Peter Butler | Canada | DNS |
  | | Greg Duhaime | Canada | DNS |
  | | David Bonn | Cayman Islands | DNS |
  | | Marios Kassianidis | Cyprus | DNS |
  | | Shiri Chand | Fiji | DNS |
  | | Richard Kermode | Fiji | DNS |
  | | Erastus Kimei | Kenya | DNS |
  | | John Walker | New Zealand | DNS |
  | | Brian Yon | Saint Helena | DNS |
  | | Allister Hutton | Scotland | DNS |
  | | Steve Jones | Wales | DNS |
  | | Dennis Fowles | Wales | DNS |
  