Fastest road run 5 kilometres (male)
- Who
- Berihu Aregawi
- What
- 12:49 minute(s):second(s)
- Where
- Spain (Barcelona)
- When
- 31 December 2021
The fastest road run 5 kilometres by a male is 12 minutes 49 seconds, achieved by Berihu Aregawi (Ethiopia) at the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona, Spain, on 31 December 2021.
The 5 km road run distance was introduced as a World Athletics (formerly IAAF) world record event in November 2017. Both the male and female 5 km world records were broken at the 2021 Cursa dels Nassos.