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 Notes David Moorcroft 13:33.00 Nick Rose 13:35.97 Peter Koech 13:36.95 Zacharia Barie 13:39.03 Filippos Filippou 13:39.13 Nat Muir 13:40.84 John Andrews 13:42.62 Peter Renner 13:45.00 Neil Lowsley 13:45.70 10 Raj Kumar 13:46.40 11 Roger Hackney 13:51.20 12 Zephaniah Ncube 13:51.90 13 Wilson Waigwa 14:05.02 14 Tim Hutchings 14:11.59 15 Umar Mukhtar 14:43.73 16 Bineshwar Prasad 16:40.49 Robert de Castella Peter Butler Greg Duhaime David Bonn Marios Kassianidis Shiri Chand Richard Kermode Erastus Kimei John Walker Brian Yon Allister Hutton Steve Jones Dennis Fowles

References

Results (The Sydney Morning Herald) Results (The Canberra Times) Australian results