Overview
- Jimmy Gressier clocked 12:59.33 for third in Tokyo, a week after winning the 10,000 m world title.
- Cole Hocker won in 12:58.30 ahead of Belgium’s Isaac Kimeli in 12:58.78 after a fast, front-loaded race.
- The podium ends a 73-year French medal drought in the 5,000 m dating back to Alain Mimoun in 1952.
- Gressier’s double haul makes him the only French athlete with multiple individual medals at these Worlds, a national feat last matched by Christine Arron in 2005.
- France placed three men in the final, with Yann Schrub finishing ninth and Étienne Daguinos 14th, underscoring the team’s distance running resurgence.