​UPDATE: ​Mead's protest was denied.

In the first semifinal, Mo Farah and Bernard Lagat were among the automatic qualifiers. With 200 meters to go, Farah got tangled up with American Hassan Mead, and Mead went down. Mead's 13:34 is currently on the outside of the time qualifiers, but athletes who have fallen in other distance prelims have been getting advanced. We'll update this post if and when a protest is filed.



Watch video of the crash here:

After a collision Hassan Mead (#USA) goes down, Mo Farah (#GBR) stays on his feet. https://t.co/zCIBO09zPJ https://t.co/ZRDCSA12nC

— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) August 17, 2016

In the second, the first ten men advanced, eliminating all potential time qualifiers from the first heat. American Paul Chelimo won the heat in a new PB of 13:19. Among the time qualifiers were now-Peruvian David Torrence and Canadian Mo Ahmed. Zero Kenyan athletes qualified for the final; at least one Kenyan had made the 5K final in every Olympics since 1984. Americans Chelimo and Lagat were born in Kenya.

Heat 1 automatic qualifiers:
13:24.65 Hagos Gebrhiwet (ETH)
13:24.95 Albert Rop (BRN)
13:25.25 Mo Farah (GBR)
13:25.60 Joshua Cheptegei (UGA)
13:26.02 Bernard Lagat (USA)

Heat 2 automatic qualifiers:
13:19.54 Paul Chelimo (USA)
13:19.65 Muktar Edris (ETH)
13:19.67 Dejen Gebremeskel (ETH)
13:19.83 Birhanu Balew (BRN)
13:20.08 Andrew Butchart (GBR)

Time qualifiers:
13:21.00 Mo Ahmed (CAN)
13:22.00 Elroy Gelant (RSA)
13:22.81 Brett Robinson (AUS)
13:23.20 David Torrence (PER)
13:24.66 Phillip Kipyeko (UGA)