The men's individual pursuit C5 took place on 8 September 2016.

The event began with a qualifying race over 4000m. Each of the athletes competed individually in a time trial basis. The fastest two riders raced for the gold medal and the third and fourth fastest riders raced for the bronze.

Preliminaries Q: Qualifier for Gold medal final Qb: Qualifier for Bronze medal final WR: World Record PR: Paralympic Record

Men's individual Pursuit C5 - PreliminariesRankName Nationality Time Avg. Speed Notes 1 Yegor Dementyev 4:35.534 52.262 Q 2 Alistair Donohoe 4:38.050 51.789 Q 3 Edwin Fabián Mátiz Ruiz 4:38.924 51.626 Qb 4 Lauro Cesar Chaman 4:41.697 51.118 Qb 5 Xinyang Liu 4:43.304 50.828 6 Tomas Kajnar 4:45.707 50.401 7 Christopher Murphy 4:49.343 49.767 8 Wolfgang Eibeck 4:49.644 49.716 9 Soelito Gohr 4:58.969 48.165 10 Dane Wilson 5:12.885 46.023 11 José Frank Rodríguez 5:27.010 44.035

Finals Source: Men's individual Pursuit C5 - Medal Finals Gold FinalRankName Nationality Result Avg Speed Yegor Dementyev 4:37.708 51.853 Alistair Donohoe 4:44.520 50.611 Bronze FinalRankName Nationality Result Avg Speed Edwin Fabián Mátiz Ruiz 4:38.896 51.632 4 Lauro Cesar Chaman 4:43.257 50.837

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