  The branching ratios of the decay of the tau lepton to five charged hadrons
have been measured with the OPAL detector at LEP using data collected between
1991 and 1995 at e+e- centre-of-mass energies close to the Z resonance. The
branching ratios are measured to be BR(tau- to 3h-2h+nutau) =
0.091+-0.014+-0.005% BR(tau- to 3h-2h+pi0nutau) = 0.027+-0.018+-0.007% where
the first error is statistical and the second systematic.
