European Athletics Championships 2002/5000 m for women

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	21 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 10
Medalists Marta Domínguez ( ESP )   Sonia O'Sullivan ( IRL )   Jelena Sadorozhnaya ( RUS )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The 5000-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 2002 was held on August 10, 2002 in Munich's Olympic Stadium.

The European champion was the Spanish vice world champion from 2001 and European championship third from 1998 Marta Domínguez . She won ahead of the Irish defending champion and Olympic runner-up in 2000 Sonia O'Sullivan , who had already won several medals on other routes and had also become vice European champion over 10,000 meters here four days earlier . Bronze went to the Russian Jelena Sadoroschnaja .

Existing records

World record	14: 28.09 min	Jiang Bo	Shanghai , People's Republic of China	October 23, 1997
European record	14: 29.32 min	Olga Yegorova	Berlin , Germany	August 31, 2001
EM record	15: 06.50 min	Sonia O'Sullivan	EM Budapest , Hungary	August 23, 1998

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

execution

In the case of a field of 21 runners, a preliminary round was waived, all athletes went to a joint final.

final

European champion Marta Domínguez, 2001 World silver medalist and 1998 European Championship -Third - she repeated her title win in 2006 , later there was for them a doping suspension, results between the 5th August 2009 and January 4, 2013 were revoked

August 10, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Marta Domínguez	Spain	15: 14.76
2	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	15: 14.85
3	Jelena Sadorozhnaya	Russia	15: 15.22
4th	Olga Yegorova	Russia	15: 16.65
5	Joanne Pavey	Great Britain	15: 19.12
6th	Mihaela Botezan	Romania	15: 19.12
7th	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey	15: 24.41
8th	Gunhild Haugen	Norway	15: 30.19
9	Sonja Stolić	Yugoslavia	15: 33.42
10	Melanie Schulz	Germany	15: 46.64
11	Gloria Marconi	Italy	15: 47.63
12	Inês Monteiro	Portugal	15: 55.79
13	Silvia Weissteiner	Italy	15: 58.92
14th	Helena Javornik	Slovenia	16: 06.32
15th	Una English	Ireland	16: 19.36
16	Krisztina Papp	Hungary	16: 20.23
17th	Lilia Volkova	Russia	16: 21.21
18th	Hayley Yelling	Great Britain	16: 26.41
19th	Maria McCambridge	Ireland	17: 00.15
DNF	Marina Bastos	Portugal
	María Protópappa	Greece
DNS	Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia
	Hrisostomía Iakóvou	Greece

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  Vice European Champion Sonia O'Sullivan, in 1998 she was double European champion over 5000 and 10,000 meters , 1995 world champion and 1994 3000 meter European champion

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  Joanne Pavey reached number five

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  Elvan Abeylegesse came in seventh - in 2006 she was third in the European Championship , and her Olympic medals in 2008 were stripped of her for doping fraud

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  Helena Javornik was fourteenth

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  Krisztina Papp - sixteen place

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  Lilija Wolkowa, later Lilija Schobuchowa, took seventeenth place

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  Maria McCambridge finished nineteenth in the race

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 3, 2019
• Women 5000m European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed on November 3, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 3, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 5000m European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 486 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 3, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 5000 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 3, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 3, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records, 5000 m women , on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on November 3, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 5000 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 54 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on November 3, 2019
3. ↑ Marta Dominguez loses her world title , Spiegel Online January 20, 2015, accessed on November 3, 2019
4. ↑ Silke Bernhart, Now it's official: Two Turkish runners lose Olympic silver on Leichtathletik.de March 29, 2017, accessed on November 3, 2019