European Athletics Championships 2016/5000 m women
| 23rd European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 5000 meter run | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 12 athletes from 9 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Amsterdam
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| Competition location | Olympic Stadium Amsterdam | ||||||||
| Competition phase | July 9 | ||||||||
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The women's 5000-meter run at the 2016 European Athletics Championships was held on July 9, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam .
European champion was the Turkish woman Yasemin Can that after their victory over 10,000 meters was now double European champion. She won ahead of the Swedish defending champion Meraf Bahta . Bronze went to the Briton Stephanie Twell .
Existing records
| World record | 14: 11.15 min |
 Tirunesh Dibaba
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Oslo , Norway | June 6, 2008 |
| European record | 14: 23.75 min |
 Lilia Shobuchova
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Kazan , Russia | July 19, 2008 |
| EM record | 14: 54.44 min |
 Elvan Abeylegesse
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EM Barcelona , Spain | August 1, 2010 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
execution
With only twelve participants there were no preliminary runs, all runners contested the final together.
final
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July 9, 2016, 9:05 pm
| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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| 1 | Yasemin Can |
Turkey
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15: 18.15 |
| 2 | Meraf Bahta |
 Sweden
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15: 20.54 |
| 3 | Stephanie Twell |
 Great Britain
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15: 20.70 |
| 4th | Susan Kuijken |
Netherlands
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15: 23.87 |
| 5 | Laura Whittle |
Great Britain
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15: 24.18 |
| 6th | Eilish McColgan |
Great Britain
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15: 28.53 |
| 7th | Louise Carton |
 Belgium
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15: 42.79 |
| 8th | Fate Tola Geleto |
 Germany
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15: 44.30 |
| 9 | Kristiina Mäki |
 Finland
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15: 52.80 |
| 10 | Deirdre Byrne |
 Ireland
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15: 53.67 |
| 11 | Alexi Pappas |
 Greece
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15: 56.75 |
| DNF | Maren Kock |
Germany
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| DNS | Mary Cullen |
Ireland
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| Trihas Gebre |
 Spain
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| Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal |
 Norway
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| Maureen Koster |
Netherlands
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European champion Yasemin Can won her second title three days earlier in the 10,000 meters
Vice European Champion Meraf Bahta - here as leader in the 5000m final in 2014 when she became European Champion
Bronze medalist Stephanie Twell
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Susan Kuijken, later Susan Krumins, took fourth place - two years earlier she had won bronze
Laura Whittle finished fifth
Eilish McColgan reached number six - 2018 EM -Second
Louise Carton (right) came in seventh place
The eighth-placed Fate Tola Geleto
Ninth place for Kristiina Mäki
Maren Kock, later Maren Orth, did not finish - the next day she was sixth over 1500 meters
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Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 26, 2020
- Women 5000m European Championship 2016 Amsterdam on todor66.com, accessed February 26, 2020
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 26, 2020
- 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on February 26, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 400m women , accessed March 5, 2020
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 5000 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 54 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on March 5, 2020