World Athletics Championships 1995 / 10,000 m women

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (preliminary) August 9th (final)
Medalists Fernanda Ribeiro ( POR )   Derartu Tulu ( ETH )   Tegla Loroupe ( KEN )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The women's 10,000 meter run at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 6th and 9th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

The world champion was the Portuguese European champion from 1994 Fernanda Ribeiro , who won another medal three days later in the race over 5000 meters with silver. Second place went to 1992 Olympic champion Derartu Tulu from Ethiopia . Bronze went to the Kenyan Tegla Loroupe .

Existing records

World record	29: 31.78 min	Wang Junxia	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 8, 1993
World Cup record	30: 49.30 min		World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany	August 21, 1993

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Preliminary round

Also this year the number of 33 athletes was so high that it became necessary to carry out preliminary runs. There were two runs in which the first eight athletes per race - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

August 6, 1995, 10:55 a.m. ( local time )

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	32: 16.71
2	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	32: 16.76
3	Gete Wami	Ethiopia	32: 17.41
4th	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	32: 17.92
5	Elana Meyer	South Africa	32: 17.97
6th	Junko Kataoka	Japan	32: 18.62
7th	Anne Marie Lauck	United States	32: 19.57
8th	Lieve Slegers	Belgium	32: 21.29
9	Jill Hunter	Great Britain	32: 22.93
10	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	32: 34.62
11	Kathrin Weßel	Germany	32: 46.51
12	Dong Zhaoxia	People's Republic of China	33: 18.58
13	Laurie Henes	United States	33: 22.92
14th	Martha Tenorio	Ecuador	34: 23.76
15th	Nora Leticia Rocha	Mexico	34: 23.78
16	Carol Galea	Malta	35: 30.84
DNF	Klara Kaschapowa	Russia

Forward 2

The African champion from 1993 Berhane Adere was eliminated as eleventh of her preliminary run

August 6, 1995, 11:40 a.m. ( local time )

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	32: 33.87
2	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	32: 33.89
3	Lynn Jennings	United States	32: 33.89
4th	Maria Guida	Italy	32: 34.28
5	Albertina slides	Portugal	32: 34.44
6th	Annemari Sandell	Finland	32: 35.05
7th	Hiromi Suzuki	Japan	32: 39.92
8th	Marleen Renders	Belgium	32: 45.50
9	Alla Shilyayeva	Russia	32: 51.55
10	Yasuko Kimura	Japan	32: 54.82
11	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia	33: 14.76
12	Carmen Fuentes	Spain	33: 16.86
13	Serap Aktas	Turkey	33: 19.25
14th	Carol Montgomery	Canada	34: 22.16
15th	Martha Ernstsdóttir	Iceland	34: 29.55
16	Virginie Gloum	Central African Republic	40: 07.49
DNS	Catherina McKiernan	Ireland

final

The European champion from 1994 Fernanda Ribeiro became world champion - three days later also silver medalist over 5000 meters

August 9, 1995, 7:10 p.m. ( local time )

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	31: 04.99
	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	31: 08.10
	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	31: 17.66
04th	Maria Guida	Italy	31: 27.82
05	Elana Meyer	South Africa	31: 31.96
06th	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	31: 40.14
07th	Alla Shilyayeva	Russia	31: 52.15
08th	Hiromi Suzuki	Japan	31: 54.01
09	Annemari Sandell	Finland	31: 54.29
10	Kathrin Weßel	Germany	31: 55.04
11	Lieve Slegers	Belgium	32: 10.59
12	Lynn Jennings	United States	32: 12.82
13	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	32: 14.69
14th	Anne Marie Lauck	United States	32: 22.54
15th	Jill Hunter	Great Britain	32: 24.93
16	Junko Kataoka	Japan	32: 45.43
17th	Marleen Renders	Belgium	32: 47.46
18th	Gete Wami	Ethiopia	32: 56.94
DNF	Albertina slides	Portugal
	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain

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  The bronze medal winner Tegla Loroupe was in the coming years, especially as a marathon runner with great success

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  Kathrin Weßel, Vice European Champion under her previous name Kathrin Ullrich in 1994 , took tenth place

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  Gete Wami (red jersey) , later world champion, was eighteenth

Video

• Women's 10,000m Final - 1995 IAAF World Athletics Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 8, 2020

Web links

• Homepage for the 1995 World Cup on the IAAF website , accessed on June 8, 2020
• Women 10000m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) at todor66.com (English), accessed June 8, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 10000 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 287 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 8, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 8, 2020