World Athletics Championships 1995/5000 m for women

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	47 athletes from 28 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary) August 12th (final)
Medalists Sonia O'Sullivan ( IRL )   Fernanda Ribeiro ( POR )   Zahra Ouaziz ( MAR )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The 5000-meter run for women at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 10 and 12, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

It was won by the Irish vice world champion from 1993 and reigning European champion - each over the previously usual distance of 3000 meters - Sonia O'Sullivan . Second place went to the Portuguese European champion from 1994 over 10,000 meters Fernanda Ribeiro , who had become world champion over 10,000 meters three days earlier. Bronze went to the Moroccan Zahra Ouaziz .

Records

Existing records

World record	14: 36.45 min	Fernanda Ribeiro	Hechtel , Belgium	July 22, 1995
World championship record	No World Cup records yet, competition is new to the program.

Record improvement

The world championship record was gradually increased to 14: 46.47 min ( Sonia O'Sullivan , Ireland , in the final on August 12th).

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the three fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

August 10, 1995, 10:40 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Elena Fidatov	Romania	15: 36.39 CR
2	Olga Churbanova	Russia	15: 37.23
3	Gina Procaccio	United States	15: 37.66
4th	Florence Barsosio	Kenya	15: 38.22
5	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland	15: 38.25
6th	Atsumi Yashima	Japan	15: 40.02
7th	Rosario Murcia	France	15: 41.73
8th	Nina Christiansen	Denmark	15: 44.77
9	Brynhild Synstnes	Norway	15: 46.17
10	Adriana Fernández	Mexico	15: 46.89
11	Milka Mikhaylova	Bulgaria	15: 49.31
12	Tamara Koba	Ukraine	15: 53.67
13	Martha Ernstsdóttir	Iceland	16: 05.33
14th	Marina Bastos	Portugal	16: 16.78
DNF	Alison Wyeth	Great Britain
DNS	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia
	Elana Meyer	South Africa

Forward 2

August 10, 1995, 11:02 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	15: 13.88 CR
2	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	15: 14.65
3	Maria Panyukhova	Russia	15: 14.70
4th	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	15: 14.77
5	Sara Wedlund	Sweden	15: 15.67
6th	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	15: 18.41
7th	Michiko Shimizu	Japan	15: 18.97
8th	Silvia Sommaggio	Italy	15: 20.89
9	Ana Dias	Portugal	15: 29.32
10	Serap Aktas	Turkey	15: 53.76
11	Libbie Johnson	United States	15: 54.97
12	Anne Cross	Australia	16: 09.32
DNF	Monika Schäfer	Germany
	Dong Zhaoxia	People's Republic of China
	Hilde Stavik	Norway
DNS	Marleen Renders	Belgium
	Gete Wami	Ethiopia

Forward 3

August 10, 1995, 11:24 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Rose Cheruiyot	Kenya	15: 21.36
2	Zahra Ouaziz	Morocco	15: 22.02
3	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	15: 22.04
4th	Gwen Griffiths	South Africa	15: 32.22
5	Anne-Marie Danneels	Belgium	15: 33.70
6th	Chiemi Takahashi	Japan	15: 35.13
7th	Carolyn Shuvalov	Australia	15: 37.62
8th	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	15: 39.12
9	Luchia Yishak	Ethiopia	15: 42.37
10	Laura Mykytok	United States	15: 48.95
11	Andrea Karhoff	Germany	16: 02.26
12	Ursula Spielmann	Switzerland	16: 12.57
13	Sinead Evans	Ireland	16: 18.61
14th	Marie-Pierre Duros	France	16: 48.66
15th	Mirsada Buric-Adam	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17: 07.44
DNF	Viktorija Nenasheva	Russia
	Gunhild Hall	Norway

final

World champion was Sonia O'Sullivan, who was vice world champion in 1993 and European champion in 1994 over the previously usual distance of 3000 meters

August 12, 1995, 6:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	14: 46.47 CR
2	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	14: 48.54
3	Zahra Ouaziz	Morocco	14: 53.77
4th	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	14: 56.57
5	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	14: 57.02
6th	Maria Panyukhova	Russia	15: 01.23
7th	Rose Cheruiyot	Kenya	15: 02.45
8th	Gwen Griffiths	South Africa	15:08.05
9	Sara Wedlund	Sweden	15: 08.36
10	Elena Fidatov	Romania	15: 12.58
11	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	15: 39.57
12	Michiko Shimizu	Japan	15: 45.30
13	Florence Barsosio	Kenya	15: 56.96
DNF	Gina Procaccio	United States
	Olga Churbanova	Russia

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  Vice world champion Fernanda Ribeiro - 1994 European champion over 10,000 meters and three days earlier world champion over 10,000 meters

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  Gabriela Szabo (Photo: 2013) , who was third in the European Championship in 1994, finished fourth - her greatest successes were still ahead of her

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  Paula Radcliffe finished fifth - she was able to follow any pace, but in the end she always had problems due to her weak sprints

Video

• Sonia O'Sullivan - World 5000m Champion, Gothenburg 1995 , video published April 11, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed June 7, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed June 7, 2020
• Women 5000m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com, accessed June 7, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 5000 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 281f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 7, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 7, 2020