World Athletics Championships 1997 / 10,000 m women

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	32 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 2nd (preliminary) August 5th (final)
Medalists Sally Barsosio ( KEN )   Fernanda Ribeiro ( POR )   Masako Chiba ( JPN )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The 10,000-meter run for women at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 2nd and 5th, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

The Kenyan World Cup third in 1993 was Sally Barsosio . Second place went to the Portuguese defending champion and European champion from 1994 Fernanda Ribeiro , who was also vice world champion and world record holder in 1995 over 5000 meters . Here she was third over 5000 meters four days later. Bronze went to the Japanese Masako Chiba .

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. The 31-minute mark was not undercut.

The Iraqi Maysa Matrood set a new national record in the second run on August 2 with 35: 44.93 minutes.

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

For Olivera Jevtić, tenth place in her preliminary run was not enough for the final

August 2, 1997, 8:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nora Leticia Rocha	Mexico	33: 07.09
2	Annemari Sandell	Finland	33: 07.50
3	Ren Xiujuan	People's Republic of China	33: 08.12 SB
4th	Silvia Sommaggio	Italy	33: 08.19
5	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	33: 08.20
6th	Chiemi Takahashi	Japan	33: 08.26
7th	Zahia Dahmani	France	33: 08.69
8th	Elana Meyer	South Africa	33: 08.70
9	Hrisostomía Iakóvou	Greece	33: 14.86
10	Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia	33: 18.42
11	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	33: 25.99
12	Gwyn Coogan	United States	34: 06.34
13	Yvonne Danson	Singapore	37: 19.51
14th	Esperanza Obono Ela	Equatorial Guinea	45: 13.69
DNF	Marina Bastos	Portugal
	Nyla Carroll	New Zealand

Forward 2

August 2, 1997, 9:35 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia	32: 05.29 SB
2	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	32: 05.65
3	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	32: 05.68 SB
4th	Gete Wami	Ethiopia	32: 05.73
5	Masako Chiba	Japan	32: 05.76
6th	Yang Siju	People's Republic of China	32: 06.12 SB
7th	Hiromi Masuda	Japan	32: 09.63
8th	Colleen De Reuck	South Africa	32: 11.56
9	Julia Vaquero	Spain	32: 12.25
10	Annette Peters	United States	32: 14.08
11	Chantal Dällenbach	France	33: 39.40
12	Marleen Renders	Belgium	33: 02.37
13	Helena Sampaio	Portugal	33: 14.85
14th	Adriana Fernández	Mexico	33: 40.09
15th	Kylie Risk	Australia	33: 56.48 SB
16	Maysa Matrood	Iraq	35: 44.93 NO

final

The defending champion and European champion of 1994 Fernanda Ribeiro became vice world champion over 5,000 meters it was also in 1995 vice world champion and world record holder of - here it was over 5000 meters four days later Third

August 5, 1997, 7:55 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	31: 32.92 WJR
	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	31: 39.15 SB
	Masako Chiba	Japan	31: 41.93
04th	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia	31: 48.95 SB
05	Ren Xiujuan	People's Republic of China	31: 50.63 SB
06th	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	32: 00.93
07th	Yang Siju	People's Republic of China	32: 01.61 SB
08th	Colleen De Reuck	South Africa	32: 03.81 SB
09	Silvia Sommaggio	Italy	32: 16.92
10	Chiemi Takahashi	Japan	32: 23.61
11	Nora Leticia Rocha	Mexico	32: 34.58
12	Julia Vaquero	Spain	32: 36.91
13	Annette Peters	United States	32: 43.38
14th	Chantal Dällenbach	France	32: 51.20
15th	Annemari Sandell	Finland	33: 00.11
16	Hiromi Masuda	Japan	33: 03.14
17th	Elana Meyer	South Africa	33: 05.82 SB
DNF	Marleen Renders	Belgium
	Zahia Dahmani	France
	Gete Wami	Ethiopia

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  Berhane Adere was fourth this time without a medal, later she collected precious metals several times

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  The fifth-placed Tegla Loroupe was later particularly successful on the long road distances

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  Gete Wami (here in fourth place in red in a marathon ) gave up the race prematurely, she too was very successful in the years to come

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 30, 2020
• Women 10000m Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 30, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 10000 m, Athens 1997, p. 287 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 30, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 30, 2020