World Athletics Championships 1999/5000 m for women

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	42 athletes from 28 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary) August 27th (final)
Medalists Gabriela Szabo ( ROM )   Zahra Ouaziz ( MAR )   Ayelech Worku ( ETH )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The 5000-meter run for women at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 24 and 27, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

The Romanian defending champion, Vice European Champion from 1998 , European Championship third over 3000 meters from 1994 and Olympic second over 1500 meters from 1996 Gabriela Szabo became world champion . Second place went to the 1998 African champion Zahra Ouaziz from Morocco over 3000 meters . Bronze went to the Ethiopian Ayelech Worku .

Records

Existing records

World record	14: 28.09 min	Jiang Bo	Shanghai , People's Republic of China	October 23, 1997
World Cup record	14: 46.47 min	Sonia O'Sullivan	World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden	August 12, 1995

Record improvement

The Romanian world champion Gabriela Szabo improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 27th by 4.65 seconds to 14: 41.82 minutes.

Eight national records were set:

• 15: 41.81 - Sunita Rani ( India ), 1st lead on August 24th
• 18:02:28 - Nebiat Habtemariam ( Eritrea ), 1st run on August 24th
• 15: 17.90 - Ebru Kavaklioglu ( Turkey ), 2nd run on August 24th
• 14: 51.69 - Ebru Kavaklioglu (Turkey), final on August 27th
• 15: 25.48 - Susanne Pumper ( Austria ), 2nd preliminary on August 24th
• 15: 24.38 - Susanne Pumper (Austria), final on August 27th
• 14: 50.17 - Irina Mikitenko ( Germany ), final on August 27th
• 15: 03.47 - Yamna Belkacem ( France ), final on August 27th

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the five fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. All participants who qualified over their time were recruited from the significantly faster second race.

Forward 1

Werknesh Kidane missed the final as seventh in their preliminary run by two places

August 24, 1999, 10:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	15: 32.50
2	Irina Mikitenko	Germany	15: 32.55
3	Maria Panyukhova	Russia	15: 33.98
4th	Marta Domínguez	Spain	15: 34.24
5	Megumi Oshima	Japan	15: 34.51
6th	Adriana Fernández	Mexico	15: 37.79
7th	Werknesh Kidane	Ethiopia	15: 38.12
8th	Annemari Sandell	Finland	15: 41.23
9	Natalie Harvey	Australia	15: 41.55
10	Sunita Rani	India	15: 41.81 NO
11	Marina Bastos	Portugal	15: 48.51
12	Amaia Piedra	Spain	15: 50.93
13	Samukeliso Moyo	Zimbabwe	15: 50.97
14th	Klara Kaschapowa	Russia	15: 52.06
15th	Hrisostomía Iakóvou	Greece	15: 59.76
16	Zhor El Kamch	Morocco	16: 06.20
17th	Fatima Yvelain	France	16: 09.85
18th	Amy Rudolph	United States	16: 24.31
19th	Nebiat Habtemariam	Eritrea	18: 02.28 NO
DNF	Jolanta Alendi	Palestine
	Kathy Butler	Canada
DNS	Asmae Leghzaoui	Morocco

Forward 2

Helena Javornik (here at the Zagreb Marathon in 2009) missed eight tenths of a second with her 15: 28.41 min

August 24, 1999, 11:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ebru Kavaklioglu	Turkey	15: 17.90 NO
2	Zahra Ouaziz	Morocco	15: 20.04
3	Ayelech Worku	Ethiopia	15: 20.17
4th	Michiko Shimizu	Japan	15: 24.85
5	Julia Vaquero	Spain	15: 25.48
6th	Susanne Pumper	Austria	15: 25.48 NO
7th	Cheri Kenah	United States	15: 25.54
8th	Yamna Belkacem	France	15: 25.85
9	Getenesh Urge	Ethiopia	15: 27.59
10	Katalin Szentgyörgyi	Hungary	15: 27.61
11	Helena Javornik	Slovenia	15: 28.41
12	Ann Wamuchi	Kenya	15: 29.01
13	Wang Chunmei	People's Republic of China	15: 45.80
14th	Yoshiko Fujinaga	Japan	15: 51.52
15th	Olga Yegorova	Russia	15: 53.63
16	Nora Leticia Rocha	Mexico	16: 10.48
17th	Elva Dryer	United States	16: 15.70
18th	Kate Anderson	Australia	16: 34.68
19th	Giselle Camilleri	Malta	17: 18.31
20th	Sukhbaatar Erdenetuya	Mongolia	18: 47.34
21st	Esperanza Obono Ela	Equatorial Guinea	19: 20.44
DNS	Agnes Chikwakwa	Malawi

final

Gabriela Szabo won her second World Championship title in a row, 1998 Vice European Champion, 1994 European Championship third over 3000 meters and 1996 Olympic second over 1500 meters

August 27, 1999, 9:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	14: 41.82 CR
2	Zahra Ouaziz	Morocco	14: 43.15
3	Ayelech Worku	Ethiopia	14: 44.22
4th	Irina Mikitenko	Germany	14: 50.17 DR
5	Ebru Kavaklioglu	Turkey	14: 51.69 NO
6th	Julia Vaquero	Spain	14: 56.00
7th	Maria Panyukhova	Russia	14: 58.60
8th	Yamna Belkacem	France	15: 03.47 NO
9	Marta Domínguez	Spain	15: 16.93
10	Megumi Oshima	Japan	15: 17.92
11	Cheri Kenah	United States	15: 20.12
12	Susanne Pumper	Austria	15: 24.38 NO
13	Getenesh Urge	Ethiopia	15: 29.60
14th	Katalin Szentgyörgyi	Hungary	15: 37.00
15th	Michiko Shimizu	Japan	15: 46.28

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  Irina Mikitenko - fourth place in the German record time of 14: 50.17 min

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  Yamna Belkacem was eighth in the new French record time of 15: 03.47 min

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  Marta Domínguez reached ninth place

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  Megumi Oshima came in tenth place

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  Susanne Pumper ran a new Austrian record in the pre-run and then also in the final (most recently: 15: 24.38 min) and finished twelfth

Video

• Women's 5000m World Athletics Champs Seville 1999 on youtube.com, accessed July 24, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 24, 2020
• Women 5000m Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 24, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 5000 m, Seville 1999, p. 282 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 24, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 23, 2020