Athletics World Championships 1999 / 10,000 m women
7th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 30 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
venue | Seville | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | 26th of August | ||||||||
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The women's 10,000-meter run at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 26, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city of Seville .
The Ethiopian Gete Wami , who won bronze at the 1993 African Championships, became world champion. Silver went to the Briton Paula Radcliffe , who despite her weak sprints was able to win her first medal at the World Athletics Championships in this fast race due to the hardness of her speed . Third place went to Kenyan Tegla Loroupe .
Records
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 |
Record improvement
The Ethiopian world champion Gete Wami improved the existing world championship record in the race on August 26th by 24.74 seconds to 30: 24.56 minutes.
In addition, two new national records were set:
- 30: 27.13 min - Paula Radcliffe Great Britain
- 30: 32.03 min - Tegla Loroupe Kenya
execution
Apart from the 1987 World Championships , as this competition for the first time on the World Cup had been -Frauenprogramm were always scheduled heats in this discipline due to the high numbers of participants. This time the organizers decided, in view of the thirty starters, for the first time since 1987 to forego a preliminary round, all runners entered the final race together.
Result
August 26, 1999, 9:00 p.m.
Bronze medalist Tegla Loroupe, later very successful as a marathon runner
Harumi Hiroyama (at the World Championship marathon 2005 ) came fourth
Deena Kastor (photo: a marathon run in 2012) came in eleventh place
Fernanda Ribeiro, 1995 world champion, 1997 World silver medalist and 1994 European champion, gave up the race early on - over 5000 meters it was also 1995 World silver medalist and 1997 World Championship -Third
Video
- Women 10000m FINAL 1999 IAAF World Athletics Championships Seville on youtube.com, accessed July 24, 2020
Web links
- 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 24, 2020
- Women 10000m Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) at todor66.com, accessed July 24, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 10000 m, Seville 1999, p. 287 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 24, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 24, 2020