World Athletics Championships 2001/5000 m for women

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	42 athletes from 29 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (preliminary) August 11th (final)
Medalists Olga Jegorowa ( RUS )   Marta Domínguez ( ESP )   Ayelech Worku ( ETH )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The 5000 Meters of women in the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was on 9 and 11 August 2001 at Commonwealth Stadium, the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

The Russian Olga Jegorowa became world champion . Just about a month before these world championships, Egorova had tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO). She was banned for two years, but was allowed to continue to participate in competitions because the test could not be legally evaluated for formal reasons. In 2008, Yegorova went to the doping investigators together with six other Russian athletes again and received a two-year ban that has now actually been implemented.
The Spaniard Marta Domínguez won the silver medal. She, too, was involved in a doping affair eight years later, although her result here in Edmonton was not affected. It was about their results achieved between August 5th, 2009 and January 4th, 2013, all of which were canceled.
As at the World Championships two years ago in Seville , Ethiopian Ayelech Worku came third.

Existing records

World record	14: 28.09 min	Jiang Bo	Shanghai , People's Republic of China	October 23, 1997
World Cup record	14: 41.82 min	Gabriela Szabo	1999 World Cup in Seville , Spain	August 27, 1999

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

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.

Forward 1

Elvan Abeylegesse - eighth in the first heat and therefore not in the final

Werknesh Kidane - Eliminated as eleventh of their preliminary run

August 9, 2001, 9:55 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Marta Domínguez	Spain	15: 15.81
2	Olga Yegorova	Russia	15: 15.85
3	Tatiana Tomaschowa	Russia	15: 15.95
4th	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	15: 16.02
5	Edith Masai	Kenya	15: 16.13
6th	Ayelech Worku	Ethiopia	15: 16.18
7th	Kathy Butler	Great Britain	15: 20.78
8th	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey	15: 22.89
9	Marla Runyan	United States	15: 24.30
10	Breda Dennehy	Ireland	15: 26.97
11	Werknesh Kidane	Ethiopia	15: 29.96
12	Restituta Joseph	Tanzania	15: 33.93
13	Susanne Pumper	Austria	15: 41.25
14th	Courtney Babcock	Canada	15: 46.72
15th	Amy Rudolph	United States	15: 46.77
16	Hayley Yelling	Great Britain	15: 59.39
17th	Mónica Rosa	Portugal	16: 04.62
18th	Una English	Ireland	16: 26.15
19th	Nebiat Habtemariam	Eritrea	16: 37.57
DNF	Zhor El Kamch	Morocco
	Daniela Jordanova	Bulgaria
DSQ	Nasria Azaïdj	Algeria	IAAF Rule 163.2 - Disability

In the runners eliminated in the first round:

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  Susanne Pumper
  ranked thirteenth in 15: 41.25 min

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  Hayley Yelling
  ranked sixteen in 15: 59.39 min

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  Nebiat Habtemariam
  ranked nineteen in 16: 37.57 min

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  Daniela Jordanowa (white jersey)
  did not finish the race

Forward 2

Olivera Jevtić was eliminated in fourteenth of her preliminary run

Maria McCambridge (here at the 2015 Berlin Marathon ) did not reach the final as seventeenth of her preliminary run

August 9, 2001, 10:22 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Dong Yanmei	People's Republic of China	15: 09.44
2	Joanne Pavey	Great Britain	15: 10.62
3	Jelena Sadorozhnaya	Russia	15: 10.63
4th	Rose Cheruiyot	Kenya	15: 12.04
5	Irina Mikitenko	Germany	15: 12.63
6th	Merima Denboba	Ethiopia	15: 14.76
7th	Benita Willis	Australia	15: 17.93
8th	Teresa Recio	Spain	15: 19.81
9	Fatima Yvelain	France	15: 20.16
10	Haruko Okamoto	Japan	15: 23.93
11	Elva Dryer	United States	15: 26.04
12	Beatrice Santiago	Spain	15: 26.55
13	Dulce María Rodríguez	Mexico	15: 27.34
14th	Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia	15: 29.61
15th	Inga Juodeškiené	Lithuania	15: 48.13
16	Gunhild Haugen	Norway	15: 54.56
17th	Maria McCambridge	Ireland	16: 04.49
18th	Chan Man-Yee	Hong Kong	16: 16.06
19th	Catherine Chikwakwa	Malawi	16: 36.85
DNF	Wesam Abubkheet	Palestine
DNS	Hrisostomía Iakóvou	Greece

final

Vice world champion Marta Domínguez

August 11, 2001, 5:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Olga Yegorova	Russia	15: 03.39
2	Marta Domínguez	Spain	15: 06.59
3	Ayelech Worku	Ethiopia	15: 10.17
4th	Dong Yanmei	People's Republic of China	15: 10.73
5	Irina Mikitenko	Germany	15: 13.93
6th	Jelena Sadorozhnaya	Russia	15: 16.15
7th	Edith Masai	Kenya	15: 17.67
8th	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	15: 19.55
9	Rose Cheruiyot	Kenya	15: 23.18
10	Tatiana Tomaschowa	Russia	15: 23.83
11	Joanne Pavey	Great Britain	15: 28.41
12	Benita Willis	Australia	15: 36.75
13	Merima Denboba	Ethiopia	15: 41.09
14th	Fatima Yvelain	France	15: 53.52
15th	Teresa Recio	Spain	15: 57.32

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  Irina Mikitenko (here at the 2012 Olympic marathon ) took fifth place

• 

  Defending champion Gabriela Szabo (photo; 2012) was only eighth after her victory over 1500 meters four days earlier

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  The tenth placed Tatiana Tomaschowa (here in the 1500 meter run of the Olympic Games 2012 )

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  Joanne Pavey Tomaschowa (here at the start of the 5000 meter final of the 2012 Olympic Games ) finished eleventh

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  Benita Willis (here at the London Marathon 2012 ) came in twelfth place

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed August 19, 2020
• Women 5000m Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 19, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 5000 m, Edmonton 2001, p. 282f (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 19, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Russian athletes banned for two years , October 20, 2008 at tagesspiegel.de/sport, accessed on August 19, 2020
2. ↑ Runner Dominguez loses her world title , Spiegel Sport November 20, 2015, accessed on August 19, 2020
3. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 19, 2020
4. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 88 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on August 19, 2020