World Athletics Championships 2001 / 10,000 m women

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th
Medalists Derartu Tulu ( ETH )   Berhane Adere ( ETH )   Inge Exner ( ETH )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The 10,000 Meters of women at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was on August 7, 2001 at Commonwealth Stadium, the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

In this competition, the Ethiopian long-distance runners achieved a triple success . It won twice Olympic champion ( 1992 / 2000 ) and Vice World Champion 1999 Derartu Tulu . Second place went to the two-time African champion ( 1993 : 10,000 meters / 1998 : 5000 meters ) Berhane Adere . Bronze went to the defending champion, Olympic runner-up in 2000 and third at the African Championships in 1993, Gete Wami , who was also third in the Olympic Games over 5000 meters last year.

Existing records

World record	29: 31.78 min	Wang Junxia	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 8, 1993
World Cup record	30: 24.56 min	Gete Wami	1999 World Cup in Seville , Spain	August 26, 1999

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

There was a new national record:

• 32: 31.46 min - Hrisostomía Iakóvou Greece

execution

As in the 1999 World Championships , the organizers decided to forego the preliminaries this year, as all runners competed in the final together.

Result

Vice World Champion Berhane Adere - she was two-time African champion ( 1993 : 10,000 meters / 1998 : 5000 meters )

August 7, 2001, 9:05 pm

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	31: 48.81
	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia	31: 48.85
	Gete Wami	Ethiopia	31: 49.98
04th	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	31: 50.06
05	Mihaela Botezan	Romania	32: 03.46
06th	Lyudmila Petrova	Russia	32: 04.94
07th	Asmae Leghzaoui	Morocco	32: 06.35
08th	Yamna Belkacem	France	32: 09.21
09	Haruko Okamoto	Japan	32: 14.56
10	Lyudmila Biktasheva	Russia	32: 18.64
11	Deena Kastor	United States	32: 18.65
12	Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia	32: 19.44
13	Mizuki Noguchi	Japan	32: 19.94
14th	Aster Demissie	Ethiopia	32: 25.81
15th	Teresa Recio	Spain	32: 30.56
16	Hrisostomía Iakóvou	Greece	32: 31.46 NO
17th	Natalija Berkut	Ukraine	32: 32.68
18th	Gunhild Haugen	Norway	32: 33.72
19th	Mari Ozaki	Japan	32: 39.17
20th	Tina Connelly	Canada	33: 00.37
21st	Ana Dias	Portugal	33: 03.78
22nd	Jennifer Rhines	United States	33: 11.22
23	Inga Juodeškiené	Lithuania	33: 11.60
24	Maria Paredes	Ecuador	35: 44.52

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  The defending champion, Olympic runner-up in 2000 , third at the African Championships in 1993 and Olympic third in 2000 over 5000 meters, Gete Wami (far right) won bronze

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  Paula Radcliffe - she missed a medal here again due to her weak sprint and came fourth

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  Yamna Belkacem, later Yamna Oubouhou, finished eighth

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  Deena Kastor reached eleventh place

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  Olivera Jevtić came in twelfth place

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  Mari Ozaki (in the photo in the leading position) finished nineteenth

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  Rank 22 for Jennifer Rhines

Video

• 2001 World Championships- Women's 10,000m on youtube.com, accessed August 19, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed August 19, 2020
• Women 10000m 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 10000 m, Edmonton 2001, p. 287f (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 19, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 19, 2020