World Athletics Championships 2015/5000 m men

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	Men's 5000 meter run
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	41 athletes from 26 countries
Competition phase	August 26, 2015 (preliminary round) August 29, 2015 (final)
Medalist
gold	Mo Farah ( GBR )
silver	Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku ( KEN )
bronze	Hagos Gebrhiwet ( ETH )

Olympic champion Mo Farah after his success

The men's 5000-meter run at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place in Beijing , People's Republic of China , on August 26th and 29th, 2015 .
The British Mo Farah won ahead of Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku from Kenya. Third place went to the Ethiopian Hagos Gebrhiwet .

Records

World record	Kenenisa Bekele	12: 37.35 min	Hengelo , Netherlands	May 31, 2004
Championship record	Eliud Kipchoge	12: 52.79 min	World Cup in Paris / Saint-Denis , France	August 31, 2003

doping

Also in this discipline there was a subsequent cancellation of the result of a Moroccan athlete. The IAAF banned Othmane El Goumri, who had previously been eliminated, for two years from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2018 due to irregularities in his biological passport. His results, which have been achieved since August 11, 2013, have been canceled.

Prelims

From the two preliminary heats, the top five of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the five fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals. The much faster race was in the second heat. All five runners who qualified for the final through their time came from this second run.

Run 1

Abrar Oman from Eritrea was eliminated in sixth place in the first heat

The Japanese Suguru Osako did not reach the final with seventh place in his preliminary run

August 26, 2015, 9:35 am (3:35 am CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia	13: 45.00
2	Ben True	United States	13: 45.09
3	Edwin Cheruiyot Soi	Kenya	13: 45.28
4th	Tom Farrell	Great Britain	13: 45.29
5	Imane Merga	Ethiopia	13: 45.41
6th	Abrar Osman	Eritrea	13: 45.55
7th	Suguru Osako	Japan	13: 45.82
8th	Emmanuel Kipsang	Kenya	13: 46.43
9	Cameron Levins	Canada	13: 48.72
10	Brett Robinson	Australia	13: 49.63
11	Alemayehu Bezabeh	Spain	13: 54.13
12	Dennis light	Netherlands	13: 57.61
13	Sindre Buraas	Norway	13: 59.07
14th	Kemoy Campbell	Jamaica	14: 00.55
15th	Aweke Ayalew	Bahrain	14: 07.18
16	Félicien Muhitira	Rwanda	14: 11.12 PB
17th	Víctor Aravena	Chile	14: 29.34
18th	Stuart Banda	Malawi	14: 49.31 PB
DOP	Othmane el-Goumri	Morocco
DNS	Bashir Abdi	Belgium

Run 2

Philip Kipyego from Uganda finished twelfth in the second semifinal run and was eliminated

August 26, 2015, 9:56 a.m. (3:56 a.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Yomif Kejelcha	Ethiopia	13: 19.38
2	Mo Farah	Great Britain	13: 19.44
3	Mohammed Ahmed	Canada	13: 19.58
4th	Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku	Kenya	13; 19.58
5	Albert Kibichii Rop	Bahrain	13: 19.61
6th	Ryan Hill	United States	13: 19.67
7th	Richard Ringer	Germany	13: 19.84
8th	Galen Rupp	United States	13: 20.78
9	Ali Kaya	Turkey	13: 21.46
10	Isiah Kiplangat Koech	Kenya	13: 23.51
11	Aron Kifle	Eritrea	13: 25.85
12	Phillip Kipyeko	Uganda	13: 26.20
13	Illias Fifa	Spain	13: 28.77
14th	Hayle Ibrahimov	Azerbaijan	13: 28.77
15th	Collis Birmingham	Australia	13: 34.58
16	Jesús España	Spain	13: 51.47
17th	Kota Murayama	Japan	14: 07.11
18th	Duo Bujie	People's Republic of China	14: 07.35
19th	Suleiman Abdille Borai	Somalia	15: 26.65 PB
20th	Abdullah al-Qwabani	Yemen	16: 02.55 PB
DNF	Younès Essalhi	Morocco

final

August 29, 2015, 7:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. CEST )

The two-time world champion Mo Farah from Great Britain started the race as the favorite. His fiercest competitors were the runner-up world champion from 2013 Hagos Gebrhiwet from Ethiopia, the Kenyan World Cup third from 2013 Isiah Koech and his American training colleague Galen Rupp. The other Ethiopians and Kenyans represented in this final were also to be expected.

The race boiled down to a finale with a drawn out finish. The first kilometers were literally wasted away with Tom Farrell from Great Britain at the top - first km: 3: 02.04 min / second km: 2: 56.65 min. Then the Ethiopian Imane Merga took the lead, but the third thousand meters were not particularly fast with 2: 48.59 minutes. After 3200 meters, Farah took the lead surprisingly early. But he wasn't pushing the pace into really fast areas either. The fourth kilometer was completed in 2: 43.90 minutes. So the field stayed completely close together.

With two laps to go, Kenyan Caleb Ndiku took the initiative. Now began a long, fast-paced finish. The order was Ndiku before Farah, the Ethiopians Yomif Kejelcha and Gebrhiwet, Rupp, his compatriot Ben True and Merga. The field was now wide apart. In the final lap of the final lap, Ndiku and Farah separated more and more from their pursuers. Kejelcha, who was now passing Gebrhiwet, and his compatriot formed a second group. Rupp followed and after another gap, True. On the home straight, Mo Farah accelerated again and ran irresistibly to his renewed world title. The time for the last kilometer was 2: 19.20 minutes. Caleb Ndiku confidently defended his second place. Third was Hagos Gebrhiwet, who was able to prevail against Yomif Kejelcha in the battle for bronze. Behind them, the three Americans Galen Rupp, Ben True and Ryan Hill finished five to seven.

For Mo Farah it was his third world championship title over 5000 meters after 2009 , 2011 and 2013 and his second double victory over 5000 and 10,000 meters after 2011 and 2013. In 2009 he was also vice world champion over 10,000 meters.

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	3: 02.04 min	Tom Farrell in front of the closed field	3: 02.04 min
2000 m	5: 58.69 min	Tom Farrell in front of the closed field	2: 56.65 min
3000 m	8: 47.28 min	Imane Merga in front of the closed field	2: 48.59 min
4000 m	11: 31.18 min	Mo Farah in front of the closed field	2: 43.90 min
5000 m	13: 50.38 min	Mo Farah	2: 19.20 min

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
	Mo Farah	Great Britain	13: 50.38
	Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku	Kenya	13: 51.75
	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia	13: 51.86
04th	Yomif Kejelcha	Ethiopia	13: 52.43
05	Galen Rupp	United States	13: 53.90
06th	Ben True	United States	13: 54.07
07th	Ryan Hill	United States	13: 55.10
08th	Isiah Kiplangat Koech	Kenya	13: 55.98
09	Ali Kaya	Turkey	13: 56.51
10	Edwin Cheruiyot Soi	Kenya	13: 59.02
11	Albert Kibichii Rop	Bahrain	14: 00.12
12	Mohammed Ahmed	Canada	14: 00.38
13	Imane Merga	Ethiopia	14: 01.60
14th	Richard Ringer	Germany	14: 03.72
15th	Tom Farrell	Great Britain	14: 08.87

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  World Champion Mo Farah, Great Britain

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  Vice world champion Caleb Ndiku from Kenya

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  Bronze medalist Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopia

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  The Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha finished fourth

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  The American Galen Rupp came in fifth

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  Ben True of the United States finished sixth

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  The American Ryan Hill came in seventh

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  The Kenyan Isiah Koech came in eighth

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  Ali Kaya, who started for Turkey, reached tenth place

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  Tenth place for the Kenyan Edwin Soi

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  Albert Rop from Bahrain took eleventh place

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  Mohammed Ahmed, who started for Canada, reached twelfth place

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  The Ethiopian Imane Merga finished thirteenth

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  Fourteenth place for Richard Ringer from Germany

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  The British Tom Farrell - running here in the middle - came in fifteenth

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, 5000 m men on the IAAF website (English), accessed on October 25, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 25, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 25, 2018

Video

• 5000m FINAL Full Race World Championships Beijing 2015 YouTube on youtube.com, published September 13, 2015, accessed October 25, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Othmane El Goumri, passeport biologique irrégulier depuis 2016 on SPE15, Track Origin, December 15, 2016 (French), accessed on July 22, 2017