World Athletics Championships 2017/5000 m for women

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	5000-meter run for women
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Participants	34 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 10, 2017 (preliminary) August 13, 2017 (final)
Medalists
gold	Hellen Obiri ( KEN )
silver	Almaz Ayana ( ETH )
bronze	Sifan Hassan ( NED )

Scene from the 5000 meter final

The women's 5,000 meter run at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , United Kingdom on August 10th and 13th, 2017 .

The Kenyan Hellen Obiri won . The Ethiopian Almaz Ayana became vice world champion. Third place went to Sifan Hassan from the Netherlands .

Records

World record	Tirunesh Dibaba	14: 11.15 min	Oslo , Norway	June 6, 2008
Championship record	Almaz Ayana	14: 26.83 min	World Cup in Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 30, 2015

Prelims

The reigning European champion Yasemin Can retired as the eighth of her race in the preliminary stages

The German Alina Reh missed the final after her eighth place in the second run

The Canadian Andrea Seccafien did not qualify for the final as thirteenth of her preliminary run

Despite a personal best, Kalkidan Gezahegne was eliminated from Bahrain as eighth of their prelim

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.

Run 1

August 10, 2017, 6:30 p.m. local time (7:30 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Bright Obiri	Kenya	14: 56.70
2	Almaz Ayana	Ethiopia	14: 57.06 SB
3	Senbere Teferi	Ethiopia	14: 57.23
4th	Susan Krumins	Netherlands	14: 57.33
5	Shannon Rowbury	United States	14: 57.55 SB
6th	Sheila Chepkirui	Kenya	14: 57.58 PB
7th	Laura Muir	Great Britain	14: 59.34
8th	Yasemin Can	Turkey	15:08.20
9	Alina deer	Germany	15: 10.01 PB
10	Ana Lozano	Spain	15: 14.23 PB
11	Bontu Rebitu	Bahrain	15: 16.70 PB
12	Mercyline Chelangat	Uganda	15: 16.75
13	Andrea Seccafien	Canada	15: 19.39
14th	Ayuko Suzuki	Japan	15: 24.86
15th	Eloise Wellings	Australia	15: 25.92
16	Camille Buscomb	New Zealand	15: 40.41
DNS	Sarah Lahti	Sweden

Run 2

August 10, 2017, 6:56 p.m. local time (7:56 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Letesenbet Gidey	Ethiopia	14: 59.34
2	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	14: 59.85
3	Shelby Houlihan	United States	15: 00.37 PB
4th	Eilish McColgan	Great Britain	15: 00.38 PB
5	Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi	Kenya	15: 00.39
6th	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway	15: 00.44 SB
7th	Molly Huddle	United States	15: 03.60
8th	Kalkidan Gezahegne	Bahrain	15: 07.19 PB
9	Rina Nabeshima	Japan	15: 11.83 PB
10	Madeline Hills	Australia	15: 13.77
11	Stella Chesang	Uganda	15: 23.02
12	Jessica O'Connell	Canada	15: 23.16
13	Muriel Coneo	Colombia	15: 26,18 NO
14th	Heidi lake	Australia	15: 38.86
15th	Stephanie Twell	Great Britain	15: 41.29
16	Julia Schmatenko	Ukraine	16: 40.36
DNS	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia

final

August 12, 2017, 7:35 p.m. local time (8:35 p.m. CEST )

The favorites were the Ethiopian world champion from 2015 and Olympic third from 2016 Almaz Ayana as well as the Kenyan Hellen Obiri, who came second in the 2016 Olympic Games . Ayana had already won the 10,000 meter race here in London . The vice world champion from 2015 Senbere Teferi from Ethiopia and the Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan, including third in the 2015 World Cup over 1500 meters, were also rated highly .

Nobody wanted to take the lead in the first lap, the runners formed a field spread out over several lanes, the pace was correspondingly moderate. Shortly before the start of the second round, the two Ethiopians Kalkidan Gezahegne and defending champion Ayana took the lead. They increased the pace more and more. It got really fast on the second kilometer. Ayana and Obiri moved away from the front, behind them a five-man chase group formed with Hassan, the two Ethiopians Teferi and Letesenbet Gidey and the two Kenyans Margaret Kipkemboi and Sheila Chepkirui. The second kilometer was covered in 2: 48.79 minutes - for comparison, kilometer one: 3: 18.62 minutes.

In the further course, the two leaders continued to increase their lead, while the pursuers were put back by the strongest runners in the rest of the field and a group of nine formed. Ayana continued to focus fully on the tempo card, but Obiri could not be shaken off. At the beginning of the last lap, the two were about fifty meters ahead of their pursuers. At the beginning of the back straight, Obiri launched her attack on Ayana and pulled past her. Ayana had nothing more to counter this attack. Hellen Obiri became world champion, Almaz Ayana won after gold over 10,000 meters now silver over half the distance. In the meantime, Sifan Hassan had broken away from the group of pursuers, who had become smaller, and came in third. Senbere Teferi took fourth place ahead of Margaret Kipkemboi. The Briton Laura Muir came in sixth after her fourth place over 1500 meters . Sheila Chepkirui from Kenya was seventh ahead of Susan Krumins from the Netherlands.

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	3: 18.62 min	Kalkidan Zahegne with the closed field	3: 18.62 min
2000 m	6: 07.41 min	Ayana, Obiri - approx. 2.5 s before Gidey, Kipkemboi, Chepkirui, Hassan, Teferi - approx. 7 s before the rest of the field	2: 48.79 min
3000 m	8: 58.04 min	Ayana, Obiri - approx. 9 seconds in front of a group of 12 pursuers	2: 50.63 min
4000 m	11: 49.95 min	Ayana, Obiri - approx. 10 s before Teferi, Kipkemboi, Hassan - approx. 14 s before Chepkirui, Krumins	2: 51.91 min
5000 m	14: 34.86 min	Bright Obiri	2: 44.91 min

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
	Bright Obiri	Kenya	14: 34.86
	Almaz Ayana	Ethiopia	14: 40.35 SB
	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	14: 42.73
4th	Senbere Teferi	Ethiopia	14: 47.45
5	Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi	Kenya	14: 48.74
6th	Laura Muir	Great Britain	14: 52.07 PB
7th	Sheila Chepkirui	Kenya	14: 54.05 PB
8th	Susan Krumins	Netherlands	14: 58.33
9	Shannon Rowbury	United States	14: 59.92
10	Eilish McColgan	Great Britain	15: 00.43
11	Letesenbet Gidey	Ethiopia	15: 04.99
12	Molly Huddle	United States	15: 05.28
13	Shelby Houlihan	United States	15: 06.40
14th	Kalkidan Gezahegne	Bahrain	15: 28.21
DNF	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway

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  World Champion Hellen Obiri, Kenya

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  Vice world champion Almaz Ayana from Ethiopia

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  Bronze medalist Sifan Hassan, Netherlands

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  The Ethiopian Senbere Teferi took fourth place

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  Fifth place for the Kenyan Margaret Kipkemboi

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  The British Laura Muir finished sixth

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  Susan Krumins, the second Dutch woman in this final, came in eighth

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  The American Shannon Rowbury finished ninth

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  Eilish McColgan from Great Britain took tenth place

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  The Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey came in eleventh

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  Shelby Houlihan, another American, came in thirteen

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  Kalkidan Gezahegne from Bahrain came in fourteenth

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  The Norwegian Karoline Grøvdal gave up the race

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, 5000 m women on the IAAF website , accessed on December 10, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 10, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 10, 2018

Video

• 5000m women, World Championships 2017, Full Race on youtube.com, published February 14, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018