2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	41 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 27, 2000 (preliminary round) ; September 30, 2000 (final)
	Medalists
	Derartu Tulu ( ETH )
	Gete Wami ( ETH )
	Fernanda Ribeiro ( POR )

The women's 10,000-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 27 and 30, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 41 athletes took part.

The Ethiopian Derartu Tulu became Olympic champion . She won ahead of her teammate Gete Wami and the Portuguese Fernanda Ribeiro .

The German Petra Wassiluk was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Fernanda Ribeiro ( Portugal ) Portugal	31: 01.63 min	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Gete Wami ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia 1996	30: 24.56 min	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998	Sonia O'Sullivan ( Ireland ) Ireland	31: 29.33 min	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Nora Leticia Rocha ( Mexico ) Mexico	32: 56.51 min	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	10,000 meter run not in the championship program
South America Champion 1999	Stella Castro ( Colombia ) Colombia	34: 30.92 min	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Supriati Sutono ( Indonesia ) Indonesia	33: 47.24 min	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Souad Aït Salem ( Algeria ) Algeria	34: 02.28 min	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	10,000 meter run not in the championship program

Existing records

World record	29: 31.78 min	Wang Junxia ( People's Republic of China ) China People's Republic	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 8, 1993
Olympic record	31: 01.63 min	Fernanda Ribeiro ( Portugal ) Portugal	Atlanta Final , USA	2nd August 1996

Note: All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).

Preliminary round

A total of two preliminary runs were completed. The first eight athletes per run qualified for the final. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

September 27, 2000, 12:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia 1996 Ethiopia	32: 06.19
2	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya Kenya	32: 06.41
3	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal Portugal	32: 06.43
4th	Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992 Yugoslavia	32: 06.54
5	Harumi Hiroyama	Japan Japan	32: 07.68
6th	Li Ji	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	32: 28.96
7th	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland Ireland	32: 29.93
8th	Jeļena Čelnova-Prokopčuka	Latvia Latvia	32: 32.87
9	Lyudmila Biktasheva	Russia Russia	32: 52.00
10	Asmae Leghzaoui	Morocco Morocco	32: 56.63
11	Restituta Joseph	Tanzania Tanzania	33: 12.18
12	Anikó Kálovics	Hungary Hungary	33: 20.40
13	Petra Wassiluk	Germany Germany	33: 23.03
14th	María Terasa Recio	Spain Spain	33: 36.44
15th	Clair Fearnley	Australia Australia	33: 47.23
16	Jennifer Rhines	United States United States	34: 08.28
17th	Natalie Harvey	Australia Australia	34: 12.90
18th	Nora Leticia Rocha	Mexico Mexico	34: 37.84
19th	Tina Connelly	Canada Canada	34: 46.04
20th	Nasria Baghdad	Algeria Algeria	35: 31.53
DNS	Khrysostomia Iakovou	Greece Greece
DNS	Marleen Renders	Belgium Belgium

Forward 2

September 27, 2000, 1:20 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sally Barsosio	Kenya Kenya	32: 34.07
2	Alice Timbilili	Kenya Kenya	32: 34.15
3	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia 1996 Ethiopia	32: 34.62
4th	Gete Wami	Ethiopia 1996 Ethiopia	32: 34.63
5	Chiemi Takahashi	Japan Japan	32: 34.70
6th	Paula Radcliffe	United Kingdom Great Britain	32: 34.73
7th	Elana Meyer	South Africa South Africa	32: 35.32
8th	Yūko Kawakami	Japan Japan	32: 36.60
9	Lidija Grigoryeva	Russia Russia	32: 44.43
10	Elizabeth Hickman	United States United States	32: 59.28
11	Breda Dennehy-Willis	Ireland Ireland	33: 17.45
12	Ana Dias	Portugal Portugal	33: 21.69
13	Silvia Sommaggio	Italy Italy	33: 24.13
14th	Fatima Yvelain	France France	33: 44.48
15th	Maria Abel	Spain Spain	34: 05.44
16	Galina Bogomolova	Russia Russia	34: 06.21
17th	Kylie Risk	Australia Australia	34: 30.91
18th	Deena Drossin	United States United States	34: 40.86
19th	Bouchra Chaâbi	Morocco Morocco	34: 49.35
20th	Man Yee Maggie Chan	Hong Kong Hong Kong	35: 21.20
DNF	Gunhild Haugen	Norway Norway
DNS	Carole Montgomery	Canada Canada

As twelfth of her preliminary, the Hungarian Anikó Kálovics could not reach the final
The American Jennifer Rhines was eliminated in sixteenth of their preliminary run
The Portuguese Ana Dias was twelfth of her lead and was eliminated
Deena Drossin from the USA came in eighteenth in her preliminary run and did not reach the final

final

September 30, 2000, 7:00 p.m.

Three Ethiopians, three Kenyans, Japanese, two Russians and one participant each from China, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Morocco, Portugal, South Africa, the USA and Great Britain qualified for the final.

The favorites were primarily the Ethiopian World Champion Gete Wami, the British Vice World Champion Paula Radcliffe, the Portuguese Olympic Champion of 1996 and Vice European Champion of 1998 Fernanda Ribeiro, the World Cup third Tegla Loroupe from Kenya and the Irish European Champion Sonia O'Sullivan. Wami and O'Sullivan had already successfully ridden over 5000 meters five days earlier . Wami had received bronze and O'Sullivan silver. The Ethiopian Olympic champion from 1992 Derartu Tulu was there again in Sydney and was again one of the medal candidates.

In the final, Radcliffe set the pace for the first 7,000 meters. This stretched the field far apart. Due to the weakness of her sprint, the Brit was forced to run at a high pace in order to leave as many competitors as possible behind or to significantly impair their sprint power. Only five runners in a top group could hope for the medals in the further course. In addition to Radcliffe, Wami and Ribeiro, the Ethiopians Derartu Tulu and Loroupe were also among the front runners. The lead changed over the last five laps, but then Radcliffe took the lead again. The race got faster and faster over the last thousand meters. There were now constant laps and six hundred meters from the finish Loroupe had to tear down. At the beginning of the last round, Tulu took the reins and pushed hard again. Wami followed her heels while Radcliffe and Ribeiro lost touch. So two groups of two were formed. The two Ethiopians Tulu and Wami fought for gold, the two Europeans Ribeiro and Radcliffe for bronze. At the top, Derartu Tulu broke away from her rival on the back straight and finally won the race with a lead of almost five seconds and a new Olympic record . Ribeiro also made everything clear in the bronze fight in the finish curve and then came dangerously close to Wami again. But it stayed that way: silver for Gete Wami and bronze for Fernanda Ribeiro. Four seconds later, Paula Radcliffe followed in fourth place, more than ten seconds behind Loroupe crossed the finish line. Sixth-placed Sonia O'Sullivan also undercut the Olympic record that was valid up to these games.

Derartu Tulu won her second Olympic victory in this discipline after 1992 , making her the most successful athlete in the women's 10,000 meter run .

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	3: 07.50 min	Paula Radcliffe	3: 07.50 min
2000 m	6:02.01 min	Paula Radcliffe	2: 54.51 min
3000 m	9:01.99 min	Paula Radcliffe	2: 59.98 min
4000 m	12:03:01 min	Paula Radcliffe	3: 01.02 min
5000 m	15: 05.70 min	Paula Radcliffe	3: 04.68 min
6000 m	18: 11.39 min	Paula Radcliffe	3: 05.69 min
7000 m	21: 17.05 min	Paula Radcliffe	3: 05.66 min
8000 m	24: 21.27 min	Gete Wami	3: 04.22 min
9000 m	27: 29.34 min	Paula Radcliffe	3: 08.07 min
10,000 m	30: 17.49 min	Derartu Tulu	2: 48.15 min

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia 1996 Ethiopia	30: 17.49	OR
2	Gete Wami	Ethiopia 1996 Ethiopia	30: 22.48
3	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal Portugal	30: 22.88	NO
4th	Paula Radcliffe	United Kingdom Great Britain	30: 26.97	NO
5	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya Kenya	30: 37.26
6th	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland Ireland	30: 53.37	NO
7th	Li Ji	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	31: 06.94
8th	Elana Meyer	South Africa South Africa	31: 14.70
9	Lidija Grigoryeva	Russia Russia	31: 21.27
10	Yūko Kawakami	Japan Japan	31: 27.44
11	Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992 Yugoslavia	31: 29.65	NO
12	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia 1996 Ethiopia	31: 40.52
13	Lyudmila Biktasheva	Russia Russia	31: 47.10
14th	Alice Timbilili	Kenya Kenya	31: 50.22
15th	Chiemi Takahashi	Japan Japan	31: 52.59
16	Elizabeth Hickman	United States United States	31: 56.94
17th	Sally Barsosio	Kenya Kenya	31: 57.41
18th	Asmae Leghzaoui	Morocco Morocco	31: 59.21	NO
19th	Jeļena Čelnova-Prokopčuka	Latvia Latvia	32: 17.72
DNF	Harumi Hiroyama	Japan Japan