2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 5000 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 5000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 49 athletes from 31 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 22, 2000 (preliminary round) September 25, 2000 (final) |
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The women's 5,000-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 22nd and 25th, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 49 athletes took part.
The Romanian Gabriela Szabo became Olympic champion . She won in front of the Irish Sonia O'Sullivan and the Ethiopian Gete Wami .
The German Irina Mikitenko reached the final and was fifth. The Austrian Susanne Pumper was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Title holder
Olympic champion 1996 | Wang Junxia ( People's Republic of China ) | 14: 59.88 min | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | Gabriela Szabo ( Romania ) | 14: 41.82 min | Seville 1999 |
European Champion 1998 | Sonia O'Sullivan ( Ireland ) | 15: 06.50 min | Budapest 1998 |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Adriana Fernández ( Mexico ) | 15: 56.57 min | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999 | 5000 m run not in the championship program | ||
South America Champion 1999 | Stella Castro ( Colombia ) | 16: 45.63 min | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian Champion 2000 | Wu Qingdong ( People's Republic of China ) | 15: 58.83 min | Jakarta 2000 |
African champion 2000 | Asmae Leghzaoui ( Morocco ) | 15: 43.46 min | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | Vasa Tulahe ( Tonga ) | 19: 58.34 min | Adelaide 2000 |
Existing records
World record | 14: 28.09 min | Jiang Bo ( People's Republic of China ) | Shanghai , People's Republic of China | October 23, 1997 |
Olympic record | 14: 59.88 min | Wang Junxia ( People's Republic of China ) | Atlanta Final , USA | July 28, 1996 |
Note: All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
Preliminary round
A total of three preliminary runs were completed. The first four athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the three 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 22, 2000, 6 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Sonia O'Sullivan | Ireland | 15: 07.91 | |
2 | Joanne Pavey | Great Britain | 15: 08.82 | |
3 | Gete Wami | Ethiopia | 15: 08.92 | |
4th | Lydia Cheromei | Kenya | 15: 09.32 | |
5 | Daniela Jordanova | Bulgaria | 15: 10.08 | NO |
6th | Benita Willis | Australia | 15: 21.37 | |
7th | Elva Dryer | United States | 15: 23.99 | |
8th | Rosemary Ryan | Ireland | 15: 33.05 | |
9 | Nora Leticia Rocha | Mexico | 15: 38.72 | |
10 | Michiko Shimizu | Japan | 15: 48.20 | |
11 | Dulce María Rodríguez | Mexico | 15: 54.17 | |
12 | Yamna Belkacem | France | 16: 08.49 | |
13 | Helena Javornik | Slovenia | 16: 09.60 | |
14th | Elisa Cobañea | Argentina | 16: 16.58 | |
15th | Nebiat Habtemariam | Eritrea | 16: 30.41 | NO |
16 | Maysa Hussein Matrood | Iraq | 17: 17.58 | |
DNS | Restituta Joseph | Tanzania |
Forward 2
September 22, 2000, 6:25 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Rose Cheruiyot | Kenya | 15: 13.18 | |
2 | Ayelech Worku | Ethiopia | 15: 13.26 | |
3 | Olga Yegorova | Russia | 15: 14.34 | |
4th | Irina Mikitenko | Germany | 15: 14.76 | |
5 | Susanne Pumper | Austria | 15: 16.66 | |
6th | Roberta Brunet | Italy | 15: 27.32 | |
7th | Amy Rudolph | United States | 15: 28.91 | |
8th | Sonja Stolić | Yugoslavia | 15: 38.96 | |
9 | Megumi Tanaka | Japan | 15: 39.83 | |
10 | Marta Domínguez | Spain | 15: 45.07 | |
11 | Khrysostomia Iakovou | Greece | 15:46:48 | |
12 | Samukeliso Moyo | Zimbabwe | 15: 47.76 | |
13 | Zhor El Kamch | Morocco | 16: 02.50 | |
14th | Anne Cross | Australia | 16: 07.18 | |
15th | Andrea Whitcombe | Great Britain | 16: 15.82 | |
16 | Man Yee Maggie Chan | Hong Kong | 16: 20.43 |
Forward 3
September 22, 2000, 6:50 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Gabriela Szabo | Romania | 15: 08.36 | |
2 | Werknesh Kidane | Ethiopia | 15: 08.62 | |
3 | Tatiana Tomaschowa | Russia | 15: 08.92 | |
4th | Jeļena Čelnova-Prokopčuka | Latvia | 15: 09.45 | |
5 | Vivian Cheruiyot | Kenya | 15: 11.11 | |
6th | Olivera Jevtić | Yugoslavia | 15: 11.25 | NO |
7th | Yoshiko Ichikawa | Japan | 15: 23.41 | |
8th | Beatrice Santiago | Spain | 15: 31.94 | |
9 | Kate Anderson | Australia | 15: 45.34 | |
10 | Inga Juodeškienė | Lithuania | 15: 46.37 | |
11 | Anne Marie Lauck | United States | 15: 47.78 | |
12 | Ebru Kavaklıoğlu | Turkey | 15: 49.15 | |
13 | Breda Dennehy-Willis | Ireland | 15: 49.58 | |
14th | Diane Nukuri | Burundi | 16: 38.30 | |
15th | Catherine Chikwakwa | Malawi | 16: 39.82 | |
16 | Priscilla Mamba | Swaziland | 17:30:04 | NO |
17th | Baatarchüügiin Battsetseg | Mongolia | 18: 22.98 |
final
September 25, 2000, 8:55 pm
Three Ethiopians, three Kenyans, two Russians and one participant each from Bulgaria, Germany, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Romania and Great Britain qualified for the final.
The favorite was the Romanian Gabriela Szabo, who competed as the reigning world champion . Her fiercest competitors were the Ethiopian vice world champion Ayelech Worku and her compatriot Gete Wami. The Irish European Champion from 1998 Sonia O'Sullivan and also the German World Cup fourth Irina Mikitenko belonged to the extended circle of favorites .
After the pace of the final race with changing guides was not high for the first thousand meters, the three Ethiopians Wami, Worku and Werknesh Kidane took the initiative and it got considerably faster, the field gradually fell apart. On the third 1000-meter section, the pace temporarily slowed down again, but then the Ethiopians stepped up again. After 4000 meters, Kidane took over the leadership of a leading group that now still consists of seven runners. Szabo, O'Sullivan, Mikitenko and the Kenyan Lydia Cheromei were next to the three Ethiopians in the race for the medals. On the penultimate lap, Szabo took the lead and stepped up the pace again. When it came to the final round, Mikitenko and O'Sullivan were right behind her. The other four runners from the top group also initially kept up. Before the finish curve, Szabo accelerated and blew up the group. Only O'Sullivan could still follow her. There was now an increasing gap to the third-placed Wami. Worku and Mikitenko were some way behind. The Irish woman tried everything to get past Szabo, but she did not succeed. With 23 hundredths of a second and a new Olympic record time , Gabriela Szabo was Olympic champion ahead of Sonia O'Sullivan. The bronze medal went to Gete Wami. Ayelech Worku took fourth place ahead of Irina Mikitenko, Lydia Cheromei and Werknesh Kidane. A total of twelve of the fourteen finalists who had crossed the finish line remained below the Olympic record that had been in effect until then.
Split times | |||
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Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 1000 m time |
1000 m | 3: 03.84 min | Gabriela Szabo | 3: 03.84 min |
2000 m | 5: 57.33 min | Gete Wami | 2: 55.49 min |
3000 m | 8: 58.33 min | Gete Wami | 3: 01.00 min |
4000 m | 11: 53.60 min | Werknesh Kidane | 2: 55.27 min |
5000 m | 14: 40.79 min | Gabriela Szabo | 2: 47.19 min |
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Gabriela Szabo | Romania | 14: 40.79 | OR |
2 | Sonia O'Sullivan | Ireland | 14: 41.02 | NO |
3 | Gete Wami | Ethiopia | 14: 42.23 | |
4th | Ayelech Worku | Ethiopia | 14: 42.67 | |
5 | Irina Mikitenko | Germany | 14: 43.59 | |
6th | Lydia Cheromei | Kenya | 14: 47.35 | |
7th | Werknesh Kidane | Ethiopia | 14: 47.40 | |
8th | Olga Yegorova | Russia | 14: 50.31 | |
9 | Jeļena Čelnova-Prokopčuka | Latvia | 14: 55.46 | |
10 | Daniela Jordanova | Bulgaria | 14: 56.95 | NO |
11 | Rose Cheruiyot | Kenya | 14: 58.07 | |
12 | Joanne Pavey | Great Britain | 14: 58.27 | |
13 | Tatiana Tomaschowa | Russia | 15: 01.28 | |
14th | Vivian Cheruiyot | Kenya | 15: 33.66 | |
DNF | Olivera Jevtić | Yugoslavia |
Web links
- SportsReference 5000 m , accessed April 9, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 9, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 9, 2018
Video
- womens 5000m final sydney olympics , published July 8, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed April 9, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 796 , accessed on April 9, 2018