2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 5000 m (women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 5000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 41 athletes from 28 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Athens Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 20, 2004 (preliminary round) August 23, 2004 (final) |
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The 5000-meter run for women at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 20 and 23, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 41 athletes took part.
The Ethiopian Meseret Defar became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Kenyan Isabella Ochichi and the Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba .
Irina Mikitenko took part for Germany . She reached the final and was seventh.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 2000 |
Gabriela Szabo ( Romania )
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14: 40.79 min | Sydney 2000 |
World Champion 2003 |
Tirunesh Dibaba ( Ethiopia )
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14: 51.72 min | Paris 2003 |
European Champion 2002 |
Marta Domínguez ( Spain )
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15: 14.76 min | Munich 2002 |
Pan American Champion 2003 |
Adriana Fernández ( Mexico )
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15: 30.65 min | Santo Domingo 2003 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003 | Competition not in the championship program | St. George’s 2003 | |
South American Champion 2003 | Maria Rodrigues ( Brazil )
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16: 11.70 min | Barquisimeto 2003 |
Asian Champion 2003 |
Sun Yingjie ( People's Republic of China )
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15: 48.42 min | Manila 2003 |
African champion 2004 | Etalemahu Kidane ( Ethiopia )
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16: 25.83 min | Brazzaville 2004 |
Oceania Champion 2002 | Brooke Eddy ( New Zealand )
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16: 58.72 min | Christchurch 2002 |
Existing records
World record | 14: 24.68 min |
Elvan Abeylegesse ( Turkey )
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Bergen , Norway | June 11, 2004 |
Olympic record | 14: 40.79 min |
Gabriela Szabo ( Romania )
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Sydney final , Australia | September 25, 2000 |
Note: All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
Preliminary round
A total of two preliminary runs were completed. The first five athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the five 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
August 20, 2004, 11:20 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Tirunesh Dibaba |
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15: 00.66 | |
2 | Sentayehu Ejigu |
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15: 01.31 | |
3 | Jelena Sadorozhnaya |
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15: 01.77 | |
4th | Lilia Shobuchova |
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15: 01.86 | |
5 | Edith Masai |
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15: 01.92 | |
6th | Irina Mikitenko |
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15: 02.16 | |
7th | Sun Yingjie |
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15: 03.00 | |
8th | Émilie Mondor |
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15: 20.15 | |
9 | Marla Runyan |
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15: 24.88 | |
10 | Tezeta Surekli |
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15: 26.64 | |
11 | Kimberley Smith |
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15: 31.80 | |
12 | Dorcus Inzikuru |
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15: 38.59 | |
13 | Shayne Culpepper |
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15: 40.02 | |
14th | Ebru Kavaklıoğlu |
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15: 52.39 | |
15th | Maria McCambridge |
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15: 57.42 | |
16 | Souad Ait Salem |
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16: 02.10 | |
17th | Dulce María Rodríguez |
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16:08.07 | |
18th | Zainab Bakkour |
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17: 18.66 | |
19th | Francine Niyonizigiye |
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17: 21.27 | |
DNF | Elizabeth Zaragoza |
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Forward 2
August 20, 2004, 11:45 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Meseret Defar |
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14: 52.39 | |
2 | Elvan Abeylegesse |
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14: 54.80 | |
3 | Joanne Pavey |
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14: 55.45 | |
4th | Isabella Ochichi |
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14: 55.69 | |
5 | Xing Huina |
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14: 56.01 | |
6th | Margaret Maury |
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14: 56.79 | |
7th | Sonia O'Sullivan |
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14: 59.61 | |
8th | Gulnara Samitova |
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15: 05.78 | |
9 | Jane Wanjiku |
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15: 14.57 | |
10 | Kirsi Valasti |
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15: 33.78 | |
11 | Shalane Flanagan |
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15: 34.63 | |
12 | Maria Protopappa |
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15: 35.07 | |
13 | Volha Krauzova |
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15: 44.01 | |
14th | Restituta Joseph |
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15: 45.11 | |
15th | Catherine Chikwakwa |
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15: 46.17 | |
16 | Courtney Babcock |
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15: 47.35 | |
17th | Krisztina Papp |
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15: 58.44 | |
18th | Inês Monteiro |
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16: 03.75 | |
19th | Supriani Sutono |
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16: 34.14 | |
20th | Nebiat Habtemariam |
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16: 49.01 | |
21st | Inés Melchor |
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17: 08.07 |
final
August 23, 2004, 10:00 p.m.
Three Ethiopians, three Russians, two Chinese and two Kenyans qualified for the final. The field was completed by one participant each from Germany, France, Great Britain, Ireland and Turkey.
The favorites were the Ethiopian world champion Tirunesh Dibaba and the world record holder Elvan Abeylegesse, also born in Ethiopia, who started for Turkey . Candidates for further top positions were Dibaba's compatriot Meseret Defar, the Kenyans Edith Masai as vice world champion and Isabella Ochichi as well as the Russian World Cup fourth and European third Jelena Sadoroschnaja. The Irish rider Sonia O'Sullivan, who was very successful in earlier years, also reached the final again. However, she was no longer in the shape of her success times and finished fourteen in the end.
The first rounds of the finals were led by the Chinese Sung Yingjie and Xing Huina. The race started slowly, the first thousand meters were run in 3: 12.26 minutes. But on the second kilometer it got considerably faster - 1000 meter section: 2: 53.31 min. Accordingly, the field stretched out more and more. Halfway through the course, Abeylegesse tightened again significantly and took the lead. Now the race got really fast - third kilometer: 2: 46.92 min - and a leading group of five runners formed. Abeylegesse led, followed by Ochichi, Defar, Dibaba and Yingjie. Then Abeylegesse and Defar left alone, but the Turkish woman couldn't quite keep her high pace so that Ochichi came up again. With four laps to go, Abeylegesse fell victim to her own strategy. She had overwhelmed herself and was falling back further and further. The decision about gold and silver had to be between the leading Ochichi and Defar. Although the pace had slowed down considerably, none of the pursuers could catch up with the two leaders. On the last lap, Defar pulled on her final sprint at the end of the back straight. Ochichi had nothing to counter this. Meseret Defar won by two and a half seconds over Isabella Ochichi. The bronze medal went to Tirunesh Dibaba three and a half seconds behind the Kenyan. Jelena Sadoroschnaja was fourth, ahead of British Jo Pavey and Russian Gulnara Samitowa. The German Irina Mikitenko came in seventh, one place ahead of Sun Yingjie.
Meseret Defar was the first Ethiopian Olympic champion in this discipline.
Split times | |||
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Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 1000 m time |
1000 m | 3: 12.26 min | Sun Yingjie with the closed field | 3: 12.26 min |
2000 m | 6: 05.57 min | Sun Yingjie with a large group | 2: 53.31 min |
3000 m | 8: 52.23 min | Elvan Abeylegesse before Isabella Ochichi | 2: 46.92 min |
4000 m | 11: 47.76 min | Isabella Ochichi in front of Meseret Defar | 2: 55.53 min |
5000 m | 14: 45.65 min | Meseret Defar | 2: 57.89 min |
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Meseret Defar |
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14: 45.65 | |
2 | Isabella Ochichi |
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14: 48.19 | |
3 | Tirunesh Dibaba |
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14: 51.83 | |
4th | Jelena Sadorozhnaya |
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14: 55.52 | |
5 | Joanne Pavey |
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14: 57.87 | |
6th | Gulnara Samitova |
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15: 02.30 | |
7th | Irina Mikitenko |
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15: 03.36 | |
8th | Sun Yingjie |
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15: 07.23 | |
9 | Xing Huina |
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15: 07.41 | |
10 | Sentayehu Ejigu |
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15: 09.55 | |
11 | Margaret Maury |
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15: 09.77 | |
12 | Elvan Abeylegesse |
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15: 12.64 | |
13 | Lilia Shobuchova |
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15: 15.64 | |
14th | Sonia O'Sullivan |
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16: 20.90 | |
DNF | Edith Masai |
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Web links
- SportsReference 5000 m , accessed May 7, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed May 7, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 7, 2018
Video
- 2004 Olympics Women's 5000m , published December 24, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed May 7, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF World Records, 5000 m women , accessed on May 7, 2018