Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 10,000 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 3, 2012
Medalists Tirunesh Dibaba ( ETH )   Sally Kipyego ( KEN )   Vivian Cheruiyot ( KEN )

The 10,000 Meters of women in the 2012 Olympic Games in London was on August 3, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium London discharged. 22 athletes took part.

The Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba became the Olympic champion . She won ahead of the two Kenyans Sally Kipyego and Vivian Cheruiyot .

The German athlete Sabrina Mockenhaupt was seventeen.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion	Tirunesh Dibaba ( Ethiopia )	29: 54.66 min	Beijing 2008
world champion	Vivian Cheruiyot ( Kenya )	30: 48.98 min	Daegu 2011
European champion	Ana Dulce Félix ( Portugal )	31: 44.75 min	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champion	Competition not in the championship program		Mayagüez 2011
South America Champion	Simone da Silva ( Brazil )	31: 59.11 min	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Shitaye Eshete ( Bahrain )	32: 47.80 min	Kobe 2011
African champion	Gladys Cherono ( Kenya )	32: 41.40 min	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania champion	Elodie Mevel ( French Polynesia )	42: 43.71 min	Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Wang Junxia ( People's Republic of China )	29: 31.78 min	Beijing	September 8, 1993
Olympic record	Tirunesh Dibaba ( Ethiopia )	29: 54.66 min	Beijing finals	August 15, 2008

Note: All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

doping

The Russian Yelisaveta Grechischnikowa , who initially came in nineteenth , was convicted of doping in 2013 and banned until August 2015, all of her results since August 2009 have been canceled.

run

Start preparations ( from left to right ):
Yoshikawa, Skrypak, Chepkirui, Eshete, Cheruiyot, Hastings, Uhl, Kipyego, Oljira, Moreira, Gretschischnikowa, Kidane, Niiya, Mockenhaupt, Pavey

Scene from the race ( .. V r n l.. ):
Niiya, Yoshikawa, Fukushi, Britton, Dibaba, Kidane, Cheruiyot, Eshete, Oljira, Moreira, Hastings, Bleasdale, Kipyego, Cherobon-Bawcom, Pavey, Ejjafini, Wellings, Uhl, Mockenhaupt

Formation of the top group: in
front Chepkirui and Cheruiyot, behind Kidane and Dibaba followed by Kipyego and Oljira, in the end Eshete and Fukushi

August 3, 2012, 9:25 pm

The competition was held as a final race without preliminary heats.

The favorites were primarily the 2008 Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba from Ethiopia and the reigning world champion Vivian Cheruiyot from Kenya. In addition, the Kenyan vice world champion Sally Kipyego was highly rated.

In the final, the three Japanese athletes Kayoko Fukushi, Hitomi Niiya and Mika Yoshikawa set the pace together. Only the Irish Fionnuala Britton followed them, the other runners let the four front runners have their way. By the second lap they had a lead of 35 meters. However, within a few hundred meters the field caught up again. The Japanese initially stayed in the lead and the pace was brisk, but not a record. After 5000 meters, the Kenyan Sally Kipyego went forward and now pushed. As a result, the field of participants was pulled far apart at 6000 meters. A top group of seven had formed. In addition to Dibaba, Cheruiyot and Kipyego, the two Ethiopians Werknesh Kidane and Beleynesh Oljira, Shitaye Eshete from Bahrain and the Kenyan Joyce Chepkirui, who soon had to give up the race, ran in it. After 8000 meters, Eshete and Oljira also fell out of the group. Dibaba took the lead 600 meters from the finish. She put on her final sprint, which no one could follow and won with a lead of five and a half seconds over Kipyego and Cheruiyot. Kidane finished fourth, Oljira fifth and Eshete sixth. The best European and at the same time the best non-African runner in seventh was British Joanne Pavey. Her compatriot Julia Bleasdale came in eighth ahead of the two Japanese women Hitomi Niiya and Kayoko Fukushi

Tirunesh Dibaba won the fourth gold medal for Ethiopia in the seventh Olympic final. With her second gold medal over this distance, she drew level with her compatriot Derartu Tulu , who won in 1992 and 2000 .

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	3: 06.07 min	Fukushi, Niiya, Yoshikawa, Britton - 20 m from the rest of the field	3: 06.07 min
2000 m	6: 11.57 min	Hitomi Niiya with a large leading group	3: 05.50 min
3000 m	9: 18.27 min	Hitomi Niiya with a leading group	3: 06.70 min
4000 m	12: 24.93 min	Hitomi Niiya with a leading group	3: 06.66 min
5000 m	15: 33.06 min	Sally Kipyego with a smaller leading group	3: 08.13 min
6000 m	18: 32.08 min	Werknesh Kidane with a top group of 7	2: 59.02 min
7000 m	21: 36.78 min	Werknesh Kidane with a top group of 6	3: 04.70 min
8000 m	24: 34.07 min	Kidane, Dibaba, Cheruiyot and Kipyego	2: 57.29 min
9000 m	27: 35.07 min	Sally Kipyego	3: 01.00 min
10,000 m	30: 20.75 min	Tirunesh Dibaba	2: 45.58 min

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	30: 20.75
0 2	Sally Kipyego	Kenya	30: 26.37
0 3	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	30: 30.44
0 4th	Werknesh Kidane	Ethiopia	30.39.38
0 5	Belaynesh Oljira	Ethiopia	30: 45.56
0 6th	Shitaye Eshete	Bahrain	30: 47.25	NO
0 7th	Joanne Pavey	Great Britain	30: 53.20
0 8th	Julia Bleasdale	Great Britain	30: 55.63
0 9	Hitomi Niiya	Japan	30: 59.19
10	Kayoko Fukushi	Japan	31: 10.35
11	Amy Hastings	United States	31: 10.69
12	Janet Cherobon-Bawcom	United States	31: 12.68
13	Lisa Uhl	United States	31: 12.80
14th	Sara Moreira	Portugal	31: 16.44
15th	Fionnuala Britton	Ireland	31: 46.71
16	Mika Yoshikawa	Japan	31: 47.67
17th	Sabrina Mockenhaupt	Germany	31: 50.35
18th	Nadia Ejjafini	Italy	31: 57.03
19th	Olha Skrypak	Ukraine	32: 14.59
20th	Eloise Wellings	Australia	32: 25.43
DNF	Joyce Chepkirui	Kenya
DOP	Yelisaveta Grechishnikova	Russia

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  Gold medal:
  Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopia

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  Silver medal:
  Sally Kipyego from Kenya

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  Bronze medal:
  Vivian Cheruiyo, Kenya

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  The Ethiopian Werknesh Kidane came fourth

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  Werknesh Kidane from Ethiopia came in sixth place

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  The British Joanne Pavey came in seventh

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  The Japanese Hitomi Niiya was Olympic participant

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  Kayoko Fukushi from Japan came in tenth

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  The US Olympic eleventh Amy Hastings

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  The Portuguese Sara Moreira came in twelfth place

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  The German Sabrina Mockenhaupt was seventeen

Web links

• SportsReference 10,000 m (English) , accessed September 20, 2018
• Official report , accessed September 20, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 20, 2018

Video

• Women's 10,000m Final - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 3, 2012, accessed September 20, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 796 , accessed on September 20, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Report on SportingLive from October 25, 2013 (English) , accessed on September 20, 2018