2000 metres

The 2000 metres or 2000-metre run is a track running event where five laps are completed around an outdoor 400 m track or ten laps around a 200 m indoor track. In distance covered, the outdoor event roughly equates to the mile run plus one additional lap.

Athletics
2000 metres
World records
Men Hicham El Guerrouj 4:44:79 (1999)
Women Genzebe Dibaba 5:23.75 (2017)

The global governing body World Athletics recognises official world records for the distance, and it is also recorded in continental and national record settings. The men's world record his held by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj, who ran a time of 4:44.79 minutes in 1999, while the women's world record is held by Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba who finished the distance in 5:23.75 minutes in 2017.[1] The distance regularly features on event programmes of professional one-day track and field meetings, serving as a comparatively novel event with greater scope for record-breaking performances.[2] It is also used at lower level competitions, such as school and youth tournaments.

Despite its world record status, it has never featured as a world championship level event indoors or outdoors. The event was briefly held at national level in the mid-1960s at the Spanish Indoor and Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships.[3][4]

Records

World records
Division Time Athlete Nationality Date Location
Men4:44.79Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco7 September 1999Berlin
Women5:23.75Genzebe Dibaba Ethiopia7 February 2017Edinburgh

Continental records
Type Men's time Men's athlete Men's nationality Women's time Women's athlete Women's nationality
African4:44.79Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco5:23.75Genzebe Dibaba Ethiopia
Asian4:55.57Mohamed Suleiman Qatar5:29.41Wang Junxia China
European4:50.01Jakob Ingebrigtsen Norway5:25.36Sonia O'Sullivan Ireland
North, Central American and Caribbean4:52.44Jim Spivey United States5:32.7Mary Slaney United States
Oceanian4:50.76Craig Mottram Australia5:37.71Benita Willis Australia
South American5:03.34Hudson de Souza Brazil5:59.96Niusha Mancilla Bolivia

All-time top ten performances

Men
  • Correct as of August 2020.[5]
RankTimeAthleteNationalityDateLocation
1 4:44.79Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco7 September 1999Berlin
2 4:46.88Ali Saïdi-Sief Algeria19 June 2001Strasbourg
3 4:47.88Noureddine Morceli Algeria3 July 1995Paris
4. 4:48.69Vénuste Niyongabo Burundi12 July 1995Nice
5 4:48.74John Kibowen Kenya1 August 1998Hechtel
6 4:50.01Jakob Ingebrigtsen Norway11 June 2020Oslo
7 4:50.08Noah Ngeny Kenya30 July 1999Stockholm
8 4:50.76Craig Mottram Australia9 March 2006Melbourne
9 4:50.81Saïd Aouita Morocco16 July 1987Paris
10 4:51.30Daniel Komen Kenya5 June 1998Milan

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 4:51.30:

Women
  • Correct as of August 2020.[6]
RankTimeAthleteNationalityDateLocation
1 5:23.75Genzebe Dibaba Ethiopia7 February 2017Sabadell
2 5:25.36Sonia O'Sullivan Ireland8 July 1994Edinburgh
3 5:26.93Yvonne Murray United Kingdom8 July 1994Edinburgh
4 5:27.50Genzebe Dibaba Ethiopia17 July 2014Ostrava
5 5:28.69Maricica Puică Romania11 July 1986London
6 5:28.72Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union4 August 1984Moscow
7 5:29.64Tatyana Pozdnyakova Soviet Union4 August 1984Moscow
8 5:30.19Zola Budd South Africa11 July 1986London
9 5:30.19Gelete Burka Ethiopia4 September 2009Brussels

References
  1. World Records. World Athletics. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  2. Senior outdoor 2000 Metres men. World Athletics. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  3. Spanish Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  4. Soviet Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  5. "All-time men's best 2000 metres". alltime-athletics.com. 22 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  6. "All-time women's best 2000 metres". alltime-athletics.com. 2 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
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