Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 5000 metres

The women's 5000 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 19–22 August at the Beijing National Stadium.[2]

Women's 5000 metres
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueBeijing National Stadium
Dates19 August 2008 (heats)
22 August 2008 (final)
Competitors32 from 20 nations
Winning time15:41.40
Medalists
Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia
Meseret Defar[1]  Ethiopia
Sylvia Kibet  Kenya

The qualifying standards were 15:09.00 (A standard) and 15:24.00 (B standard).[3]

While strategically this was different, the results were much the same as the 10000 final a week earlier. Elvan Abeylegesse kept took the lead earlier but field did not dissipate behind her, instead Ethiopians, Kenyans and newly crowned steeplechase world record holder Gulnara Samitova-Galkina engulfing each attempt to pull away. Going into the last lap, it was the three Ethiopians and former Ethiopian Abeylegesse at the front, with the Kenyan team and Russian Liliya Shobukhova already trying to catch back up. Tirunesh Dibaba jumped into the lead with the expected chase coming from Meseret Defar, in one of the few head to head battles between these two stars. But Abeylegesse hadn't read the script and refused to get out of the picture. Through the final turn she caught Defar and swung wide into lane 2 as if to speed past Dibaba. She was able to match Dibaba's speed down the final straight but couldn't make up the ground she had lost, Dibaba taking her second gold, Defar holding off the rest of the field to take bronze.

On 29 March 2017, IAAF confirmed that Abeylegesse had tested positive for a banned substance at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, and that her results from 2007 to 2009, including her Olympic silvers, had been expunged.[4]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)14:11.15Oslo, Norway6 June 2008
Olympic record Gabriela Szabó (ROU)14:40.79Sydney, Australia25 September 2000

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Results

Round 1

Qualification: First 6 in each heat(Q) and the next 3 fastest(q) advance to the final.

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
12Meseret Defar Ethiopia14:56.32Q
22Vivian Cheruiyot Kenya14:57.27Q, SB
32Liliya Shobukhova Russia14:57.77Q
42Priscah Jepleting Cherono Kenya14:58.07Q
52Elvan Abeylegesse Turkey14:58.79Q, SB
62Shalane Flanagan United States14:59.69Q, SB
72Kara Goucher United States15:00.98q, SB
81Tirunesh Dibaba Ethiopia15:09.89Q
91Sylvia Kibet Kenya15:10.37Q
101Alemitu Bekele Turkey15:10.92Q
111Meselech Melkamu Ethiopia15:11.21Q
122Megan Metcalfe Canada15:11.23q, PB
131Gulnara Samitova-Galkina Russia15:11.46Q
142Xue Fei China15:13.25q, SB
151Jennifer Rhines United States15:15.12Q
161Yuriko Kobayashi Japan15:15.87
171Simret Sultan Eritrea15:16.25NR
182Kayoko Fukushi Japan15:20.46
192Mariem Alaoui Selsouli Morocco15:21.47
201Volha Krautsova Belarus15:21.85SB
211Silvia Weissteiner Italy15:23.45
221Zhang Yingying China15:23.81SB
231Zakia Mrisho Mohamed Tanzania15:24.28
241Dolores Checa Spain15:31.22
252Yukiko Akaba Japan15:38.30
261Jessica Augusto Portugal16:05.71
272Krisztina Papp Hungary16:08.86
281Lucia Chandamale Malawi16:44.09
292Francine Niyonizigiye Burundi17:08.44
301Celma Bonfim da Graça São Tomé and Príncipe17:25.99NR
2Yelena Zadorozhnaya RussiaDNF
2Joanne Pavey Great BritainDNS

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes[5][6]
Tirunesh Dibaba Ethiopia15:41.40
Meseret Defar Ethiopia15:44.12
Sylvia Kibet Kenya15:44.96
4 Vivian Cheruiyot Kenya15:46.32
5 Liliya Shobukhova Russia15:46.62
6 Alemitu Bekele Turkey15:48.48
7 Meselech Melkamu Ethiopia15:49.03
8 Kara Goucher United States15:49.39
9 Shalane Flanagan United States15:50.80
10 Priscah Jepleting Cherono Kenya15:51.78
11 Gulnara Samitova-Galkina Russia15:56.97
12 Xue Fei China16:09.84
13 Jennifer Rhines United States16:34.63
14 Megan Metcalfe Canada17:06.82
DSQ Elvan Abeylegesse Turkey15:42.74

Splits

IntermediateAthleteCountryMark
1000mGulnara Samitova-Galkina Russia3:39.20
2000mElvan Abeylegesse Turkey6:45.41
3000mGulnara Samitova-Galkina Russia9:58.13
4000mTirunesh Dibaba Ethiopia13:04.77

References

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