2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres

Women's 5000 metres at the 2013 World Championships
Gold medalist Meseret Defar
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Dates	14 August (heats) 17 August (final)
Competitors	22 from 16 nations
Winning time	14:50.19
Medalists
Meseret Defar  Ethiopia (ETH)   Mercy Cherono  Kenya (KEN)   Almaz Ayana  Ethiopia (ETH)

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The women's 5000 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 14–17 August.^[1]

With Margaret Wangari Muriuki dropping out injured in the first round,^[2] the finals had three Ethiopians (four if you count Tejitu Daba) and three Americans and only two Kenyans. Also missing by design is world record holder Tirunesh Dibaba who won the 10000 earlier, leaving Meseret Defar the 5000.

The final started slow with the Ethiopians watching the front (the reigning Olympic champion Defar watching her teammates from the back), letting Dominika Nowakowska then Dolores Checa jog through 75-second laps at the front. With 2000 to go, the racing began, Almaz Ayana took over the lead and the crowd disappeared. Within a lap, not surprisingly, the three Ethiopians and two Kenyans were running alone. Lap times were dropping, 71, 69, 68. In the next lap Buze Diriba fell back to the trailing American duo of Molly Huddle and Shannon Rowbury. The two Ethiopians were leading, the two Kenyans trying to keep up. Shortly after the bell, Viola Kibiwot lost touch with her teammate Mercy Cherono and then there were three. Defar stayed tucked into second place waiting until the time was right. The time was 200 meters to go, that was when Defar accelerated past Ayana and into the lead. Cherono made no effort to go after Defar, she was gone sprinting to gold. Cherono waited through the turn and executed her best move to outsprint Ayana for the silver.^[3] So prepared for victory, Defar and Ayana had already received their flags and were displaying them while the early leaders were still finishing.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:^[4]

World record	Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)	14:11.15	Oslo, Norway	6 June 2008
Championship record	Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)	14:38.59	Helsinki, Finland	13 August 2005
World Leading	Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)	14:23.68	Paris, France	6 June 2013
African Record	Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)	14:11.15	Oslo, Norway	6 June 2008
Asian Record	Bo Jiang (CHN)	14:28.09	Shanghai, People's Republic of China	23 October 1997
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Molly Huddle (USA)	14:44.76	Brussels, Belgium	27 August 2010
South American record	Simone da Silva (BRA)	15:18.85	São Paulo, Brazil	20 May 2011
European Record	Liliya Shobukhova (RUS)	14:23.75	Kazan, Russia	19 July 2008
Oceanian record	Kim Smith (NZL)	14:45.93	Rome, Italy	11 July 2008

Qualification standards

A time[5]	B time
15:18.00	15:24.00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
14 August 2013	9:40	Heats
17 August 2013	18:55	Final

All times are local times (UTC+4)

Results

KEY:

Q

Qualified

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) advanced to the final.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia (ETH)	15:22.94	Q
2	2	Buze Diriba	Ethiopia (ETH)	15:23.41	Q
3	2	Viola Kibiwot	Kenya (KEN)	15:24.47	Q
4	2	Yelena Nagovitsyna	Russia (RUS)	15:26.95	Q
5	2	Kim Conley	United States (USA)	15:27.35	Q
6	2	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway (NOR)	15:29.41	q
7	2	Susan Kuijken	Netherlands (NED)	15:34.31	q
8	1	Mercy Cherono	Kenya (KEN)	15:34.70	Q
9	1	Almaz Ayana	Ethiopia (ETH)	15:34.93	Q
10	2	Jackie Areson	Australia (AUS)	15:40.21	q
11	1	Molly Huddle	United States (USA)	15:40.91	Q
12	2	Dolores Checa	Spain (ESP)	15:43.73	q
13	2	Dominika Nowakowska	Poland (POL)	15:45.10	q
14	1	Shannon Rowbury	United States (USA)	15:50.41	Q
15	1	Tejitu Daba	Bahrain (BHR)	15:56.74	Q
16	1	Almensh Belete	Belgium (BEL)	16:03.03
17	1	Sophie Duarte	France (FRA)	16:05.14
18	1	Betlhem Desalegn	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	16:13.27
19	1	Misaki Onishi	Japan (JPN)	16:16.52
20	1	Carolina Tabares	Colombia (COL)	16:22.81
21	2	Giuli Dekanadze	Georgia (GEO)	17:57.39	SB
	1	Margaret Wangari Muriuki	Kenya (KEN)	DNF

Final

The final was started at 18:55.^[7]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia (ETH)	14:50.19
	Mercy Cherono	Kenya (KEN)	14:51.22
	Almaz Ayana	Ethiopia (ETH)	14:51.33
4	Viola Kibiwot	Kenya (KEN)	15:01.67
5	Buze Diriba	Ethiopia (ETH)	15:05.38
6	Molly Huddle	United States (USA)	15:05.73
7	Shannon Rowbury	United States (USA)	15:06.10	SB
8	Susan Kuijken	Netherlands (NED)	15:14.70
9	Elena Nagovitsyna	Russia (RUS)	15:24.83
10	Dolores Checa	Spain (ESP)	15:30.42
11	Tejitu Daba	Bahrain (BHR)	15:33.89
12	Kim Conley	United States (USA)	15:36.58
13	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway (NOR)	15:48.87
14	Dominika Nowakowska	Poland (POL)	15:58.26
15	Jackie Areson	Australia (AUS)	16:08.32

References

1. "Start list" (PDF).
2. "Kenya: Wangare Crashes Out of Women 5000m Injured". allAfrica. Moscow. Capital FM. 14 August 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2023. (subscription required)
3. "Defar Wins Gold In 'Tactical' 5,000m Race".
4. "Records & Lists – 5000 meters". IAAF. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
5. IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 – Standards, All Russia Athletic Federation, 2012, archived from the original on 16 August 2013, retrieved 8 August 2013
6. "Heats Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
7. Final Results (Archived version)

External links

• 5000 metres results at IAAF website