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The women's 10000 metre of Athletics 2016 during the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 12 August 2016 in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Stadium. With 37 athletes competing, the event was won by Almaz Ayana from Ethiopia, with Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot from Kenya taking the silver medal and Tirunesh Dibaba from Ethiopia taking bronze.

Format[]

The competition exists out of a single race, in which all competitors conduct a course of 10,000 metres. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner of the event.

Preview[]

Thirty-seven athletes qualified for the event with the Ethiopian athletes as big favorites for the title, featuring defending and two-time Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba, the world-leading time and world champion at the 5000 metres Almaz Ayana, and the silver medalist of the world championships Gelete Burka. Some of the big challengers for the Ethiopians were two-time world champion Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot, African champion Alice Aprot Nawowuna, and the bronze medalist of the world championships Emily Infeld, but other outsiders also included Eloise Wellings, Joanne Pavey, Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal, and Yasemin Can.

Athlete Nationality
Eloise Wellings Australia
Darya Maslova Kyrgyzstan
Betsy Saina Kenya
Ekaterina Tunguskova Uzbekistan
Veronica Inglese Italy
Hanami Sekine Japan
Sitora Hamidova Uzbekistan
Alexi Pappas Greece
Salome Nyirarukundo Rwanda
Juliet Chekwel Uganda
Marisol Romero Mexico
Emily Infeld United States
Beth Potter Great Britain
Yuka Takashima Japan
Carla Salome Rocha Portugal
Natasha Wodak Canada
Dominique Scott South Africa
Jip Vastenburg Netherlands
Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal Norway
Gelete Burka Ethiopia
Joanne Pavey Great Britain
Yasemin Can Turkey
Diane Nukuri Burundi
Alia Saeed Mohammed United Arab Emirates
Jessica Andrews Great Britain
Marielle Hall United States
Tirunesh Dibaba Ethiopia
Sarah Lahti Sweden
Brenda Flores Mexico
Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot Kenya
Almaz Ayana Ethiopia
Lanni Marchant Canada
Tatiele Roberta de Carvalho Brazil
Alice Aprot Nawowuna Kenya
Susan Kuijken Netherlands
Molly Huddle United States
Trihas Gebre Spain

Current Records[]

Record Date Nat. Name Time
WR 8 September 1993 China Wang Junxia 29:31.78
OR 15 August 2008 Ethiopia Tirunesh Dibaba 29:54.66

Results[]

Result Athlete Nationality Time
Gold Almaz Ayana Ethiopia 29:17.45 WR
Silver Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot Kenya 29:32.53 NR
Bronze Tirunesh Dibaba Ethiopia 29:42.56 PR
4 Alice Aprot Nawowuna Kenya 29:53.51 PR
5 Betsy Saina Kenya 30:07.78 PR
6 Molly Huddle United States 30:13.17 AR
7 Yasemin Can Turkey 30:26.41 PR
8 Gelete Burka Ethiopia 30:26.66 PR
9 Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal Norway 31:14.07 PR
10 Eloise Wellings Australia 31:14.94 PR
11 Emily Infeld United States 31:26.94 PR
12 Sarah Lahti Sweden 31:28.43 NR
13 Diane Nukuri Burundi 31:28.69 NR
14 Susan Kuijken Netherlands 31:32.43
15 Joanne Pavey Great Britain 31:33.44
16 Jessica Andrews Great Britain 31:35.92 PR
17 Alexi Pappas Greece 31:36.16 NR
18 Yuka Takashima Japan 31:36.44
19 Darya Maslova Kyrgyzstan 31:36.90 NR
20 Hanami Sekine Japan 31:44.44
21 Dominique Scott South Africa 31:51.47 PR
22 Natasha Wodak Canada 31:53.14
23 Alia Saeed Mohammed United Arab Emirates 31:56.74
24 Sitora Hamidova Uzbekistan 31:57.77 NR
25 Lanni Marchant Canada 32:04.21
26 Carla Salome Rocha Portugal 32:06.05
27 Salome Nyirarukundo Rwanda 32:07.80
28 Jip Vastenburg Netherlands 32:08.92
29 Trihas Gebre Spain 32:09.67
30 Veronica Inglese Italy 32:11.67
31 Tatiele Roberta de Carvalho Brazil 32:38.21
32 Brenda Flores Mexico 32:39.08
33 Marielle Hall United States 32:39.32
34 Beth Potter Great Britain 33:04.34
35 Marisol Romero Mexico 35:33.03
- Juliet Chekwel Uganda DNF
- Ekaterina Tunguskova Uzbekistan DNF
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