Athletics 2016/Women's 5000 metre

The women's 5000 metre of Athletics 2016 during the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 16-19 August 2016 in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Stadium. With 34 athletes competing, the event was won by Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot from Kenya, with Hellen Onsando Obiri from Kenya taking the silver medal and Almaz Ayana from Ethiopia taking bronze.

Format[]

The competition exists out of two rounds, each with races of up to seventeen athletes. In each round, the top five with the fastest time advance to the next round, together with a number of fastest non-qualifiers. The fastest competitor in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview[]

Thirty-four athletes qualified for the event with Olympic champion of the 10,000 metres and the second-fastest woman in the world Almaz Ayana as one of the big favorites to get her second Olympic gold medal. However, the other Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes were also very strong, with Hellen Onsando Obiri, Mercy Cherono, and two-time world champion of the 10,000 metres Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot as some of the big medal contenders. Other medal contenders and outsiders included the European champion Yasemin Can, Kim Conley, and Dalilah Abdelkadir.

Athlete	Nationality
Miyuki Uehara	Japan
Yasemin Can	Turkey
Ababel Yeshaneh	Ethiopia
Sharon Firisua	Solomon Islands
Hellen Onsando Obiri	Kenya
Shelby Houlihan	United States
Madeline Heiner Hills	Australia
Lucy Oliver	New Zealand
Kim Conley	United States
Louise Carton	Belgium
Juliet Chekwel	Uganda
Beatrice Kamuchanga Alice	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mercy Cherono	Kenya
Dalila Abdulkadir	Bahrain
Jessica O'Connell	Canada
Susan Kuijken	Netherlands
Laura Whittle	Great Britain
Stephanie Twell	Great Britain
Misaki Onishi	Japan
Eilish McColgan	Great Britain
Jennifer Wenth	Austria
Stella Chesang	Uganda
Abbey D'Agostino	United States
Eloise Wellings	Australia
Ayuko Suzuki	Japan
Andrea Seccafien	Canada
Nikki Hamblin	New Zealand
Senbere Teferi	Ethiopia
Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot	Kenya
Bibiro Ali Taher	Chad
Genevieve Lacaze	Australia
Almaz Ayana	Ethiopia
Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal	Norway
Mimi Belete	Bahrain

Current Records[]

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	6 June 2008		Tirunesh Dibaba	14:11.15
OR	25 September 2000		Gabriela Szabo	14:40.79

Summary[]

Round 1[]

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Hellen Onsando Obiri	15:19.38	Q
2		Yasemin Can	15:19.50	Q
3		Mercy Cherono	15:19.56	Q
4		Shelby Houlihan	15:19.76	Q
5		Susan Kuijken	15:19.96	Q
6		Madeline Heiner Hills	15:21.33	q
7		Miyuki Uehara	15:23.41	q
8		Ababel Yeshaneh	15:24.38	q
9		Juliet Chekwel	15:29.07
10		Laura Whittle	15:31.30
11		Louise Carton	15:34.39
12		Kim Conley	15:36.00
13		Jessica O'Connell	15:51.18
14		Lucy Oliver	15:53.77
15		Sharon Firisua	18:01.62	NR
16		Beatrice Kamuchanga Alice	19:29.47
-		Dalila Abdulkadir	DNS

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Almaz Ayana	15:04.35	Q
2		Senbere Teferi	15:17.43	Q
3		Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot	15:17.74	Q
4		Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal	15:17.83	Q
5		Eilish McColgan	15:18.20	Q
6		Eloise Wellings	15:19.02	q
7		Genevieve Lacaze	15:20.45	q
8		Stephanie Twell	15:25.90
9		Misaki Onishi	15:29.17
10		Mimi Belete	15:29.72
11		Andrea Seccafien	15:30.32
12		Ayuko Suzuki	15:41.81
13		Stella Chesang	15:49.80
14		Jennifer Wenth	16:07.02	q
15		Nikki Hamblin	16:43.61	q
16		Abbey D'Agostino	17:10.02	q
-		Bibiro Ali Taher	DNF

Final[]

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot	14:26.17	OR
2		Hellen Onsando Obiri	14:29.77	PR
3		Almaz Ayana	14:33.59
4		Mercy Cherono	14:42.89
5		Senbere Teferi	14:43.75
6		Yasemin Can	14:56.96
7		Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal	14:57.53	PR
8		Susan Kuijken	15:00.69	PR
9		Eloise Wellings	15:01.59
10		Madeline Heiner Hills	15:04.05	PR
11		Shelby Houlihan	15:08.89
12		Genevieve Lacaze	15:10.35	PR
13		Eilish McColgan	15:12.09
14		Ababel Yeshaneh	15:18.26
15		Miyuki Uehara	15:34.97
16		Jennifer Wenth	15:56.11
17		Nikki Hamblin	16:14.24
-		Abbey D'Agostino	DNS

Results[]

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot	Kenya
	Hellen Onsando Obiri	Kenya
	Almaz Ayana	Ethiopia
4	Mercy Cherono	Kenya
5	Senbere Teferi	Ethiopia
6	Yasemin Can	Turkey
7	Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal	Norway
8	Susan Kuijken	Netherlands
9	Eloise Wellings	Australia
10	Madeline Heiner Hills	Australia
11	Shelby Houlihan	United States
12	Genevieve Lacaze	Australia
13	Eilish McColgan	Great Britain
14	Ababel Yeshaneh	Ethiopia
15	Miyuki Uehara	Japan
16	Jennifer Wenth	Austria
17	Nikki Hamblin	New Zealand
18	Abbey D'Agostino	United States
19	Stephanie Twell	Great Britain
20	Juliet Chekwel	Uganda
21	Misaki Onishi	Japan
22	Mimi Belete	Bahrain
23	Andrea Seccafien	Canada
24	Laura Whittle	Great Britain
25	Louise Carton	Belgium
26	Kim Conley	United States
27	Ayuko Suzuki	Japan
28	Stella Chesang	Uganda
29	Jessica O'Connell	Canada
30	Lucy Oliver	New Zealand
31	Sharon Firisua	Solomon Islands
32	Beatrice Kamuchanga Alice	Democratic Republic of the Congo
-	Bibiro Ali Taher	Chad
-	Dalila Abdulkadir	Bahrain

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