2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres

Events at the
2010 World Junior
Championships in Athletics

Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men women
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
10,000 m walk men women
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The women's 5,000 metres at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Moncton 2010 Stadium on 21 July.[1][2]

Medalists

GoldSilverBronze
Genzebe Dibaba
 Ethiopia
Mercy Cherono
 Kenya
Alice Aprot Nawowuna
 Kenya

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

Name Nationality Time Location Date
World junior recordTirunesh DibabaEthiopia Ethiopia14:30.88 BergenJune 11, 2004
Championship record Meselech Melkamu Ethiopia Ethiopia 15:21.52 Grosseto July 13, 2004

The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeWJRCR
July 21 Final Genzebe Dibaba Ethiopia Ethiopia 15:08.06 CR

Results

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Genzebe Dibaba  Ethiopia 15:08.06 CR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Mercy Cherono  Kenya15:09.19
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Alice Aprot Nawowuna Kenya 15:17.39 PB
4 Tejitu Daba  Bahrain 15:29.78 NJR
5 Ayuko Suzuki  Japan 15:47.36 PB
6 Emily Sisson  United States 15:48.91 PB
7 Karla Díaz  Mexico 15:56.12 NJR
8 Nanaka Izawa  Japan 15:59.29 SB
9 Afera Godfay  Ethiopia 16:14.28 PB
10 Federica Bevilacqua  Italy 16:19.60 PB
11 Kate Avery  United Kingdom 16:23.97 SB
12 Gulshat Fazlitdinova  Russia 16:27.69
13 Goeun Yeum  South Korea 16:49.18
14 Victoria Hanna  Canada 17:28.99

Key: CR = championship record, NJR = National junior record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 14 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2010 Moncton CAN Jul 19-25, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 9 Mar 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
  2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

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