The Women's 5000 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event final was held at the Olympic Stadium on 10 of August.

From the start of the final Joanne Pavey took the lead, with Dibaba moving into the fourth position in the procession, ready to cover any moves. After about four laps Elena Romagnolo took up the front position for a few laps, to be replaced again with Pavey. At the 3K mark, Julia Bleasdale moved in behind her teammate, but in the next 200 metres, Dibaba decided it was time to take up the lead. The pace accelerated markedly, with the Ethiopian and Kenyan teams coming to the front and the others falling off the back. Viola Jelagat Kibiwot was the last to pay attention, sprinting along the outside to catch the group of leaders. Bleasdale was the last to stay with that group of six, who had achieved separation with 600 to go, Dibaba and Meseret Defar, led Kibiwot and Vivian Cheruiyot with the pace steadily increasing. With 200 to go, Cheruiyot moved into third, Kibiwot losing ground. Coming off the turn Defar moved onto Dibaba's shoulder, followed by Cheruiyot. Coming around the outside, Defar passed Dibaba, with Dibaba unable to change pace. 3 metres behind, Cheruiyot followed Defar to the line.

Competition format

The Women's 5000m competition consisted of heats (Round 1) and a Final. The fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the Final along with the fastest overall competitors not already qualified that were required to fill the eight spaces in the Final.

Records , the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record14:11.15Oslo, Norway6 June 2008Olympic record14:40.79Sydney, Australia25 September 20002012 World leading14:35.62Rome, Italy31 May 2012

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1) Date Time RoundTuesday, 7 August 2012 10:55Round 1Friday, 10 August 2012 20:05Finals

Results

Heats

Qual. rule: first 5 of each heat (Q) plus the 5 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Tirunesh Dibaba 14:58.48 Q 2 Meseret Defar 14:58.70 Q 3 Viola Kibiwot 14:59.31 Q 4 Olga Golovkina 15:05.26 Q, PB 5 Julie Culley 15:05.38 Q, PB 6 Tejitu Daba 15:05.59 q, PB 7 Silvia Weissteiner 15:06.81 SB 8 Kayoko Fukushi 15:09.31 SB 9 Barbara Parker 15:12.81 PB 10 Fionnuala Britton 15:12.97 PB 11 Lyudmyla Kovalenko 15:18.60 12 Judith Plá 15:20.39 PB 13 Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal 15:24.86 PB 14 Dudu Karakaya 15:28.32 15 Eloise Wellings 15:35.53 16 Sandra López 15:55.16 - Nadia Noujani DNF - Sara Moreira DNS

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Gelete Burka 15:01.44 Q 2 Vivian Cheruiyot 15:01.54 Q 3 Sally Kipyego 15:01.87 Q 4 Julia Bleasdale 15:02.00 Q, PB 5 Molly Huddle 15:02.26 Q, SB 6 Yelena Nagovitsyna 15:02.80 q, PB 7 Joanne Pavey 15:02.84 q, SB 8 Shitaye Eshete 15:05.48 q, PB 9 Elena Romagnolo 15:06.38 q, PB 10 Hitomi Niiya 15:10.20 PB 11 Almensh Belete 15:10.24 SB 12 Kim Conley 15:14.48 PB 13 Mika Yoshikawa 15:16.77 PB 14 Nadia Ejjafini 15:24.70 15 Sheila Reid 15:27.41 16 Zakia Mrisho 15:39.58 17 Layes Abdullayeva 15:45.69 18 Roxana Bârcă 16:01.04

Notes: Q- Qualified by place q - Qualified by performance (time) PB - Personal best NR - National record SB - Seasonal best DQ - Disqualified DNS - Did not start DNF - Did not finish

Final

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes Meseret Defar 15:04.25 Vivian Cheruiyot 15:04.73 Tirunesh Dibaba 15:05.15 Sally Kipyego 15:05.79 Gelete Burka 15:10.66 Viola Kibiwot 15:11.59 Joanne Pavey 15:12.72 Julia Bleasdale 15:14.55 Olga Golovkina 15:17.88 10 Shitaye Eshete 15:19.13 11 Molly Huddle 15:20.29 12 Tejitu Daba 15:21.34 13 Yelena Nagovitsyna 15:21.38 14 Julie Culley 15:28.22 15 Elena Romagnolo 15:35.69

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