The men's 5000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26 and 29 August.Start list
Summary It was difficult to predict the results. Down at number 21 was the double Olympic Champion, defending champion attempting to repeat his double from two years earlier, Mo Farah, undoubtedly the favorite. At number 3 was returning silver medalist Hagos Gebrhiwet coming from the fastest race of the year in Rome, won by his Ethiopian teammate, World Junior Champion Yomif Kejelcha. Returning bronze medalist Isiah Koech was down at number 13. 2014 Diamond League Champion and Commonwealth Games Champion Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku was nowhere to be seen in the top 50 in the world, not having to qualify in the Kenyan trials.
In the finals, it was a slow pace at the beginning. Absurdly, the organizers placed a water station in lane 9, instead of lane 3 where it was located during the 10,000. At 1200 metres, with the pace dawdling, Farah alone chose to take advantage of the water stop, having to run all the way across the track in both directions, but still maintaining contact with the back of the field. At the front of the pack, by default, was a British uniform, but not Farah, it was Tom Farrell with eyes wandering to the TV monitors.
After five and a half laps, Farah jogged to the outside past the entire field to behind Farrell. Suddenly the scramble was on, people rushing for position. Imane Merga rushed to the front and took a 2-meter lead. Farah marked that and let Merga lead until four and a half laps to go still at an agonizingly slow pace, then Farah decided to take the lead and move just slightly faster. All of the other favorites jockeyed around but none of them seemed to make an attempt to pass him.
Having watched Farah launch his kick from 500 meters out in the 10,000 metres earlier in this meet, Ndiku tried to go one better and started to run for home with more than 800 to go, Farah running to stay in contact, Gebrhiwet, Galen Rupp, Ben True and Kejelcha in tow. For the next lap the field stretched out. Farah made a brief burst tor try to take the lead just before one lap to go, but Ndiku wouldn't let him by. One by one all the other suitors fell off the back, the last Gebrhiwet, finally fading on the backstretch, but Farah crept closer. Around the final turn, Kejelcha passed Gebrhiwet, while Farah moved into position to launch a final kick. With a perfectly executed final sprint, Farah passed Ndiku with 70 metres to go, Ndiku had nothing in the tank to respond with. Behind them Gebrhiwet executed a similar pass against his teammate Kejelcha to take the bronze.
Ndiku ran the next to the last lap in 56.3 (Farah slightly slower), Farah completed the last 800 metres in 1:49.0 Despite the assortment of national affiliations listed, the entire pack, the top 13 finishers came from just four countries, three of them neighboring countries of East Africa; Somalia 1-12, Kenya 2-8-9-10-11, Ethiopia 3-4-13 and USA 5-6-7.
Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record12:37.35Hengelo, Netherlands31 May 2004Championship record12:52.79Saint-Denis, France31 August 2003World Leading12:58.39Rome, Italy4 June 2015African Record12:37.35Hengelo, Netherlands31 May 2004Asian Record12:51.96 Fontvieille, Monaco19 July 2013North, Central American and Caribbean record12:53.60 Fontvieille, Monaco22 July 2011South American Record13:19.43Kassel, Germany8 June 2006European Record12:49.71Brussels, Belgium25 August 2000Oceanian record12:55.76London, Great Britain30 July 2004
Qualification standards Entry standards 13:23.00
Schedule Date Time Round26 August 2015 09:35 Heats29 August 2015 19:30 Final
Results Heats Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) advanced to the final.Heats results
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Yomif Kejelcha 13:19.38 2 2 Mo Farah 13:19.44 3 2 Mohammed Ahmed 13:19.58 , 4 2 Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku 13:19.58, 5 2 Albert Kibichii Rop 13:19.61 6 2 Ryan Hill 13:19.67 7 2 Richard Ringer 13:19.84 8 2 Galen Rupp 13:20.78 9 2 Ali Kaya 13:21.46 10 2 Isiah Koech 13:23.51 11 2 Aron Kifle 13:25.85 12 2 Phillip Kipyeko 13:26.20 13 2 Ilias Fifa 13:28.29 14 2 Hayle Ibrahimov 13:28.77 15 2 Collis Birmingham 13:34.58 16 1 Hagos Gebrhiwet 13:45.00 17 1 Ben True 13:45.09 18 1 Edwin Soi 13:45.28 19 1 Tom Farrell 13:45.29 20 1 Imane Merga 13:45.41 21 1 Abrar Osman 13:45.55 22 1 Suguru Osako 13:45.82 23 1 Emmanuel Kipsang 13:46.43 24 1 Cameron Levins 13:48.72 25 1 Brett Robinson 13:49.63 26 2 Jesús España 13:51.47 27 1 Alemayehu Bezabeh 13:54.13 28 1 Dennis Licht 13:57.61 29 1 Othmane El Goumri 13:58.06 30 1 Sindre Buraas 13:59.07 31 1 Kemoy Campbell 14:00.55 32 2 Kota Murayama 14:07.11 33 1 Aweke Ayalew 14:07.18 34 2 Duo Bujie 14:07.35 35 1 Félicien Muhitira 14:11.12 36 1 Víctor Aravena 14:29.34 37 1 Stuart Banda 14:49.31 38 2 Suleiman Abdille Borai 15:26.65 39 2 Abdullah Al-Qwabani 16:02.55 2 Younés Essalhi 1 Bashir Abdi
Final The final was started at 19:30Final results
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Mo Farah 13:50.38 Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku 13:51.75 Hagos Gebrhiwet 13:51.86 Yomif Kejelcha 13:52.43 Galen Rupp 13:53.90 Ben True 13:54.07 Ryan Hill 13:55.10 Isiah Koech 13:55.98 Ali Kaya 13:56.51 10 Edwin Soi 13:59.02 11 Albert Kibichii Rop 14:00.12 12 Mohammed Ahmed 14:00.38 13 Imane Merga 14:01.60 14 Richard Ringer 14:03.72 15 Tom Farrell 14:08.87
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