2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres

Events at the 2007 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
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
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
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 5000 metres at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Nagai Stadium on 29 August and 1 September.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	Vivian Cheruiyot  Kenya	Priscah Jepleting Cherono  Kenya

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 29, 2007	20:05	Heats
September 1, 2007	20:30	Final

Results

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

WR

World record

AR

Area record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey	15:06.26	Q, SB
2	1	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	15:06.54	Q
3	1	Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet	Kenya	15:06.54	Q
4	1	Gelete Burka	Ethiopia	15:07.21	Q
5	1	Shalane Flanagan	United States	15:07.47	Q
6	2	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	15:10.13	Q
7	2	Meselech Melkamu	Ethiopia	15:10.32	Q
8	2	Priscah Jepleting Cherono	Kenya	15:11.22	Q
9	2	Joanne Pavey	United Kingdom	15:11.83	Q, SB
10	2	Jennifer Rhines	United States	15:14.30	Q
11	2	Silvia Weissteiner	Italy	15:15.74	q
12	2	Mariya Konovalova	Russia	15:16.49	q
13	1	Volha Krautsova	Belarus	15:17.64	q, SB
14	1	Kayoko Fukushi	Japan	15:19.67	q
15	2	Jessica Augusto	Portugal	15:21.23	q
16	1	Simret Sultan	Eritrea	15:25.29
17	2	Kayo Sugihara	Japan	15:31.44
18	2	Zakia Mrisho Mohamed	Tanzania	15:33.81
19	2	Mary Teresa Cullen	Ireland	15:40.53
20	2	Angeline Nyiransabimana	Rwanda	15:53.23	NR
21	1	Michelle Sikes	United States	15:54.06
22	1	Nora Leticia Rocha	Mexico	16:34.74
23	1	Lucia Chandamale	Malawi	16:35.75	PB
24	1	Francine Niyonizigiye	Burundi	17:25.22	SB
25	2	Gabriela Traña	Costa Rica	17:45.56	SB
-	2	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli	Morocco	DNF
-	1	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	DNS
-	1	Yekaterina Volkova	Russia	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	14:57.91
	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	14:58.50
	Priscah Jepleting Cherono	Kenya	14:59.21
4	Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet	Kenya	14:59.26	PB
5	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey	15:00.88	SB
6	Meselech Melkamu	Ethiopia	15:01.42
7	Jennifer Rhines	United States	15:03.09
8	Shalane Flanagan	United States	15:03.86
9	Joanne Pavey	United Kingdom	15:04.77	SB
10	Gelete Burka	Ethiopia	15:07.46
11	Mariya Konovalova	Russia	15:09.71
12	Silvia Weissteiner	Italy	15:11.81	PB
13	Volha Krautsova	Belarus	15:11.82	SB
14	Kayoko Fukushi	Japan	15:19.40
15	Jessica Augusto	Portugal	15:24.93

References

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