The Women's 5,000 metres event at the 2005 World Championships was held on August 10 and August 13 at the

Helsinki Olympic Stadium The Helsinki Olympic Stadium ( fi, Helsingin Olympiastadion; sv, Helsingfors Olympiastadion), located in the Töölö district about from the centre of the Finnish capital Helsinki, is the largest stadium in the country, nowadays mainly used ...

Medalists

Heats

Heat 1

Tirunesh Dibaba Tirunesh Dibaba ( om, Xirunesh Dibaabaa, Amharic: ጥሩነሽ ዲባባ ቀነኒ; born 1 June 1985) is an Ethiopian athlete who competed in long-distance track events and international road races. She has won three Olympic track gold medal ...

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

14:50.98 Q #

Meselech Melkamu Meselech Melkamu born 27 April 1985 in Debre Marqos) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She defeated Meseret Defar to win the 5000 metres gold medal at the 2008 African Athletics Championships, but she is better known for her 29:53.80 run ...

, Ethiopia 14:51.49 Q #

Joanne Pavey Joanne Marie Pavey MBE (née Davis, born 20 September 1973) is a British long-distance runner and a World, European and Commonwealth medallist. She won the 10,000 m gold medal at the 2014 European Championships in Zürich, ten months a ...

, United Kingdom, Great Britain 14:53.82 Q # Prisca Jepleting Ngetich, Kenya 14:54.50 Q (SB) # Marta Domínguez, Spain 14:56.02 q # Volha Kravtsova, Belarus 14:56.16 q (NR) # Zakia Mrisho Mohamed, Tanzania 14:57.22 q (NR) # Sun Yingjie, People's Republic of China, China 14:58.34 q (SB) # Kayoko Fukushi, Japan 15:05.77 q # Lauren Fleshman, United States 15:32.05 # Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgium 15:47.01 # Maryna Dubrova, Ukraine 16:01.88 # Anesie Kwizera, Burundi 16:06.66 (NR) # Catherine Chikwakwa, Malawi 16:11.63 (SB) # Jessica Augusto, Portugal 16:23.66

Heat 2

# Meseret Defar, Ethiopia 15:13.52 Q # Ejegayehu Dibaba, Ethiopia 15:14.33 Q # Xing Huina, China 15:14.48 Q (SB) # Liliya Shobukhova, Russia 15:14.63 Q # Isabella Ochichi, Kenya 15:16.51 q # Susanne Wigene, Norway 15:18.38 q # Shalane Flanagan, United States 15:20.59 # Maria Protopappa, Greece 15:32.04 # Amy Rudolph, United States 15:32.73 # Margaret Maury, France 15:35.65 # Dulce Maria Rodriguez, Mexico 15:44.65 (SB) # Anikó Kálovics, Hungary 15:46.36 # Simret Sultan, Eritrea 15:47.46 # Maria McCambridge, Republic of Ireland, Ireland 16:05.44 # Miriam Kaumba, Zambia 16:10.70

Final

, Ethiopia 14:38.59 (CR) # Meseret Defar, Ethiopia 14:39.54 # Ejegayehu Dibaba, Ethiopia 14:42.47 #

, Ethiopia 14:43.47 # Xing Huina, China 14:43.64 (PB) # Zakia Mrisho Mohamed, Tanzania 14:43.87 (NR) # Prisca Jepleting Ngetich, Kenya 14:44.00 (PB) # Isabella Ochichi, Kenya 14:45.14 (PB) # Liliya Shobukhova, Russia 14:47.07 (PB) # Volha Kravtsova, Belarus 14:47.75 (NR) # Sun Yingjie, China 14:51.19 (SB) # Kayoko Fukushi, Japan 14:59.92 # Susanne Wigene, Norway 15:00.23 # Marta Domínguez, Spain 15:02.30 #

, Great Britain 15:14.37

External links

IAAF results (heats)Results–World Athletics
{{DEFAULTSORT:2005 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 5000 metres Events at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, 50 km walk 5000 metres at the World Athletics Championships 2005 in women's athletics