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

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

Gold	Silver	Bronze
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 record	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	14:30.88	Bergen	June 11, 2004
Championship record	Meselech Melkamu	Ethiopia	15:21.52	Grosseto	July 13, 2004

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	WJR	CR
July 21	Final	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	15:08.06		CR

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	15:08.06	CR
	Mercy Cherono	Kenya	15:09.19
	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.

•   Bahrain (1)
•   Canada (1)
•   Ethiopia (2)
•   Italy (1)
•   Japan (2)
•   Kenya (2)
•   Mexico (1)
•   Russia (1)
•   South Korea (1)
•   United Kingdom (1)
•   United States (1)

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 March 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF , retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• 5,000 metres results from IAAF. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-22.
• 13th IAAF World Junior Championships Facts & Figures. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-22.