2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres

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Vivian Cheruiyot after leading the Kenyan sweep of the 10,000.
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The Women's 10,000 metres at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 27.

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Kenya entered a strong team including the 2009 champion Linet Masai, the reigning 5000 metres world champion Vivian Cheruiyot, and Sally Kipyego – the fastest 10,000 m runner that year. The next strongest competitors were the Ethiopian women, which included the 2009 runner-up Meselech Melkamu and Meseret Defar. The United States was represented by 2007 World bronze medallist Kara Goucher and 2008 Olympic third placer Shalane Flanagan (who was the second fastest that year). [1]

An American trio of Goucher, Flanagan and Jen Rhines set the pace in the initial stages of the competition. After around 3000 metres, the Kenyan and Ethiopian teams asserted themselves and it was only Flanagan and Shitaye Eshete who maintained the positions with them. The leading pack reached the halfway point in 15:47.04 minutes and the pace became increasingly quicker at this point – a fact which saw Tigist Kiros fall away from the pack. Flanagan and Eshete were the next to trail away, then Meseret Defar dropped out entirely with stomach pains, reducing the leading pack to the four Kenyans (Masai, Cheruiyot, Kipyego and Priscah Jepleting Cherono) and Meselech Melkamu. In the final lap, it was Cheruiyot and Kipyego who surged away into the lead. Cheruiyot held off her compatriot near the finish line to win the gold with a personal best of 30:48.98 minutes in what was only her third ever race over the distance. Kipyego took second, while Masai had a late run to take the bronze for a Kenyan sweep of the medals. Cherono was the fourth woman across the line and Meselech took fifth. [2] [3] Eshete ran a Bahraini record of 31:21.57 minutes for sixth.

Kenya became only the third country to have its athletes take positions one through four in an event (the other two being Ethiopia in the women's 5000 metres and the United States in the men's 200 metres, both at 2005 World Championships). [2] The podium sweep was also unique in that it was the first time any nation had won all the medals on one day of the championships, as Kenyan women had taken all three medals in the women's marathon (the only other final of the first day). [3]

Medalists

GoldSilverBronze
Vivian Cheruiyot
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya  (KEN)
Sally Kipyego
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya  (KEN)
Linet Masai
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya  (KEN)

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Junxia Wang  (CHN)29:31.78 Beijing, China 8 September 1993
Championship record Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Berhane Adere  (ETH)30:04.18 Paris, France 23 August 2003
World LeadingFlag of Kenya.svg  Sally Kipyego  (KEN)30:38.35 Palo Alto, CA, United States 29 May 2011
African record Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Meselech Melkamu  (ETH)29:53.80 Utrecht, Netherlands 14 June 2009
Asian record Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Junxia Wang  (CHN)29:31.78Beijing, China8 September 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record Flag of the United States.svg  Shalane Flanagan  (USA)30:22.22Beijing, China15 August 2008
South American record Flag of Brazil.svg  Simone da Silva  (BRA)31:16.56 São Paulo, Brazil 3 August 2011
European record Flag of Turkey.svg  Elvan Abeylegesse  (TUR)29:56.34Beijing, China15 August 2008
Oceanian record Flag of New Zealand.svg  Kim Smith  (NZL)30:35.54Palo Alto, CA, United States4 May 2008

Qualification standards

A timeB time
31:45.0032:00.00

Schedule

DateTimeRound
August 27, 201121:00 Final

Results

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Vivian Cheruiyot Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya  (KEN)30:48.98PB
Silver medal icon.svg Sally Kipyego Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya  (KEN)30:50.04
Bronze medal icon.svg Linet Masai Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya  (KEN)30:53.59SB
4 Priscah Jepleting Cherono Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya  (KEN)30:56.43PB
5 Meselech Melkamu Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia  (ETH)30:56.55SB
6 Shitaye Eshete Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain  (BHR)31:21.57 NR
7 Shalane Flanagan Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)31:25.57
8 Ana Dulce Félix Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal  (POR)31:37.03
9 Jennifer Rhines Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)31:47.59
10 Jessica Augusto Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal  (POR)32:06.68SB
11 Tigist Kiros Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia  (ETH)32:11.37
12 Christelle Daunay Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)32:22.20
13 Kara Goucher Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)32:29.58
14 Hikari Yoshimoto Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)32:32.22
15 Kayo Sugihara Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)32:53.89
16 Krisztina Papp Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary  (HUN)32:56.02
17 Megumi Kinukawa Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)34:08.37SB
Meseret Defar Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia  (ETH)DNF
Eloise Wellings Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)DNS

References

  1. Johnson, Len (2011-08-22). Women's 10,000m - PREVIEW Archived 2012-08-01 at the Wayback Machine . IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-24.
  2. 1 2 Johnson, Len (2011-08-27). Women's 10,000m Final - Cheruiyot leads Kenyan 1-2-3-4 (!) finish Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine . IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-28.
  3. 1 2 Mulkeen, Jon (2011-08-27). Cheruiyot wins 10,000m as Kenya dominate once more Archived 2012-06-16 at the Wayback Machine . Athletics Weekly . Retrieved on 2011-08-28.