2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres
at the 2017 World Championships
Men's 5000 metres ; at the 2017 World Championships
	The final.
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	9 August (heats); 12 August (final)
Competitors	40 from 23 nations
Winning time	13:32.79
Medalists
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Last updated April 16, 2023

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The men's 5000 metres at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on 9−12 August.^[1] This race was announced as the last track race of Mo Farah's career as he intends to focus on marathon running and road racing. Farah had been in every final since 2007, winning three straight since 2011.

Summary

In the final, Farah (GBR) started faster than normal, after the pack congealed landing in second place behind Paul Chelimo (USA) who ran around the crowd to get to the front. Chelimo took the field through an aggressive 62 second lap. The second lap was a decidedly more relaxed 71 seconds, bringing Andrew Butchart (GBR) to the front, to look at Chelimo then take the point with his teammate Farah in tow. But Butchart didn't increase the pace, instead it slowed slightly to 72 seconds. Muktar Edris (ETH) came forward. After running shoulder to shoulder with Farah for 200 metres, Edris went out into the lead, but the pace didn't quicken. After another slow lap, he slowed and left Farah exposed on the front. 17 year old 2016 World Junior Champion Selemon Barega came from the back of the pack to take the lead. Barega increased the pace opening up several metres on Farah at the head of the pack with a 65-second lap, then he slowed again an Ethiopian leaving Farah exposed on the front of the pack. Another 66 second lap as Chelimo came back to take a turn at the front.

With five laps to go Patrick Tiernan ran around the field to take the lead. Tiernan moved the pace up to 64 seconds but the rest of the field didn't chase, letting him break away to a 10-metre lead. The next lap was under 63 seconds, with Yomif Kejelcha (ETH) coming to the front of the pack but leaving Farah to lead the group. Into the last two laps, a time when Farah does not like to get passed, he stayed ahead of Kejelcha, the overall quicken pace overtaking Tiernan with 600 metres to go. Shortly after passing Tiernan, Butchart rushed forward to get on Farah's shoulder to form a British wall similar to the ending stages of the Olympics. Through the turn, Kejelcha fought his way around the outside of the wall and onto the homestretch to take the lead going into the bell with the rest of the Ethiopian team, Edris and Barega lining up on the outside, next to Farah, Mohammed Ahmed (CAN), and Chelimo on the inside. At the bell, Edris was shoulder to shoulder with Farah.

Through the penultimate turn, Edris got ahead of Farah and onto the back of Kejelcha. The two Ethiopians opened up a 2-metre lead on Farah on the backstretch, leaving Farah in the unfamiliar position of having to sprint to catch up. But Chelimo had more speed, catching Farah from behind and moving to his outside shoulder as they gained on the Ethiopian duo, effectively leaving Farah boxed in on the curb. Coming off the final turn, Farah was looking for running room, which suddenly materialized in front of him as Kejelcha drifted out. Edris sprinted away from his teammate while Farah was still weaving his way past Kejelcha, with Chelimo going the outside route, both two metres behind Edris. Farah's race was for second place, with Edris expanding his lead to the finish. Farah was able to barely hold off Chelimo for silver. Unlike the spring in his step following his previous string of victories, it was Farah lying exhausted on the track.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[2]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	12:37.35	Kenenisa Bekele	ETH	31 May 2004	Hengelo, Netherlands
Championship	12:52.79	Eliud Kipchoge	KEN	31 Aug 2003	Saint-Denis, France
World leading	12:55.23	Muktar Edris	ETH	6 Jul 2017	Lausanne, Switzerland
African	12:37.35	Kenenisa Bekele	ETH	31 May 2004	Hengelo, Netherlands
Asian	12:51.96	Albert Kibichii Rop	BHR	19 Jul 2013	Monaco
NACAC	12:53.60	Bernard Lagat	USA	22 Jul 2011	Monaco
South American	13:19.43	Marilson dos Santos	BRA	8 Jun 2006	Kassel, Germany
European	12:49.71	Mohammed Mourhit	BEL	25 Aug 2000	Brussels, Belgium
Oceanian	12:55.76	Craig Mottram	AUS	30 Jul 2004	London, Great Britain

No records were set at the competition.^[3]

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 13:22.60.^[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows:^[5]

Date	Time	Round
9 August	20:05	Heats
12 August	20:20	Final

Results

Heats

The first round took place on 9 August in two heats as follows:^[6]

Heat	1	2
Start time	20:06	20:29
Photo finish	link	link

The first five in each heat ( Q ) and the next five fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:^[7]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Selemon Barega	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:21.50	Q
2	2	Birhanu Balew	Bahrain (BHR)	13:21.91	Q
3	2	Cyrus Rutto	Kenya (KEN)	13:22.45	Q
4	2	Patrick Tiernan	Australia (AUS)	13:22.52	Q
5	2	Ryan Hill	United States (USA)	13:22.79	Q
6	2	Mohammed Ahmed	Canada (CAN)	13:22.97	q
7	2	Andrew Butchart	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13:24.78	q
8	2	Paul Chelimo	United States (USA)	13:24.88	q
9	2	Kemoy Campbell	Jamaica (JAM)	13:26.67	q
10	2	Awet Habte	Eritrea (ERI)	13:27.70	q
11	2	Soufiane Bouchikhi	Belgium (BEL)	13:28.64
12	2	Jamal Abdi Dirieh	Djibouti (DJI)	13:28.98
13	2	Zouhair Aouad	Bahrain (BHR)	13:29.28
14	1	Yomif Kejelcha	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:30.07	Q
15	1	Mo Farah	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13:30.18	Q
16	1	Muktar Edris	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:30.22	Q
17	1	Justyn Knight	Canada (CAN)	13:30.27	Q
18	1	Aron Kifle	Eritrea (ERI)	13:30.36	Q
19	1	Bashir Abdi	Belgium (BEL)	13:30.71
20	1	Morgan McDonald	Australia (AUS)	13:30.73
21	1	Soufiyan Bouqantar	Morocco (MAR)	13:30.78
22	1	Jacob Kiplimo	Uganda (UGA)	13:30.92
23	1	Eric Jenkins	United States (USA)	13:31.09
24	1	Sam McEntee	Australia (AUS)	13:31.58
25	2	Sondre Nordstad Moen	Norway (NOR)	13:31.71
26	1	Hayle Ibrahimov	Azerbaijan (AZE)	13:32.15
27	1	Emanuel Giniki Gisamoda	Tanzania (TAN)	13:32.31
28	1	Albert Kibichii Rop	Bahrain (BHR)	13:32.40
29	2	Stephen Kissa	Uganda (UGA)	13:32.86
30	2	Josphat Kiprono Menjo	Kenya (KEN)	13:35.68
31	1	Govindan Lakshmanan	India (IND)	13:35.69	PB
32	2	Richard Ringer	Germany (GER)	13:36.87
33	1	Ilias Fifa	Spain (ESP)	13:47.90
34	2	Marc Scott	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13:58.11
35	1	Kadar Omar Abdullahi	Athlete Refugee Team (ART)	14:32.67	PB
36	1	Mohamed Daud Mohamed	Somalia (SOM)	14:34.27	PB
37	1	Davis Kiplangat	Kenya (KEN)	14:52.98
38	1	David Kulang	South Sudan (SSD)	14:53.19	SB
39	1	Mohamed Sambe	Mauritania (MTN)	16:16.29	PB
	2	Brahim Kaazouzi	Morocco (MAR)	DNF
	2	Gabriel Gerald Geay	Tanzania (TAN)	DNS
	2	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia (ETH)	DNS

Final

The final took place on 12 August at 20:21. The results were as follows (photo finish):^[8]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Muktar Edris	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:32.79
	Mo Farah	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13:33.22
	Paul Chelimo	United States (USA)	13:33.30
4	Yomif Kejelcha	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:33.51
5	Selemon Barega	Ethiopia (ETH)	13:35.34
6	Mohammed Ahmed	Canada (CAN)	13:35.43
7	Aron Kifle	Eritrea (ERI)	13:36.91
8	Andrew Butchart	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13:38.73
9	Justyn Knight	Canada (CAN)	13:39.15
10	Kemoy Campbell	Jamaica (JAM)	13:39.74
11	Patrick Tiernan	Australia (AUS)	13:40.01
12	Birhanu Balew	Bahrain (BHR)	13:43.25
13	Cyrus Rutto	Kenya (KEN)	13:48.64
14	Awet Habte	Eritrea (ERI)	13:58.68
	Ryan Hill	United States (USA)	DNS

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References

↑ Start list
↑ "5000 Metres Men − Records". IAAF . Retrieved 31 July 2017.
↑ "Records Set - Final" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 14 August 2017.
↑ "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
↑ "5000 Metres Men − Timetable". IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
↑ "5000 Metres Men − Heats − Results" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
↑ "5000 Metres Men − Heats − Summary" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
↑ "5000 Metres Men − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 13 August 2017.

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[1] Start list

[2] "5000 Metres Men − Records". IAAF . Retrieved 31 July 2017.

[3] "Records Set - Final" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 14 August 2017.

[4] "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.

[Timetable-5] "5000 Metres Men − Timetable". IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.

[6] "5000 Metres Men − Heats − Results" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.

[7] "5000 Metres Men − Heats − Summary" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.

[8] "5000 Metres Men − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 13 August 2017.

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Events at the 2017 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	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
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