Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

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Men's 5000 metres
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Mo Farah (5000m Olympic Final).jpg
Farah (right) leading in the closing moments of the race, leading Gebremeskel, Gebrhiwet, Alamirew, and Koech.
Venue Olympic Stadium
Date8–11 August
Competitors43 from 26 nations
Winning time13:41.66
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Mo Farah Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Dejen Gebremeskel Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia
Bronze medal icon.svg Thomas Pkemei
Longosiwa
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya
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The men's 5000 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 8–11 August. [1] In a tactical, slow race, the gold medal was won by 0.32 seconds by reigning World champion Mo Farah of host Great Britain, completing a distance double having won the 10,000 metres a week earlier. Ethiopia's Dejen Gebremeskel took silver, with Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa of Kenya in bronze position.

Summary

The final race started out slowly, the first lap in 74.1 and only that fast because Hayle Ibrahimov accelerated the last 100. The field continued running splits in the 70s, Lopez Lomong leading through 2000 in a pedestrian 5:56.7. In the seventh lap Yenew Alamirew moved to the front and accelerated the pace, the next several laps down below 62, Mo Farah the only one to break up the Ethiopian team at the front. With 700 to go, Farah took the lead, his training partner Galen Rupp joining him with 500 to go, as the rest of the field jostling to be in position to sprint. First Hagos Gebrhiwet challenged, then disappeared. Down the backstretch, Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa challenged, with Abdalaati Iguider immediately behind. Dejen Gebremeskel, Bernard Lagat and Isiah Kiplangat Koech packing up around the final turn. At the head of the stretch, Koech contacted Lagat as he was just coming clear to sprint, Lagat stumbling. Meanwhile, Farah was accelerating ahead of Longosiwa, who couldn't handle the speed. Gebremeskel went around the outside with Lagat's delayed sprint unable to catch Longosiwa. The winning time was more than 15 seconds slower than the slowest time in qualifying.

Competition format

The Men's 5000m competition consisted of heats (Round 1) and a Final. [2] A total of fifteen competitors qualified for the Final from the heats. [3]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World recordFlag of Ethiopia.svg  Kenenisa Bekele  (ETH)12:37.35 Hengelo, Netherlands 31 May 2004
Olympic recordFlag of Ethiopia.svg  Kenenisa Bekele  (ETH)12:57.82 Beijing, China 23 August 2008
2012 World leadingFlag of Ethiopia.svg  Dejen Gebremeskel  (ETH)12:46.81 Paris (Saint-Denis), France 6 July 2012

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

DateTimeRound
Wednesday, 8 August 201210:45Round 1
Saturday, 11 August 201219:30Finals

Results

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Official Video of Round 1

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 5 of each heat (Q) plus the 5 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1 Hayle Ibrahimov Flag of Azerbaijan (1991-2013).svg  Azerbaijan 13:25.23Q
2 Isiah Kiplangat Koech Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 13:25.64Q
3 Mo Farah Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 13:26.00Q
4 Lopez Lomong Flag of the United States.svg  United States 13:26.16Q
5 Hagos Gebrhiwet Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 13:26.16Q
6 Edwin Cheruiyot Soi Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 13:27.06
7 Arne Gabius Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 13:28.01
8 Daniele Meucci Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 13:28.71
9 Moukheld Al-Outaibi Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia 13:31.47
10 Bilisuma Shugi Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain 13:31.84
11 Yuki Sato Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 13:38.22
12 David McNeill Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 13:45.88
13 Olivier Irabaruta Flag of Burundi.svg  Burundi 13:46.25
14 Aziz Lahbabi Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 13:47.57
15 Amanuel Mesel Flag of Eritrea.svg  Eritrea 13:48.13SB
16 Collis Birmingham Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 13:50.39
17 Serhiy Lebid Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 13:53.15
18 Geofrey Kusuro Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 13:59.74SB
19 Hussain Jamaan Alhamdah Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia 14:00.43
20 Rene Herrera Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines 14:44.11PB
Teklemariam Medhin Flag of Eritrea.svg  Eritrea DNS
Hassan Hirt Flag of France.svg  France DQ*
  • Hassan Hirt originally finished 11th in a time of 13:35.36, but was later disqualified after testing positive for EPO. [4]

Heat 2

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1 Dejen Gebremeskel Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 13:15.15Q
2 Yenew Alamirew Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 13:15.39Q
3 Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 13:15.41Q
4 Bernard Lagat Flag of the United States.svg  United States 13:15.45Q
5 Abdalaati Iguider Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 13:15.49Q
6 Galen Rupp Flag of the United States.svg  United States 13:17.56q
7 Moses Ndiema Kipsiro Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 13:17.68q
8 Cameron Levins Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 13:18.29q, PB
9 Juan Luis Barrios Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 13:21.01q
10 Mumin Gala Flag of Djibouti.svg  Djibouti 13:21.21q, SB
11 Abrar Osman Adem Flag of Eritrea.svg  Eritrea 13:24.40
12 Nick McCormick Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 13:25.70
13 Polat Kemboi Arikan Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 13:27.21
14 Rabah Aboud Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 13:28.38
15 Abraham Kiplimo Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 13:31.57
16 Craig Mottram Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 13:40.24
17 Alistair Ian Cragg Flag of Ireland (3-2).svg  Ireland 13:47.01
18 Soufiyan Bouqantar Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 13:47.63
19 Javier Carriqueo Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 13:57.07SB
20 Abdullah Abdulaziz Aljoud Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia 14:11.12
21 Ruben Sança Flag of Cape Verde.svg  Cape Verde 14:35.19

Final

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Mo Farah Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 13:41.66
Silver medal icon.svg Dejen Gebremeskel Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 13:41.98
Bronze medal icon.svg Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 13:42.36
4 Bernard Lagat Flag of the United States.svg  United States 13:42.99
5 Isiah Kiplangat Koech Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 13:43.83
6 Abdalaati Iguider Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 13:44.19
7 Galen Rupp Flag of the United States.svg  United States 13:45.04
8 Juan Luis Barrios Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 13:45.30
9 Hayle Ibrahimov Flag of Azerbaijan (1991-2013).svg  Azerbaijan 13:45.37
10 Lopez Lomong Flag of the United States.svg  United States 13:48.19
11 Hagos Gebrhiwet Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 13:49.59
12 Yenew Alamirew Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 13:49.68
13 Mumin Gala Flag of Djibouti.svg  Djibouti 13:50.26
14 Cameron Levins Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 13:51.87
15 Moses Ndiema Kipsiro Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 13:52.25

Notes: Q- Qualified by place
q - Qualified by performance (time)
PB - Personal Best
NR - National Record
SB - Seasonal Best
DQ - DisQualified
DNS - Did Not Start
DNF - Did Not Finish

References

  1. "Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics". Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
  2. "Men's 5000m". London 2012 Organising Committee. Archived from the original on 9 December 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  3. "5000m competition format". London 2012 Organising Committee. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  4. "French Olympic runner fails doping test". France 24 . France Médias Monde. AFP. 10 August 2012. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2014.