Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 10,000 metres

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Women's 10,000 metres
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Interior view of the Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, where the Women's 10,000m took place.
Venue Olympic Stadium
Date12 August
Competitors37 from 24 nations
Winning time29:17.45 WR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Almaz Ayana Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia
Silver medal icon.svg Vivian Cheruiyot Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya
Bronze medal icon.svg Tirunesh Dibaba Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia
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The women's 10,000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 12 August at the Olympic Stadium. [1] The gold medal was won by Ethiopian Almaz Ayana—in only her second 10,000 m race on the track—in a world record time of 29 minutes, 17.45 seconds. London 2012 bronze medallist Vivian Cheruiyot won silver for Kenya, with reigning Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia taking bronze. [2]

Summary

Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba entered as the defending 2012 Olympic champion and Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya was the reigning 10,000 m World Champion at that point. However, it was Almaz Ayana who had the season-leading time of 30:07.00, the fastest time recorded in seven years for the distance and also her debut. [3]

At the start of the race the 37-woman field was led by Alice Aprot Nawowuna of Kenya. Nawowuna quickly increased the pace, turning the group of runners into a single file, and after five laps the leading group was reduced to eight: three Kenyans (Nawowuna, Cheruiyot and Betsy Saina), three Ethiopians (Almaz Ayana, Tirunesh Dibaba and Gelete Burka), Kenyan ex-pat Yasemin Can of Turkey and Molly Huddle of the United States. The pace remained high from that point on, unusual for an international championship. Huddle was the first to fall away from the pack, followed by Gelete Burka. With twelve laps remaining, Almaz Ayana suddenly took the lead from Nawowuna, disrupting a leading group that had already begun to lap the race's slower runners. [4]

Almaz Ayana continued the fast pace and even increased it, regularly running under 71 seconds per lap. Cheruiyot was the only other athlete near, though she was still some 15–20 metres behind. Almaz lapped all the runners from tenth downwards and completed the distance in 29:17.45, [4] knocking 14 seconds off Wang Junxia's 22-year-old record (which itself had stood twenty-two seconds faster than any athlete before that point). Cheruiyot was runner-up and less than a second outside of the old world record. Defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba won the bronze with the fourth fastest time ever and Nawowuna was also under half an hour to record the fifth fastest time ever in fourth place. [5] [6]

In addition to Almaz Ayana's world and Olympic record time, a total of eight national records were broken at the competition. Molly Huddle's run of 30:13.17 in sixth place was the area record for the North, Central American and Caribbean region and number 17 of all time. In fifteenth place, just 5 weeks short of 43 years old, Jo Pavey set the Masters World Record at 31:33.44. Further down the field, only four of the top twenty athletes did not set personal bests.

The medals for the competition were presented by Mrs. Dagmawit Girmay Berhane, IOC member, and the gifts were presented by Lord Sebastian Coe, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations.

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC−3).

DateTimeRound
Friday, 12 August 201611:10Finals

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World recordFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Wang Junxia  (CHN)29:31.78 Beijing, China 8 September 1993
Olympic recordFlag of Ethiopia.svg  Tirunesh Dibaba  (ETH)29:54.66 Beijing, China 15 August 2008
2016 World leadingFlag of Ethiopia.svg  Almaz Ayana  (ETH)30:07.00 Hengelo, Netherlands 29 June 2016

The following records were established during the competition:

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
12 AugustFinal Almaz Ayana Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 29:17.45 WR

The following national records were established during the competition:

CountryAthleteRoundTimeNotes
Ethiopia Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Almaz Ayana  (ETH)Final29:17.45 WR, OR, AR
Kenya Flag of Kenya.svg  Vivian Cheruiyot  (KEN)Final29:32.53
United States Flag of the United States.svg  Molly Huddle  (USA)Final30:13.17 AR
Sweden Flag of Sweden.svg  Sarah Lahti  (SWE)Final31:28.43
Burundi Flag of Burundi.svg  Diane Nukuri  (BDI)Final31:28.69
Greece Flag of Greece.svg  Alexi Pappas  (GRE)Final31:36.16
Kyrgyzstan Flag of Kyrgyzstan (1992-2023).svg  Darya Maslova  (KGZ)Final31:36.90
Uzbekistan Flag of Uzbekistan (3-2).svg  Sitora Hamidova  (UZB)Final31:57.77

Results

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Almaz Ayana Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 29:17.45 WR, OR, AR
Silver medal icon.svg Vivian Cheruiyot Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 29:32.53 NR
Bronze medal icon.svg Tirunesh Dibaba Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 29:42.56 PB
4 Alice Aprot Nawowuna Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 29:53.51 PB
5 Betsy Saina Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 30:07.78 PB
6 Molly Huddle Flag of the United States.svg  United States 30:13.17 AR
7 Yasemin Can Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 30:26.41 PB
8 Gelete Burka Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 30:26.66 PB
9 Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 31:14.07 PB
10 Eloise Wellings Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 31:14.94 PB
11 Emily Infeld Flag of the United States.svg  United States 31:26.94 PB
12 Sarah Lahti Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 31:28.43 NR
13 Diane Nukuri Flag of Burundi.svg  Burundi 31:28.69 NR
14 Susan Kuijken Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 31:32.43
15 Jo Pavey Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 31:33.44 SB, WMR
16 Jess Andrews Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 31:35.92 PB
17 Alexi Pappas Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 31:36.16 NR
18 Yuka Takashima Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 31:36.44
19 Darya Maslova Flag of Kyrgyzstan (1992-2023).svg  Kyrgyzstan 31:36.90 NR
20 Hanami Sekine Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 31:44.44
21 Dominique Scott Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 31:51.47 PB
22 Natasha Wodak Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 31:53.14 SB
23 Alia Saeed Mohammed Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 31:56.74
24 Sitora Hamidova Flag of Uzbekistan (3-2).svg  Uzbekistan 31:57.77 NR
25 Lanni Marchant Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 32:04.21 SB
26 Carla Salomé Rocha Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 32:06.05
27 Salome Nyirarukundo Flag of Rwanda.svg  Rwanda 32:07.80
28 Jip Vastenburg Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 32:08.92
29 Trihas Gebre Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 32:09.67 SB
30 Veronica Inglese Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 32:11.67
31 Tatiele de Carvalho Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 32:38.21
32 Brenda Flores Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 32:39.08 SB
33 Marielle Hall Flag of the United States.svg  United States 32:39.32
34 Beth Potter Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 33:04.34
35 Marisol Romero Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 35:33.03
Ekaterina Tunguskova Flag of Uzbekistan (3-2).svg  Uzbekistan DNF
Juliet Chekwel Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda DNF

References

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