Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 5000 metres

Women's 5000 metres at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Stade de France, Paris, France [1]
Dates	2 August 2024 (round 1) 5 August 2024 (final)
Competitors	41 from 25 nations
Winning time	14:28.56
Medalists
Beatrice Chebet   Kenya Faith Kipyegon   Kenya Sifan Hassan   Netherlands
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The women's 5000 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in two rounds at the Stade de France in Paris, France, on 2 and 5 August 2024. This was the eighth time that the women's 5000 metres is contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 43 athletes were to qualify for the event by entry standard or ranking.

Summary

At the previous Olympics, Sifan Hassan was virtually unbeatable at the end of races. She returns to defend her championship but since then her results have been more sketchy. Gudaf Tsegay, returning bronze medalist, won the 2022 World Championships, uncharacteristically out kicking Beatrice Chebet. Then in 2023, 1500 world record holder Faith Kipyegon joined the mix beating Hassan and Chebet while Tsegay applied her efforts to win the 10,000. Ethiopia didn't select the season's world leader Tsigie Gebreselama, but did select Ejgayehu Taye, 2023 10,000 bronze medalist, who finished .16 behind her at the 2024 Prefontaine Classic, by far the fastest race of the season. ^[2]

At the gun in the final, Kipyegon went to the front to control the pace. With her superior finishing speed, she didn't want to run fast. Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal wanted to make the race faster and moved to the front, Nadia Battocletti and Chebet dropped in behind her. Near the halfway point, Taye moved to the front, with Tsegay joining her to try to do some team tactics. After two faster laps, Kipyegon moved back to the front. With just under three laps to go, Tsegay moved to the front to challenge Kipyegon. Kipyegon didn't think Tsegay had enough space to pass, the two exchanged elbows. As the pace quickened, Hassan moved from the back of the field, to the back of the leading group as stragglers fell off. All three Kenyans hit the bell, Kipyegon followed closely by Chebet and Margaret Kipkemboi. A few steps behind, Hassan left the chasing group and set off after the departing Kenyans. Hassan got by Kipkemboi but couldn't make progress against Chebet and Kipyegon. Kipyegon's grinding speed didn't break Chebet, instead, waiting until the home stretch, Chebet found another gear and out-sprinted Kipyegon for the gold. ^[3]

Kipyegon was originally disqualified after the race for an earlier race incident with Tsegay. With a 59.5 final lap, Battocletti finished fourth and was advanced to the bronze behind Hassan. However, after a protest, Kipyegon was reinstated as the silver medallist and the original results were restored. ^{[4] [5]}

Background

The women's 5000 metres has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1996, when the event replaced the women's 3000 metres to match the men's event.

Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics

Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
World record	Gudaf Tsegay  (ETH)	14:00.21 [6]	Eugene, United States	17 September 2023
Olympic record	Vivian Cheruiyot  (KEN)	14:26.72	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	19 August 2016
World leading	Tsigie Gebreselama  (ETH)	14:18.76 [7]	Eugene, United States	25 May 2024

Area records before the 2024 Summer Olympics ^[8]

Area record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)
Africa ( records )	Gudaf Tsegay  (ETH)	14:00.21 WR
Asia ( records )	Bo Jiang  (CHN)	14:28.09
Europe ( records )	Sifan Hassan  (NED)	14:13.42
North, Central America and Caribbean ( records )	Alicia Monson  (USA)	14:19.45
Oceania ( records )	Kimberley Smith  (AUS)	14:39.89
South America ( records )	Joselyn Brea  (VEN)	14:36.59

Qualification

Main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification § Women's 5000 m

For the women's 5000 metres event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. ^[9] 45 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by running the entry standard of 14:52.00 seconds or faster or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event. ^[9]

Results

Round 1

Round 1 was held on 2 August, starting at 18:10 (UTC+2) in the evening. ^[1] First 8 in each heat (Q) advance to the final. ^[10]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	14:57.56	Q
2	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	14:57.65 (.641)	Q
3	Nadia Battocletti	Italy	14:57.65 (.647)	Q
4	Margaret Kipkemboi	Kenya	14:57.70	Q
5	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	14:57.84	Q, SB
6	Ejgayehu Taye	Ethiopia	14:57.97	Q
7	Elise Cranny	United States	14:58.55	Q
8	Karissa Schweizer	United States	14:59.64	Q
9	Nozomi Tanaka	Japan	15:00.62
10	Marta García	Spain	15:08.87
11	Mariana Machado	Portugal	15:23.26
12	Belinda Chemutai	Uganda	15:23.90
13	Lauren Ryan	Australia	15:29.35
14	Hanna Klein	Germany	15:31.85
15	Lisa Rooms	Belgium	15:37.55
16	Agate Caune	Latvia	15:38.19
17	Yuma Yamamoto	Japan	15:43.67
18	Alma Delia Cortés	Mexico	15:45.33
19	Briana Scott	Canada	15:47.30
20	Ankita Dhyani	India	16:19.38
	Joy Cheptoyek	Uganda	DNS

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Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Beatrice Chebet	Kenya	15:00.73	Q
2	Medina Eisa	Ethiopia	15:00.82	Q
3	Rose Davies	Australia	15:00.86	Q
4	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway	15:01.14	Q
5	Francine Niyomukunzi	Burundi	15:01.42	Q
6	Whittni Morgan	United States	15:02.14	Q, SB
7	Nathalie Blomqvist	Finland	15:02.75	Q
8	Joselyn Brea	Venezuela	15:02.89	Q
9	Isobel Batt-Doyle	Australia	15:03.64
10	Maureen Koster	Netherlands	15:03.66
11	Laura Galván	Mexico	15:05.20	SB
12	Klara Lukan	Slovenia	15:09.61
13	Esther Chebet	Uganda	15:10.46
14	Parul Chaudhary	India	15:10.68	SB
15	Samiyah Hassan Nour	Djibouti	15:13.63
16	Federica Del Buono	Italy	15:15.54
17	Sarah Madeleine	France	15:18.62
18	Viktória Wagner-Gyürkés	Hungary	15:48.24
19	Wakana Kabasawa	Japan	15:50.86
20	Jodie McCann	Ireland	15:55.08

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Final

The final was held on 5 August, starting at 21:10 (UTC+2) in the evening. ^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Beatrice Chebet	Kenya	14:28.56
	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	14:29.60	SB
	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	14:30.61	SB
4	Nadia Battocletti	Italy	14:31.64	NR
5	Margaret Kipkemboi	Kenya	14:32.23	SB
6	Ejgayehu Taye	Ethiopia	14:32.98
7	Medina Eisa	Ethiopia	14:35.43
8	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway	14:43.21
9	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	14:45.21	SB
10	Karissa Schweizer	United States	14:45.57
11	Elise Cranny	United States	14:48.06
12	Rose Davies	Australia	14:49.67
13	Nathalie Blomqvist	Finland	14:53.10
14	Whittni Morgan	United States	14:53.57	PB
15	Joselyn Brea	Venezuela	15:17.04
16	Francine Niyomukunzi	Burundi	15:22.40

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