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2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26 and 29 August.[1][2]

Men's 5000 metres
at the 2015 World Championships
VenueBeijing National Stadium
Dates26 August (heats)
29 August (final)
Competitors40 from 24 nations
Winning time13:50.38
Medalists
gold medal Mo Farah   Great Britain
silver medal Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku   Kenya
bronze medal Hagos Gebrhiwet   Ethiopia
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Summary edit

It was difficult to predict the results. Down at number 21 was the double Olympic Champion, defending champion attempting to repeat his double from two years earlier, Mo Farah, undoubtedly the favorite. At number 3 was returning silver medalist Hagos Gebrhiwet coming from the fastest race of the year in Rome, won by his Ethiopian teammate, World Junior Champion Yomif Kejelcha. Returning bronze medalist Isiah Koech was down at number 13. 2014 Diamond League Champion and Commonwealth Games Champion Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku was nowhere to be seen in the top 50 in the world, not having to qualify in the Kenyan trials.

In the finals, it was a slow pace at the beginning. Absurdly, the organizers placed a water station in lane 9, instead of lane 3 where it was located during the 10,000. At 1200 metres, with the pace dawdling, Farah alone chose to take advantage of the water stop, having to run all the way across the track in both directions, but still maintaining contact with the back of the field. At the front of the pack, by default, was a British uniform, but not Farah, it was Tom Farrell with eyes wandering to the TV monitors. You could sense the entire field was wanting to use a rear view mirror. What is Farah doing back there?

After five and a half laps, Farah casually jogged to the outside past the entire field to behind Farrell. Suddenly the scramble was on, people rushing for position. Imane Merga rushed to the front and took a 2-meter lead. Farah marked that and let Merga lead until four and a half laps to go still at an agonizingly slow pace, then Farah decided to take the lead and move just slightly faster. All of the other favorites jockeyed around but none of them seemed to make an attempt to pass him.

Having watched Farah launch his kick from 500 meters out in the 10,000 metres earlier in this meet, Ndiku tried to go one better and started to run for home with more than 800 to go, Farah running to stay in contact, Gebrhiwet, Galen Rupp, Ben True and Kejelcha in tow. For the next lap the field stretched out. Farah made a brief burst tor try to take the lead just before one lap to go, but Ndiku wouldn't let him by. One by one all the other suitors fell off the back, the last Gebrhiwet, finally fading on the backstretch, but Farah crept closer. Around the final turn, Kejelcha passed Gebrhiwet, while Farah moved into position to launch a final kick.[3] With a perfectly executed final sprint, Farah passed Ndiku with 70 metres to go, Ndiku had nothing in the tank to respond with.[4] Behind them Gebrhiwet executed a similar pass against his teammate Kejelcha to take the bronze.[5]

Ndiku ran the next to the last lap in 56.3 (Farah slightly slower), Farah completed the last 800 metres in 1:49.0 Despite the assortment of national affiliations listed, the entire pack, the top 13 finishers came from just four countries, three of them neighboring countries of East Africa; Somalia 1-12, Kenya 2-8-9-10-11, Ethiopia 3-4-13 and USA 5-6-7.

Records edit

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:[6]

World record   Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 12:37.35 Hengelo, Netherlands 31 May 2004
Championship record   Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) 12:52.79 Saint-Denis, France 31 August 2003
World Leading   Yomif Kejelcha (ETH) 12:58.39 Rome, Italy 4 June 2015
African Record   Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 12:37.35 Hengelo, Netherlands 31 May 2004
Asian Record   Albert Kibichii Rop (BHR) 12:51.96 Fontvieille, Monaco 19 July 2013
North, Central American and Caribbean record   Bernard Lagat (USA) 12:53.60 Fontvieille, Monaco 22 July 2011
South American Record   Marilson dos Santos (BRA) 13:19.43 Kassel, Germany 8 June 2006
European Record   Mohammed Mourhit (BEL) 12:49.71 Brussels, Belgium 25 August 2000
Oceanian record   Craig Mottram (AUS) 12:55.76 London, Great Britain 30 July 2004

Qualification standards edit

Entry standards[7]
13:23.00

Schedule edit

Date Time Round
26 August 2015 09:35 Heats
29 August 2015 19:30 Final

All times are local times (UTC+8)

Results edit

Heats edit

Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) advanced to the final.[8]

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 Yomif Kejelcha   Ethiopia (ETH) 13:19.38 Q
2 2 Mo Farah   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 13:19.44 Q
3 2 Mohammed Ahmed   Canada (CAN) 13:19.58 Q, SB
4 2 Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku   Kenya (KEN) 13:19.58 Q, SB
5 2 Albert Kibichii Rop   Bahrain (BHR) 13:19.61 Q
6 2 Ryan Hill   United States (USA) 13:19.67 q
7 2 Richard Ringer   Germany (GER) 13:19.84 q
8 2 Galen Rupp   United States (USA) 13:20.78 q
9 2 Ali Kaya   Turkey (TUR) 13:21.46 q
10 2 Isiah Koech   Kenya (KEN) 13:23.51 q
11 2 Aron Kifle   Eritrea (ERI) 13:25.85
12 2 Phillip Kipyeko   Uganda (UGA) 13:26.20
13 2 Ilias Fifa   Spain (ESP) 13:28.29
14 2 Hayle Ibrahimov   Azerbaijan (AZE) 13:28.77
15 2 Collis Birmingham   Australia (AUS) 13:34.58
16 1 Hagos Gebrhiwet   Ethiopia (ETH) 13:45.00 Q
17 1 Ben True   United States (USA) 13:45.09 Q
18 1 Edwin Soi   Kenya (KEN) 13:45.28 Q
19 1 Tom Farrell   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 13:45.29 Q
20 1 Imane Merga   Ethiopia (ETH) 13:45.41 Q
21 1 Abrar Osman   Eritrea (ERI) 13:45.55
22 1 Suguru Osako   Japan (JPN) 13:45.82
23 1 Emmanuel Kipsang   Kenya (KEN) 13:46.43
24 1 Cameron Levins   Canada (CAN) 13:48.72
25 1 Brett Robinson   Australia (AUS) 13:49.63
26 2 Jesús España   Spain (ESP) 13:51.47
27 1 Alemayehu Bezabeh   Spain (ESP) 13:54.13
28 1 Dennis Licht   Netherlands (NED) 13:57.61
29 1 Othmane El Goumri   Morocco (MAR) 13:58.06
30 1 Sindre Buraas   Norway (NOR) 13:59.07
31 1 Kemoy Campbell   Jamaica (JAM) 14:00.55
32 2 Kota Murayama   Japan (JPN) 14:07.11
33 1 Aweke Ayalew   Bahrain (BHR) 14:07.18
34 2 Duo Bujie   China (CHN) 14:07.35
35 1 Félicien Muhitira   Rwanda (RWA) 14:11.12 PB
36 1 Víctor Aravena   Chile (CHI) 14:29.34
37 1 Stuart Banda   Malawi (MAW) 14:49.31 PB
38 2 Suleiman Abdille Borai   Somalia (SOM) 15:26.65 PB
39 2 Abdullah Al-Qwabani   Yemen (YEM) 16:02.55 PB
2 Younés Essalhi   Morocco (MAR) DNF
1 Bashir Abdi   Belgium (BEL) DNS

Final edit

The final was started at 19:30[9]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Mo Farah   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 13:50.38
  Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku   Kenya (KEN) 13:51.75
  Hagos Gebrhiwet   Ethiopia (ETH) 13:51.86
4 Yomif Kejelcha   Ethiopia (ETH) 13:52.43
5 Galen Rupp   United States (USA) 13:53.90
6 Ben True   United States (USA) 13:54.07
7 Ryan Hill   United States (USA) 13:55.10
8 Isiah Koech   Kenya (KEN) 13:55.98
9 Ali Kaya   Turkey (TUR) 13:56.51
10 Edwin Soi   Kenya (KEN) 13:59.02
11 Albert Kibichii Rop   Bahrain (BHR) 14:00.12
12 Mohammed Ahmed   Canada (CAN) 14:00.38
13 Imane Merga   Ethiopia (ETH) 14:01.60
14 Richard Ringer   Germany (GER) 14:03.72
15 Tom Farrell   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 14:08.87

References edit

  1. ^ "Beijing 2015: Timetable". Beijing 2015. 10 August 2015. Archived from the original on 1 December 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ^ Start list
  3. ^ "Mo Farah wins historic World Championships 5,000m gold". BBC Sport. 29 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Mo Farah wins unique triple-double with 5,000m world championship gold". Guardian. 29 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Hagos GEBRHIWET - 5000m bronze medal at 2015 World Championships. - Ethiopia".
  6. ^ "Records & Lists – 5000 meters". IAAF. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  7. ^ IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 – Standards (PDF), IAAF, 2014, retrieved 18 August 2015
  8. ^ Heats results
  9. ^ Final results
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