2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres

Women's 10,000 metres
at the 2013 World Championships
Women's 10,000 metres ; at the 2013 World Championships
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Dates	11 August (final)
Competitors	19 from 13 nations
Winning time	30:43.35
Medalists
	Tirunesh Dibaba; Ethiopia (ETH)
	Gladys Cherono; Kenya (KEN)
	Belaynesh Oljira; Ethiopia (ETH)
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The women's 10,000 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 11 August.

At the beginning it was Shalane Flanagan who took out the pace, with the African contenders content to let her. Following was Hitomi Niiya, who after a brief rainshower took over the lead as Flanagan faded after the first 8 laps. Niiya held the lead until the final 600 meters as the pack dwindled. That was when Tirunesh Dibaba began to race seriously. Followed by her teammate, Belaynesh Oljira, the two Ethiopians picked up the pace with Kenyans Gladys Cherono and Emily Chebet giving chase, Niiya couldn't handle the acceleration and disappeared from contention. Even Oljira couldn't keep up with Dibaba's smooth pace to gold, she was passed by Cherono who gave a game effort and picked up the silver.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:^[1]

World record	Junxia Wang (CHN)	29:31.78	Beijing, China	8 September 1993
Championship record	Berhane Adere (ETH)	30:04.18	Paris, France	23 August 2003
World Leading	Meseret Defar (ETH)	30:08.06	Stockholm, Sweden	27 June 2013
African record	Meselech Melkamu (ETH)	29:53.80	Utrecht, Netherlands	14 June 2009
Asian record	Junxia Wang (CHN)	29:31.78	Beijing, People's Republic of China	8 September 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Shalane Flanagan (USA)	30:22.22	Beijing, People's Republic of China	15 August 2008
South American record	Simone da Silva (BRA)	31:16.56	São Paulo, Brazil	3 August 2011
European record	Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR)	29:56.34	Beijing, People's Republic of China	15 August 2008
Oceanian record	Kim Smith (NZL)	30:35.54	Palo Alto, CA, United States	4 May 2008

Qualification standards

A time^[2]	B time
31:45:00	32:05:00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
11 August 2013	21:05	Final

All times are local times (UTC+4)

Results

KEY:	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Final

The final was started at 21:05.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia (ETH)	30:43.35
	Gladys Cherono	Kenya (KEN)	30:45.17
	Belaynesh Oljira	Ethiopia (ETH)	30:46.98
4	Emily Chebet	Kenya (KEN)	30:47.02	PB
5	Hitomi Niiya	Japan (JPN)	30:56.70	PB
6	Shitaye Eshete	Bahrain (BHR)	31:13.79	SB
7	Selly Chepyego Kaptich	Kenya (KEN)	31:22.11	PB
8	Shalane Flanagan	United States (USA)	31:34.83
9	Ababel Yeshaneh	Ethiopia (ETH)	32:02.09
10	Christelle Daunay	France (FRA)	32:04.44	SB
11	Marisol Romero	Mexico (MEX)	32:16.36
12	Jordan Hasay	United States (USA)	32:17.93
13	Ana Dulce Félix	Portugal (POR)	32:36.73
14	Amy Hastings	United States (USA)	32:51.19
15	Karolina Jarzyńska	Poland (POL)	32:54.15
16	Juliet Chekwel	Uganda (UGA)	32:57.02	NR
17	Gulshat Fazlitdinova	Russia (RUS)	33:31.49
	Sabrina Mockenhaupt	Germany (GER)	DNF
	Lara Tamsett	Australia (AUS)	DNF