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Host City: Sydney, Australia

Format: Top four in each heat and next three fastest advanced to the final.

Date Started: September 22, 2000

Date Finished: September 25, 2000

(Competitors: 49; Countries: 32; Finalists: 15)

Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales

Overview by IAAF

After three heats which saw Sonia O’Sullivan run the fastest time (15:07.91), the final began at a sedate pace, with Szabo leading at the first kilometre in 3:03.84. Wami and Worku then took over, coursing through the next kilometre in 2:53.5 before slowing to 8:58.33 at 3000m. O’Sullivan, who had been 40m back at one point in the second kilometre latched back on to the leaders. The third Ethiopian, Kidane, was in the lead at 4000m (11:53.60) with Wami sharing the work. Szabo took over with 600m to go and O’Sullivan closed to second place with 300m to go. The two raced side by side until the last 20m when Szabo finally got clear to win by 1.5 metres. Szabo had run her last lap in 60.01 (O’Sullivan 60.0), and her last 200 in 28.6, one tenth quicker than the valiant O’Sullivan. In all, twelve broke the Olympic record.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

Gabriela Szabo (ROM) was the heavy favorite, having won the 1997 and 1999 World Championships, and most major invitationals in the past year. She only lost once at 5,000 since the 1996 Olympics, that coming in the 1998 European Championship when Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL) won that title, until two weeks before the Sydney Olympics. In early September she had been defeated by Leah Malot of Kenya, but she did not make the Kenyan Olympic team. In the final, the Ethiopians Gete Wami and Ayelech Worku set the early pace, with their third teammates, Werknesh Kidane, took the lead at 4K. But in the penultimate lap, Szabo made her move and took the lead, and O'Sullivan moved to her shoulder. For the last 600 metres, it was a battle between these two as Szabo kept holding off O'Sullivan, finally getting a bit of daylight less than 30 metres from the line.

Records

World Record	14:28.09	Jiang Bo	China	Shanghai, China	23 October 1997
Olympic Record	14:59.88	Junxia Wang	China	Atlanta, Georgia, United States	28 July 1996

			Results

*5000 m*	Women		Final	25 September

Rank	Mark		Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	14.40.79		Gabriela Szabo	Romania	ROU	14 Nov 75
2	14.41.02		Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	IRL	28 Nov 69	NR
3	14.42.23		Gete Wami	Ethiopia	ETH	11 Dec 74
4	14.42.67		Ayelech Worku	Ethiopia	ETH	12 Jun 79
5	14.43.59		Irina Mikitenko	Germany	GER	23 Aug 72
6	14.47.35		Lydia Cheromei	Kenya	KEN	11 May 77
7	14.47.40		Worknesh Kidane	Ethiopia	ETH	21 Nov 81
8	14.50.31		Olga Yegorova	Russia	RUS	28 Mar 72
9	14.55.46		Jeļena Prokopčuka	Latvia	LAT	21 Sep 76
10	14.56.95		Daniela Yordanova	Bulgaria	BUL	8 Mar 76	NR
11	14.58.07		Rose Cheruiyot	Kenya	KEN	21 Jul 76
12	14.58.27		Jo Pavey	Great Britain	GBR	20 Sep 73
13	15.01.28		Tatyana Tomashova	Russia	RUS	1 Jul 75
14	15.33.66		Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	KEN	11 Sep 83
	DNF		Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia	YUG	24 Jul 77
*5000 m*	Women		Heat 1	22 September

Rank	Mark		Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	15.07.91	Q	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	IRL	28 Nov 69
2	15.08.82	Q	Jo Pavey	Great Britain	GBR	20 Sep 73
3	15.08.92	Q	Gete Wami	Ethiopia	ETH	11 Dec 74
4	15.09.32	Q	Lydia Cheromei	Kenya	KEN	11 May 77
5	15.10.08	Q	Daniela Yordanova	Bulgaria	BUL	8 Mar 76
6	15.21.37		Benita Willis	Australia	AUS	6 May 79
7	15.23.99		Elva Dryer	United States	USA	26 Sep 71
8	15.33.05		Rosemary Ryan	Ireland	IRL	8 Nov 75
9	15.38.72		Nora Rocha	Mexico	MEX	18 Dec 67
10	15.48.20		Michiko Shimizu	Japan	JPN	22 Sep 70
11	15.54.17		Dulce María Rodríguez	Mexico	MEX	14 Aug 72
12	16.08.49		Yamna Oubouhou	France	FRA	20 Feb 74
13	16.09.60		Helena Javornik	Slovenia	SLO	26 Mar 66
14	16.16.58		Elisa Cobanea	Argentina	ARG	20 May 66
15	16.30.41		Nebiat Habtemariam	Eritrea	ERI	29 Dec 78
16	17.17.58		Maysa Hussein Matrood	Iraq	IRQ	78
	DNF		Restituta Joseph	Tanzania	TAN	30 Jul 71
*5000 m*	Women		Heat 2	22 September

Rank	Mark		Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	15.13.18	Q	Rose Cheruiyot	Kenya	KEN	21 Jul 76
2	15.13.26	Q	Ayelech Worku	Ethiopia	ETH	12 Jun 79
3	15.14.34	Q	Olga Yegorova	Russia	RUS	28 Mar 72
4	15.14.76	Q	Irina Mikitenko	Germany	GER	23 Aug 72
5	15.16.66		Susanne Pumper	Austria	AUT	1 Sep 70
6	15.27.32		Roberta Brunet	Italy	ITA	20 May 65
7	15.28.91		Amy Rudolph	United States	USA	18 Sep 73
8	15.38.96		Sonja Stolić	Yugoslavia	YUG	21 Apr 80
9	15.39.83		Megumi Oshima	Japan	JPN	4 Sep 75
10	15.45.07		Marta Domínguez	Spain	ESP	3 Nov 75
11	15.46.48		Hrisostomía Iakóvou	Greece	GRE	9 Apr 71
12	15.47.76		Samukeliso Moyo	Zimbabwe	ZIM	1 Jan 74
13	16.02.50		Zhour El Kamch	Morocco	MAR	15 Mar 73
14	16.07.18		Anne Cross	Australia	AUS	16 Apr 65
15	16.15.82		Andrea Whitcombe	Great Britain	GBR	8 Jun 71
16	16.20.43		Chan-Ropper Man Yee	Hong Kong	HKG	28 Oct 75
*5000 m*	Women		Heat 3	22 September

Rank	Mark		Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	15.08.36	Q	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	ROU	14 Nov 75
2	15.08.62	Q	Worknesh Kidane	Ethiopia	ETH	21 Nov 81
3	15.08.92	Q	Tatyana Tomashova	Russia	RUS	1 Jul 75
4	15.09.45	Q	Jeļena Prokopčuka	Latvia	LAT	21 Sep 76
5	15.11.11	Q	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	KEN	11 Sep 83
6	15.11.25	Q	Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia	YUG	24 Jul 77	NR
7	15.23.41		Yoshiko Ichikawa	Japan	JPN	18 Apr 76
8	15.31.94		Beatriz Santiago	Spain	ESP	28 Oct 68
9	15.45.34		Kate Richardson	Australia	AUS	5 Nov 73
10	15.46.37		Inga Juodeškienė	Lithuania	LTU	21 Oct 71
11	15.47.78		Anne Marie Lauck	United States	USA	7 Mar 69
12	15.49.15		Ebru Kavaklioglu	Turkey	TUR	14 Mar 70
13	15.49.58		Breeda Willis	Ireland	IRL	2 Mar 70
14	16.38.30		Diane Nukuri	Burundi	BDI	1 Dec 84
15	16.39.82		Catherine Chikwakwa	Malawi	MAW	24 Jul 85
16	17.30.04		Priscilla Mamba	Swaziland	SWZ	4 Jan 72	NR
17	18.22.98		Baatarkhuu Battsetseg	Mongolia	MGL	21 Jan 76