The women's 5,000 metres at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics

2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 13th World Junior Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes under the age of 20 which was held at the Moncton Stadium in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada from 19–25 July 2010. A total of 44 athletics events were contested at the Championships, 22 by male...

was held at the Moncton 2010 Stadium on 21 July.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Genzebe Dibaba Genzebe Dibaba Genzebe Dibaba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She is the sister of World Champion Tirunesh Dibaba and Olympic silver medallist Ejegayehu Dibaba, and the cousin of former Olympic champion Derartu Tulu....  Ethiopia	Mercy Cherono Mercy Cherono Mercy Cherono is a Kenyan middle distance runner. She is a two-time world junior champion in the 3000 metres and has also won gold medals at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics and 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games...  Kenya	Alice Aprot Nawowuna  Kenya

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World junior record	Tirunesh Dibaba Tirunesh Dibaba Tirunesh Dibaba also known as Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene is an Ethiopian long distance track athlete and the outdoor 5000 metres world record holder. She is the current Olympic 5000 metres and 10,000 metres champion...	Ethopia	14:30.88	Bergen Bergen Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....	June 11, 2004
Championship record	Meselech Melkamu Meselech Melkamu Meselech Melkamu is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who specializes in the 5000 metres, 10,000 metres and cross-country events...	Ethopia	15:21.52	Grosseto Grosseto Grosseto is a city and comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies 14 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain, on the Ombrone river....	July 13, 2004

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	WJR	CR
July 21	Final	Genzebe Dibaba Genzebe Dibaba Genzebe Dibaba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She is the sister of World Champion Tirunesh Dibaba and Olympic silver medallist Ejegayehu Dibaba, and the cousin of former Olympic champion Derartu Tulu....	Ethopia	15:08.06		CR

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Genzebe Dibaba Genzebe Dibaba Genzebe Dibaba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She is the sister of World Champion Tirunesh Dibaba and Olympic silver medallist Ejegayehu Dibaba, and the cousin of former Olympic champion Derartu Tulu....		15:08.06	CR
	Mercy Cherono Mercy Cherono Mercy Cherono is a Kenyan middle distance runner. She is a two-time world junior champion in the 3000 metres and has also won gold medals at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics and 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games...		15:09.19
	Alice Aprot Nawowuna		15:17.39	PB
	Tejitu Daba		15:29.78	NJR
	Ayuko Suzuki		15:47.36	PB
	Emily Sisson		15:48.91	PB
	Karla Diaz		15:56.12	NJR
	Nanaka Izawa		15:59.29	SB
	Afera Godfay		16:14.28	PB
10	Federica Bevilacqua		16:19.60	PB
11	Kate Avery		16:23.97	SB
12	Gulshat Fazlitdinova		16:27.69
13	Goeun Yeum		16:49.18
14	Victoria Hanna		17:28.99

Key: CR = championship record, NJR = National junior record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best

External links

• 5,000 metres results from IAAF. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-22.
• 13th IAAF World Junior Championships Facts & Figures. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-22.