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The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to 3 miles 188 yards or 16,404 feet 2 inches.It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 laps of a standard 400 m track, or 25 laps on an indoor 200 m track.
The 5000 metres at the Summer Olympics has been contested since the fifth edition of the multi-sport event. The men's 5000 m has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1912 . The 3000 metres was the first women's Olympic long-distance track event , making its initial appearance at the 1984 Olympics , and this distance was ...
The official world records in the 5000 metres, or 5000-metre run, are held by Joshua Cheptegei with 12:35.36 for men and Gudaf Tsegay with 14:00.21 for women.. The first world record in the men's 5000 m was recognized by World Athletics (formerly called the International Association of Athletics Federations, or IAAF) in 1912.
The competition format typically has a two-race heats stage that leads directly to a final between fifteen athletes. The championship records for the event are 12:52.79 minutes for men, set by Eliud Kipchoge in 2003, and 14:26.72 minutes for women, set by Hellen Obiri in 2019. [1]
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
This was the first major international 5000 metre race with team scoring, and one of the first major 5000 metres races in history overall. Though the distance was relatively new, the fastest time recorded over a comparable distance was 15:54 for 3 1 ⁄ 4 miles (5230m), which was a split time in a 4-mile race by Walter George in 1884. Though a ...
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1: Umberto Cerati Italy 15:01.0: 2: Harry Siefert Denmark 15:02.8: 3: Don Lash United States 15:04.4: 4: Ilmari Salminen Finland 15:06.6: 5: Aubrey Reeve Great Britain
The Men's 5000 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany took place on 7 and 10 September 1972. [1]Having won the 10,000 metres a week earlier, Lasse Virén controlled the pace through the first 2000 metres in 5:32.61.