2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres

None The women's 10,000 metres event featured at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, France. The final was held on 23 August 2003.World Championships in Athletics 2003 Results IAAF http://www.iaaf.org/history/WCH/season=2003/eventCode=2962/results/bydiscipline/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090529041921/http://www.iaaf.org/history/WCH/season=2003/eventCode=2962/results/bydiscipline/index.html 2009-05-29 dead 2009-04-17 Summary Almost 10 years before this race, Wang Junxia had set the world record out to a remarkable 29:31.78 at the 1993 National Games of China. For the next 9 years, second place in that race in Beijing, Zhong Huandi had also been the second best 10,000m ever run by a woman 30:13.37 (more than half a lap behind Wang). One year before this race, Paula Radcliffe finally improved on second place, her 30:01.09 got within 30 seconds of the world record, showing women the record was not impossible. Radcliffe was not in this race, having set the world record in the Marathon 4 months earlier as well as the 10K road world record two months before that. Missing those two, this race only became the greatest women's 10,000m in history.https://allafrica.com/stories/200309050616.html 5 September 2003 Ethiopia: Paris 2003 - Athletes Excel in 5000, 10,000 Meters Addis Tribune Anikó Kálovics started off fast, running a 2:59.62 first 1K. Then Sun Yingjie took the point, her awkward running form taking the crowd through 4K in 12:00.16. Kenyan ex-pat Lornah Kiplagat running for The Netherlands then took over the lead, 15:06.53 to the halfway point and the next kilometer just barely over 3 minutes to take the 5 leaders to 6K in 18:07.25. During the next kilo, the defending champion and two time Olympic champion Derartu Tulu dropped out. Only Sun, Kiplagat and two Ethiopians; Werknesh Kidane and Berhane Adere remained all taking their turn trying to take the lead, the group reaching 9K in 27:14.06. On the penultimate lap, Sun dropped a 68 to put herself in front. On the final backstretch, Adere moved onto Sun's shoulder to pounce for the lead. Sun accelerated with the challenge, but Adere went by in a different gear, running away to the gold medal. Kiplagat couldn't stay with the others battling for the lead, but Kidane didn't let Sun get away, the two sprinting down the home and dipping at the finish line. The photo finish revealed that Kidane had beaten Sun by .05 of a second after 10,000 metres. When the dust had settled, Adere had the #3 best time in history, Kidane #4, Sun #5 and Kiplagat #6. Even Alla Zhilyaeva, who was not really in contention in a distant 5th place, had run the #12 time in history. In 7th place Xing Huina set the world junior record 30:31.55.https://www.time-to-run.com/track/worldchamps/paris2003/pday1 Welcome to the Paris 2003 Day 1 Final ranking RANKATHLETE TIMEImage:Med 1.pngBerhane Adere ETH 199630:04.18Image:Med 2.pngWerknesh Kidane ETH 199630:07.15Image:Med 3.pngSun Yingjie CHN30:07.204.Lornah Kiplagat NED30:12.535.Alla Zhilyaeva RUS30:23.076.Galina Bogomolova RUS30:26.207.Xing Huina CHN30:31.558.Benita Johnson AUS30:37.689.Ejegayehu Dibaba ETH 199631:01.0710.Jeļena Prokopčuka LAT31:06.1411.Kayoko Fukushi JPN31:10.5712.Deena Kastor USA31:17.8613.Mihaela Botezan ROU31:28.7214.Yoko Shibui JPN31:42.0115.Megumi Oshima JPN31:47.0016.Lidiya Grigoryeva RUS31:49.4117.Elva Dryer USA31:59.8118.Helena Javornik SLO32:01.5719.Salina Jebet Kosgei KEN32:09.1520.Anikó Kálovics HUN32:15.9621.Sonja Stolic SCG33:08.8722.Nataliya Berkut UKR33:12.8423.Yesenia Centeno ESP33:32.50—Fernanda Ribeiro PORDNF—Derartu Tulu ETH 1996DNF—Sabrina Mockenhaupt GERDNF—Marie Davenport IRLDNS—Adriana Fernández MEXDNS See also Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games - Women's 10000 metres References Category:Women's events at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics Category:10,000 metres at the World Athletics Championships