2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres

None May 2026 Men's 5000 metres 2015 World Championships Beijing National Stadium 26 August (heats)29 August (final) 40 24 13:50.38 Mo Farah GBR Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku KEN Hagos Gebrhiwet ETH 2013 2017 The men's 5000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26 and 29 August.http://www.iaafbeijing2015.com/special/iaaf_sch_en/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141201205133/http://www.iaafbeijing2015.com/special/iaaf_sch_en/ dead 1 December 2014 Beijing 2015: Timetable 10 August 2015 10 August 2015 Beijing 2015 Start list Summary It was difficult to predict the results. Down at number 21 was the double Olympic Champion, defending champion attempting to repeat his double from two years earlier, Mo Farah, undoubtedly the favorite. At number 3 was returning silver medalist Hagos Gebrhiwet coming from the fastest race of the year in Rome, won by his Ethiopian teammate, World Junior Champion Yomif Kejelcha. Returning bronze medalist Isiah Koech was down at number 13. 2014 Diamond League Champion and Commonwealth Games Champion Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku was nowhere to be seen in the top 50 in the world, not having to qualify in the Kenyan trials. In the finals, it was a slow pace at the beginning. Absurdly, the organizers placed a water station in lane 9, instead of lane 3 where it was located during the 10,000. At 1200 metres, with the pace dawdling, Farah alone chose to take advantage of the water stop, having to run all the way across the track in both directions, but still maintaining contact with the back of the field. At the front of the pack, by default, was a British uniform, but not Farah, it was Tom Farrell with eyes wandering to the TV monitors. After five and a half laps, Farah jogged to the outside past the entire field to behind Farrell. Suddenly the scramble was on, people rushing for position. Imane Merga rushed to the front and took a 2-meter lead. Farah marked that and let Merga lead until four and a half laps to go still at an agonizingly slow pace, then Farah decided to take the lead and move just slightly faster. All of the other favorites jockeyed around but none of them seemed to make an attempt to pass him. Having watched Farah launch his kick from 500 meters out in the 10,000 metres earlier in this meet, Ndiku tried to go one better and started to run for home with more than 800 to go, Farah running to stay in contact, Gebrhiwet, Galen Rupp, Ben True and Kejelcha in tow. For the next lap the field stretched out. Farah made a brief burst tor try to take the lead just before one lap to go, but Ndiku wouldn't let him by. One by one all the other suitors fell off the back, the last Gebrhiwet, finally fading on the backstretch, but Farah crept closer. Around the final turn, Kejelcha passed Gebrhiwet, while Farah moved into position to launch a final kick. https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/athletics/34092438 Mo Farah wins historic World Championships 5,000m gold 29 August 2015 BBC Sport 1 September 2015 With a perfectly executed final sprint, Farah passed Ndiku with 70 metres to go, Ndiku had nothing in the tank to respond with. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/29/mo-farah-5000m-world-championship-gold Mo Farah wins unique triple-double with 5,000m world championship gold 29 August 2015 Guardian 1 September 2015 Behind them Gebrhiwet executed a similar pass against his teammate Kejelcha to take the bronze.http://www.sporting-heroes.net/athletics/ethiopia/hagos-gebrhiwet-12966/5000m-bronze-medal-at-2015-world-championships_a35841/ Hagos GEBRHIWET - 5000m bronze medal at 2015 World Championships. - Ethiopia Ndiku ran the next to the last lap in 56.3 (Farah slightly slower), Farah completed the last 800 metres in 1:49.0 Despite the assortment of national affiliations listed, the entire pack, the top 13 finishers came from just four countries, three of them neighboring countries of East Africa; Somalia 1-12, Kenya 2-8-9-10-11, Ethiopia 3-4-13 and USA 5-6-7. Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:http://www.iaaf.org/records/by-discipline/middlelong/5000-metres/outdoor/men Records & Lists – 5000 meters IAAF 18 August 2015 World recordKenenisa Bekele ETH12:37.35Hengelo, Netherlands31 May 2004Championship recordEliud Kipchoge KEN12:52.79Saint-Denis, France31 August 2003World LeadingYomif Kejelcha ETH12:58.39Rome, Italy4 June 2015African RecordKenenisa Bekele ETH12:37.35Hengelo, Netherlands31 May 2004Asian RecordAlbert Kibichii Rop BHR12:51.96 Fontvieille, Monaco19 July 2013North, Central American and Caribbean recordBernard Lagat USA12:53.60 Fontvieille, Monaco22 July 2011South American RecordMarilson dos Santos BRA13:19.43Kassel, Germany8 June 2006European RecordMohammed Mourhit BEL12:49.71Brussels, Belgium25 August 2000Oceanian recordCraig Mottram AUS12:55.76London, Great Britain30 July 2004 Qualification standards Entry standards 2014 IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 – Standards http://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitioninfo/544c7d0a-0807-4226-a85b-79928c58a097.pdf IAAF 18 August 2015 13:23.00 Schedule Date Time Round26 August 2015 09:35 Heats29 August 2015 19:30 Final All times are local times (UTC+8) Results Heats Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) advanced to the final.Heats results Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Yomif Kejelcha ETH 2015 World 13:19.38 Q 2 2 Mo Farah GBR 2015 World 13:19.44 Q 3 2 Mohammed Ahmed CAN 2015 World 13:19.58 Q, SB 4 2 Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku KEN 2015 World 13:19.58Q, SB 5 2 Albert Kibichii Rop BHR 2015 World 13:19.61 Q 6 2 Ryan Hill USA 2015 World 13:19.67 q 7 2 Richard Ringer GER 2015 World 13:19.84 q 8 2 Galen Rupp USA 2015 World 13:20.78 q 9 2 Ali Kaya TUR 2015 World 13:21.46 q 10 2 Isiah Koech KEN 2015 World 13:23.51 q 11 2 Aron Kifle ERI 2015 World 13:25.85 12 2 Phillip Kipyeko UGA 2015 World 13:26.20 13 2 Ilias Fifa ESP 2015 World 13:28.29 14 2 Hayle Ibrahimov AZE 2015 World 13:28.77 15 2 Collis Birmingham AUS 2015 World 13:34.58 16 1 Hagos Gebrhiwet ETH 2015 World 13:45.00 Q 17 1 Ben True USA 2015 World 13:45.09 Q 18 1 Edwin Soi KEN 2015 World 13:45.28 Q 19 1 Tom Farrell GBR 2015 World 13:45.29 Q 20 1 Imane Merga ETH 2015 World 13:45.41 Q 21 1 Abrar Osman ERI 2015 World 13:45.55 22 1 Suguru Osako JPN 2015 World 13:45.82 23 1 Emmanuel Kipsang KEN 2015 World 13:46.43 24 1 Cameron Levins CAN 2015 World 13:48.72 25 1 Brett Robinson AUS 2015 World 13:49.63 26 2 Jesús España ESP 2015 World 13:51.47 27 1 Alemayehu Bezabeh ESP 2015 World 13:54.13 28 1 Dennis Licht NED 2015 World 13:57.61 29 1 Othmane El Goumri MAR 2015 World 13:58.06 30 1 Sindre Buraas NOR 2015 World 13:59.07 31 1 Kemoy Campbell JAM 2015 World 14:00.55 32 2 Kota Murayama JPN 2015 World 14:07.11 33 1 Aweke Ayalew BHR 2015 World 14:07.18 34 2 Duo Bujie CHN 2015 World 14:07.35 35 1 Félicien Muhitira RWA 2015 World 14:11.12 PB 36 1 Víctor Aravena CHI 2015 World 14:29.34 37 1 Stuart Banda MAW 2015 World 14:49.31 PB 38 2 Suleiman Abdille Borai SOM 2015 World 15:26.65 PB 39 2 Abdullah Al-Qwabani YEM 2015 World 16:02.55 PB 40 2 Younés Essalhi MAR 2015 World 99:99.99 DNF 40 1 Bashir Abdi BEL 2015 World 99:99.99 DNS Final The final was started at 19:30Final results Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Mo Farah GBR 2015 World 13:50.38 Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku KEN 2015 World 13:51.75 Hagos Gebrhiwet ETH 2015 World 13:51.86 04 4 Yomif Kejelcha ETH 2015 World 13:52.43 05 5 Galen Rupp USA 2015 World 13:53.90 06 6 Ben True USA 2015 World 13:54.07 07 7 Ryan Hill USA 2015 World 13:55.10 08 8 Isiah Koech KEN 2015 World 13:55.98 09 9 Ali Kaya TUR 2015 World 13:56.51 10 Edwin Soi KEN 2015 World 13:59.02 11 Albert Kibichii Rop BHR 2015 World 14:00.12 12 Mohammed Ahmed CAN 2015 World 14:00.38 13 Imane Merga ETH 2015 World 14:01.60 14 Richard Ringer GER 2015 World 14:03.72 15 Tom Farrell GBR 2015 World 14:08.87 References 5000 Category:5000 metres at the World Athletics Championships