2010 European Athletics Championships – Women's 5000 metres

The women's 5000 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 1 August.

Medalists

Gold	Elvan Abeylegesse Turkey (TUR)
Silver	Sara Moreira Portugal (POR)
Bronze	Jéssica Augusto Portugal (POR)

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships
World record	Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)	14:11.15	Oslo, Norway	6 June 2008
European record	Liliya Shobukhova (RUS)	14:23.75	Kazan, Russia	19 July 2008
Championship record	Marta Domínguez (ESP)	14:56.18	Gothenburg, Sweden	12 August 2006
World Leading	Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN)	14:27.41	Saint-Denis, France	16 July 2010
European Leading	Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR)	14:31.52	Saint-Denis, France	16 July 2010
Broken records during the 2010 European Athletics Championships
Championship record	Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR)	14:54.44	Barcelona, Spain	1 August 2010

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
1 August 2010	20:40	Final

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
DQ	Alemitu Bekele	Turkey (TUR)	14:52.20	Doping
	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey (TUR)	14:54.44	CR
	Sara Moreira	Portugal (POR)	14:54.71	PB
	Jéssica Augusto	Portugal (POR)	14:58.47
DQ	Mariya Konovalova	Russia (RUS)	15:08.84	Doping
4	Elena Romagnolo	Italy (ITA)	15:14.40	SB
DQ	Meryem Erdoğan	Turkey (TUR)	15:14.92	Doping
DQ	Yelizaveta Grechishnikova	Russia (RUS)	15:16.19	Doping
5	Sabine Fischer	Switzerland (SUI)	15:19.80	PB
6	Anikó Kálovics	Hungary (HUN)	15:29.44	SB
7	Olga Golovkina	Russia (RUS)	15:31.11
8	Judith Plá	Spain (ESP)	15:35.01
9	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway (NOR)	15:41.42
10	Krisztina Papp	Hungary (HUN)	15:52.83
11	Ragnhild Kvarberg	Norway (NOR)	15:59.80
12	Gema Barrachina	Spain (ESP)	16:00.51
13	Roxana Bârca	Romania (ROM)	16:06.10
	Lidia Chojecka	Poland (POL)	DNF
	Volha Krautsova	Belarus (BLR)	DNF

References

• Final Results
• Full results