2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres

Women's 10,000 metres at the 2013 World Championships
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Dates	11 August (final)
Competitors	19 from 13 nations
Winning time	30:43.35
Medalists
Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia   Gladys Cherono  Kenya   Belaynesh Oljira  Ethiopia

Events at the 2013 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 10,000 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 11 August.

At the beginning it was Shalane Flanagan who took out the pace, with the African contenders content to let her. Following was Hitomi Niiya, who after a brief rainshower took over the lead as Flanagan faded after the first 8 laps. Niiya held the lead until the final 600 meters as the pack dwindled. That was when Tirunesh Dibaba began to race seriously. Followed by her teammate, Belaynesh Oljira, the two Ethiopians picked up the pace with Kenyans Gladys Cherono and Emily Chebet giving chase, Niiya couldn't handle the acceleration and disappeared from contention. Even Oljira couldn't keep up with Dibaba's smooth pace to gold, she was passed by Cherono who gave a game effort and picked up the silver.

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:^[1]

World record	Junxia Wang (CHN)	29:31.78	Beijing, China	8 September 1993
Championship record	Berhane Adere (ETH)	30:04.18	Paris, France	23 August 2003
World Leading	Meseret Defar (ETH)	30:08.06	Stockholm, Sweden	27 June 2013
African record	Meselech Melkamu (ETH)	29:53.80	Utrecht, Netherlands	14 June 2009
Asian record	Junxia Wang (CHN)	29:31.78	Beijing, People's Republic of China	8 September 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Shalane Flanagan (USA)	30:22.22	Beijing, People's Republic of China	15 August 2008
South American record	Simone da Silva (BRA)	31:16.56	São Paulo, Brazil	3 August 2011
European record	Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR)	29:56.34	Beijing, People's Republic of China	15 August 2008
Oceanian record	Kim Smith (NZL)	30:35.54	Palo Alto, CA, United States	4 May 2008

All times are local times (UTC+4)

The final was started at 21:05.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	30:43.35
	Gladys Cherono	Kenya	30:45.17
	Belaynesh Oljira	Ethiopia	30:46.98
4	Emily Chebet	Kenya	30:47.02	PB
5	Hitomi Niiya	Japan	30:56.70	PB
6	Shitaye Eshete	Bahrain	31:13.79	SB
7	Selly Chepyego Kaptich	Kenya	31:22.11	PB
8	Shalane Flanagan	United States	31:34.83
9	Ababel Yeshaneh	Ethiopia	32:02.09
10	Christelle Daunay	France	32:04.44	SB
11	Marisol Romero	Mexico	32:16.36
12	Jordan Hasay	United States	32:17.93
13	Ana Dulce Félix	Portugal	32:36.73
14	Amy Hastings	United States	32:51.19
15	Karolina Jarzyńska	Poland	32:54.15
16	Juliet Chekwel	Uganda	32:57.02	NR
17	Gulshat Fazlitdinova	Russia	33:31.49
	Sabrina Mockenhaupt	Germany	DNF
	Lara Tamsett	Australia	DNF

• 10000 metres results at IAAF website