5000 Metres Summary | 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics

First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q)

Rank	Heat	BIB	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	RESULTS
	2	857	Alemitu Bekele	TUR	DQ
3	1	576	Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet	KEN	15:20.08 Q
1	1	343	Meseret Defar	ETH	15:19.46 Q
7	2	544	Megumi Kinukawa	JPN	15:38.23
9	2	590	Viktoriia Poliudina	KGZ	16:32.68 SB
2	2	181	Tejitu Daba	BRN	15:33.67 Q
	1	813	Sabina Fischer	SUI	DNS
10	1	871	Alia Saeed Mohammed	UAE	16:10.37
7	1	548	Hitomi Niiya	JPN	15:31.09 q
5	1	790	Yelena Zadorozhnaya	RUS	15:23.90 Q
6	2	838	Zakia Mrisho	TAN	15:35.37 q SB
4	1	345	Sentayehu Ejigu	ETH	15:20.13 Q
8	1	383	Helen Clitheroe	GBR	15:37.73 q
3	2	583	Linet Chepkwemoi Masai	KEN	15:33.99 Q
4	2	937	Lauren Fleshman	USA	15:34.04 Q
9	1	553	Kayo Sugihara	JPN	15:41.78 SB
6	1	948	Amy Cragg	USA	15:29.49 q
8	2	950	Molly Huddle	USA	15:42.00
	2	756	Elizaveta Grechishnikova	RUS	DQ
1	2	344	Genzebe Dibaba	ETH	15:33.06 Q
5	2	573	Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot	KEN	15:34.80 Q
11	1	137	Pauline Niyongere	BDI	17:23.56 SB
2	1	570	Mercy Cherono	KEN	15:20.01 Q

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