These are the official results of the Women's 5,000 metres

5000 metres

The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...

event at the 1995 World Championships

1995 World Championships in Athletics

The 5th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden between August 5 and August 13.This edition featured 1804 athletes from 191 nations....

in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was the first time at the World Championships that women competed on the 5000 m distance instead of 3000 m. There were a total number of 51 participating athletes, with three qualifying heats and the final held on Saturday 1995-08-12.

Heats

• Held on Thursday 1995-08-10

First 4 of each Heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Sonia O'Sullivan Sonia O'Sullivan Sonia O'Sullivan in Cobh, County Cork. She began her running career in Ballymore Running Club which is located in the eastern side of Cobh Town. She was one of the world's leading female 5000 m runners for most of the 1990s and early first decade of the 21st century...		15:13.88	Q
	2	Gabriela Szabo Gabriela Szabo Gabriela Szabo is a Romanian track and field athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in 5000 m and winner of bronze and silver medals in 1996 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics in 1500 m, respectively....		15:14.65	Q
	2	Mariya Pantyukhova		15:14.70	Q
	2	Paula Radcliffe Paula Radcliffe Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE is an English long-distance runner. She is the current women's world record holder in the marathon with her time of 2:15:25 hours...	United Kingdom	15:14.77	Q
	2	Sara Wedlund		15:15.67	q
	2	Sally Barsosio Sally Barsosio Sally Barsosio is a Kenyan distance runner. , Barsosio is the youngest ever medallist at the World Junior Championships in Athletics...		15:18.41	q
	2	Michiko Shimizu		15:18.97	q
	2	Silvia Sommaggio Silvia Sommaggio Silvia Sommaggio is a retired Italian long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 and 10,000 metres as well as cross-country and road running....		15:20.89
	3	Rose Cheruiyot Rose Cheruiyot Rose Jelagat Cheruiyot is a runner from Kenya.She is married to Ismael Kirui. The couple completed an unusual double when they both won their senior races at the Belfast International Cross Country in 1995....		15:21.36	Q
10	3	Zahra Ouaziz Zahra Ouaziz Zahra Ouaziz is a retired Moroccan long-distance runner. She was the African record holder at 3000 metres and 5000 metres.-Career:Ouaziz broke the 5000 metres African Record in 1998, timing 14:40.19...		15:22.02	Q
11	3	Fernanda Ribeiro Fernanda Ribeiro Maria Fernanda Moreira Ribeiro, GCIH , is a long-distance runner, born in Penafiel, Portugal. She achieved the top of her career in the 1996 Summer Olympics where she won the women's 10,000 m gold medal, giving Portugal their 3rd Olympic gold , and establishing a new Olympic record - 31:01.63.-...		15:22.04	Q
12	2	Ana Dias		15:29.32
13	3	Gwen Griffiths		15:32.22	Q
14	2	Anne-Marie Danneels		15:33.70
15	2	Chiemi Takahashi		15:35.13
16	1	Elena Fidatov Elena Fidatov Elena Fidatov, sometimes known as Elena Fidatof, is a former Romanian middle- and long-distance runner who competed in track, road, and cross country running competitions. In a period spanning 1984 to 2002, she competed at IAAF World Cross Country Championships on thirteen occasions, making her...		15:36.39	Q
17	1	Olga Churbanova		15:37.23	Q
18	3	Carolyn Schuwalow		15:37.62
19	1	Gina Procaccio Gina Procaccio Gina Procaccio is a retired American long and middle distance distance runner. In 1995, she was the USATF National Champion in the indoor 5000 metres, which qualified her to run for her native country in the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics in Barcelona, Spain.-Early career:While...		15:37.66	Q
20	1	Florence Barsosio Florence Barsosio Florence Jepkemoi Barsosio is a Kenyan athlete who specialises in long-distance running. Her sister, Sally Barsosio, is also a professional runner....		15:38.22	Q
21	1	Paivi Tikkanen Päivi Tikkanen Päivi Marja Sinikka Tikkanen is a retired female long-distance runner from Finland, who won the 1989 edition of the Berlin Marathon. A two-time Olympian she ended up in fourth place in the women's 3,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships. Tikkanen was Finnish champion in the same event for...		15:38.25
22	3	Gitte Karlshoj		15:39.12
23	1	Atsumi Yashima		15:40.02
24	1	Rosario Murcia		15:41.73
25	3	Luchia Yishak Luchia Yishak Luchia Yishak is a former Ethiopian long-distance runner. She ran for Ethiopia at the Summer Olympics in 1992 and 1996....	Ethiopia	15:42.37
26	1	Nina Christiansen		15:44.66
27	1	Brynhild Synstnes Brynhild Synstnes Brynhild Synstnes is a retired Norwegian long-distance runner who specialized in 3000/5000 metres and later marathon. She represented Lillehammer IF and SK Vidar during her heyday....		15:46.17
28	1	Adriana Fernández Adriana Fernández Adriana Fernández Miranda is a long-distance runner from México.Fernández was 2nd in 1998, and in 1999, she became the first Mexican woman to win the New York City Marathon in a time of 2:25:06 in a dominant performance by taking charge on a windy day and kept building her lead.In 2003, Fernández...		15:46.89
29	3	Laura Mykytok		15:48.95
30	1	Milka Mikhaylova		15:49.31
31	1	Tamara Koba		15:53.67
32	2	Serap Aktas Serap Aktas Serap Aktaş is a Turkish female middle and long-distance runner, who later specialized in marathon. She holds various Turkish records....		15:53.76	NR Turkish records in athletics The following are the national records in athletics in Turkey maintained by Turkey's national athletics federation: Türkiye Atletizm Federasyonu .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:ht = hand timing# = not officially ratifiedA = affected by altitude...
33	2	Libbie Johnson-Hickman		15:54.97
34	3	Andrea Karhoff		16:02.26
35	1	Martha Ernstsdottir		16:05.33
36	2	Anne Cross		16:09.32
37	3	Ursula Jeitziner		16:12.57
38	1	Marina Bastos		16:16.78
39	3	Sinead Delahunty		16:18.81
40	3	Marie-Pierre Duros		16:48.66
41	3	Mirsada Buric-Adam	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17:07.44

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Derartu Tulu

Derartu Tulu is an Ethiopian long distance track, road and marathon athlete.Derartu , a member of the Oromo ethnic group, grew up tending cattle in the village of Bekoji in the highlands of Arsi Province...

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Elana Meyer

Elana Meyer is a former long-distance runner from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 metre event....

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Gete Wami

Getenesh Wami is a female Ethiopian cross country and track runner....

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Marleen Renders

Marleen Renders is a retired female long-distance runner from Belgium, who represented her native country thrice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988, 1996 and 2000...

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Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
		14:46.47 CR
		14:48.54
		14:53.77
4.		14:56.57
5.		14:57.02
6.		15:01.23
7.		15:02.45
8.		15:08.05
9.		15:08.36
10.		15:12.58
11.		15:39.57
12.		15:45.30
13.		15:56.96
—		DNF
—		DNF

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