5000 Metres Result | 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics

First 6 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q)

POS	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	MARK
1	Gabriela Szabo	ROU	15:26.62 Q
2	Paula Radcliffe	GBR	15:27.25 Q
3	Harumi Hiroyama-Suzuki	JPN	15:27.75 Q
4	Roberta Brunet	ITA	15:29.03 Q
5	Ayelech Worku	ETH	15:29.37 Q
6	Li Wei	CHN	15:29.62 Q
7	Libbie Johnson-Hickman	USA	15:30.56 q SB
8	Gunhild Halle-Haugen	NOR	15:32.13 q
9	Kate Anderson-Richardson	AUS	15:36.16 q
10	Ebru Kavaklioglu	RUS	15:37.19 PB
11	Adriana Fernández	MEX	15:41.55
12	Melody Fairchild	USA	15:47.66
13	Marina Bastos	POR	15:54.01
14	Valerie Vaughan	IRL	15:57.58
15	Zahra Ouaziz	MAR	15:58.84
16	Genet Gebregiorgis	ETH	16:04.40 SB
17	Laurence Duquenoy	FRA	16:06.02
18	Justine Nahimana	BDI	17:21.77
19	Nebiat Habtemariam	ERI	18:26.50
20	Zalia Aliou	TOG	18:34.45 NR
21	Martha Portoblanco	NCA	19:08.44
	Maysa Matrood	IRQ	DNS
	Elana Meyer	RSA	DNS

POS	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	MARK
1	Fernanda Ribeiro	POR	15:27.30 Q
2	Jianying Liu	CHN	15:29.28 Q PB
3	Lydia Cheromei	KEN	15:32.00 Q
4	Merima Denboba	ETH	15:32.01 Q
5	Naoko Takahashi	JPN	15:32.25 Q
6	Yuko Kawakami	JPN	15:32.71 Q
7	Sonia O'Sullivan	IRL	15:40.82
8	Stela Olteanu	ROU	15:40.86
9	Olivera Jevtic	SCG	15:43.76
10	Hrisostomía Iakóvou	GRE	15:51.14
11	Restituta Joseph	TAN	15:55.22 NR
12	Amy Rudolph	USA	16:00.87
13	Una English	IRL	16:07.09
14	Jelena Prokopcuka	LAT	16:27.63
15	Helena Javornik	SLO	16:28.38
	Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim	GER	DNF
	Anne Hare	NZL	DNF
	Carol Howe	CAN	DNS
	Annemari Sandell-Hyvärinen	FIN	DNS